The debate between barefoot walking and wearing shoes highlights the importance of understanding individual needs. Barefoot walking enhances foot muscle strength and balance, but shoes offer ...

Many experts extoll the virtues of barefooting, or ditching your shoes and walking barefoot. For those who want to approximate the feeling of walking barefoot but prefer the protection that shoes ...

Walking barefoot might be something you only do at home. But for many, walking and exercising barefoot is a practice they do daily. When a toddler is learning to walk, parents are told to let this ...

Recent studies highlight the advantages of going barefoot and minimalist footwear, but experts advise a gradual transition to avoid injuries. A man runs barefoot on a mountain trail in the hills of ...

When your feet hurt, it’s usually no longer fun to walk, run, shop, or dance. Sometimes that foot pain can cause a domino effect of discomfort, which only makes everything less fun. It all starts with ...

For decades, people have been challenging the status quo of wearing shoes. They say that walking barefoot, also known as “earthing” or “grounding,” connects them to nature, and they claim it leads to ...

As oxymorons go, “barefoot shoes” takes some beating. Otherwise referred to as “minimalist footwear”, these are shoes designed to mimic the experience of not wearing shoes. Evangelists include Joe ...

If you’re looking to slow it down in a pair of everyday walking shoes, make the most of your investment and cop something stylish, versatile, and above all else, comfy. While many retailers’ “Walking ...

A celebration of (at least occasional) shoelessness. By Natasha Frost The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. I had just moved to New Zealand ...