The Running Shoes

Barefoot running is the new sport in the world, after doctors suggest people should start barefoot running, it become more and more popular today. Almost every runners turned into barefoot running, almost every website publicize barefoot running day by day, developed less than ten years, the achievement barefoot running has exceed other sports. This huge economic benefits promote more and more brands to produce shoes just designed for barefoot running.

No matter from online searching or in stores, you can find barefoot running shoes so popular, so wide and so different. They are light and strange, even Nike joind the competetion in barefoot shoes market, the momentum of producing barefoot shoes has begun to emerge. The name of five finger shoes in 2007, by Times make the war heated. However, the popular of barefoot running make the different selection for runners become popular.

- Kigo Shel

Looks like crocodie, but it really light. The Kigo Shel is a unisex shoe that’s designed for trail running, hiking, and wet weather conditions. Weighing only five ounces per shoe, the thin, high-grip rubber outsole and flexible midsole make it a good option for minimalist footwear. It also has a removable insole that provides extra ground support when needed. Added plus: it’s eco-friendly. Kigo shoes are made using recycled materials and water-based glues.

- Newton All-Weather Trainer

While the Newton All-Weather Trainer may look like a normal running shoe, it’s anything but. All Newton shoes encourage you to run on your midfoot/forefoot and keep you upright to discourage heel-strikes. The All-Weather Trainers are a great shoe regardless of what type of runner you are. Some key features: a grippy sole and antibacterial and moisture-wicking sockliners. What’s great about the entire Newton line is that there is a shoe for everyone, whether a beginner or marathon runner.

- Nike Free 7.0 Running Shoe

When it comes to looks, the Nike Free line has the best barefoot runners. The Free line emphasizes the natural movement of your feet, and the shoes are designed to give you the benefits of barefoot running without sacrificing your feet to the elements. Since the Nike Free scale goes from 10.0 to 0.0, with 10 being a fully supportive shoe, the Nike Free 7.0 Running Shoe is a good entry point into this style of running. Just like the speed development scales of Nike company, as it appeared in the market, it become more and more popular, continues the regualr line of Nike shoes, Nike Free is really different.

- Vibram FiveFingers Sprint

Vibram FiveFingers are the most well-known of the barefoot running shoes. But this may have more to do with its unmistakable design. The most versatile shoe in its line, the Five Fingers Sprint is suited for bouldering, running, water sports, yoga, Pilates, everyday wear, and general fitness. Based on the human foot, it is scientist and health. And the runners who wear it said that they can release powers and make magic of their body. As the fitness shoes, vibram five fingers assist you to spread your toes gently. The foot base happens to be wider for this particular footwear style. This brings improvement to the muscles of your feet. The range of the motion of each foot gets enhanced in this way and the general health of the feet improves to a great extent. Also it strengthen the lower part of the legs and the feet muscles. The muscles will turn tougher in the cozy comfort of five fingers. This in turn lowers the risk of leg injury to a great extent. When it appeared in the market, people reflect highly comment of it. Nowadays people wear Nike has translate into vibram five fingers. With this magic shoes, some women can find them thiner while doing exercise.

The hot of barefoot running increasing from year by year, also the hot of producing shoes for barefoot running will never stopped, with this health shop method, people can release themselves in the world barefoot running build and they can also enjoy their life whenever they can.

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The good news is, most of the blisters you get with shoes will not happen when you are barefoot running. The reason for this is, most shoe-running blisters occur where the shoe is rubbing on your foot, and that simply can’t happen with barefoot running!

The bad news is, you will still get blisters when barefoot running, but only on the bottoms of your feet.

The kinds of blisters you can get on the soles of your feet when barefoot running vary from small, white blisters, to big, red blood blisters; to the ugliest blister of all: big blood blisters that are actually underneath the thick pads or calluses on your feet.

The most important thing to remember is you want to minimize the number of blisters you get barefoot running in the first place.

Here are some ways to minimize the blisters that you get from barefoot running:

1. Lift your feet cleanly up and down.

Blisters are a result of friction, so as you are barefoot running you want to place your foot so as not to create friction. You need to concentrate on lifting your foot (from the knee, not by pushing off) cleanly up and and down. Don’t let your foot drag along the pavement when it lands, and don’t let it push off from the ground while barefoot running either.

2. Keep the pressure off your toes.

Some people have a tendency to put too much weight on their toes and the inside of their foot when barefoot running, and this can create big blisters especially on the big toes. The correction for this is again, not to let your big toes push off at all, and also to shift your weight off the insides of your feet, and keep it more to the outer sides of your feet. Keeping your toes lightly on the road, and this should help the number of toe-blisters you can get barefoot running.

3. Don’t do barefoot running in the rain or when it’s wet.

Trying to go out and do barefoot running while it is raining or still wet on the roads can give you what I call “dishpan feet” – the bottoms of your feet get waterlogged and the skin can not only blister put start to peel off very easily. Avoid (or at least limit your time) barefoot running in the rain.

