Tuesday
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The Vibram Five-Fingers
Mar 31, 2009 at 3:00 PM 
I think I need to get these. I don't know that I'd wear them in public though.
Check out vibramfivefingers.com.
The typical human foot is an anatomical marvel of evolution with 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments. Like the rest of the body, to keep our feet healthy, they need to be stimulated and exercised.
That’s why we recommend wearing FiveFingers for exercise, play, and for fun. Stimulating the muscles in your feet and lower legs will not only make you stronger and healthier, it improves your balance, agility and proprioception.
Reader Comments (4)
I did a write up on these shoes on my blog back in February. I think these kicks are dope, but they're being marketed to the wrong crowd. I think these are the PERFECT shoes to wear out to the club! I speak to wearing the Vibram Five Fingers in the club on my blog in a posting titled "12 am on my way to the club" I know I'm not supposed to leave my blog link in my comment, so anyone who's interested can click my URL link and search for the story. one.
I wanted to get a pair of these awhile ago but, never could find a place that had a pair my size to try on first. They only had the one pair (Classic) back then. I think I will look again now that they seem to be doing some
toe naileyebrow raising.I own these and they're phenomenal.
I'll try not to get too fitness geeky on you.
But, the five fingers allow for a lot more biofeedback than any other shoe available. The biofeedback is important because of the paucity of foot strength we have in the country. Here, we like to put shoes on infant before they can even stand up straight. That is the point we start to stunt the development of our feet.
Foot development is important because that is the bottom of our kinetic chain. Weak feet lead to weak ankles, which lead to weak knees, which lead to weak hips and so on.
When we walk or run barefooted or we wear something such as the Five Fingers, we are forced to recruit more muscle in the feet. The recruitment gives us more foot strength and stability. The foot strength allows the ankles to be mobile, but on a stable platform.
The musculoskeletal system is made of a continuum of mobility and stability - the foot is stable, the ankle is mobile, the knee is stable, the hips are mobile, lumbar spine is stable, thoracic spine is mobile, scapula stable, gleno-humeral (shoulders) mobile, elbow stable and wrist mobile.
If any part of that continuum screws up, we're going to have pain somewhere. And that continuum starts with the feet. So, get strong feet.
I don't work for vibram, but they should put me on payroll as much business as I've sent them!
Sorry for the abundance of fitness geek.
Holla!
Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.