A marathon is the ultimate test of a person’s endurance and mental strength.
Training for months, only to run for a few hours, sometimes in grueling heat, on treacherous slopes is no easy task.
It is very important to choose the right equipment when it comes to training for the big day.
And the most important of them all - your shoes.
Important because the wrong shoes can leave you injured during your training, never to compete at the marathon with your full potential.
When preparing for a marathon, what matters the most is training your muscles - your feet, your calves, your legs, your core.
Most people fall in the trap of sharing big, better numbers, relying on shoes with additional support, carbon plates that push you forward and feeling great about their progress.
What we recommend is to train with minimalist shoes, or barefoot shoes.
Barefoot shoes are designed to take away all additional support from your feet, while maintaining your safety as you run on all kinds of surfaces.
This not only helps you truly load your muscles, but also helps you get more feedback from the ground you are running on.
This ensures that you correct your form according to your style and make sure your runs are pain free.
These small adjustments over time will help you stay away from injury, train your muscles to be stronger and perform better at the final event as well.
Now a lot of people believe that having no cushion in shoes may be detrimental for them, especially when they train on hard surfaces like cemented roads.
Studies show that running in minimalist shoes, or even barefoot is safer when it comes to running on all kinds of surfaces. This is again attributed to a better feedback system over highly cushioned protective shoes.
Marathons are a celebration of our bodies’ abilities to perform at their peak; to showcase the efforts we put in through months and months of training. Numbers are a way to corroborate that, but should not be the end goal of a run.
Run to find yourself, run to become who you truly are. To push through limitations and find your natural flow.
We at Zen Barefoot have the perfect training shoe for you. We believe in sustainable growth that truly adds value to your life.
Wear Zen Barefoot as you train for your next marathon, and see the change.