Here’s how to deal with blisters you get barefoot running despite all your precautions:

1. Take some time off.

If you really love barefoot running, you will take a day (or maybe 3 or 4) to let the blister on your foot go down and heal. I find that once the blister is totally flat and hard I can go out again, if I don’t overdo it immediately.

2. Use Moleskin to pad around the blister.

You can get Moleskin at most pharmacies and running stores. You want to be careful how you put it on though. What you want to do is get or cut a piece that is in a round or oval shape, larger than the blister, and be sure to cut out any of the inside that would touch the blister. That way, when you put the Moleskin on, it should not be touching the blister at all, but should be acting as a kind of lift or pad around it, keeping it off the ground pressure while you are out barefoot running. Note: If the Moleskin will not stay on, you can use duct tape to hold it on better.

3. Use Benzoin, rubbing alcohol or iodine to disinfect the blister area.

Benzoin has the nice property of also making the area of your foot “stickier” in a way that will help to hold on any Moleskin or tape you use on it so you can keep barefoot running afterwards. Rubbing alcohol or iodine should be used every night to disinfect the blister area.

And that’s it – the 3 best ways to avoid getting blisters while barefoot running – but if you do, then there’s 3 more ways to deal with them so you can keep on barefoot running.

And that’s the whole point, right?

T Knudson

Running without shoes – this idea seems crazy in mordern society, but it has come ture nowadays. People translate their ways to barefoot runnning, it has proved by doctors that barefoot running is better than running with foot. Some people get start of barefoot running, some people just decide to start. It seems that today shoes is very unuseful, but before barefoot running, you should know to some necessity for preparation.

1. Don’t Listen to Anyone

Translation: Your friends, family and running buddies are likely going to think you are a nut-job for getting interested in barefoot running. Don’t ever listen to them. The only people you should get your advice from are folks who have more barefoot running experience than you do. Don’t care which brand they said, maybe someone just do ads with five finger shoes. There are great websites out there, forums and Facebook groups all about running barefoot where you can tap into a huge amount of knowledge and experience about the topic.

2. Find Smooth Tar

Smooth roads are a barefoot runner’s dream. For some roads you feet may hurt from it. The fewer breaks, pebbles and debris the better. You should focus your attention on finding long stretches of road that don’t have a lot of crap on them to begin training. You’ll find as you get more practice under your belt that you can comfortably go running on more varied surfaces without pain or at least without much pain.

3. Start With 5 Minutes

Frequently folks who are just getting started with Barefoot Running over-due it at first because they can. Unfortunately that usually means pain in the feet and lower calves for several days. Start out running barefoot for 5 minutes a day – then do your normal run after that. Think of your 5 minutes barefoot as a smooth warm up. Also you can test different types of barefoot running shoes, i.e. Nike Free shoes, vibram five fingers shoes are all unique designed for barefoot running. After long time exercise, you will find one most suit you. Do this for the first week, then go for 10 minutes at a time on week 2. Keep building up like this and pretty soon you will be running 30+ minutes at a time.

4. Lift Your Knees

When running barefoot you will find that your form will start to automatically shift and become much more efficient. In addition, you are putting direct pressure on the soles of your feet. If the skin on the bottom of your feet hasn’t been seasoned you’ll get blisters and irritation. The way to help your feet make the transition more smoothly is to focus your attention on lifting your knees, rather than pushing off on your feet like you probably do when you’re wearing shoes.

This will come with time, but the more you can be aware of it the better – your body will thank you for it.

5. Get Vibram Five Fingers

Thousands of barefoot runners in training have gotten their start with Vibram Five Fingers. They are a wonderful minimalist shoe that helps you get your form right as well as get you used to hitting rocks and other sharp objects (pain) without quite as much intensity on your skin directly. Today more and more people translate their ways to running with five finger shoes, all reflect they are running like flying, with barefoot running they felt relax and comfortable. However, the price may be different with new runners and experienced runners. Experienced runners worn cheap vibram five fingers which is high quality, this maybe a little difficult for new users to indentify genius and fake one at once. Suggestion that new users can communicate with experienced runners, you will learn more from them.

6. Carry Tweezers & Super-Glue

A big concern of people is “stepping on glass”. Though it actually happens very infrequently, occasionally you can get a small sliver of glass or acorn in your foot and it’s always best to remove it ASAP. It is recommended that you use an Amphipod to carry tweezers, super glue and some alcohol wipes to disinfect if you do happen to get anything stuck in your foot when you are out running.

Getting start of barefoot running maybe a little difficult for general human. It need time for you to adapt to this lifestyle, but after this lifestyle, you will feel comfortable and make sure that can not live without them.

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Ouch, Ouch, Ouch…that’s what it sounds like when you try to do barefoot running and the ground is way too hot. Believe me, I know from experience: I went barefoot running in Phoenix, Arizona in July, and that is like running on a black frying pan.

Now, before I give you any advice on how to go barefoot running in hot weather, i would like to be clear about one thing: if it is just too hot for barefoot running, and your feet are actually burning on the pavement, and you don’t have any other surface than ‘tar’ to run on, then just don’t do it. save your barefoot running for another day.

