Barefoot Running Expert Daniel Lieberman on The Colbert Report

Most barefoot runners know Daniel Lieberman from Chris McDougall’s best-seller, Born To Run. Dr. Lieberman is a professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard who has done some seminal research on barefoot running. One of his basic premises, from an evolutionary perspective, is that human’s ability to sweat allowed us to run for long distances, letting […]

Harvard Barefoot Running Studies Support Xero Shoes

What are the benefits of barefoot running? Well, Harvard’s Dr. Daniel Lieberman has another answer. His studies from 2 years ago showed how barefoot runners who forefoot strike put less force into the ground and, therefore, less force into their joints. Now he has 2 new studies that have just come out that support how […]