I have heard this many times. I started training in flats and walk around barefoot A LOT and I think my foot is getting flatter.
What's the story?
I have heard this many times. I started training in flats and walk around barefoot A LOT and I think my foot is getting flatter.
What's the story?
no, if anything the opposite occurs.
In my country people don´t wear shoes indoor´and people aren´t any more flatfooted here than anywhere else.
No - it strengthens your feet.
More muscles in your feet means higher arches and stronger more flexible feet.
I grew up running around barefoot (that's how we roll in Hawaii) and I have low-ish arches. They look low, but don't collapse all the way so my footprints look like a normal/high arched foot. My mom and sister also grew up mostly wearing slippers or barefoot and have extremely high arches so I'm pretty sure going barefoot won't make your arches completely collapse unless you hurt yourself. Your case is probably a bit different though since you probably grew up wearing shoes.
However, my feet are really wide. My sister who worked at Nordstrom in Hawaii for a while said they had to order more wide shoes, so I'd say it's fairly safe to assume that people who grow up not wearing shoes/wearing shoes less than the average american will have wider feet. Your feet might look flatter because they've gotten a little wider.
not a coach wrote:
I have heard this many times. I started training in flats and walk around barefoot A LOT and I think my foot is getting flatter.
What's the story?
I know it is just a hunch, but I think it has more to do with the steam roller running over your foot.
In the old movies they used to call police who walked a beat "flat foot" but I don't think their feet were really any flater than the crooks who called them that. And I most certainly never saw a movie where the cops walked barefoot.
AH, BUT, if you run or walk with your toes pointed out like one duck you walk THROUGH your arch rather than off the toes and THAT can break down your arches and cause your feet to get flatter. Check your running stride. You should be able to run on a piece of string strung across the Grand Canyon without stepping off the string. (Please try the string on solid land before you try it across the Grand Canyon).
I have never seen Christopher Walken barefoot.
i heard from an athletic trainer that certain types of gaits(specifically toe runners) can lead to the development of tissue under the arch which gives the false look of a low/flat arch, but really the arch is still there within the tissue.
How long since you switched training and lifestyle?Have you noticed any other changes? (e.g. the way you run? the way you walk? callouses? blisters? pain of any sorts?)
not a coach wrote:
I have heard this many times. I started training in flats and walk around barefoot A LOT and I think my foot is getting flatter.
What's the story?
Most shoes are more than 10% too narrow for the people's feet who wear them, which constricts the size of the feet.
When you go barefoot a lot, as I do, your feet tend regain their natural shape, flexibility and strength.