The Barefoot Professor: by Nature Video
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Publicado 2010-01-27
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I used to get one running injury every year. The last 12 months I've been running in Vibrams and no injuries. I feel great.
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I saw this video for the first time 13 years ago. Since then, I've been running barefoot or in minimal shoes or Luna Sandals. The work of Daniel Liebermann together with the book Born To Run by Chris McDougall changed everything for me. I am so grateful to have come across this ancient old wisdom. From sole to soul.
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watching people heel strike hurts my eyes to watch, ouch
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I've been watching a few barefoot runners explain this on youtube, but it is really nice to have a real scientific journal and professor explain it and show their research!
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I grew up running and walking barefoot on all kinds of surfaces. I still do and never had a problem.
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Wow. This is the best explanation of heel strike vs forefoot strike I've ever seen, and I'm a cross country runner so I've heard of all of this before, it's just never been explained so well with graphs and such
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awesome video! Love barefoot running. They SHOULD mention that you need to progress gradually from heel strike to mid foot strike to allow the foot/ankle to adapt! VERY IMPORTANT.
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i run like a barefoot runner because landing on my heel first feels awkward for me. this also lets me like spring forward very comfortably
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I started running barefooted about 18 months ago. It is a great feeling, the longest distance running barefooted, for me, has been about five miles. Being in the US Army I am used to running long distances in combat boots, but when I decided to test evolution, the feeling of something new (or old) and great came to my old soul. My body knew exactly what to do and how to run. EVOLUTION is never wrong!!!! It is a lot easier to understand evolution than to believe in a talking snake!!!!
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Truth! I forgot my shoes one day and had always wanted to get into barefoot running. I ran 20 minutes and felt good the whole way. My calves were in pain for days afterwards. Totally worth it though!
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It makes an AMAZING difference to run barefoot or with VERY limited padding or whatnot. It is something you have to work into, or I have had to anyway! You have to build the muscles back up that you were not using when you wore shoes. I feel an amazing difference through out my whole body since I started the POSE method and with going barefoot!
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Okay I have been an avid runner since 2006. In 2009 I fractured me knee training for a marathon. I spent the next 2 years wearing knee braces, changing my running shoes every 6 months, and overall dealing with stress fractures. I switched to barefoot running in September 2011. I now can run the same distances with almost no knee or shin pain. Barefoot running is what your body was designed to do. Your hamstrings and calves act as shock absorbers for your body preventing injury!
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I swam competitively from the age of 6 thru high school and joined the military there after. Running has lately been foreign to me growing up. For over 15 years I fought aches pains and injury with all the running we do in the military. It wasn't until about two years ago I started running with 5 finger shoes. The body QUICKLY adjusts to avoid the painful act of running heel to toe. And I can for once say that I have been pain free since I made that transition.
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Running barefoot is more fun and I feel like I am going faster... I am just afraid that I will step on some broken glass in my neighborhood.
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John Peterson: Yes, you'll feel like there are knives in your calves at 1st! I could barely walk the first time I tried bf running. It feels so great when you're doing it, that you overdo it the 1st time. No matter how good a runner you are, you HAVE to increase barefoot mileage VERY gradually so that your calf muscles can lengthen. Good luck...don't quit trying...it is GREAT! I had a knee injury and thought I'd never run again.....Barefoot gave me back my favourite sport!
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When he said he enjoyed it when he took off his shoes to run, I could relate to that . That was what I felt when I took my shoes of to run with my fore foot. Only those people who actually do that will understand what that enjoyment is.
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I've had the vibrams for a week now and I love them. Can't see wearing any other shoe at this point.
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I have almost been arrested multiple times for going around barefoot in town. For some reason it seems to frighten people. We are such well trained consumers, the sight of someone running around without corporate products on their bodies really freaks people out.
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Thanks John; I'm an exSprinter, now running distance. I remember during Track workouts (in the 70's) we'd be training with the distance guys. I would not be quite recovered for the next 550; plus my shin splints were killing me. My body would want to run with less pain and I naturally started running with a lower profile and quicker turn over (like I did while sprinting). What relief that was. Growing up I ran more with shoes off than on. I think that instinct took over.
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Thank you, research on barefoot is not as easy to come by as I would like, I've been searching for how to strike as a barefoot runner and this was great!
