
Born to Run Barefoot?
Sorting Through the Myths and Facts of Barefoot Running
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Narrated by:
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Kaleo Griffith
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By:
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Chas Gillespie
Two million years ago, Africa: A skinny, long-limbed creature who walks on two legs, can’t sprint, and has no weapons turns away from his under-nourished friends, and runs down a much stronger antelope. Dinner. Over succeeding generations, this creature evolves into one of the best distance runners on the planet: the human being. Yet in the age of modernity, we find ourselves unable to run without more than half of us suffering injury. This book looks at the injury epidemic in running and what the barefoot running movement believes are the causes of injury. It analyzes the best-seller Born to Run, how human evolution has shaped our bodies, how modernity has warped those same bodies, and what barefoot running both got right and wrong. It concludes by giving practical advice to runners from the writer, a 2012 Olympic Trials qualifier in the marathon.
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Fan of Born to run?
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This is not the antithesis of Born to Run, rather a question Gillespie is trying to answer and I believe he does, in a satisfying way for the reader. In a time of all style no substance headlines, this is not a hot takes which solve all your problems in 200 pages or less.
I hope to see more writing from this talented author in the near future.
Great Easy Listening
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Born to run analysis
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Very Informative
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I'm a big fan of science...and this book
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This just saved me
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An interesting book
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Last critique is that at the end the author gives very conventional advise to running "Take it easy, stretch, buy good shoes, have a coach". So, it seems the conclusion is - don't run barefoot, do what everyone else does.
I still recommend reading it, as I definitely took away several good points the author mentions in the middle of the book, like barefoot running may be natural but if you haven't done it your entire life, your body will suffer if you jump into it head first. The key is taking it easy and training and stretching your feet, legs, muscles to run barefoot very gradually, which should have been the conclusion here.
More of a critical opinion on "Born to Run"
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A Good Perspective of Barefoot Running.
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then triathlon,
then training run barefoot with vibrams
finally going to full distance ironman
I experienced the difficulty of barefoot running transition. I missed the part of working on weaknes muscles and mobility and that made the way harder.
This book allow us on being more critic on information available on internet related to barefoot running. Including the romantic acceptance of "born to run" as being the goal to achieve for all runners
Good to be more critic about barefoot runnngi
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