Toe Off (Barefoot Walking)

This is top quality content thanks so much for this and all other videos in the walking series, such a in-depth breakdown and great advice , amazing you have given all this for free you are a legend !!

Brooks running shoes,,,,,,,,,,,,

I never thought about my gait until I had neglected myself. Now I am going to have anxiety over it. Thanks though I needed to see this.

so much simple videos needed for us! the dismorphed people who walked on their puff uf nike shoes, now discovering the ground and feet🌈

🔴I started to forget what it's like to walk in shoes ❗☺

so am i supposed to use the big toe when pushing? I tried once and it got really sore, because weak?

Hi @grownandhealthy, thanks for the videos. I am quite interested in your ideas about walking and have been trying out barefoot walking on a treadmill for the last 2-3 weeks, practicing about 10 mins a day. This is mainly because I get knee pain walking "normally" after a few minutes. I am able to do this without any trouble, and have even tried running a couple of times, which also causes knee pain when done "normally" (heel strike in cushioned shoes). So it seems to let me walk without knee pain and I've noticed my balance has already improved a lot, but I'm starting to get pain in my big toe on one foot especially. I also get some discomfort on the top of the foot, just above the toe line. Is this common when starting to transition to barefoot/forefoot walking?

Just found your channel! Your demonstrations are great and the info is explained better than some of the big barefoot channels! Keep it up!

I wish i knew how important the toes were... instead fucking up my knees, calfs, hips, back and ankels... whatever lifes a journey!

Nice muscles my friend

Thank you for this video. The concept is excellently explained in detail and I will be following your advice. I wish you well.

do your tip of toes touch ground when kicking off toes?

why do your toes are always bent naturally when standing?

EXCELLENT, AS A ID Dancer, Movement Specialist I AGREE 100%

Excellent video. I broke my fibula 16 weeks ago, 6 weeks in boot, 6 weeks out. The toe off, windless mechanism has been a challenge. I’m getting there. Thank you for your video, it explains what has happened and how to get real function back. Slow and steady Silvergirl!❤

Im 45 and im just learning how to walk from you, thank you. Im still practicing its actually difficult. Thanks.

This video is the game Changer!

damn why are your feet so sexy?

it's not the shoes, it's the fact that we are always walking on flat surfaces. these shoes do help offset that by activating dormant tiny muscles in your legs and sparking neurons in your brain.

I already walked like this, and I use shoes

Great help for this 60 year old as I relearn to walk in BF shoes!

Very clear, thank you

Everything's perfect with only one major flaw. Your walk is stiff and square, if you point your toes (and knees) slightly outward, that will force the torso to turn with each step.

i see you place your whole foot totally flat...no heel or toe flexed

what is the movement you dont showproperly dant understand a thing of what u mean...when u put the foot forward do u mean we first land the toe and then the heel?
please explain..you do not show it well

You don't make sense to me I don't understand and l can't unwalk🙉🙉🙊

Greetings from Albuquerque, NM. Came across your channel a couple of weeks ago. Can't say thank you enough, you have really helped me understand and put these practices into motion. Improving lives is what you are doing, all the best.

What if you have bunions?

you have opened my eyes as a physiotherapist

Request , it is better to tell the actual point first and go for the detailed explanation. Also conclusion with demo at the end is appreciated.
The effort,research & experimentation&achievement ....your goodness is honourable.
Thank you.

supper happy to have found your great advice. thanks

My outer knee started hurting after jogging and sprinting, do you have any idea why is that and how I can fix that?

Just trying about a way to get myself walking like this

I have a mental image of walking on small stepping stones to cross a river without falling in. With only room for about half of one foot. Can’t put two feet on one stone.

Is that a good way to think ?

