Wendy’s helped me lose weight

LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »

well done

I am wondering though how you're not troubled with Plantar fasciitis with the barefoot running - I did a bit of that myself (only on machines/indoors!) and had to give up as my arches fell.

Never had a problem with plantar fasciitis. I had the opposite effect that you describe, all my life I had pancake-flat feet and after about a year of barefoot running I discovered I had developed strong arches, a pleasantly surprising side effect. I don’t know if barefooting actually has any benefits for the body or not, I do it because I find it super fun! But I have noticed that my posture is 100% better, my balance has improved immensely and of course I love my new arches!

This is simply my opinion, I have no idea if it’s correct or not so please take it with a grain of salt I think running outdoors would be a lot different from indoors/treadmill. It’s supposedly the fact that there are uneven surfaces that challenge the foot muscles to work that build strength. On a treadmill every footstep is exactly the same (perfectly flat!) so it’s easy to overwork the same muscles repeatedly and cause overuse injuries. Outdoors, different muscles are firing off because every single step will be different, no two muscle groups will be working exactly the same way for every step so they don’t tire as easily and share the workload. In my case, it’s the only way I really feel comfortable running, I’ve tried shoes and suffered horrible shin splints, and out of desperation that’s why I tried barefoot and have had no more shin splints since so I’m sticking with the barefoot running, have been doing it for almost 5 years now