Explore the surprising benefits and trade-offs of barefoot running and whether this popular trend truly builds stronger legs.

Barefoot workouts can provide many benefits once your body gets used to them. But they’re not without risk, and they’re not about going all in. If anything, they require you to slowly unlearn certain ...

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You've probably seen the photos from your favorite Instagram fitness influencers, or the few brave souls at your local gym taking off their shoes and hitting the weight room; barefoot training has ...

Humans have engaged in endurance running for millions of years 1, but the modern running shoe was not invented until the 1970s. For most of human evolutionary history, runners were either barefoot or ...