037: Should Athletes Go Barefoot? Podiatrist Andy Bryant Talks Benefits and Practical Tips!!
The PJF Podcast: Elite Sports Performance
Paul Fabritz
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
TIMECODES
- Intro 0:00
- Benefits of Zero Drop Shoes 1:32
- Orthotics or Nahhh? 6:00
- Is Being Flat Footed an Issue? 7:26
- Are Flat Feet from Genetics? 9:38
- Increase in Achilles Tears from Elevated Heels 12:47
- Transition to Barefoot Shoes 14:38 Basketball Shoes vs Zero Drop Shoes 17:38
- Waking Up Proprioceptors in Feet 26:06
- Recommended Shoes 29:36
- Conclusion 32:28
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the PJF podcast, a show dedicated to decoding elite sports performance and fitness. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Paul Fabrets and I'm an NBA Strength and Conditioning and Performance Trainer. |
| 0:11.2 | If you want to become superhuman, take your fitness and take your sports performance to the next level. |
| 0:16.8 | This is the podcast for you. Let's do it. |
| 0:22.1 | All right, guys, we got a special guest today. |
| 0:24.9 | We have Andy Bryant, great podiatrist from Melbourne. |
| 0:29.9 | Is that correct? |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, so he does some great work that I've seen on social media and I've been following him for a while. |
| 0:37.1 | We talk all the time on our podcast about foot training, |
| 0:41.1 | so it's awesome to have an actual expert in this area. |
| 0:44.8 | So you want to give a quick background on who you are and how you got into this? |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, so I'm a podiatrist for 20 years now, |
| 0:52.3 | and I was just like a regular podiatrist. |
| 0:54.5 | And here in Australia, we're not like the American podiatrist. |
| 0:59.4 | We're more like an allied health, more like a physical therapist. |
| 1:02.5 | But so we're not a medical doctor to start with. |
| 1:06.6 | Anyway, so, yeah, I was just doing regular podiatry for the first 15 years, |
| 1:10.4 | and then, you know, which is a lot of orthotics and just what most podiatrists do. |
| 1:16.2 | And then just in my own practice of yoga and strengthening, I noticed the barefoot movement was something that my, like I was noticing for myself. |
| 1:26.2 | And then I just started applying it to my clients as |
| 1:28.1 | well and it's just been transformational to my practice and my life pretty much yeah awesome so yeah |
| 1:34.4 | you want to talk a little bit about um you're big on kind of the zero drop shoes correct and um so |
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