The Barefoot Professor: by Nature Video

Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman has ditched his trainers and started running barefoot. His research shows that barefoot runners, who tend to land on their fore-foot, generate less impact shock than runners in sports shoes who land heel first. This makes barefoot running comfortable and could minimize running-related injuries. Read more here http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100126/full/news.2010.36.html and find the original research here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08723

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[ipwndazombie]

I need feet ? Oh,god where can i get feet ?

[garylp3]

Nike pays 12 year old kids 10cents/hour to make $100 shoes.

All this while I can run barefoot or in cheap sandals?

[chrishawly]

@TheSickTV Humans have been around for approximately 2.4 million years. I think you meant to say "modern homo sapiens".

[TheSickTV]

0:22 Correction : Humans have lived on the face of this Earth for less than 1,000,000 years.

[evandefraine]

try doing a serious running workout on a hard surface barefoot for any length of time, even if you are on the front of your foot. Not fun. I have nothing against barefoot running, I do it all the time on grass and such, but for seriously fast and long training, you need at least a little something on your feet.

[ShrinkingWithTheWolf]

I haven't run barefoot since summer time and I just got back into it since wearing shoes make me feel weighted down too much and cause my calves to burn because of the heel strike caused by wearing the shoes. I ran three miles straight the other day while barefoot and my legs have never felt that good while running. I felt a good deep stretch in my calves as I ran and there was no burn. I know people say to gradually work up to running barefoot but I wanted nothing to do with my shoes right away

[rnecas]

At 2:55, when he says the heel strike is like hitting the heel with a hammer, that resonated with me, because running (but not sprinting) always felt like someone was trying to hammer my shins into my thigh or my thigh into my torso. I learned to fore/midfoot strike in my Chuck Taylors, and I actually enjoyed the feeling of jogging.

[JessieKateRose]

One time I babysat a little boy who basically just went where ever he wanted barefoot. I was pretty much just supposed to follow him. So he rode his tricycle up to some dumpsters, and there was broken glass all over the ground. Before I could say a word in protest, he was running around all over the broken glass. I was having a heart attack, but since he always ran around barefoot his feet were too calloused for him to notice. Long story short, broken glass won't stop you if you practice.

[rloo2]

what if you step on glass or sharp rocks lol

[ericjamesharlow]

Navy SEAL forums brought me here

[stoidipukeaw]

@garylp3 According to a study, shoes costing $95 or more have over twice as many injuries as shoes that cost less than $45.

[stoidipukeaw]

2:36 with closed captions: Manipulative butter