rubah
04-23-2008, 06:55 AM
Here, a couple of articles for you to peruse:
How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine (http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/)
The Anthropik Network » Learning to Walk (http://anthropik.com/2007/06/learning-to-walk/)
Some of you might know that I am very fond of forgoing the shoes on my trek to classes, so of course, when i found the topmost article linked on metafilter, I read it hungrily!
And when I read the description of what is supposed to be the natural way to walk barefoot, I was happy because it was the way I walk barefoot! The entire description down to the 'smaller steps' and 'feeling sore muscles that normally don't get used' fits just perfectly. They didn't mention of course the grating effect concrete tends to have on feet, but that's cool 8) they're being typically liberal and wearing shoes to simulate the real thing.
Anyways, I guess this is a post to tell you guys to try this kind of thing out once in a while. If you're in high school, I can understand having to wear shoes to class (hell we weren't allowed to wear most flipflops, and none at all until a couple of years ago), but you others who walk places, give it a try!
I have to walk past nasty glasslot of death (thank god for sidewalks and heavy rain), so don't be all 'OMG MY FEET WILL DIE'.
Do it before it rains (hookworms :() and before it gets hot! (hot :()
How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine (http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/)
The Anthropik Network » Learning to Walk (http://anthropik.com/2007/06/learning-to-walk/)
Some of you might know that I am very fond of forgoing the shoes on my trek to classes, so of course, when i found the topmost article linked on metafilter, I read it hungrily!
And when I read the description of what is supposed to be the natural way to walk barefoot, I was happy because it was the way I walk barefoot! The entire description down to the 'smaller steps' and 'feeling sore muscles that normally don't get used' fits just perfectly. They didn't mention of course the grating effect concrete tends to have on feet, but that's cool 8) they're being typically liberal and wearing shoes to simulate the real thing.
Anyways, I guess this is a post to tell you guys to try this kind of thing out once in a while. If you're in high school, I can understand having to wear shoes to class (hell we weren't allowed to wear most flipflops, and none at all until a couple of years ago), but you others who walk places, give it a try!
I have to walk past nasty glasslot of death (thank god for sidewalks and heavy rain), so don't be all 'OMG MY FEET WILL DIE'.
Do it before it rains (hookworms :() and before it gets hot! (hot :()