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Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science column scrutinizes the health and fitness industry through the critical lens of scientific skepticism.
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Thinking of trying barefoot running? We investigated a new strategy to switch from traditional shoe to barefoot running, and why barefoot running may work for some runners but not others.
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This strength training practice can fortify your feet, but experts warn that it’s not without risk.
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A New South Wales surf coach has developed a passion for barefoot running, seeing him cross roads, rivers and beaches over distances that dwarf a marathon.
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Running shoes help many of us keep fit – but for thousands of years, we ran without them. Is there any reason why we shouldn’t still run barefoot?
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Rediscovering the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other.
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Does going barefoot solve running injuries? Or does it just create new ones?
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Humans may have been built to run barefoot, but we did not evolve to run barefoot with bad form.
Often it's not WHAT you do that matters as much as HOW you do it. Running and walking are excellent forms of exercise, but, if doing them barefoot, you may be saving yourself from injury... or setting yourself up for one. This article explains more....
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Barefoot running, often touted by fans as more natural than wearing shoes, may actually be less metabolically efficient.
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Roving Runner Brian Fidelman goes for a barefoot run in Central Park with Christopher McDougall, author of the best-selling book, “Born to Run.”
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Do modern shoes really breed runners with poor form and more injuries?
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Barefoot-running expert Ben Le Vesconte talks to Adharanand Finn and Kate Carter at the VivoBarefoot Clinic in London
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To avoid injury while running on soft sand, take some tips from an expert.
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The human species is one of the most efficient terrestrial animals.
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Prof Joseph Hamill
Well the recent evidence in the last ten years or so is showing that shoes are not doing what we thought they were doing. There is no evidence that shoes prevent injuries, there’s no evidence that shoes improve performance. But the other argument is that barefoot running has no evidence either. We’re not used to walking around barefoot. We’re certainly not used to running around barefoot. The prime thing is in my research is that barefoot running forces you to change the things that you normally do.
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Barefoot Running Training Tips: Five tips from barefoot-running legend Ted McDonald.
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Barefoot running is a growing trend in fitness circles. Online weight loss coach Andrew Cate looks at the pro's and con's of baring your sole.
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The craze in natural running, also known as "barefoot" running, is galloping across the globe. It offers participants the chance to transcend the foot-slogging agony of jogging, and the dream of gliding along for huge distances while enjoying every step.
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In case the term "barefoot" is unfamiliar to you in the context of exercise, and you're suffering visions of losing all the skin on the soles of your feet to uneven pavements, let me enlighten you: for a number of years now, and for decades in elite athlete circles, the concept of running "barefoot" - either without shoes or wearing shoes that mimic going barefoot as far as possible - has been gaining credence as the best way to train and compete.
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It's been three years since James Kuegler last pulled on a pair of heavily-cushioned running shoes. But he hasn't given up pounding the city's pavements.
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Born this way, but barefoot running not all it's cracked up to be...
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There is a growing school of thought that, like so many aspects of modern life, we are over-complicating running.