Expert insights on barefoot living, foot health, and natural movement
Mark Sisson · March 29, 2026
Study subjects wearing minimalist shoes improved stability under load, produced greater force, and reached peak force faster. This is a huge deal because force production and rate of force development are the essence of deadlift and other population multi-joint compound lifts in the gym.
Brad Kearns · March 21, 2026
Walking is universally health-boosting, delivers an excellent aerobic conditioning effect (even for fit runners); improves cardiovascular health, immune and digestive function; boosts fat metabolism; stabilizes energy, mood and appetite; and helps control inflammation.
Mark Sisson · March 14, 2026
We first made Peluva five-toe socks out of necessity, because you obviously can’t wear Peluvas with regular socks. But the Peluva socks have taken on a life of their own, as our customers quickly realized they were far more comfortable and functional than regular socks.
Mark Sisson · February 28, 2026
Steady-state cardio is overrated, and can often be counterproductive to your fitness, weight loss, and longevity goals. This is simply no justification to spend large amounts of exercise energy on repetitive, steady-state activity such as jogging, cycling, swimming, rowing, stair machine, or the other cardio machines that encourage steady-state exercise. When you acknowledge that the cardiovascular system responds and adapts to all types of demand from muscles and organs, you realize that the only true requirement for steady-state cardio is to prepare for an endurance competition requiring a steady pace.
Mark Sisson · February 22, 2026
Enjoy some creative ideas to break free from steady-state, straight-ahead cardio workouts to add some variety and different fitness stimulations, including: Fartlek workouts, walking with purpose, rucking, uphill backward walking, speedgolf.
Mark Sisson · February 15, 2026
My 2025 book, Born To Walk, presents a compelling argument to rethink the importance of steady state cardio and expand your perspective of what it means to be truly fit. The recent rise in popularity of so-called hybrid athletes offers great inspiration to broaden your perspective beyond racking up miles in a straight line. Furthermore, your endurance performance will likely improve when you build complementary fitness attributes like muscular strength, mobility, and sprint competency with some of these ideas for creative “Cardio 2.0” workouts.
Mark Sisson · February 10, 2026
The Peluva Aspen Winter Boot is here, and opens up a whole new world of year-round barefoot functionality! The Aspen has a full grain leather upper with heel-to-ankle overlay reinforcements and a secure hardware lacing system. It’s a perfect blend of sturdy boot construction combined with enough flexibility and groundfeel to qualify as minimalist.
Brad Kearns · February 8, 2026
With the correct approach, you can actually slow and even reverse your bunions without surgery, by correcting the underlying cause that is restrictive shoes. That means switching to Peluvas and generally transitioning to a barefoot-inspired lifestyle.
Brad Kearns · February 1, 2026
There has never been a single shred of research to suggest that modern sport and running shoes help prevent overuse injuries. It’s the decades of marketing hype that have brainwashed us into thinking that shoes are protective. As soon as you put on a pair of shoes, you compromise posture and movement technique. This leads to increased risk of injury.
Brad Kearns · January 24, 2026
Deadlifting in Peluvas generates an immediate improvement in technique and safety. In comparison to the instability that happens when lifting in running shoes, Peluvas improve sensitivity, balance, and technique—especially under heavier loads—because the benefits of enhanced proprioception are magnified when you’re lifting serious weight.
Brad Kearns · January 24, 2026
Walking in Peluvas is a great way to strengthen feet weakened over time by traditional, heavily constructed shoes. Walking is also a centerpiece human genetic expectation for health, and we are often woefully deficient in basic step count these days. This article details four more ideas to help you further emphasize walking in daily life.
Brad Kearns · January 23, 2026
The Peluva Apollo represents possibly the greatest innovation in golf footwear in decades: a five-toe, zero-drop, minimalist shoe that delivers greatly enhanced “groundfeel”-barefoot functionality in a sport that demands it perhaps more than any other.
Brad Kearns · January 23, 2026
The popular health recommendation to walk 10,000 steps a day is made up - no scientific validation! It’s best to pursue fitness goals one step at a time, knowing that all efforts to walk, for both short breaks and longer outings, can promote physical and mental health, disease prevention, and longevity. This article contains numerous tips to increase your daily walking and generally lead a more active, walking-centric, barefoot-inspired lifestyle
Brad Kearns · January 23, 2026
The marketing hype of the running and athletic shoe industry has brainwashed fitness enthusiasts to believe that shoe “technology” can protect your feet from injury and improve performance. Shockingly, there has never been a single research study ever published to suggest that running shoes lessen injury risk. Attributes like elevated heels, excess cushioning, a restrictive toe box, toe spring design, and excessive arch support inhibit foot functionality and cause atrophy and chronic pain.
Brad Kearns · December 19, 2025
I’m gonna talk a little trash about the broken promises and unintended consequences of the running boom, but it’s in the spirit of recalibrating away from some of the worst mistakes and flawed approaches seen amongst the running masses today.
Mark Sisson · December 19, 2025
It’s time to reject the marketing hype that elevated, cushioned, heavily constructed modern athletic shoes can lessen impact trauma, control pronation, improve foot functionality, or deliver an inherent improvement in explosiveness, endurance, balance, or other performance attributes.
Mark Sisson · December 19, 2025
As I discussed in detail in a previous blog post, Running Is A Really Bad Idea For Most Runners, humans were born to walk, lift heavy things, sprint, and play.
Brad Kearns · December 19, 2025
The big toe is incredibly important to human locomotion, athletic performance, and everyday movement.
Brad Kearns · October 31, 2025
The next time you hear the term “shoe technology”, run screaming for the trees, because there has never been a single shred of evidence that shoes improve impact absorption, nor prevent injuries, and tons of research affirming that shoes are the driving cause of overuse injuries in runners.
Mark Sisson · October 31, 2025
Personal preference can be the driving factor in your shoe choices. For example, all of our models are durable enough to be used for gym class or trail hikes, and fashionable enough to wear to all manner of social occasions.
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