8 Best Shoes for Sand Running

Okay, so a couple of things I do want to is um. It has a wide toe box here that really allows your toes to spread out, and it gives a good feel where it’s just not too tight and and confined, as I find out as I find in in most of the shoes that I use for cross training, it’s just way too tight. But again I don’t want it too loose. So this is really good with that. Another thing is: this: shoe is made entirely and from animal free products, so um, it’s nice, that you know that you’re not um, I guess participating in any of the cruelty to animals with leather, and you know, and things of like of that nature, so um, it’s completely made.

Let’s see what it says on the site produced using animal-free products and processes. So that’s just another pro another thing that they mention here is that it does have a removable sock liner. If you really want to get more of a minimalist or ground feeling uh result out of it. I have not done that. I don’t want that. I think that this gives a sufficient amount of give in here, and I really do like that and then um. It does have a true rubber sole here.

So it’s thick enough where I’ve run on on twigs and um. I’ve stepped on sharp objects and it hasn’t penetrated or really affected. My foot at all so still thick enough, but still flexible enough, has a lot of give in it. Um where it’s still comfortable, but still gives me enough. Protection and I’ve run on quite a different amount of services. But that’s running. Let’s talk about calisthenics, shall we all right calisthenics wise, but we do know um.

We don’t know exactly what the weight of the shoe is. I do know that the shipping box that it came in is 12 ounces, so the shoe itself is definitely lighter than that um. So that’s 12 ounces, divided by two um at maximum. The shoe is, you know, six ounces per shoe, but, to be honest, I think it’s much lighter than that. These bad boys are so light and I have to tell you they’re, extremely comfortable um. So what I’m doing in this? In these shoes, when I work out generally, it’s a calisthenics exercise style, so I’m doing push-ups, pull-ups um, I’m doing, of course, squats and pistol, squats and handstands, and I have to tell you just having such a light shoe and anyone who out there who actually does practice calisthenics, will know that, often when you’re doing or you’re practicing, handstands or you’re working on um you’re working on planche and you’re doing any of those type of workouts that the more weight that you have on you.

You know the harder that it is. I find so you often take off your shoe and so you’re doing it barefoot. I find that I don’t even have to take off my shoe when I use these so which is really great not having to do that, especially when I’m out at the playground or I’m outside doing my workouts, and maybe I don’t want to take off my shoe because I live in florida and there’s freaking fire ants everywhere number two, they are extremely uncomfortable.

I mean I, I love the way that they feel I have thin feet um, but I like the fact that they they the toe box, spreads out, so it allows for better balance, um, and I can really feel like I’m like I’m more in communication with the ground beneath me. If that makes sense, so I I just you know we always talk about this like mind muscle connection uh. I really feel like I’m one with my environment when I have these shoes on what they do also have is, instead of having laces they’ve got this kind of drawstring here and you draw it up and make it as tight as you want, and then afterwards it’s velcro, you just stick this bad boy on right here and it sticks well, and this right here allows it to um, strap to your ankle and it straps pretty well, the fit is really good.

It’s true um, I’m normally a size, 12 shoe uh. This is a size, 12 and uh. It fit perfectly so two another pro that I do love about. This shoe is the flexibility man. Look at this thing. This it’s great. I mean how can you not not love this, and sometimes I’m doing just a regular push-up on the ground in which the shoe may be like this, but if I’m saying doing handstand push-ups against the wall, you know it’s just it’s not impeding me at all which, which I definitely love.

Another thing, too, is when I’m doing pistol, squats uh, when just not having my foot just kind of pushed up a little bit from the heel of what which you see with most shoes is really great. So it’s it’s nice to have such a light shoe, but also a shoe that feels like it’s part of your body. So I’ve had nothing but good things to say about this so far right. So what are the cons? What do we not like about this? Damn shoe number one, it’s ugly, so most people would say it’s ugly um.

I think these are so comfortable that I want to wear them out to when I’m just running errands, and my daughter always tells me that these bad boys she’s like dad these shoes are just not cool. They don’t look cool, so you know what? Let’s just see what she has to think: I’m gonna call her. She hasn’t been prompted or anything. Hey, riley riley come here babe. I want to get your opinion on something, so my daughter is 12 by the way which uh we would think who am I talking to I’m talking to youtube, I’m making a video.

What do you think about this shoe? You guys need your opinion for okay for to one minute. She can’t keep me straight. What do you think of this shoe? Do you think it looks cool? Do you think? Definitely I’m sorry. What’s that huh? No, you don’t think my shoe is cool. It looks like you’re wearing hard socks looks like I’m wearing hard socks, okay, so it you heard it here, folks from the coolest of the cool it looks like you’re wearing water shoes, and thank you for your opinion.

I appreciate that so we’ve established that this shoe is not cool. Looking even though I bought this shoe for calisthenics, I have um, I have run in them some of the benefits of a minimalist shoe, the the fact that it, instead of us running on our heel, our heel, it promotes running on the forefoot or the mid foot, which number one is more natural running uh. It also promotes better balance. It also promotes uh the us humans to take shorter steps, which is more natural, which in turn helps us to go faster.

So I will say I don’t run more than three miles in it and the first time that I ran in these only did a mile. After I run in this shoe my calves, my quads um, even my shins, are just a little. You can tell that they’ve been worked, you know, um, they they’re a little a little tired and a little sore in the beginning when you first start using them, and that’s just to show you that in when you’re wearing a regular shoe, though you’re not using these muscles.

