Second place is loosen up your ankles, let them go.\u00a0 Let those ankles be free. They want to be free.\u00a0 You want to find your ankles soft, absorbent, springy.\u00a0 So, when you walk, you really want to make sure you\u2019re really moving through the foot.\u00a0 You want to be a little more even in the distribution of when you\u2019re walking.\u00a0 If you notice, I\u2019m not doing a hard heel.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a big hard heel strike.\u00a0 It\u2019s a gentler, more center of the foot.\u00a0 This goes for running, too.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a heel runner and you\u2019re striking like this, that can really be hard on the body.\u00a0 You want a little bit more forefront or center, and this is all about what the minimalist shoes and barefoot runners are talking about.\u00a0 It\u2019s the forefront versus the heel strike.\u00a0 Now, you can\u2019t make this change instantly, right.\u00a0 Make sure you work into this because if you go right into the extreme, you\u2019re going to cause just as much problems just in the opposite way.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to work slowly.\u00a0 Start with your standing, start with your walking.\u00a0 Start changing the structure of your body, and as that\u2019s starting to happen, you can change these other patterns, the running, the things like these.\u00a0 Naturally, though, it will start to happen on its own.<\/p>\n
When we\u2019re walking, loosen up the ankle.\u00a0 We want to make sure we\u2019re pushing through that toe.\u00a0 That toe propels you forward.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t push through that toe, that toe\u2019s not doing anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s not working, and when things are not working, it\u2019s fatiguing the body.\u00a0 We already talked about it.\u00a0 We want more joining the party, not less.\u00a0 It\u2019s fatiguing the body, but it\u2019s also then not making it work, which means that the body has to restructure for that not working.\u00a0 So, make sure you\u2019re rolling through that toe.\u00a0 What that will do is for those you that don\u2019t take strides forward, they take strides outwards like this.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to do is propel you forward, which means you\u2019re going to get there faster, and you can walk slower. It\u2019s okay.\u00a0 It\u2019s still going to get you there faster.<\/p>\n
Now, if you look at my walk here, it\u2019s a little bit more natural.\u00a0 Do you see how loose it is?\u00a0 See how grounded I am on the floor as opposed to some big heel striker?\u00a0 Can you see that difference?\u00a0 Is that making sense?\u00a0 A big heel strike here.\u00a0 My knees don\u2019t really move because my knees can\u2019t move because my heels\u2019 doing this work as opposed to this.\u00a0 It also has a different energetic quality.\u00a0 See that?\u00a0 It\u2019s like a calmer not in your face walk.\u00a0 It\u2019s calmer.\u00a0 It\u2019s gentler.\u00a0 It\u2019s easier.\u00a0 Some people might even say meditational walk, that Zen walk.<\/p>\n
So, as you\u2019re doing this, you want to find where you\u2019re pushing off at so you can find the evenness and the balance of the foot, and try to be less on the heel, a little bit more even.\u00a0 This, then, distributes through the body, this force, and this allows the feet to do what it\u2019s supposed to do.\u00a0 If you keep all that force, you\u2019re not allowing the body to do what it\u2019s supposed to do.\u00a0 The feet are supposed to be shock absorbers.\u00a0 Let them do they\u2019re job.<\/p>\n
I seem to have the tendency to use the ball of my feet as the shock absorbers.<\/i><\/p>\n
The balls of the feet.\u00a0 You do see some walkers that are like that.\u00a0 They stress the balls of the feet more.\u00a0 You probably want to pull your weight back a little bit, and this is a good question.\u00a0 Some people are high toe walkers, and they\u2019re putting it so much on the ball of the foot.\u00a0 They\u2019re putting a little bit more pressure into the toe joint and the ball of the foot.\u00a0 If you\u2019re in the forefront, make sure it\u2019s not overdone.\u00a0 Does that make sense?<\/p>\n
[28:09]<\/p>\n
