Your shoes are DESTROYING your feet!

Lets explore why your shoes might be ruining your feet.

Video Transcript:
This is me with my Brooks running trainer and my barefoot trainer. You can clearly see that they are completely different shapes. Now, the reason I promote barefoot trainers is this. That is the shape of my foot, right there. My foot is free to move around inside and grip the ground. There are no restrictions there whatsoever, where as this brook, that is not the shape of my foot. Can you see how my foot would have to squeeze inside of there and that is when you see the shape of a foot changing. So here my foot is able to fit inside of this trainer, move around freely, grip the ground when I'm walking. Better for squatting, I can move and be free. Whereas this one will cause my big toe to crunch in, and my little toe to crunch under, so check your foot out at the minute. Is your big toe, bent across like this? Do you have a bunion coming? Is your little toe underneath your other toes. I’ve seen some people where this toe is underneath while the big toe is on top to make their shoe fit. That's How you fit into these running trainers. And I’m no doctor but i don’t think that's as healthy as letting the foot be free. So this can translate up the body. If you have a shoe that you’re wearing every day and you’re having to squeeze your feet in there to make it fit. Let's think about this up the body. So let's say i’m asking you to type. And you’ve got your free hands, all your muscles up your forearm tell your fingers what to do. But then I ask you to do the same task with a mitten on. And all you can do with this mitten is this and this. The muscles in your forearm will start to think “Okay, i know now that Braden only wants me to do this and this movement” so all the other muscles in my forearm that do all the other types of movements start to get weaker, get tight and they just don’t have a use anymore. That’s what happens with this. So if you have that trainer that's restricting all this movement from the feet, the feet aren’t able to move free and grip the ground. That is going to translate up the calf and up the leg and to the hip. It's definitely going to translate to the calf. All those muscles in the calf that control the toe movement, they basically stop working. So I promote the barefoot trainer just for health reasons really. My hip stopped hurting, my knee stopped hurting. They’re fantastic to squat in, they're fantastic to dead lift in. there is like i say, a bedding in period where your feet need to get used to walking on the ground again. I’ve been wearing these for about a year and half now and whenever I wear a trainer that restricts me, I have some Vans at home, some Pumas, I can probably only wear those for an hour now before my feet start to get really painful. My dad a chiropodist as well, as i said to him once, “dad you need to get this ingrowing toe nail out of my toe.” he said does it hurt across here across my big toe, and i said yes. He said there isn't a nail in there, it's that you’ve been wearing a shoe and it’s been pushing on your toe all day and it's made it sore. let's think about the shoes that we are wearing guys, on a daily basis. If you are interested in getting some barefoot trainers, i’ll link and amazon link below for these specific ones. They’ve got plenty of different colours out there. there's plenty of different colours in there. There's black, reds and camos and whatever else you might like.