Les humains ont évolué comme chasseurs d’endurance et comme animaux coopératifs. C’est pourquoi nous sommes maintenant l’espèce dominante sur cette Terre. Et c’est pourquoi la clef de notre avenir joyeux et durable sur Terre dépend de la façon dont nous utilisons nos capacités d’endurance, de coopération, de gentillsesse, et bien sûr de course à pied.

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La vie est assez dure comme ça pour en rajouter une couche. Je vous propose donc une philosophie de construction de soi, basée sur une approche DOUCE de la course à pied, afin d’être plus fort, plus joyeux et en meilleure santé. Ensuite, vous pourrez transposer cet “hédonisme ascétique” dans d’autres domaines de votre vie afin de contribuer humblement à rendre ce monde meilleur.

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Running barefoot is the best way to improve your running style !

• Your bare foot is your best teacher for the correct running technique

• When you run barefoot, you simply cannot run “wrong” because it will hurt immediately

• So you will naturally do the correct moves

• Those moves are the most gentle and the less stressful

• Those moves are also the most efficient

• It is the best way to construct a healthy, strong and efficient foot and leg

• This will progressively cleanse all bad moves in your technique, to end up with a super clean, smooth and efficient foot strike and stride

• At the end of the Barefoot season (say October), your feet soles will look awesome (totally smooth).

• If you run barefoot only 5 minutes per week, it is already useful for your running form

To learn Natural Running, nothing compares to true Barefoot Running on roads or tracks, since you have to have the perfect stride. If you do anything a tad wrong, you feel it immediately.

So you can practice true barefoot running, carefully inserted into your shod Natural Running sessions.

You can run on smooth terrain, such as sand or grass. It is nice but useless to learn good-form running because your feet get no feedback from the ground. Only a hard surface such as smooth roads or race tracks can make your feet learn the good-form because you will have the maximum feedback at each strike.

That is why hard surface is the best teacher, once again if you allow yourself to progress slowly.

But remember, your sole skin is not made of Vibram.

• So you must avoid tracks or roads that are too hot (no direct sunshine). Too hot, the blisters may appear in less than 500 m.
• Too wet, the same because your skin will get soft very fast. Progress slowly and try to avoid blisters.
• After a very slow progression, you can run more than 10 km on cool dry roads without blisters.

Here again, Too much + too early = injury !!!

Once you get hurt, your progression is stopped. So, at the beginning, resist to run those extra 5 minutes because you just cannot stop now, because it feels so good….

True barefoot is also very good to correct foot problems. Flat feet will re-learn to grasp the ground, and the sole arch will correct itself as it sends messages to rest of the body. So unless you have a genuine malformation, you can forget about pronation and supination marketing.

Obviously, we all have this image of weirdos running barefoot and/or naked, just to show off.

They run on all sorts of things and end up injured most of the time.

Barefoot Running is not that at all !

Barefoot Running is all about being gentle.

…... To be continued

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