If I were crossing a river with only small stones I definitely wouldn’t heel strike , I would be putting the forefoot down first and also concentrating on balance

I will give it a try but there is all kind of garbage 🗑 and junk on the sidewalks that can give me not only foot 🦶 fungus but serious infections which I don’t think is worth walking barefoot

Can you not do a fusion of heel striking and forefoot striking? I find that I engage the windlass mechanism and have a very shallow rather than sharp heel strike right under my center of gravity rather than extending outward. I can achieve speed with this step without having much shock, while also leaning forward and allowing my hip flexors to raise my legs. What's going on here?

can you make a video of what can we do if we gotta use some conventional shoes for work. I mean like steel toe boots or stuff like that. Im trying to change my gait pattern and walking with the closest to minimal shoes i can get, but i think there are many others like me that cant wear minimal shoes or being barefoot all the time. Thanks for the great content!

your barefoot walking series was exactly what I was looking for. thanks for the no nonsense content

Like previous comment about kids or toddlers learning to walk maybe show a video of how toddlers learn. The heel is never really on the ground till they try standing in place.
I wish I would have known what teach 3 years ago after having a severe traumatic incident that resulted in a crushed heel a stabilizer joint with a 3 in opening on the inside of my right foot. No longer have the range of motion but I believe partly do to poor pt and recovery. So many of your videos make so much sense as I think back to childhood. Sitting on your feet while playing because you could extend your reach placing something or grabbing something. Grateful and thank You.

I just realized this morning that wearing a thinner athletic shoe was better for my backward walking. Now I understand why. I also like to "red light therapy" the bottom of my feet because that's where all the nerve endings are. I don't have a proof of any benefits yet, but I'm testing it out.

Thank you for making this video! You have just changed my life!

Walk backwards will be what we are supposed to do.. i have pronation and working to fix it. Even barefoot i still heel strike..
Guess ill figure this out.
Thank you

Would you say that when you swing your knee forward the first part that touches the floor would be your outer ball of your foot on the pinky toe side or would it be both balls of your feet at the same time then the he'll gently touches the floor. Also this is the proper way to walk and run correct? I see alot of barefoot videos and people wearing bare foot shoes and barefoot sandles and stuff and I watch them walk around in videos and study how they walk and they still walk using heel strike first but they run using this method your talking about. The way I'm seeing things is heel strike is absolutely not necessary and can be damaging in the longer term. Great videos! You seem to be the most educated person on this topic on the internet. I even watch videos of foot doctors talking about shoes the way to walk and they are still absolutely clueless but they make up reasons to fit their narrative and why what they're saying is correct and their reasons can make sense but it doesn't mean they are correct.

Question if you have plantar fasciitis would you walk on carpet at home? I have it in left foot I trying to flex my foot more as well

Hello I am knock kneed. How can I improve my walking?

Thanks for your description, your words, triggering my understanding and enabling me to try out while running!

As explanation first - I use an app, which instruments the acceleration sensor of the smart phone to "measure" the impact of steps, while walking or running. Additionally this app measures the time per step and the differences between step 1 and step 2 (not left and right).

After viewing your toe-off-video I tried to reflect my way to push off the floor while running barefoot in my running sandals.
And yes, I was able to adapt, to change, to reduce the measured impact by using your advices.

The pace didn't necessarily decreased, the cadence decreased only a bit, but the recorded impact dropped down from 15-20%.
I started to "shift" forward, instead of "hopping" forward.
Now I try more or less successfully to use all toes at the "toe-off-point", not only/mostly the big tow and its neighbor.
And to be able to do so, I need to rotate the feet less outside, to be more in line with some support from the inner thighs.

And while the ankles, knees, hips, the lower back feel better, the feet are much more tired and some muscles (left lower outer chin, right lower outer calf) claimed to be stressed. Very amusing and interesting, that after all the time some little changes had such an effect! 😀

So - thanks for your advice and the way to explain it!

Just to clarify, I am using my toes on back foot to propel both forward AND upward correct? It doesn't feel natural but this is the correct way to walk?

Please review groundies barefoot shoes 🙏.

what walking shoes do you recommend? @Grown and Healthy is A Lifestyle!

thank you for sharing this information on proper walking form. you are one of the VERY FEW people sharing this info. It is like a lost art. What are your thoughts on KneesOverToesGuy? I think his advocation of sled pushing can also help restoring flexibility and strength in the feet to help get back to walking properly. He also advocates for pushing it forward and pulling it walking backwards/