However, there are several ways that you can still go barefoot running even if the roads are too hot to handle:

1. Do your barefoot running on trails instead of the road. Trails are usually shaded, and even if they are not, the dirt is always cooler to the feet than pavement. (If you think back to being a kid you will remember this).

2. Find an area where the shoulder of the road has grass and is not likely to be hiding glass or sharp objects – a nice, clean stretch of road with a “grassy verge.” Then do your barefoot running in the grass…or run on the road as long as you can stand it and then take a break by running in the grass.

3. Run on the white line. That’s right – black absorbs light, white reflects it – so barefoot running on the white line on the side of the road is always cooler. The only thing to watch out for here is that you will be closer to the cars, so be sure to watch for cars (you should while barefoot running anyway) and get off the line if you see traffic coming.

4. Go barefoot running for as long as you can in the heat – then take a break, and then do some more. Your feet will build up a tolerance to the hot surfaces if you push them a little, and if you don’t they probably never will.

5. Try to find a stretch of road to do your barefoot running on where there is enough shade to slip in and out of the shady spots as you run. You can run on very hot roads – if it’s only for a little while, then hop into the shade.

6. Run in Vibram Five Fingers. You can find Vibram Five Fingers online, and although I don’t consider running in Vibrams to be ‘real’ barefoot running, I have done a lot of my training in them. they will allow you to get your barefoot running in without scorching your feet.

That’s it – 6 ways to keep on barefoot running, even when it’s hot enough to fry an egg on the road.

One more important note: be sure, with barefoot running as well as any other kind of running, to drink enough water or Gatorade and stay hydrated extra well when you are running in hot weather.

I generally drink water before, during, and after barefoot running. And to keep my ‘salts’ up as well I will drink Gatorade or CeraSport – both of which have salts and electrolytes you need. But it is even more important, of course to drink enough when you are barefoot running in hot weather.

Oh, and one more note about hot surfaces: generally, the darker the surface, the hotter it will be (absorbs more heat)…but red brick is one exception. Red brick is the hottest to run on in the sun, so avoid red brick surfaces when barefoot running.

T Knudson

You may have already started barefoot running; or maybe you are just considering barefoot running but haven’t started yet. One question that comes up often is, “how will I know if I am damaging my feet with barefoot running?”

This is a good question. However, there are a couple things to keep in mind. One, whenever the subject of barefoot running comes up, people are instantly worried about “ruining your feet,” and two, runners – even professional runners – have only been wearing highly padded, technical running shoes since the early 1970′s. That is only 30-some years, compared to literally thousands of years (and sports activities) in which runners wore no shoes, or thin, unpadded shoes.

And studies have actually shown that foot and leg injuries have increased, not decreased, since these highly padded, technical shoes were introduced. So, the first thing we should do is dispel the myth that running without highly padded shoes is going to automatically ruin your feet.

However, one reason you should be careful not to damage your feet right off when you begin barefoot running is that you have probably been wearing these highly padded and structured shoes all your life, and therefore your feet have not developed the muscles they would have if you had been going barefoot all your life.

People who have gone barefoot a majority of their lives have an easier time getting started with barefoot running, and those who have always worn shoes have a harder time. This does not mean that you cant’ switch to barefoot running if you have been a dedicated shoe runner; it just means that you need to start out very slowly.

If you start barefoot running to quickly, and don’t allow yourself the proper buildup time for your muscles to build and your foot to adapt to barefoot running, you may experience some of the following warning signs:

Swelling of the foot
Pain inside the foot
Bad blisters (including blood blisters)

If you are experiencing swelling or pain in your foot or feet while barefoot running, there may be serious damage or there may not be. You may want to check with your doctor if you think something is seriously wrong. I have had some swelling in my feet, and what I did was three things:

1. Stop barefoot running for a few days until the swelling goes down.
2. Put the foot up (elevate it) when not running.
3. Give the foot frequent ice baths.

With bad blisters (meaning, dark, large, or blood-filled blisters) I stopped barefoot running for a day or two. If I really needed to run, I put Moleskin in a circle around the blister to stop it from touching the ground, depending on how bad it was. In any case, if you have a blister you do not want to go out barefoot running so much that it makes the blister worse.

If you are experiencing any of these signs, then the problem is most likely not that you are barefoot running, but that you are barefoot running too much at one time. Cut down your time barefoot running for a while, after taking a break from it to let your feet heal, then you can increase your distance and time gradually with less damage.

And the best way to avoid these kinds of damage in the first place is to start off barefoot running very gradually, at about 5 minutes a day, then 10 minutes a day, and so on, increasing your time each week. If you do that you should be able to begin barefoot running without worrying about “damaging your feet.”

However, do remember that it will take a while to build up your barefoot running muscles, your sole will need to build up some padding, and your foot structure will be changing overall, which is not always a pleasant process.

So, if you want to start barefoot running, a rule of thumb is “grin and bear it” on the minor pains, but stop and treat the larger pains before they get too big.

T Knudson