New year, new resolutions. The beginning of the year is a suitable time to make big decisions and start improving yourself, your fitness, mental well-being, or adopting healthier habits. Health isn’t about making big changes and seeing immediate results. It’s about small, sustainable changes that make a huge impact in the long term. If you plan to focus on health issues, and make beneficial decisions that impact you and nature in general, Go barefoot, and switch to barefoot shoes.
What are Barefoot shoes?
Barefoot shoes are designed with minimum support, and thin soles to keep your feet movement natural and your feet shape as it was meant to be since birth. Barebarics Barefoot took the barefoot market to another place by introducing a wide collection of stylish barefoot shoes, unlike the traditional boring barefoot models. Barebarics barefoot shoes offer:
- Zero Drop Soles: Ensuring your heels and toes are on the same level, this mimics your natural foot position and offers more stable steps, resulting in a better body posture.
- Wide Toe Box: All Barebarics sneakers offer a wide toe box, keeping enough space for your toes to move and spread. This reduces foot health issues, ensures better comfort, and improves blood circulation.
- Flexible Soles: Flexible Soles and designs let your feet move freely and flexibly, engaging all foot muscle movement while walking.
- Extra Thin Soles: Barebarics Barefoot Shoes help your feet ground through the extra thin 4mm soles excluding the lungs. This enhances connection to the surface and improves sensory feedback which strengthens the foot muscles and improves body posture.
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Why start your year with Barefoot shoes?
Studies found that Barefoot shoes have a huge impact on health issues, here are some of barefoot shoes’ health benefits:
- Better Body Posture: Unlike traditional shoes that affect foot shape and movement, barefoot shoes enhance natural foot movement, which improves alignment and body posture over time.
- Strengthen Foot muscles: Minimum shoe support offered by barefoot shoes aims to let feet move flexibly, and easily and adapt with different surfaces. This results in strengthened foot muscles with less injury risk.
- Reconnect with nature: Barefoot Shoes give your feet a chance to reconnect with the earth. Feeling the ground texture under your feet can be rejuvenating and calming.
- Versatility for Every Lifestyle: Barebarics barefoot shoes are designed to suit several lifestyles, whether you’re going to work, walking, hiking, or going shopping, barebarics offers several styles and models that blend fashion, comfort, and functionality.
Tips for switching to Barefoot Shoes
Switching to barefoot is a long journey, here are some steps to help you:
- Start wearing barefoot shoes for short periods, and increase time gradually.
- Wear barefoot shoes on smooth surfaces in the beginning such as carpets, and tiled surfaces.
- Choose barebarics barefoot shoe models that are recommended for newly barefooters.
- Exercise your feet, there are several foot strengthening exercises such as stretching, curls, and pickup.
- Measure your feet depending on the measurement guide. Be aware that barefoot shoe sizes may differ from traditional sizes.
- Pay attention to your foot acceptance, and adjust your barefoot pace accordingly. No One rule for all, listen to your body and make changes based on it.
How do you switch to barefoot shoes?
Switching to barefoot shoes is a strategic decision leading to a healthier life. Although the journey might be challenging, it’s essential to switch gradually to avoid discomfort. The first step is to choose a transitional model that offers more support than pure barefoot shoes. Barebarics Zing is a good choice, available with a high top that offers support and makes it easier to transform gradually. Besides, it needs time to be familiar with barefoot shoes, so it is recommended to wear them for short periods of time in the beginning and increase time gradually. Note that it might not feel comfortable at the beginning which is very normal.
When wearing barefoot, watch your walking style which might change often in the beginning since barefoot doesn’t support heel impact as traditional footwear, and this increases stress on foot muscles and joints, so you must be careful while walking with barefoot shoes in the beginning.
Lastly, healthy feet need time to adjust, rest, and retain their natural shape after being trapped for years in tight shoes. So you must be patient, try to exercise your legs, and watch the shoes’ effects on your feet since no one person like other, and each ones transitioning experience is unique.
Transforming to barefoot shoes isn’t just a change for your feet. It’s a strategic decision that affects your entire well-being. Deciding to go barefoot impacts your way of thinking, where you look for things from a different perspective. It’s a decision that affects the earth’s sustainability too. Now with Barebarics in UAE, you can try to step into the future, reconnect with your body, and retain a healthy posture. Start 2025 in a healthy way from the ground up!!
