One of the most common pushbacks I get on foot health is the idea that it’s not important since many athletes have bunions and flat feet. However - training to have functioning, healthy feet for the rest of your life and training to be a GOAT are two drastically different goals Improving your foot health and function comes down to a 3 step approach - in order of importance: 1. Foot Strengthening - This could mean doing normal training barefoot, or also dedicated foot strengthening work. Our feet have 33 joints, 26 bones, and 100+ tendons, ligaments, and muscles in each of them that we don’t want to atrophy over time Wearing Wide Toe Box Shoes - Wide toe box shoes give our toes adequate room not to be squished together. Overtime, this can help alleviate bunion pain and issues - but only if you’re putting in the work with foot strengthening 3. Toe Spacers - Negligible compared to foot strengthening and wide toe box shoes, but still a great finishing touch. Wearing toe spacers around your home is similar to wearing a retainer after braces @kadour_ziani_official is a must follow account with incredible wisdom - for those interested in his story and training methods I highly recommend picking up his book “7 Postures” and implementing his teachings! Thoughts? Questions? Leave them below!
The athletes named…their feet are shaped like the shoes they play and train in. 👀👀 and that’s why their injuries are what they are. Le Ron shoulda been practicing has entire career barefoot, looks like he spent his entire basketball lifetime in shoes two sizes too small (and he did) 😂
In Jamaica, many people will take care of their issues with smelly feet and will pay attention to nail health and corns, calluses, dryness and discolouration. Structural issues with the feet aren't paid as much attention as they need. Podiatrists aren't very popular in Jamaica, many people know what these specialists do, but don't feel that they have a need or the resources to visit them, even when their toes look like they are being braided unto each other. Many also expect discomfort or pain from wearing new shoes and I've been teased for only buying wider shoes. My wellness business talks about this issue, but it is the content that is least interacted with.
Hey, so in Singapore, where my grandparents retired, my aunt noted that the boomer+ generation also have poor feet health because they simply don't prioritize buying good shoes. And this is despite access to all sorts of global brands, no matter the income. It got me also wondering about people from open-toed sandal culture in the tropics. At least gen X and below normally wear gym shoes (AKA dad shoes) or have awareness of things that are comfortable like Crocs or Birkenstocks as part of casual wear. But many young ladies also elect to wear flat flip flops / sandals without any arch support. This goes for shoes that are $10 -$400 too. People just are not educated about feet health in general.
I don't understand how LeBron hasn't spent any money or taken the time to care for his feet. Massages, toe spacers, geez anything. His are seriously messed up and it can't feel good.
He might go for it after retirement but even then I think it’s common to leave it. I don’t know how much he can do when he’s gonna jam his foot in a shoe just as hard the next day. That’s like 200 pounds plus the force he puts into the ground.
@@judyflower6586wow that’s weird. I’ve worn mine almost religiously for over a year and my bunion throbs and hallux rigidus stiffens when I don’t. Thanks for convincing me I was hallucinating
The fact Lebron feet didn’t get to half the way they are without him being like “wtf is going on” kind of says a lot about him. It just seems crazy to me that these athletes that believe in so much weird science would allow their feet to be deformed and chalk it up to just “working hard”
@@anthonyleonard990 if that was a thing and could boost performance, every freaking top tier athlete would use wide toes shoes and everything else related to it. Sorry, but seems like its not a case.
@@tomashgrey2211how can you say that with any certainty when we nearly every athletic shoe on the planet follows a design idea derived from a fashion choice of the 1800’s…!?! Modern Basketball shoes have been a cash cow up until recently and were sold primarily for fashion. Dont always assume that humans are progressing.
I wonder if we'll see any NBA players start using shoes with a wider toe box. I know Kobes are one of the most preferred shoes RN in NBA and they've got tighter toe boxes than most other bball shoes I've tried on.
The things that gets me is I keep hearing about the guy who is 5'11 that can kick the rim. Meanwhile there's guys who are 5'5 and 5'4 and can hit their HEADS on the rim.
