Are you toemaxxing?
I don't have bunions as I am not a woman
yeaah
What shoes do I buy though?
>>75466871My gf briefly used those separators but her big toe went cold as ice
>>75467111Was she willing to sacrifice your love?
>>75466871what are these things? and what do they do?
>>75467553They claim to fix the mess on the left. The cause is women buying shoes that are multiple sizes too small for them because woman reasons.
>>75466887Shoes that don't jam your toes together.
>>75467566ah, i see
>>75467577such as? They all seem to do this
>>75467729barefoot shoes
>>75466871My feet look like the right without doing anything
>>75467808Based
>>75466871If I go barefoot running, I'd probably step on broken glass or a used syringe in the first five minutes.
>>75466871Wearing steel capped boots for 12-14 hours a day have destroyed my feet/toes. I need to have couple of toenails removed. Its pretty much over.
Left can only be fixed with surgery other stuff than that is snake oil. The thing on the right can prevent it if you dont have a bunion though.
been footmaxxing my whole life I've been waiting for this moment
Can flat feet/fallen arches be fixed?
>tfw got the industrial revolution toesIs it over for me bros?
>>75469832unironically i have a real life friend who i actually know personally that fixed his with zero drop wide toebox shoes
>>75470397idk, if a lady had those natural feet i don't know how they're fitting in the heels i insist she wears
>>75467749Why are all barefoot shoes so expensive? I dropped $700 for 3 pair of vivos last year.
>>75467374kek
>>75470458>Why are all barefoot shoes so expensive?works on my machine, I am getting a barefoot one by MIFAWA for 36$
>>75470435absolute goy tier fetish
>>75466887Vans have a pretty wide toe box and don't cramp up my toes as much as other similar shoes. Good gym shoes. Some new balance shoes offer wide toe boxes as well, you can search them form their site by width and buy that model from somewhere cheaper
Do toe spacers actually work? Im not exactly a science cuck but are there any studies
>>75466887Lems, Xero, some Merrel shoes, Vivobarefoot, Vibram, Bearfoot. Probably a few more smaller companies.I've had a few Merrels and Lems. Both absolutely great. My various Lems have been the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned.
>>75470799What do you mean by work? They definitely do what they're supposed to, I'd recommend correct toes if you're going to get some as well as walking around barefoot as much as you can and using barefoot style shoes. That being said you are never truly going to undo decades of damage.
>>75466871Yes, I've been toemaxxing for a few years now, and it feels great. My feet feel stronger, and the cramps in my ankle and foot muscles are gone. I can also balance on my feet more easily, and I feel more stable.>>75466887Barefoot shoes. And go literally barefoot when you can.>>75467111You aren't supposed to wear them all day.
>>75470458They're a premium item. Same reason you have to pay more for grass-fed raw milk than grocery store pasteurized goymilk: less demand and smaller companies with less capital to spend on mass production, marketing, etc. If barefoot shoes were mainstream, they'd be as cheap as Nikes.
>>75470799They work, yes. But you have to use them in tandem with wide toebox shoes or else your goyshoes will undo all the benefits.
I got some great socks that help space out the toes. Can only wear a couple hours at a time but shit gets way better for a long while after.I use the cheap whitins from amazon for shoes and love them. I used to have orthotics from a podiatrist and no longer use them.
>>75466871I bought a pair of these barefoot boots that have been great for my feet. Really wide toe box and the materials are nice.
>>75469062DUDUMDUMDUMDUMDUMDUMDUM
Took the barefoot-pill a year and a half ago. It has slowly unfucked my feet, knees and lower back.I wish I began two decades ago.
>>75473791Qrd? No shoes or what
>>75473821Shoes that doesn't act like vices for your feet.Personally I use Lems.
>>75473829Are there options that wouldn't make you look like a fag.?
