TheReal_ND wrote:Speaker to Animals wrote:I am starting to transition to natural footware or bare feet.
Get a good pair of leather flip flops. I love mine. They are good for fishing, taking showers at the gym and strolling around on hot days. Not cheap though.
Flip flops are not natural. Natural doesn't necessarily mean less. It means your foot works closer to the way it was designed to work, and you get more tactile sensation in your feet.
Walking around in fucked up shoes all our lives actually causes a lot of our physical ailments. It's almost worthy of a whole new thread to discuss this type of shit. You only read about the fitness shit I do, but that's only half, with with the other half mostly rehab, prehab, and relearning how to move while fixing all the fucked up shit that developed.
Our feet are basically dead to the world. We've been walking around in shoes with heels, narrow toe boxes, and a shit ton of material between the feet and the surface we walk on. You are supposed to be able to feel the shit in your feet when you walk.