Hey everyone! Question for you all.
I'm tipping the scales at the moment at 310.
I'm planning on starting VERY slow - a little here, a little there, and not too much all at once... this month for example is take my shoes off and go walk around outside on the concrete and the gravel a little bit each day. Keep walking around the rest of the time in my VFF's.
At 310 - small pebbles, feel like stepping on legos. So I need to work on learning to land lighter, relaxing and letting the feet form around the gravel or the rock and not tensing up - I ran all of 15 yards barefoot on the wet concrete sidewalk yesterday, picking up and landing on tons of small pebbles and that was enough for that day. LOL
What is the heaviest successful barefooter that you are aware of? Is 300 too much to barefoot on? The mental debate I'm having is: One shoulder says 'Shut up and barefoot and lose the weight." The other says, "Lose the weight, then barefoot." I'm a big fan of the concept of, "If it doesn't suck, we don't do it." So I'm leaning towards, "Shut up and barefoot", but I don't want to bust a few metatarsals because this shouldn't be done at 300+ pounds.
Thoughts? Do you know some successful big barefooters?
I'm tipping the scales at the moment at 310.
I'm planning on starting VERY slow - a little here, a little there, and not too much all at once... this month for example is take my shoes off and go walk around outside on the concrete and the gravel a little bit each day. Keep walking around the rest of the time in my VFF's.
At 310 - small pebbles, feel like stepping on legos. So I need to work on learning to land lighter, relaxing and letting the feet form around the gravel or the rock and not tensing up - I ran all of 15 yards barefoot on the wet concrete sidewalk yesterday, picking up and landing on tons of small pebbles and that was enough for that day. LOL
What is the heaviest successful barefooter that you are aware of? Is 300 too much to barefoot on? The mental debate I'm having is: One shoulder says 'Shut up and barefoot and lose the weight." The other says, "Lose the weight, then barefoot." I'm a big fan of the concept of, "If it doesn't suck, we don't do it." So I'm leaning towards, "Shut up and barefoot", but I don't want to bust a few metatarsals because this shouldn't be done at 300+ pounds.
Thoughts? Do you know some successful big barefooters?