Barfoot walking for a healty locomotor system

[mongodelight]

Hello!

Shoes have an effect on the whole locomotor system. Walking with shoes on causes weak feet muscles und weak muscles around the shinbone. If you do sports, walking and running you build up the upper leg muscles. So if you want to run a few miles you re upper leg musles tell you: "You can run a few more miles!" But your feet and under leg muscles cant stabilize the whole locomotor system(if you run in the region near your limit). But the stabilization is very important. It has to absorb the impact of your steps. If u re feet and under leg muscles system dont function proberly you will get injured.

To make sure that your whole stabilizer muscles in your feet and under legs are strong enough you have to train your feet. One and the easiest way is walking bare foot. I am doing it every day and its very enjoyable. My goal is to be able to walk on every ground in every kind of weather.

Like beeing raw it feels very natural and pleasurable to walk bare foot.
You feel more connected to the enviroment :D

Have fun, get stabil, win medals!

[Bodhi]

Excellent points.

[Ilse W.]

Interesting, but not very practical for most people. I do, however, bounce on my rebounder with bare feet.:D

[Raene]

Hello!

Shoes have an effect on the whole locomotor system. Walking with shoes on causes weak feet muscles und weak muscles around the shinbone. If you do sports, walking and running you build up the upper leg muscles. So if you want to run a few miles you re upper leg musles tell you: "You can run a few more miles!" But your feet and under leg muscles cant stabilize the whole locomotor system(if you run in the region near your limit). But the stabilization is very important. It has to absorb the impact of your steps. If u re feet and under leg muscles system dont function proberly you will get injured.

To make sure that your whole stabilizer muscles in your feet and under legs are strong enough you have to train your feet. One and the easiest way is walking bare foot. I am doing it every day and its very enjoyable. My goal is to be able to walk on every ground in every kind of weather.

Like beeing raw it feels very natural and pleasurable to walk bare foot.
You feel more connected to the enviroment :D

Have fun, get stabil, win medals!

What if you're flat-footed? I am and is my daughter...orthotics obviously aren't possible without shoes and that's the only way our legs can be properly aligned=less leg/foot pain.

[gs4life]

mongodelight--i totally agree! i just recently read about barefoot running. i started running in high school and by the end of cross-country my freshman year of college was injured so badly that i couldn't run. i had tried to start running again a few times within the past 3 years, but could never manage to go a few weeks or maybe a month without getting injured. i had orthodics because of plantar fascitis, i had achilles tendinitis...ITB, etc. etc...

a couple of weeks ago i started walking barefoot around the house and out in the yard. when i go out i am now walking in racing flats (the thinnest shoes i own) and am slowly beginning to run in racing flats and also work my way up to running barefoot. just this morning i ran about 10 minutes barefoot and it felt great! once you learn how to run barefoot you can actually learn how to run correctly.

i plan on getting a pair of five fingers when i return to the states in december. does anyone have a pair?

i highly recommend walking barefoot! it is, as you say mongodelight, very natural feeling and grounding!

[spicyfull]

I hate Dirty Feet but Thanks for Sharing your point of View...........

[Revvell]

I agree. First thing I do when I get home is take off my shoes (we don't wear them in our home anyway, and even when out, as often as possible keep them bare. I enjoy going out and training barefoot in our backyard, running on the cold, damp grass in the morning... etc. I've "tried" going barefoot while out hiking, just not persistent enough.

As for having flat feet, part of the problem is, not enough variation in foot movement to build the muscles in the feet. If one goes out on uneven ground, the feet may hurt at first (sort of like doing any natural healing ~ we'll often feel worse before feeling better), but then the muscles will build and learn to support one's body. Using orthotics will never do that. They just replace what the foot muscles should be doing.

Thank you for the reminder.

Revvell

[sport]

I hate Dirty Feet but Thanks for Sharing your point of View...........

you do not know what you are missing. I never wear shoes in the house and love dirty feet.
I also enjoy standing in the shower or bath and hosing them down when I need to put shoes on to go out. It is so refreshing.

[sport]

Walking on wet grass disperses all the static build up in your body and should be done once a day.
If the grass is dry then you should put a hose on your lower legs.
I got this info from Living Foods for Radiant Health by Elaine Bruce.

[Raene]

As for having flat feet, part of the problem is, not enough variation in foot movement to build the muscles in the feet. If one goes out on uneven ground, the feet may hurt at first (sort of like doing any natural healing ~ we'll often feel worse before feeling better), but then the muscles will build and learn to support one's body. Using orthotics will never do that. They just replace what the foot muscles should be doing.

Thank you for the reminder.

Revvell

Revvell, thanks for the great info. Do you know where to find more information about this? I'd love to solve my daughter's flat foot problem naturally :)

[littlemarie]

Haha. This is so cool. I never wear shoes outside any way(my neighbors think im nuts).lol

[Raene]

See, in a town with mostly hippies, I find it disgusting that people go around without shoes on the sidewalks, streets, etc.
It's one thing to do it in your yard or in the middle of nowhere hiking, but is it necessary in public? Do people not worry about broken glass and who knows what else? Yuck. I too dislike dirty feet.

[annavon]

I noticed this past weekend that I wore shoes for the first two days of the Raw Spirit Fest and my feet and legs were killing me. Yesterday, I got a massage and when I stepped on the grass it felt soooo nice and cool I decided to leave my shoes off (except to go into the bathrooms). My feet didn't hurt at the end of the day like they had the two previous days. I wish i could walk bare foot out side where l live, but it is all rocks and cactus and the ground it way too hot. I will make a point to not wear shoes in the house as much.