Yes, the foot\u2019s meant to have that kind of action to it.\u00a0 You will see some people thought that are high kind of walkers like this. When they walk, they walk like this.\u00a0 They look like they\u2019re floating around.\u00a0 They do.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen them, and they\u2019re really high on the foot.\u00a0 They have to be lower on the foot.<\/p>\n
[28:40]<\/p>\n
Shoes can do that.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I mean shoes will force your foot into those positions without a doubt.\u00a0 They force them into unnatural positions of where it\u2019s supposed to be.<\/p>\n
[28:57]<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re loving them, I\u2019m going to say stay with it.\u00a0 If you\u2019re loving them, and they make your feet feel comfortable, then, that\u2019s a great thing.\u00a0 A lot of that of that high toe walking, it\u2019s that heel thing that\u2019s causing that lift.\u00a0 Again, it also is the size of the heel that could be causing that.<\/p>\n
[29:47]<\/p>\n
You should.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing wrong with wearing the shoes if they\u2019re comfortable.\u00a0 A lot of shoes, though, aren\u2019t as comfortable for people because of these various things that have been unnatural.\u00a0 This is why I would not take you out of your shoe and dump you into these minimalists.\u00a0 You need to work your way into they as your foot restructures.\u00a0 This goes for orthotics.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest things people are given these days are orthotics or arch support.\u00a0 The problem with those is they start doing the action of your foot, and if they are not proper for your foot, which they can be because we have different feet, they\u2019re going to cause more pain.\u00a0 So, the best way I can say this is if I broke my foot, and I put a cast on it, my bone\u2019s going to heal because it\u2019s going to set the bones.\u00a0 What\u2019s going to happen to the muscles around it?\u00a0 They\u2019re going to atrophy.\u00a0 The muscles aren\u2019t doing their job. They\u2019re not doing what they\u2019re supposed to.\u00a0 So, orthotics, when they start doing the work, your feet are no longer doing the work.\u00a0 Something else is doing it for you.\u00a0 This can end up causing more problem.\u00a0 I tend to get people who are in orthotics that are not out of pain or they\u2019re in worse pain, or they\u2019re not feeling that they\u2019re not doing much for them or different pain, shifts it from one to another.\u00a0 If people are getting pain relief from orthotics, though, the first thing I\u2019m going to say is don\u2019t leave the orthotics.\u00a0 Work your way out of them.\u00a0 You can\u2019t go from this to that.\u00a0 If they\u2019re doing something for you, don\u2019t jump over here.\u00a0 Work your way out of them though.\u00a0 Let your feet start getting more natural to them.<\/p>\n
So, the minimalist shoes, which have become really popular these days, I\u2019m a big fan of, and I\u2019m a big fan of them because of the things we walked about.\u00a0 We notice, we\u2019re not really getting that raised heel problem.\u00a0 A lot of people sometimes don\u2019t like those toes.\u00a0 They don\u2019t think they look you know.\u00a0 She, back there, has them.\u00a0 She sports them.\u00a0 She rocks them out.<\/p>\n
[32:00]<\/p>\n
They\u2019re very good for you.\u00a0 They\u2019re very good.\u00a0 These minimalist shoes are very good.\u00a0 They do mimic being barefoot.\u00a0 They\u2019re not like toe socks.\u00a0 A lot of people are like, \u201cToe socks.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like anything between my foot.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s a pretty common things.\u00a0 These do not feel like toe socks.\u00a0 They don\u2019t jam into the joints like toe socks do.\u00a0 They are quite comfortable.\u00a0 It might take some time for you to figure out how to get your toes in there, especially if you got toes that are curling in together.\u00a0 What is nice about these is they start mimicking barefoot, which means that your feet start to get back to their natural state.\u00a0 They start working the way they should.<\/p>\n