@@gnatdagnat John Jordan, Anthony Height, Isaiah Rivera, there are dozens more, you can Google it yourself, Kadour Ziani, there is not one picture of him with his head at the rim and he is 5'11, 6 ft tall. I see him kicking a ball off the rim dozens of times, with his head about the height of the bottom of the net, while kicking the ball. You can UA-cam these guys that I put on here and see their heads hitting the rim, at 6 ft and under.
@@woketopian112so you can’t provide any logical argument, or existing evidence for this ridiculous idea that the toes should be taped together for optimal performance; got it. When I play basketball I use a running shoe that is more minimalist than your average bball shoe. I have started transitioning to Ben Patrick’s Uncivilized model 2. Oh wait, Ben Patrick must not know what he’s doing if the toes aren’t taped together.
There feet are very functional though just because they have those things does not mean there feet are not healthy as u can see they have prominent att and tendons which means they are fascial driven
One of the most common pushbacks I get on foot health is the idea that it’s not important since many athletes have bunions and flat feet. However - training to have functioning, healthy feet for the rest of your life and training to be a GOAT are two drastically different goals
Improving your foot health and function comes down to a 3 step approach - in order of importance:
1. Foot Strengthening - This could mean doing normal training barefoot, or also dedicated foot strengthening work. Our feet have 33 joints, 26 bones, and 100+ tendons, ligaments, and muscles in each of them that we don’t want to atrophy over time
Wearing Wide Toe Box Shoes - Wide toe box shoes give our toes adequate room not to be squished together. Overtime, this can help alleviate bunion pain and issues - but only if you’re putting in the work with foot strengthening
3. Toe Spacers - Negligible compared to foot strengthening and wide toe box shoes, but still a great finishing touch. Wearing toe spacers around your home is similar to wearing a retainer after braces
@kadour_ziani_official is a must follow account with incredible wisdom - for those interested in his story and training methods I highly recommend picking up his book “7 Postures” and implementing his teachings!
Thoughts? Questions? Leave them below!
The athletes named…their feet are shaped like the shoes they play and train in. 👀👀 and that’s why their injuries are what they are.
Le Ron shoulda been practicing has entire career barefoot, looks like he spent his entire basketball lifetime in shoes two sizes too small (and he did) 😂
In Jamaica, many people will take care of their issues with smelly feet and will pay attention to nail health and corns, calluses, dryness and discolouration. Structural issues with the feet aren't paid as much attention as they need. Podiatrists aren't very popular in Jamaica, many people know what these specialists do, but don't feel that they have a need or the resources to visit them, even when their toes look like they are being braided unto each other. Many also expect discomfort or pain from wearing new shoes and I've been teased for only buying wider shoes. My wellness business talks about this issue, but it is the content that is least interacted with.
Interesting indeed
Hey, so in Singapore, where my grandparents retired, my aunt noted that the boomer+ generation also have poor feet health because they simply don't prioritize buying good shoes. And this is despite access to all sorts of global brands, no matter the income. It got me also wondering about people from open-toed sandal culture in the tropics. At least gen X and below normally wear gym shoes (AKA dad shoes) or have awareness of things that are comfortable like Crocs or Birkenstocks as part of casual wear. But many young ladies also elect to wear flat flip flops / sandals without any arch support. This goes for shoes that are $10 -$400 too. People just are not educated about feet health in general.
I don't understand how LeBron hasn't spent any money or taken the time to care for his feet. Massages, toe spacers, geez anything. His are seriously messed up and it can't feel good.
Me neither! Perhaps most people think it’s normal and just a part of the game
He might go for it after retirement but even then I think it’s common to leave it. I don’t know how much he can do when he’s gonna jam his foot in a shoe just as hard the next day. That’s like 200 pounds plus the force he puts into the ground.