>>75466871I'm a jew rabbi. I'm anus maxing
Could barefoot shoes cause lateral foot pain? Around the small toe. I've been wearing them for a couple of months, eventually had a broken ankle (that I don't know how I got, I never stepped wrong or anything) and now that it's almost healed up, I've noticed that on both feet I have a strong lateral pain close to small toes. When I walk it's okay, but when I try to put weight on it, or even push with a finger, it hurts like a bitch.
>>75473967How long have you been doing it? Took me nearly a year to get pain free.
>>75466871>just more microplastics
>>75466871ayo why the fuck you buying fucking 50 dollar toe spacers those shits like ten bucks at target
>>75474026Half a year maybe. The thing is, when I was walking in them regularly, I've never experienced any pain. It only started after I'd sprained my ankle and I wasn't going out much at all.
>>75474138Sounds more like complications from the sprain rather than going barefoot then.How much rehabilitation training have you been doing since the injury?
>>75474138>>75473967When you go barefoot your body is going to attempt to fight you across every single muscle group from your toes all the way up to the mid back.This is quite literal for any posture or structural change.This is also the number one reason why the promotion of stretching and mobility should not be ignored. /fit/ shills strengthening, but a lot of really really stupid people ignore stretching/mobility training because they are unironically still kids and not feeling the serious influence of adulthood yet.To answer your question simply, yes. Yes even something as small as a toe's new posture can change every single thing up to mid back posture. Possibly even resulting in your sprain, since you lacked the stabilization for this new posture.I use shoes when doing long walks, but I exclusively go barefoot or wood platform boots for any other time. Been this way for about twenty years now.After hiking with the shoes, I always have to do ankle mobilization and stretch my calves, knee stabilizers, and hips. It's mandatory because if I don't my ankle will begin to roll outward after a few weeks (resulting in hyper mobility and eventual sprain).It's a lifelong battle because puberty is over, there is no way for me to structurally change these flaws. So I must always be fighting the damage I am doing daily.Understand there are things about yourself that you will also have to retrain for the rest of your life to prevent longterm pain or injury.So my suggestion is figure out what part of your lower body is causing lateral plantar nerve pain.There are only a few spots that can cause it, but there are many muscle groups that can aggravate the condition.I'd give you advice, but the lower body is actually a horrible mess of a design my dude.You kind of have to figure it yourself.One leg or hip muscle being a different size is the difference between having crippling knee pain, hip pain, or lower back pain.We all kind of get one of them or multiple.
>>75474144I'd think so, too, but it's the same on both feet so I don't think it's overcompensating or anything.>>75474153Thank you for the longer post, I will try to absorb the knowledge and do what you suggest.
>>75470788>Vans have a pretty wide toe boxNo they fucking don't.
I have within and saguero barefoot, wide toe box shoes. Cheap and comfortable. Only thing is they get dirty fast. Looking for a leather version now.
>>75474187>Thank you for the longer posNP dude.I guess the only advice I can really give is just research lateral plantar pain.It's pretty easy to fix, literal massage ball stand on it roll it around. Though fair warning, this is 100% the most painful rehabilitation a human can go through depending on how bad it is, since the requirement is you press down on a nerve while massaging it through tendon mass.Outside of groin pain, I have never had it compare to anything else.However the effectiveness over time is pretty much legit, you will more than likely have some improvement. Add in ankle, toe, and calf mobility ontop I can pretty much guarantee improvement.However once again, the actual process that is aggravating your issue is impossible for me to diagnose friend, nor could anyone online diagnose it. Since it's your actual body that is the issue, gotta either see a specialist or start really getting to learn your body mechanics so you can begin to learn to walk with bio-mechanical ergonomic efficiency.After you figure it out, once again this might be a permanent rehabilitation cycle for you. Just something you have to stretch and/or strengthen once a week to make sure it doesn't get worst.I got a gimp leg (3/4 inch shorter than other leg) that I have to religiously stretch in specific ways every week to ensure proper mechanics or else I have horrible sciatic pain. Just to give you reference of how sometimes we just have to accept fate and keep up the good fight.Of course that's if you can actually diagnose a mechanical failure of your body.It's not all doom or gloom, it could just be you pushed yourself before your body was ready.Either way man you'll have to put the work in.Good luck dude, be safe!