The first thing I noticed when I bought these Vibrams, I noticed my ankle started moving again, and that was a very weird concept to me.\u00a0 I was like who knew that the ankle moved<\/i>?\u00a0 I\u2019ve carried it over to regular shoes because now I was conscious of it, but it was the first thing I noticed.\u00a0 Now, when I suggest the Vibrams to people, and even I\u2019m going to talk about the Merrells in a second, what I noticed was when you were these, you don\u2019t go and wear these all day long initially.\u00a0 Work your way into them.\u00a0 Start by wearing them maybe an hour a day, then two hours, and then three hours.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a pilates instructor.\u00a0 I do all this foot work.\u00a0 I\u2019m like I\u2019m going to totally rock these Vibrams out<\/i>.\u00a0 The guy forewarned me be careful.\u00a0 Oh no, I can wear them all day long.\u00a0 <\/i>I\u2019ve never been so sore on my calves or my shin.\u00a0 I could not believe how crazy that was, and I thought that my feet were pretty balanced.\u00a0 I really learned a big lesson that they weren\u2019t.\u00a0 Now, luckily my body was shifting already through the pilates I\u2019m doing, but if you\u2019re making a jump, start slow, an hour a day.<\/p>\n
Now, if you have a problem, and you don\u2019t want to be in the toe shoes, I find these to be really great shoes for gardeners or around the house because it gives you the protection you need, but what it does is it allows you to get that toe bend like if you\u2019re down gardening and doing stuff.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t put your foot in an unnatural place it.\u00a0 It puts it in the most natural place.\u00a0 So, these are great around the house, gardening, these kinds of things, if you don\u2019t want to go out in public.<\/p>\n
How is wearing that good for the <\/i>[34:25] barefoot?<\/i><\/p>\n
Barefoot will be just as well, but for people who go outside, they don\u2019t like rocks.\u00a0 Some people don\u2019t like being barefoot.\u00a0 There are people there who have very sensitive bottoms of foot because they haven\u2019t really exposed their feet.\u00a0 If you\u2019re very sensitive, you usually wear shoes all the time, wear these instead.\u00a0 If you can go around barefoot, that\u2019s the best thing.\u00a0 I try to be barefoot as much as I can.<\/p>\n
[34:52]<\/p>\n
No, it does, and because it starts mimicking back to the natural place of where your foot\u2019s supposed to be.\u00a0 A way you can do that same thing with the toes is you can take your fingers and put it right through.\u00a0 For some of us, you might work your way into that.\u00a0 That might be a little sore to do that, to put your fingers through, and then you just hold that for five minutes.\u00a0 That will spread the toes out a little more.<\/p>\n
Do you think having more padding to lessen the impact allows you to correct your gait more because it seems like it really hurts to walk barefoot, and when you\u2019re barefoot, you really have to be careful?\u00a0 You have less pain, so I\u2019m wondering, if like you said, if the impact starts to amass, but the shoes, it encourages bad behavior so much.<\/i><\/p>\n
Yeah.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of research coming out with all the minimalist shoes coming out.\u00a0 Now, they\u2019re doing a lot of research on it.\u00a0 They\u2019re finding that the more cushioning is actually causing more pain in the body because of the unnaturalness which is why the more minimalist ones end up being better for the body and having less pain, but the big thing that they always say is you can\u2019t go and jump from this to this.\u00a0 It\u2019s got to be a slow thing.<\/p>\n
[36:24]<\/p>\n
You know what, I suggest an hour a day for about a week or two.\u00a0 Then, go up to two hours a day, and just work your way up that way.\u00a0 You\u2019ll know because if they\u2019re hurting after 30 minutes, take them off and put your shoes on.\u00a0 Don\u2019t overdo it.\u00a0 You\u2019ll know, but the best way to do this is start with an hour.\u00a0 Work your way up and do two hours and three hours.\u00a0 At some point, you\u2019re going to know it\u2019s okay to wear these more often or for longer distances or for longer periods of time.\u00a0 Did I answer your question?\u00a0 I not, please let me know.\u00a0 I can talk forever.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a problem with that ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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