The Definitive Guide to a Barefoot and Minimalist Shoe Lifestyle: Escape from “brace and encase” footwear and reclaim your musculoskeletal health from the ground up

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Your complete guide to escaping from “brace and encase” footwear and reclaiming your musculoskeletal health from the ground up. You'll enjoy a complete overview of the benefits of going barefoot or wearing minimalist shoes, the health-destructive effects of wearing elevated, cushioned shoes, and a step-by-step plan to improve foot functionality and transition safely to more barefoot time and minimalist shoe use.The Definitive Guide To A Barefoot And Minimalist Shoe Lifestyle will help you correct one of the most fundamental health disconnects in modern the bracing and encasing of your feet inside restrictive, cushiony shoes. This may be news to you, but the bare human foot is functionally superior and even more comfortable for standing, walking, running, jumping, and landing than the world’s best shoes. Obviously, we need a variety of shoes in modern life to deal with hard manmade surfaces, hot or cold temperatures, hazards like broken glass or pine cone pieces, to fit in with social customs, and for complex endeavors that require specialized shoes or that can easily injure exposed feet, such as competitive sports or physical labor.Hence, the idea is to try and minimize the negative aspects of modern footwear by spending more time barefoot or in minimalist shoes—which best simulate a barefoot experience while providing the necessary protection. When you can have more barefoot influence in your life, you reduce the risk of chronic pain and injury to your feet and lower extremities, and improve your posture, walking and running technique, balance, explosiveness, speed, endurance, and kinesthetic awareness. Author Mark Sisson, co-founder of Peluva five-toe minimalist footwear, offers more guidance and resources at the website, Peluva.com.