my best uncommon biohack of 2023

going bare

Vibram five-fingers! My best biohack of this year. Love their slogan. let me take you through the why of the claim.

1- running is the lowest hanging fruit sport/physical activity for busy/ambitious folks. take your shoes and you’re off. beats the complexity contra-momentum which is the #1 cause of not starting sports. everyone knows how to run.

2- injury is the #1 factor of stoppage in running

3- I’ve got a fix for that right here. Introducing these ugly-ass vibram 5 finger shoes, my best buy and biohack of 2023:

These get a lot of hate, not only from folks that think they’re ugly (they’re right), but folks that miss-use them or that do not know how to order them or make them fit.

First, why? To train your feet and develop the thousands of muscles/tendons/bones in your feet. If I didn’t convince you on the running part, your feet are your stability. Everything starts from the ground in sport. Well then, health starts from the ground let me tell ya. As a bad posture can kill you and lead to an array of dysfunction, your very posture depends on it too. Cushioned shoes worsen the thing.

Then, for ppl that do not know how to order vibrams: you order your normal shoe size. You need to buy 5 toes socks as well, recommended, or go sockless in them.

Once they arrive, you’ll need to adapt them to your weird foot. They might take 5-10 runs to break. Be patient. At first, I used to take 10 mins to put them on. Yes, 10mins. Nowadays, it takes me 30 secs to put them on.

Finally, miss-use of vibrams. These are not your dailies. Use your five-fingers only 1-2 days a week, for running or training in my case. They are TRAINING shoes, not game day shoes.

Now, for my bold biohack claim, why? Cuz these are healing my foot’s long time injury, meaning I can continue to run forever. These shoes are physio / medicine for my cushion-accustomed feet.

They also make my runs very very enjoyable, but that only came 10 run’s in. The first ones were miserable.

These shoes are building not only my feet, but my knees and legs. I’m becoming a stronger, faster, better athlete as a result.

A stronger base means a more holistic and healthier body. I feel primal again.

Hence my review here. I also bought myself some minimal furokishi vibram shoes, they’re elegant, light and good for travel. light support for my feet on outings.

strongly recommend the thing!