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The truth about barefoot running - the key to avoiding injury or a runner's fad?

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Start date May 6, 2019

Barefoot TJ

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May 6, 2019

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What are your opinions on this video?

The truth about barefoot running - the key to avoiding injury or a runner's fad?
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THE WINNER OF the 1980 Boston marathon, Jacqueline Gareau once said of muscle fatigue: “the body does not want you to do this. As you run, it ...

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"Go! I am sending you out ...do not take sandals." ~Jesus
“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize that the foot is more noble than the shoe?” ~Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"How one runs probably is more important than what is on one’s feet, but what is on one’s feet may affect how one runs." ~Dr. Daniel Lieberman
"Barefoot is the default." ~Bare Lee
"Shoes do no more for the foot than a hat does for the brain." ~Dr. Mercer Rang
"Running Nike Free 0.0" ~me

My Posterity Footprint
I leave my footprint for you to see
the damage that shoes did to me.
My foot is no longer nice and wide
but narrow and cramped in shoes they hide.
No longer are my feet healthy and free
but diseased and sick, they bother me.
Take this as a lesson, so you may too
not be fooled into thinking shoes rule.
This is what society did to me.
I leave my footprint for the world to see. ~me

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Tedlet

Barefooters

May 7, 2019

#2

I quite like this one.. Keeps it nice and simple, makes the point that most peoples injury problems come as a result of trying to transition to quickly. Delivered in a 'not particularly sensationalist' manner too..
Makes a change...

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bfsailor

Barefooters

May 7, 2019

#3

I like it. Makes good points about "too much too soon" and uses good video illustrations.

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