A lacing tip for your Xero Shoes

Here’s a fun lacing tip/trick you can use with your Xero Shoes. Basically, it’s making a “lacing loop” out of a small section of our new laces or using our toe loops. There are two reasons you may want to do this: 1) It’s a cool decorative element (especially if you use a different color […]

The dumbest barefoot running study yet?

National Taiwan Normal University recently published a study in the journal, Gait & Posture, that might be the dumbest study ever done about barefoot running. Or, now that I think of it, it maybe it’s the best. Hmmm… Let’s start with the study and then I’ll tell you why it’s so stupid and so awesome at […]

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 […]

Who wears running shoes… really?

It’s no surprise that the vast majority of the people wearing Air Jordan’s don’t play basketball, that almost nobody who wears the Puma Faas shoes will give Usain Bolt a run for his money. Well, Saturday Night Live nailed it with this commercial for New Balance 😉 Like it? Then SHARE IT.

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International Barefoot Running Day Donut Dash!

 Join Xero Shoes for International Barefoot Running Day (IBRD) on Sunday, May 5th. IBRD is the brainchild of The Barefoot Runners Society, and the Colorado chapter has something special lined up: The 1st ever Barefoot Donut Dash! We’ll start at 10am at the Xero Shoes office — 5470 Conestoga Ct, Boulder, CO, 80301 — with […]

Does your barefoot running form look like this?

People always ask me for videos of barefoot running form. I usually avoid making them — because the way *I* run is not necessarily the way *you* should run. That said, here’s a video of Simon from Macedonia demonstrating what I think is some of the best barefoot form you’ll ever see. I think everyone […]

A new huarache sandal tying style

Foot tattoos and barefoot sandals

On Facebook, Sarah asked: I’m getting the tops of my feet tattooed and need to find a way to tie them so that none of the laces touch the top of my feet! My big toe too! I figure a loop over my 2nd and 3rd toe….but anyone have tying suggestions for the heel? I […]

Will Barefoot Running Hurt You?

Will Vibram Five Fingers or Running Barefoot Injure You?

From the “Here we go again” department of the barefoot running world: About once every 2 months, some major news publication chimes in with one of these two stories:  “Barefoot Running is GREAT for you” or “Barefoot running is BAD for you.” The latest is of the latter variety and comes with headlines like this […]