Why run barefoot and barefoot shoes are so healthy
We are born without shoes, can run perfectly barefoot and thus develop a natural and joint -friendly walk. However, today's life is not geared towards walking barefoot all day.
Why we no longer run barefoot
If you not only run barefoot on the beach or on the meadow, but at all activities, you are looking at an angle and often stamped as spinners, dropouts or hippie. Running barefoot is simply not socially acceptable. The substrate we run on is rarely, of course. Rather, we are currently on asphalt and therefore have to protect our feet from shards, pointed edges or heated stones with the help of shoes.
On a hard asphalt, a pointed stone or a stick bores much more easily into our skin than on the natural forest or meadow ground, which always gives in a little. So we need sufficient protection for our feet!
Wearing barefoot shoes is the variant that comes closest to walking barefoot. Once you have enjoyed barefoot shoes, you are guaranteed not to do without it. Wearing barefoot shoes has enormous advantages!
What changes by wearing barefoot shoes?
Just take off your running shoes and jogging barefoot. You will quickly realize that you never land on your heels. We know subconsciously that it will hurt! Our passage is designed to put on the bales first. This is exactly what we do automatically when we run when we leave out the shoes - a kind of urine instinct that protects us from injuries.
Small children, to whom you do not attract shoes while learning to walk, do exactly that. They first appear on the ball before rolling out the foot to the heel. Unfortunately, this natural movement is trained by our modern shoes. We no longer end up on the bale, but mostly on the heel. This is reinforced again when you wear sales shoes. Many literally stamp their heels into the ground.
With this gait unnatural for us humans, less muscles are used. The steps can be taken significantly longer if you first put the foot on the heel. You have to take significantly fewer steps for the same route than with the natural bale gang. Through shock -damping properties of the modern shoes, the joints and the spine can endure the hard rolling over the heel well - but sometimes not! Most of them have no problems with it at a young age. With increasing age, however, a lot of people suffer from joint pain.
Many do not know that this pain can be related to the unnatural passage. This causes the loss of important retaining muscles that protect our joint apparatus and the greater load due to inadequate damping.
Back to the natural walk with barefoot shoes
Barefoot shoes are often also referred to as minimal shoes. They have a very thin and above all flexible sole. You should ensure that your foot uses all the muscles that are also used when walking barefoot. Unfortunately, many have lost exactly these muscles or did not develop in childhood by wearing shoes. That's why you should slowly get used to barefoot shoes.
Give your foot and leg muscles time to develop. After the changeover, you will surely feel changes on your body. Running barefoot or running the correct running in barefoot shoes protects our joints in our feet, ankles, knees, hips and the spine.
Our body has installed natural shock absorption. When we go back to running, expensive high -tech shoes with sophisticated damping are absolutely superfluous and even counterproductive! It is very important that you take shorter steps to be able to appear on the ball. If the steps are too long, this is no longer possible and you inevitably end up on your heels.
It is like all other routines that you want to train. You have to stay consistently on the ball and train the natural gait again and again, preferably every day. Then at some point you will automatically change and no longer have to pay attention to running properly. The bale gang becomes your new routine.
You can particularly prepare your feet for barefoot shoes by actually running barefoot as often as possible and the best way to substrate. In the beginning, a soft meadow or a sandy beach is suitable. If you have got used to something, you can always try new substrates.
Suddenly more pain when wearing barefoot shoes
It can happen that you get muscle and joint pain in the first few days. The first is a positive signal because you build muscles that were atrophied by the unnatural gait. However, joint pain is a warning signal!
Many make the mistake that they run in barefoot shoes as much as before, i.e. there is hard on the heel. Since many barefoot shoes have no damping, nothing springs and the stress on the joints increases enormously.
Our ZAQQ barefoot shoes are perfect for switching.
Our soles are super thin and flexible, but still have a very easy damping. This makes it easier for you to switch from the heel to the baling. It is quite normal for you to land on the heel again and again at the beginning, after all you have done it for years. Training this habit takes something.
With our minimal damping, you still protect your joints if it shouldn't work with the bale in the beginning. In our ZAQQ barefoot shoes, running gets a whole new quality. You feel the surface and take your surroundings very different. You protect your joints and your spine and optimally form the muscles that our entire musculoskeletal system needs to stay agile and healthy.
Now there is no more back, so rummage through our range. We not only have the right barefoot shoe for you for sports and outdoor, but also for business and all everyday activities.
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