Barefoot Running Step by Step: Barefoot Ken Bob, The Guru of Shoeless Running, Shares His Personal Technique For Running With More Cover
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Barefoot Running Step by Step Barefoot Ken Bob, The Guru of Shoeless Running, Shares His Personal Technique For Running With More

Roy Wallack

Learn Barefoot Running From the Master! “Barefoot Ken Bob is The Master. Long before anyone else was even talking about barefoot running, he was perfecting the art . . . Now, after twenty years of teaching, experimenting, and “merry marathoning” (as he calls it), the first and best source of barefo...

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The Joe Rogan Experience

It was mentioned in the context of the importance of barefoot running for foot strength and natural running form. The book describes how traditional running shoes can actually lead to foot weakness and injuries.

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I was reading this book about barefoot running and how important it is to develop this and then most people that have problems from that they're really having problems because their feet don't have st...

— Episode: #1289 - Eddie Izzard

Episode: #1289 - Eddie Izzard

It was mentioned in the context of the importance of barefoot running for foot strength and natural running form. The book describes how traditional running shoes can actually lead to foot weakness and injuries.

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I was reading this book about barefoot running and how important it is to develop this and then most people that have problems from that they're really having problems because their feet don't have strong muscles in them because of the atrophy and the way they were describing a regular running shoe is essentially like a cast and that you're so used to being protected in this cast that everything sort of just gets mushy inside of it and then you're also striking down on the heel which is a very unnatural thing and when I watch my kids run like my kids will run with me sometimes and they naturally know to run on the balls of their feet that's how they naturally run and when people start running heel first that's where all the problems come it's just not a normal way for people to run.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

The book was about barefoot running, and the author offered to include Steven in the book if he turned his hobby of making sandals into a business with a website.

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So the local barefoot running coach, a guy named Michael Sandler said to me, hey, I've got a contract to write a book about barefoot running called Barefoot Running. And if you treated this sandal mak...

— Episode: Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoen...

Episode: Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix

The book was about barefoot running, and the author offered to include Steven in the book if he turned his hobby of making sandals into a business with a website.

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So the local barefoot running coach, a guy named Michael Sandler said to me, hey, I've got a contract to write a book about barefoot running called Barefoot Running. And if you treated this sandal making hobby of yours like a business and had a website, I could put you in the book.

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