Charging stupid money for what amounts to slippers. My fucking light up sketchers would survive football 4 times a day until my feet grew wtf are trainers even now? Made out of paper and wishes, fucking foam and flimsiest fabric

  • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    just to back you up on the comfort thing – husband and I switched to "barefoot" style shoes (a cheap brand so we could try them out, definitely not Xero) a couple months ago, and they've made a huge difference in the amount of foot and leg pain and fatigue we get. we both vastly prefer the new shoes and hate having to wear anything else, so now we're saving up to get zero-drop wide-toebox steel toe work boots.

    my feet were put in too-small shoes a lot when I was a kid, and I've had bunions as long as I can remember. barefoot shoes combined with toe socks and foot exercises have helped me almost entirely correct the minor bunion in one foot (in 3ish months!) and made a lot of progress with the other.

    • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      did your feet get sore when you first started wearing the barefoot style shoes?

      • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 month ago

        nope! in fact my feet hurt so much less at the end of the first day (despite the increased amount of time I had been on them!) that I clearly remember raving about it to my husband, because that was the impetus for buying him a pair

        same experience for him too, though he felt a little weirder the first day because he's used to wearing giant boots all the time

      • quarrk [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        For me, it was my calves that got sore. Not my feet. Zero drop means you will be working a slightly longer range of motion on your calves.