>>556052This.
You need to work your way into wearing minimalist shoes or you *will* hurt yourself, but if you do, it's better for your feet in the long run and literally painful to wear standard shoes.
This is how I read to do it, and it worked for me, with no foot or leg injuries 4+ years on, aside from a couple punctures treated with tweezers and (the first time) a tetanus booster. My balance and the strength of my feet (for instance, less of my foot needs to be on something for me to support myself on it) are better.
I should also add I had slight problems with one of my knees before switching, and about two years in it cleared up, but I don't know how much of that it's fair to attribute to the shoes.
- Keep wearing your normal shoes most of the time, nothing ridiculously boosted or supportive, but normal sneakers or casual hiking shoes will be fine. (This is where I was coming from, IDK if coming from wearing heavy duty stuff you'd want to do it differently.)
- Start walking barefoot on soft surfaces for a good while. Actually barefoot, nothing without some spring. Concrete is fine. City streets are fine, just avoid construction or areas where people shoot up or anything else common sense will tell you to. Build up distance doing this. Stop when it feels like you should.
- Move into running barefoot.
- When you can do that a decent distance without having to stop chuck your old shoes and get barefoot ones. Make sure they're zero drop, i.e. they're flat and level.
>>556054People do this with all my Vivos except the Ra, which most people generally just do not like.
