Mark Sisson

And that's why people get injured in that regard.

And when you wear orthotics, you're telling your feet, ah, you don't even need to work your arches out.

We'll support your arches for you.

We don't, I don't know.

We'll get into this, but it's so crazy.

So my ultra runner friends and some of my marathoner friends are now spending the day in paloovas doing their errands, walking around, passively training the small muscles of their feet all day long.

They might even, they'll wear them to the gym and they'll do their leg work in them.

They'll do sprints in them.

Anything that you would do barefoot, like if you're going to do barefoot sprints, you do this.

But at some point, you know, if you haven't trained well enough to get those small muscles of your feet acclimated and adapted, you know, you can encounter, you can get some injuries.

Now, there are people, myself included, I could run forever.

I think my Paloovas, the ones that we make for training, are the best running shoes ever made.

I've been doing this for 15 years.

We just don't encourage it with new people.

It's bizarre, but that's medicine.

That's so podiatric medicine, podiatry.

Like I will tell you, like I was in college.

I was one of the best, I was the best runner at the cabinet cross country team.

And, and on the track team at Williams college, I sat my last year out with it, with chondromalacia with a knee injury because I was wearing,

Nike's thick cushioned trainers trying to get 40 extra miles a weekend because I wasn't feeling the pounding.