213: Minimal Footwear for the Modern Yoga Student
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Yoga students invest hours on functional flexibility, strength, and mobility, but the moment they leave the studio, most lace up restrictive footwear. Modern shoes squish your toes, damage your arches, and contribute to dysfunctional movement patterns leading to chronic pain and injury upstream including: knee pain, back and hip pain.
The solution? You need to learn about minimal shoes. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, Lucas meets with Steve Perna of Lems Shoes, a niche manufacturer and innovator in the minimal footwear scene to learn about the why and the how behind this type of shoe.
Steve Perna is one of the early team members at Boulder, Colorado-based Lems Shoes, and currently heads up wholesale distribution. Lems Shows was founded in 2011 and creates YOGABODY-recommended active, office, and casual footwear.
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Listen & Learn:
- What the terms "zero drop" and a "wide toe box" mean, and why you should insist on them in your shoes
- Why you might need to transition into minimal footwear starting with just a couple hours of use per day
- Why it's normal to experience some foot pain during your transition to minimal
- Why your walking and running gate might feel goofy at first
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- How much salt is too much?
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| 0:00.0 | This week's Yoga Talk Show is brought to you by Green Me Up, Super Drink Mix and Smoothie Booster. |
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| 0:23.8 | you know that you need to throttle carbs you need to control sugar of all forms |
| 0:28.9 | because it has taken over the planet and it is the biggest health risk to your diet in our |
| 0:34.0 | modern food system. That doesn't mean we never want to eat sugar but we do want to |
| 0:37.5 | get it under control and so when you're making smoothies people can accidentally |
| 0:42.3 | make these sugar bomb smoothies people can accidentally make these sugar bomb smoothies. Three bananas |
| 0:45.4 | some maple syrup. Next thing you know they got 80 a hundred grams. You go to |
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