Vibram Fivefingers Anyone???

[BionicBetty]

Yes....my soles got a blister on them, so won't run barefoot on there again. Am going to a fizzio next week & am going to ask him about it too. He's a runner himself, so hopefully will have an insight into it. When I think about it, when I was at school, I always ran barefoot on sports day

[Twister]

I'm still managing a weekly 5 miles or so in VFF. Used to do a lot more in the summer; when we were travelling around France I very often had to run on roads and wore VFF for this. Great to see the puzzled looks from the French runners. Barefoot/natural/minimalism has not quite reached them yet, You can't buy VFF anywhere in France.

[Inov-8 Insider]

This article is a very good read if you have any doubts etc about ditching overly cushioned/stiff/inflexible shoes.
HERE

[bfluc]

You might like to read this thread on Barefoot Ted's forum

My feet get red hot on the treadmill

Take a look at the trick that helped me that you could see demonstrated on this video I made here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsNDKTRfOAc

you can also see how the foot should be landing here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b3Ur..._order&list=UL

and also here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXbJ9..._order&list=UL

Be careful running on a treadmill barefoot.
I use to do regular session on the treadmill with my training partner and once forgot my running shoes so decided to run the session barefoot.
All was well until I got off and realised I had taken the skin off the bottom of my feet.:thunbdown:
It was like running on a belt sander:w00t:

I was very sceptical of this whole bare foot running until I was recommended to at least have a look at it from a physio, I now see it as an important part of my training/fitness.
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Barefoot Ken Bob is showing us what looks like a good barefoot running form here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIL07uYAW-Q

Hope this will help.

P.S. I have done way less mileage in VFF this year. I have done more mileage in Mizuno Wave UNiverse, huaraches sandals. I am now starting to test RunAmoc LITE and Inov-8 F-Lite 195. Though I'll be testing how far I can push the limit in snow with oversized VFF Treks (kangaroo leather) in the next couple of months (snow is back here in Crazy Canucks Land).

[BionicBetty]

First link on feet getting red hot on the treadmill. Thinking about it, my 6ft, built like a brick s**thouse son had just got off it, after running for about 50 mins.

I've had such conflicting advice on the subject. I've only done it once & it felt natural to me. I'll have to save up for some VFF I guess

[bfluc]

First link on feet getting red hot on the treadmill. Thinking about it, my 6ft, built like a brick s**thouse son had just got off it, after running for about 50 mins.

I've had such conflicting advice on the subject. I've only done it once & it felt natural to me. I'll have to save up for some VFF I guess

To be honest I barefooted on treadmill on a regular basis in winter when I was training for my 1st marathon. It took me a couple of months in order to be able to barefoot 5 km or so on the treadmill. I started with 10 minutes and built up pretty slowly. I don't know if it was my running form or the skin of my soles adaptating.

Now that I have nicknamed it the "Dreadmill" I am not on it oftenly. You might even have more opportunities to see the Crazy Canuck I am running in snow storm than on the "Dreadmill".

[Skids]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=theHX...layer_embedded

Tee hee