What if I was to tell you your shoes are messing up your feet,
your knees, your back, and even the way you walk, and the simple way to fix it is just
by taking them off. So, this video is all about how I've been wearing barefoot shoes for the last
year, and a bit more and how I'm never freaking going back to normal shoes. So,
let's face it normal shoes look really nice. Like who doesn't love a good nike shoe, but they're
doing a lot more harm than we actually realize. When we actually walk in these pillow leg shoes
we're not actually getting the bio feedback we need when we're striking our heel into the floor,
which is not a very healthy way to walk by the way. Anyways, we're unable to know how hard we're
actually driving our foot into the ground so again we're trained to push harder and harder into the
ground so we can actually get that feedback to our brain but that additional pressure we're putting
on our body is then messing up our knees our back and all of the other things to compensate for
what we're doing. Like I was 21 when I started wearing barefoot shoes and dude i was walking
like a freaking duck for my entire life. I was getting body pain, like it's not supposed to happen
at my age, like what what the heck! And to fix this problem I bought this exact shoe over a year ago
and literally just decided to wear them every single freaking day. Probably not the best
decision because I didn't transition over to them but oh well. Anyways, these bad boys have zero drop
meaning they're completely flat, they are stupidly flexible, they have a wide toe box, they don't have
arch support and they have minimal padding and cushion. So basically all this shoe is more or less
doing is if I walk around and there's a rock on the ground it's not going to puncture and
destroy the heck out of my foot. It's just going to hit this bad boy and other than that i'm more or
less walking barefoot. So here's the thing everyone really wants to know. Like would you recommend it?
Are you going to continue? I'm definitely going to continue, but there is good and bad stuff
associated with this. Let's start off with the good stuff though. So for starters, like my foot I don't
know what it is but i just feel so much stronger. Like I'm actually able to feel every part of my
foot instead of it just feeling like a freaking cloud. My toes are a lot stronger like I can
root them into the ground, and I just overall feel more stable when i'm moving around. At the same
time, they've also made me start caring more about my feet so I like to go rock climbing for example.
But rock climbing shoes are super bad for your feet. They just like crumple them in and try to
squish them as hard as possible. I ended up getting these guys instead. I get a couple weird looks
but i'm not allowed to climb bare feet because for some reason people think that's disgusting, which
makes no sense because like your hands and feet are not very different. They both freaking sweat!
But anyways, it makes sure that I'm keeping myself accountable of having healthy feet
and walking properly and finally I'm just more likely to actually go real barefoot in the park.
Like I am right now and actually ground myself with the earth. Before... wasn't really doing it, now I am.
By the way, grounding or earthing is more or less seeing your body as a battery and essentially the
earth is like an electric magnetic charge, and it's charging us up whenever we actually touch
it skin to earth. Also, a little side added bonus, if you want freaking huge calves or much bigger
than you have at least right now like like these these will give it to you. Trust me. But of course,
with everything there's always compromises that you have to deal with, and if you're like me and
decided to just throw yourself in with doing very minimal research, yeah like not having that
transition period kind of added a bunch of stress to my calves and everything around there. I don't
have the best dorsiflexion meaning like actually how would I explain this you can just see what
I mean that's easier. But anyways so like that's really essential when you're actually walking and
various other things that kind of just have added up tension on my general legs so i'm starting to
get massages on a weekly basis, and not to mention again I am definitely building everything up
and then I still have some pain when walking around. Mainly on pavement, probably just because
it's a very hard surface and especially when i'm in a rush i resort back to my kind of fast really
long stride walking pattern that I literally have been doing for like 20 plus years of my life.
So yeah, like even this far in i'm still learning and still changing my habits and behaviors. So,
yeah like it's it's it's not the easiest thing in the world. So basically would i do it again? 100%
It is such a good decision but i would change a couple things. One, I would do a transition period,
andI will link a video from my friend, Laura, down below in the description. Then I would start
wearing toe socks asap because normal socks are kind of again like kind of pillows squishing and
putting a little bit force so our toes can't space out that would be a sick ass idea. And a video from
my friend kyle I'll link that down below talking all about that. And then finally, like you don't
need to buy barefoot shoes um I would say a good first start is just starting to go more barefoot
without socks on a daily basis in your house even when you go to the park. Just go in the grass a
little bit and kind of try to hang out barefoot. I would say that's a good start but if you're gonna
go right to buying shoes like i've personally used vivobarefoot's throughout the majority
of my experience. I want to start exploring with other brands, like there's earthrunner sandals that
I think are just super cool i want to try out, but explore um but yeah like if you go with vivo it's
again good but quite expensive. Anyway so it's safe to say that barefoot shoes have literally been one
of the best additions to my life to date, but if you want to know the best purchase that I've made
so far it's definitely this Oura ring here it has literally improved the heck out of my sleep,
and like my cognitive performance, my focus. I just feel freaking good every single day,
and if you're interested in that I made a video up here about my experience after wearing it for
a year and various tips that you can add to your life. Okay, I'll see you in the next one. Bye-bye