I bought some Flow Knits during the 50% off sale but I unfortunately am probably a size 7 Men’s not a size 8. Anyone in the chaotic probability of the universe run into the exact opposite problem and wanna trade?
Hey yall, it’s been around 2.5 years since I’ve been wearing barefoot shoes and I love them. I’ve always loved being barefoot in general and the ground contact is really pleasing to my brain. It makes walking and jogging fun. I have a couple of Xeros that I think are awesome.
Until it doesnt cause I keep injuring myself. I transitioned pretty fast without looking into form because well I love walking barefoot around the house and thought that was it so I started jogging. First I was heel striking cause running fore foot hurt. Did that until on a 7mile jog it felt like I injured my feet bones so I rested a couple months. Then I picked it up again for a recent 10k and looked up proper form. That was better but another long mileage and I started getting top of foot pain and behind my ankle on my right foot. I pushed through but it seems like what triggered it the most was running uphill.
So I’m looking at improving my form despite all my physical trainer friends saying it’s the barefoot shoes cause I’m stubborn and i really want it to work. So here are my form questions;
How is the toe off? Looking at my sole and paying attention to my form it seems I pull my forefoot back a lot. As in I sweep it back. If I understand correctly though, it’s really more of a glute push off though right?
When trying to go from outside foot, to inside foot, to push off, my hips seemed to start moving dramatically. I’m used to my pelvis being pretty straight forward, but is that a problem?
How high do you bring your knees? This isn’t like a high knee right?
I feel like instead of walking with proper barefoot form I’m just walking on my toes, which might be halfway there but I really don’t know. Also for context, I have a really tight right shoulder and thus weaker right side in general and my foot injuries are all on my right side. I do strength training to try and even it out.