Barefoot Running Disadvantages

Barefoot Running Disadvantages

The only disadvantage to running barefoot is doing too much, too soon, that’s it! Be smart about the amount of time you run barefoot if you’re a beginner. Always remember that barefoot running is very essential to your training as a runner because the heightened ground-feel not only makes you fully aware of how you’re landing on your forefoot, but you develop more connections in the motor area of the brain that facilitates learning and muscles memory in which the proper forefoot strike becomes hardwired. In other words, the more you run barefoot, the more the proper forefoot running form gets hardwired in your muscle memory, the better you are upholding balanced, safer mechanics when you race in shoes! Read more here about all the performance and health advantages of barefoot running.