Readers hit the ground running with this comprehensive guide to the age-old art of barefoot running–and learn the go slow to go fast RunBare technique from two of its pioneers. Chapters address getting grounded, starting out slowly, navigating through rough weather and rugged terrain, injuries, building your feet into living shoes, and understanding minimalist shoes.

How could something we have for free–our bare feet–be better for running than $150 shoes?

The truth is running in shoes is high impact, heel-centric, promotes bad form, is relatively unstable and inflexible, tends to weaken rather than strengthen feet, knees, and hips, which leads to injury while dampening a runner’s connection to the world.

In contrast, barefoot running is low-impact, toe-centric, promotes good form, enhances stability and adaptability, strengthens feet in miraculous ways, and provides delightful sensory and spiritual connections to the earth.

Book is directed toward novice runners, advanced runners, ultra-marathoners and anyone who walks or jogs for exercise.

Book contains 17 chapters with a Special Greeting from Barefoot Ted and Foreword by Danny Dreyer, author of ChiRunning.

What others say . . . praise for Barefoot Running:

Dear Readers, enjoy the insights this book has to offer to help you to remember to run in an easy, light, and smooth way, with or without footwear of your choice. It is about form, joy, and the love of running. Run free!

~Micah True, Caballo Blanco de la Sierra Madre.

Barefoot Running is the best book on the market on how to begin and excel at barefoot running. I highly recommend it.

~Dr. Nirenberg, podiatric physician and surgeon, and author of America’s Podiatrist Blog.

Michael Sandler’s exhaustive treatment of the topic celebrates the amazing evolutionary success that is the human foot and serves as a comprehensive user’s guide for its rehabilitation and proper maintenance.

~Dr. Joseph Froncioni more info

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The Ultrafit Multisport Training Series

Athletes in every sport except running devote enormous attention to perfecting even minute details of the movements they will be required to produce in competition. Running coaches just tell their athletes to run longer and harder. Runners, and their coaches, have basically ignored technique for years, assuming that their natural stride will give them efficiency and injury resistance. We have found that this simply is not the case.

For the past decade, African runners have dominated distance running at its highest levels. Research on what makes these runners faster consistently demonstrates normal VO2 Max and lactate threshold levels for elite runners. Their height, weight, and limb-length ratios all fall into the normal category. Clearly and consistently, what sets the great African runners apart is that they are more efficient than their competitors, running faster without expending more energy. Experts in running economy agree that running barefoot through childhood contributes significantly to the extraordinary economy of these athletes. We’re not suggesting that you run barefoot. We are suggesting that you take the time and effort to learn the techniques that may be more natural running barefoot, and implement them into your shoe-running technique. more info