Peter Francis receives funding from Vivobarefoot. It was around four to six million years ago when humans first evolved to walk upright. We continued to evolve into superb long-distance walkers and ...

Rik Scarce, a Skidmore College sociology professor, has produced a documentary, "Impact," on the debate over barefoot running versus running in shoes. Rik Scarce, 62, of Averill Park, discovered the ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Hop on the barefoot shoe trend today Izzy Baskette is a shopping writer for PEOPLE with five years of experience in digital media. She ...

Barefoot running is like skinny-dipping: Something that’s already pretty fun becomes exhilarating and memorable when you’re more deeply connected to the environment and your body. You can’t help ...

Why did you want to break away from traditional running footwear? Having grown up in Southern California in barefoot surf and skateboard culture when it came time to run, I was putting on regular ...

Years ago, the idea that you could run barefoot, instead of in running shoes, shook the running community. (The ultimate result: The market exploded with expensive shoes meant to mimic barefoot ...

Like every fitness activity, running has its niches. Some people want to fight for first-place finishes, others cover wildly long distances in ultrarunning and cross country. For diehard minimalists, ...

Aaron Keil, PT, DPT, clinical associate professor of physical therapy at the University of Illinois, Chicago Many barefoot runners and experts in the sports medicine space believe that the benefits of ...

Barefoot running and minimalist shoes offer less heel-cushioning. It is postulated that when an RFS runner changes from a traditional shoe to a minimalist shoe (or no shoe), landing on the heel will ...

For as long as human beings have been upright, we have run. The exact date at which we began doing the ol’ left-right-left is impossible to say, but evolutionary biologists suggest it to be between 2 ...

Judging from all the arguments about it, barefoot running seems to be (as Homer Simpson said about alcohol) the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. But does going barefoot really reduce ...