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Barefoot Running

by Vinnie Tortorich

Apr082016

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Episode 580 - Barefoot Running

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Episode 580 : Lee Saxby joins Vinnie in this 1 on 1 edition of the Celebrity Fitness trainer podcast to discuss the art of injury-free barefoot running, and how everyone is born to run.

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LEE SAXBY

  • The Godfather of Barefoot Running
  • Check out his website here 
  • Pursues injury free, barefoot running

BAREFOOT RUNNING

  • Jogging book from the 70s
    • Jogging is the same thing as race-walking
    • When you are barefoot, your brain KNOWS when to break into a run due to force
      • When you have rubber (heel) under your foot, your body doesn’t know when to run vs. jog, which can hurt you
  • Lee’s epiphany came in the year 2000, in Kenya
    • He saw lots of kids running barefoot and he saw how everyone had the same running technique
      • Biomechanically, running barefoot forced them to
        • Lower impact for them!
        • The best runners come out of East Africa, so there Lee saw a correlation
  • Lee saw that there was a definite difference in running depending on where they ran (endurance running)
    • Forefoot on hard ground
    • Heel-strike on grass
    • They didn’t realize what they were doing — instincts and biomechanics kicked in
  • Your foot is constantly trying to find the ground — it cannot do that if you have tennis shoes on
  • Lee will film people with shoes vs no shoes
    • The more padding in the shoe, the longer their feet stick to the ground
      • This is an issue and can cause extra strain

CORRECTING A BAD RUNNER

  • Many people never heel-strike which causes lots of pain to achilles and other tendons
  • Lee tries to educate people simply
    • Educating trainers to what good running looks like
      • To do this he has a certification program

BORN TO RUN

  • People looked at Chris McDougall’s book as a bible which wasn’t the best idea
  • Both do love the book, though
  • McDougall had plantar fasciitis in 2010 and Lee Saxby helped fix that by changing his running style
    • Those toe-shoes are not the cure-all, good running technique is
    • Both Vinnie and Lee owned these Vibrum’s before realizing they weren’t the right move
    • The 5 finger can hurt those with broad feet, cause knee injuries, etc
    • They were more of a fashion statement than a functional shoe
    • Vinnie had issues with them on long runs
    • Your running style has to be good for these to work
    • You’re better off going actually barefoot if you are able

 

 

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