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If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Hop on the barefoot shoe trend today Amazon Barefoot shoes are the trend that’s seemingly filling up every social media feed in my ...

A New Zealand woman set a Guinness World Record by running barefoot across Lego bricks in 24.75 seconds. Gabrielle Wall completed the 100-meter sprint over loose Lego pieces in Christchurch. The ...

For as long as human beings have been upright, we have run. The exact date at which we began doing the ol’ left-right-left is impossible to say, but evolutionary biologists suggest it to be between 2 ...

PARIS — Julien Alfred awoke at 5 a.m. on the morning of the Olympic 100-meter final feeling like she needed some extra inspiration. The St. Lucia sprinter opened her journal and wrote the words, ...

Modern running shoes deliver speed and comfort via carbon fiber plates and towering midsoles. When you strip all that away, you’re left with almost nothing separating your feet from the ground—a.k.a.

The debate between running shoes and barefoot running has divided fitness enthusiasts for years. While modern footwear technology promises comfort, support, and injury prevention, advocates of ...

With the increasing popularity of minimalist footwear and barefoot running, it is imperative that clinicians understand running mechanics and the potential implications of these footwear options.

There’s dopamine in dirt. While she’s quick to correct herself from a scientific perspective, that’s one of the ways April Pitroff Varellas puts it. “There’s chemicals in dirt that connect to dopamine ...