BAREFOOT RUNNING BENEFIT
BENEFIT 1 - DECREASING KNEE LOAD
For runners most immediate benefit from barefoot is decreasing the hit on knee, using your gastrocnemius as a natural damper, you preserve your knee cartilages, usually overloaded from impact of heel, whatever how much soft gum of your sole.
BENEFIT 3 - STRENGTHENS THE FEET
Wearing shoes with anatomical insole help the muscles of our feet;
Help them to rest!
The feet are made up of many small bones held together by muscles, tendons and ligaments.
Do not train them means sag feet;
Could the Parthenon rise without its stylobate?
Strengthening the muscles of the foot helps the arch to reach its perfect shape.
BENEFIT 2 - PRESERVE FROM OSTEOARTHRITIS
Walking and running barefoot changes the angle between the femur and tibia, means changing the pressure points on the meniscus, this can be safeguarded from problems of osteoarthritis of the knee.
BENEFIT 4 - IMPROVE BLOOD CIRCULATION
Blood leaves the heart and goes through our arteries up to your feet, here begins the difficult walk for back home, at the heart, through the venous system, defying the force of gravity.
What drives the blood to the top?
At each step, million of capillaries that lies in the sole of the foot combine with work of the large deep veins that flow through the arch;
At each compression of the slab, at each arch flexion, the beautiful pumps hidden in our feet push the blood to come back home.
