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MCx2

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When I was 16 I tore my ACL, MCL, and lateral meniscus playing football. Needless to say it's been about 11 years since I have been able to run full speed. Friday night I was on vacation and staying at this huge hotel with the longest hallways I had ever seen. We all had a few drinks and I was walking around barefoot when I got the idea to start running sprints down the halls, which turned into races all over the hotel. I was running as fast as I could, my strides may have been a little shorter than I wanted, but I was running, and winning. I beat everybody in the race. I very well may have been the fastest "fat kid" around back in the day and I still have the ability to boogie, but I can't run in shoes. I desperately would like to start doing sprints and some other drills for some cardio, and was just wondering if it would be ok to run them barefooot? Would I be putting other parts of my legs/feet at risk by ng this, or is this something that is done often? Any feedback would be great. Thanks.
 
running sprints breafoot (on grass of course) is actually really great for strengthening the foot. Lots of track and distance runners will do their strides or tempo runs on a football field without shoes on.

you probably can't see this since you don't read my posts though.
 
They are good, wouldn't overdo it, though.
 
P-funk said:
running sprints breafoot (on grass of course) is actually really great for strengthening the foot. Lots of track and distance runners will do their strides or tempo runs on a football field without shoes on.

you probably can't see this since you don't read my posts though.
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Haha, I can see it, I can see it! And you didn't even spell that much wrong!! Haha, thanks for the feedback.

I figured it was ok because it felt pretty normal when I was doing it. It's been so long since I've run at "full speed", God it felt good. When I was running at my fastest I felt this extreme calm come over my body, like a "high," and knew I needed to add sprints to my program. :jacks:
 
I use to run track barefoot my senior year, except at Jarvis High's track it had glass on it cause they were ghetto....our coach went to the lake down by my house and we loaded his pickup with four loads of sand and made a sand pit where we would run barefoot it was really good training during football season when I hurt my knee...coach would also have us meet at the lake on weekends for games of tackle football in knee high water with anchored milk bottles for boundaries...our 13 man football team went to the state playoffs that year in Div. 1a in texas...
 
maniclion said:
I use to run track barefoot my senior year, except at Jarvis High's track it had glass on it cause they were ghetto....our coach went to the lake down by my house and we loaded his pickup with four loads of sand and made a sand pit where we would run barefoot it was really good training during football season when I hurt my knee...coach would also have us meet at the lake on weekends for games of tackle football in knee high water with anchored milk bottles for boundaries...our 13 man football team went to the state playoffs that year in Div. 1a in texas...
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Sand eh? I remember someone saying running in sand would help with shin splints, not to mention, a helluva workout.
 
well... running in sand give me shin splints...

but i guess if you did it regularly you would have iron legs...
 
AKIRA said:
Sand eh? I remember someone saying running in sand would help with shin splints, not to mention, a helluva workout.
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Yeah, I recommended it to my coach after reading about Walter Payton and how he would run in the sand all of the time...When I tweaked my knee at the homecoming game I spent the next week jogging on sand only and it was much easier on my injury. They still use the sand to this day and that is my legacy at the little school of Burton, TX....:D
 
maniclion said:
Yeah, I recommended it to my coach after reading about Walter Payton and how he would run in the sand all of the time...When I tweaked my knee at the homecoming game I spent the next week jogging on sand only and it was much easier on my injury. They still use the sand to this day and that is my legacy at the little school of Burton, TX....:D
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Wheres Burton?
 
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