Barefoot Running
How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch with the Earth
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2019
Summary
The only guide you’ll ever need to join the thousands of people who have discovered the phenomenon of barefoot running, from the co-founders of RunBare.
How could something we have for free-our bare feet-be better for running than $150 shoes? The truth is that running in shoes is high-impact, unstable, and inflexible. Shoes promote a heel-centric ground strike, which weakens your feet, knees, and hips, and leads to common running injuries. In contrast, barefoot running is low-impact, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307985934 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307985938 |
| Author: | Michael Sandler, Jessica Lee |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 558g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 179mm x 254mm |
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Critics Review
“Michael Sandler has applied his passion and insights into barefoot running in a way no one else has so far. You are holding in your hands a book as exhaustive and accurate of a description of barefoot running as you could ever hope for.”
—Barefoot Ted of Born to Run
“Barefoot Running by Michael Sandler is the best book on the market on how to begin and excel at barefoot running. I highly recommend it.”
—Dr. Michael Nirenb erg, author of America’s Podiatrist blog
“Enjoy the insights this book has to offer… . It is about form, joy, and the love of running. Run free!”
—Micah True, Caballo Blanco de la Sierra Madre of Born to Run
Michael Sandler
MICHAEL SANDLER is a barefoot running and walking expert who has coached athletes professionally for nearly twenty years. After a near-death accident left him with a titanium femur and hip, Sandler was told he could never run again. It was only by going barefoot and feeling the ground that he began to heal. He now runs ten to twenty miles a day, pain free.
JESSICA LEE experienced nagging knee pain and hated running until the day she went barefoot. Now she helps women of all abilities experience the joy of running light and free.
Michael and Jessica are the co-founders of RunBare Company. Together they travel around the world, teaching people how to rediscover the joy of running.
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