The benefits of Barefoot Running
- Strength: While naturally strengthening the muscles in your feet, you are also exercising calves, thighs, gluts, the lower back and abdomen, increasing your core strength.
- Alignment: As our posture naturally improves, we lessen impact on our knees and hips.
- Stimulation: By increasing sensation to all 200,000 nerve endings in your feet, you enhance sensory feedback (proprioception).
- Protection: Our patented, puncture resistant sole allows all the benefits of barefoot, with all the protection of normal shoes.
Vivobarefoot additional features:
- Natural leather uppers
- Vegan options available
- Non sweat shop production (independently monitored)
- Recycled, sweat absorbing and antibacterial shoe liner
- Breathable, removable and washable footbed
- Anatomically aligned to the axis of the foot, allowing toes to move; vital for correct foot function.
- Lightweight, flexible design promotes natural, development of all muscle groups in the foot, leading to strong, healthy feet and ankles.
Common Question
Q: I was wondering if the Vivo Barefoot cross trainers are normal cross trainers and useful for the same things. I will be exercising at home and running on a treadmill and also doing other stuff, so just wondered if they would be the same as normal cross trainers?
A: Thank you for query regarding VIVOBAREFOOT. The shoes are suitable for everything you have described however perform in a slightly different way. They are a barefoot shoe which means that they have no arch support and encourage strengthening of the muscles of the feet. For the purposes of exercising at home they will be great but will take a little bit of work to get used to initially. As it will make the arches in your feet work. Traditional shoes support your arches meaning that they do not have to work as hard. To start with, I would only use them for one non-running workout a week before gradually building up and introducing them into a second non-running work out and then build up from there. You will notice soreness in your arches and most likely your lower calf. This is natural and as long as it soreness like the soreness you get after not going to the gym for a while as opposed to painful then this is fine. Once you have got used to using them in your non-running workouts you can build up into running gradually. I would recommend looking at the following links:
www.vivobarefoot.com/training And www.enhancerunning.com.au
These will give you some tips on running technique. Whilst there is a little of adaptation involved, the long-term benefits are unquestionable. You will find improvements in your posture and foot strength. Plus they are super lightweight so great not just for cross-training but also as a travel and casual shoe. I hope this answers your questions but should you have any questions please feel free to get in touch with us and we will be more than happy to help you out. Cheers.