Toe spacers dont do anything
He will be sorry in 30 yrs
@@judyflower6586wow that’s weird. I’ve worn mine almost religiously for over a year and my bunion throbs and hallux rigidus stiffens when I don’t.
Thanks for convincing me I was hallucinating
The fact Lebron feet didn’t get to half the way they are without him being like “wtf is going on” kind of says a lot about him. It just seems crazy to me that these athletes that believe in so much weird science would allow their feet to be deformed and chalk it up to just “working hard”
Imagine how faster and higher would they do with better feet 😮
There feet are athletic tho
@@hom_SB ye but imagine if they had wide toes
@@anthonyleonard990 if that was a thing and could boost performance, every freaking top tier athlete would use wide toes shoes and everything else related to it. Sorry, but seems like its not a case.
@@tomashgrey2211 I guess the sacrifice for power and greatness is the beauty of feet
@@tomashgrey2211how can you say that with any certainty when we nearly every athletic shoe on the planet follows a design idea derived from a fashion choice of the 1800’s…!?! Modern Basketball shoes have been a cash cow up until recently and were sold primarily for fashion.
Dont always assume that humans are progressing.
Hoka used to make foot shaped track spikes, but they cancelled production a long time ago
sacrified feet for hooves
#🐐mentality
I wonder if we'll see any NBA players start using shoes with a wider toe box. I know Kobes are one of the most preferred shoes RN in NBA and they've got tighter toe boxes than most other bball shoes I've tried on.
Athlete's foot?
Bolt would have ran even faster, with wide shoes, that didnt deform and weaken his feet
Y’all should search up Chinese footbindings.
And hockey players habitually wear skates that are too small. Gretzky himself wore several sizes too small.
If they work at restoring their feet they can reverse or atleast . Improve
It’s alright I can train to be the MMA goat with literally 0 interference from narrow toe shoes. But I do love my Js
The things that gets me is I keep hearing about the guy who is 5'11 that can kick the rim. Meanwhile there's guys who are 5'5 and 5'4 and can hit their HEADS on the rim.
Source lol
@@gnatdagnat John Jordan, Anthony Height, Isaiah Rivera, there are dozens more, you can Google it yourself, Kadour Ziani, there is not one picture of him with his head at the rim and he is 5'11, 6 ft tall. I see him kicking a ball off the rim dozens of times, with his head about the height of the bottom of the net, while kicking the ball. You can UA-cam these guys that I put on here and see their heads hitting the rim, at 6 ft and under.
Maybe because he’s 50 and still doing it🤦🏻♂️
@@gnatdagnat anthony height but he is 5'6, could definitely do it at 5'5 maybe 5'4
air jordans did that
What shoes do you use ?
Xero Shoes - HFS Lightweight Road Running Men Dawn Grey
Ty
they would have been even better athletes with wide toe box shoes. i think you are right. they just thought this was part of the game.
false, it is part of the game, wide toe boxes make no sense in most sports
@@woketopian112provide proof that a tapered toe box improves performance.
It’s like saying taping your toes together will improve your balance.
@@ericmalitz the benefits for speed and agility are pretty obvious. It's basic physics, use your brain
@@woketopian112it’s pretty “obvious” that taping toes together leads to better performance than natural toe splay? 😂
@@woketopian112so you can’t provide any logical argument, or existing evidence for this ridiculous idea that the toes should be taped together for optimal performance; got it.
When I play basketball I use a running shoe that is more minimalist than your average bball shoe. I have started transitioning to Ben Patrick’s Uncivilized model 2.
Oh wait, Ben Patrick must not know what he’s doing if the toes aren’t taped together.
Hips
There feet are very functional though just because they have those things does not mean there feet are not healthy as u can see they have prominent att and tendons which means they are fascial driven
Their*
Real question is why are we concerned about an other man’s feet? 😭💀
I mean did you fucking see them?
Leflop isn’t one of the greatest athletes, not even close.
MJ my GOAT 🔒 still need to respect Lebrons 20 years
Crazy hating lol.