BOOK: Running Human -- Humans Are Perfect Barefoot Runners By Sidy Diallo

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Fellow Members and Pioneers of the New Barefoot Movement,

I’ve just published a book entitled “Running Human: Humans Are Perfect Barefoot Runners,” and I’d like to share the presentation.

“The human body is a perfect barefoot running machine, originally designed for persistence hunting to get the necessary food so that our species could survive, and nowadays for doing marathons to stay healthy and happy. This means two crucial things for current humans. First, those who don’t regularly run long distances are likely to suffer from the chronic diseases (stress, depression, insomnia, fatigue, obesity, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, erectile dysfunction, kidney failure, loss of mobility or cognitive abilities, some cancers, etc.) against which doctors and drugs are proving increasingly helpless, hence the seemingly unstoppable exponential expansion of the epidemic throughout the world. And second, since shoes act like a bug in the system, those who run marathons wearing sneakers are highly likely to sustain diverse pains and injuries.

The first barefoot runner of a marathon broke the world record in 1960. Sadly, he afterwards decided, for whatever reason, to wear sneakers, and he ended up suffering from a serious injury that sounded the death knell for his running career. And like him, an increasing number of marathoners around the world are forced to stop running, because of critical injuries which sometimes require surgery.

The medical and anthropological approach of this book, based on the author’s experience on more than 200 marathons and 13 ultramarathons, highlights the exceptional capabilities of humans to run marathons, the reason they should regularly do long distances to prevent the chronic diseases, and why they should run barefoot for a more blissful experience, while significantly minimizing the risk of injuries.

Marathon running is the modern equivalent of persistence hunting. It’s therefore not a sport, but a normal activity for humans and, indeed, their vital primary job. In other words, we should run marathons to stay happy and healthy, and at the same time do our modern job to bring home the bacon. Moreover, if our hunter-gatherer ancestors had waited for shoes or if they had hunted for food, wearing our state-of-the-art sneakers, and had therefore sustained so many pains and injuries as most current marathon finishers, they would have starved to extinction, which means we wouldn’t be here.”

https://www.sidy42k.com/running-hum...yHtw5-_hfeaiHyJifwcrJ6V5kPxRosOAL45SEiJSXt8vE

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y4LNBFB
 
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One day... one day...
I actually had a personal triumph the other day when I ran my first ever 10km (not a race, just an outing with friends), having struggled to run 3km when I started running in June. The marathon will follow... :happy:
Wonderful!
 
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