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How to Switch to Minimalist Shoes

Minimalist Footwear
The desire and goal to make positive changes in ones life is an admirable and worthwhile one. However taking steps to improves oneself is not always easy, in fact, without guidance or direction it can often be very challenging and frustrating. We know because we’ve all had to make changes in your lives and some parts were much harder than others. Knowing this, we’ve compiled some easy actions [...] Continue Reading…

2011 Minimalist Trail Running Shoes

As an exciting follow up to our last post about minimalist trail running shoes, it’s our pleasure to announce the fact that two barefoot shoe manufacturers, ZEM and VIVOBAREFOOT are both releasing brand new minimalist running shoes designed to handle the rugged and uneven terrain of an outdoor trail. Below we’ve included the two new models of barefoot shoe and some of their key specs.
ZEM O2 Terra
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Minimalist Trail Running Shoes

Barefoot Trail Running
In our last post we began talking about how minimalist shoes are for more than just running and we demonstrated how some of the producers of minimalist running shoes were starting to produce minimalist shoes for work. Some companies like Vibram Fivefingers and ZEM actually design and manufacture minimalist shoes for water sports such as kayaking and wakeboarding. Today we’d like to narrow in on minimalist trail running [...] Continue Reading…

Why to Choose Minimalist Shoes for Work

Minimalist Work ShoesLet’s face it, although most of us would love to be track stars, world class marathon runners or Olympic sprinters, we’re not. In fact the majority of us likely have a 9 to 5 job that entails a lot of sitting around (knowledge work) and we likely spend less than 5% of our day running. That being said, if there any Olympic athletes reading about minimalist running [...] Continue Reading…