>>75467729Some German and I think Anglo brands have normal toe boxes. Italian shoes, in contrast, are pointier.
>>75473839My wife was originally derisive towards "clown shoes" but now that's all she wears.
>>75473350What's the name of the boots?
*unlocks your posture**unfucks your knees**unclogs your toes**beats the shit out of your achilies and calfs*
Just move your toes.
>>75466887buy barefoot shoes for cold times and walk barefoot on the grass.
>>75466871
>>75474153>This is also the number one reason why the promotion of stretching and mobility should not be ignored.Do you have any resource recommendations for this? This is one area in which I'm lacking.
>>75474642I love clean feet so much
>>75474533Jim Green African Rangers barefoot
>>75472501>You aren't supposed to wear them all day.Yes, you are. That's the point; slow, constant pressure reshapes the bones and joints over time. Your body is plastic, as in capable of being shaped and formed. People think of bones as being solids, but they're actually tens of millions of small solid pieces all attached to each other. If you apply constant pressure to a bone without giving it a chance to move back, it will change shape.
>>75475977No, if you go from not wearing toe spacers at all to wearing them 24 hours a day, you'll experience cramping or numbness like your gf did. You have to gradually build up to wearing them for extended periods of time through progressive overload, the same way you would with any lift or exercise.
>>75466871Opposite problem, my toes are naturally spread out like a downy and hurt to cram in most shoes
>>75475782NTA but very interesting. I'd have a hard time spending $200 on boots without a one-piece toe but I guess in this realm you have to take what you can get; maybe I'll see if they go on sale
>>75476124Send them an email and see what they'll do for you, they're very open to custom orders. I've seen someone who got the barefoot with a steel cap.I don't usually spend more than $100 on shoes but I hate buying new shoes and wanted something that would last me a long time. These are about a year old now and I haven't done any maintenance to them. I'll give them a good clean and get some suede/nubuck protector and they'll look good as new. When the time comes any cobbler can resolve them because they're made in the proper, traditional way. I find them very comfortable, especially with a nice pair of thick, merino wool socks. The toe box is nice and wide and they grip well and are very quiet to walk in.
>>75474715Stretching and mobility is something you just have to research man, there are plenty of tools online.Pilates for reference is a legitimate source.While it's done almost exclusively by hipster women, it was designed for rehabilitation of injured soldiers during the World Wars.Effectively >humans have a minimum/maximum range for all movements>if you can't do these movements do these exercises/stretches to at least reach minimum rangeRule of thumb you should spend 1/4th of your workout time working on mobility/stretching.So if you go to the gym for one hour, you should spend 25 minutes ensuring function.Now this is during the early periods.Once you actually rehabilitate proper function, stretching/mobility training can be done with as little as 5 minutes.You don't have to spend 25 minutes stretching something that doesn't need to be stretched.It's more>learn proper form>ahhh something feels a bit off>stretch a bit>okay yeah everything feels goodIt really becomes that simple.It's just the first few months/years of rehabilitation where you gotta spend an absurd amount of time working on it.
does anyone know of a WIDE toe box steel cap boot? i don't mind if it has drop or if it's thick or thin. i have bunions so i need as wide as possible.
>>75473839New balance, normally I wear custom shoes (13 6E) and they work pretty well, very roomy. But if you need good boots you'll have to go custom.
>>75474572Nah, you learn what hurts and you adjust how you walk. The only time I would say it's an issue is if you're walking on concrete all day.
>>75474204they do for non lardasses ya fat fuck
>>75466876this, why the fuck would you need to post this shit here
>>75474642*exhales**SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF*
>>75474153Booba
>>75468821>join a work crew like every boomer says I should>can't even fucking stand after 1 week wearing steel-toes>can't even move my body after 1 week>can't even physically get out of bed next Mondaynow I make twice as much as laborers telling them where to build lol. and I wfh