Because of you know the shoes designed these days to to number one absorb a lot of shock. They also promote heel, running your foot, becomes lazy, pretty much and the bones and the muscles and the ligaments and your foot aren’t being really utilized to the fullest capability. So what I would say is good for short distance, running um excellent for calisthenics man. I think I’m gonna get I’ll, probably buy another one of these um, eventually, maybe one that looks a little bit better but great for calisthenics you’re.

Looking for a calisthenic shoe, it’s light, it’s durable! It’s able to move with. You never tried a minimal shoe. This would be the one to try because it. Why do I keep pointing with the shoe? It’s called the witton men’s trail running shoe. I will include a link to it in the bio if anyone’s interested in getting it. I don’t have any affiliation with them. I don’t get anything from it. I just think it was a good find- and I didn’t see many people talking about this and uh.

I think it’s worth trying out so all right, thanks for watching guys um. If you found any of this information, useful I’d appreciate a thumbs up, it does help with metrics with youtube and uh. If you want to get more information from me on calisthenics or on working out or just really bettering yourself, physically and eventually mentally, please subscribe. So that’s it until the next video you.

Okay, so a couple of things I do want to is um. It has a wide toe box here that really allows your toes to spread out, and it gives a good feel where it’s just not too tight and and confined, as I find out as I find in in most of the shoes that I use for cross training, it’s just way too tight. But again I don’t want it too loose. So this is really good with that.

Another thing is: this: shoe is made entirely and from animal free products, so um, it’s nice, that you know that you’re not um, I guess participating in any of the cruelty to animals with leather, and you know, and things of like of that nature, so um, it’s completely made. Let’s see what it says on the site produced using animal-free products and processes.

So that’s just another pro another thing that they mention here is that it does have a removable sock liner. If you really want to get more of a minimalist or ground feeling uh result out of it. I have not done that. I don’t want that. I think that this gives a sufficient amount of give in here, and I really do like that and then um.

It does have a true rubber sole here. So it’s thick enough where I’ve run on on twigs and um. I’ve stepped on sharp objects and it hasn’t penetrated or really affected. My foot at all so still thick enough, but still flexible enough, has a lot of give in it. Um where it’s still comfortable, but still gives me enough. Protection and I’ve run on quite a different amount of services.

But that’s running. Let’s talk about calisthenics, shall we all right calisthenics wise, but we do know um. We don’t know exactly what the weight of the shoe is. I do know that the shipping box that it came in is 12 ounces, so the shoe itself is definitely lighter than that um. So that’s 12 ounces, divided by two um at maximum. The shoe is, you know, six ounces per shoe, but, to be honest, I think it’s much lighter than that.

These bad boys are so light and I have to tell you they’re, extremely comfortable um. So what I’m doing in this? In these shoes, when I work out generally, it’s a calisthenics exercise style, so I’m doing push-ups, pull-ups um, I’m doing, of course, squats and pistol, squats and handstands, and I have to tell you just having such a light shoe and anyone who out there who actually does practice calisthenics, will know that, often when you’re doing or you’re practicing, handstands or you’re working on um you’re working on planche and you’re doing any of those type of workouts that the more weight that you have on you.

You know the harder that it is. I find so you often take off your shoe and so you’re doing it barefoot. I find that I don’t even have to take off my shoe when I use these so which is really great not having to do that, especially when I’m out at the playground or I’m outside doing my workouts, and maybe I don’t want to take off my shoe because I live in florida and there’s freaking fire ants everywhere number two, they are extremely uncomfortable.

I mean I, I love the way that they feel I have thin feet um, but I like the fact that they they the toe box, spreads out, so it allows for better balance, um, and I can really feel like I’m like I’m more in communication with the ground beneath me. If that makes sense, so I I just you know we always talk about this like mind muscle connection uh.

I really feel like I’m one with my environment when I have these shoes on what they do also have is, instead of having laces they’ve got this kind of drawstring here and you draw it up and make it as tight as you want, and then afterwards it’s velcro, you just stick this bad boy on right here and it sticks well, and this right here allows it to um, strap to your ankle and it straps pretty well, the fit is really good.

It’s true um, I’m normally a size, 12 shoe uh. This is a size, 12 and uh. It fit perfectly so two another pro that I do love about. This shoe is the flexibility man. Look at this thing. This it’s great. I mean how can you not not love this, and sometimes I’m doing just a regular push-up on the ground in which the shoe may be like this, but if I’m saying doing handstand push-ups against the wall, you know it’s just it’s not impeding me at all which, which I definitely love.

Another thing, too, is when I’m doing pistol, squats uh, when just not having my foot just kind of pushed up a little bit from the heel of what which you see with most shoes is really great. So it’s it’s nice to have such a light shoe, but also a shoe that feels like it’s part of your body. So I’ve had nothing but good things to say about this so far right.

So what are the cons? What do we not like about this? Damn shoe number one, it’s ugly, so most people would say it’s ugly um. I think these are so comfortable that I want to wear them out to when I’m just running errands, and my daughter always tells me that these bad boys she’s like dad these shoes are just not cool. They don’t look cool, so you know what? Let’s just see what she has to think: I’m gonna call her.

She hasn’t been prompted or anything. Hey, riley riley come here babe. I want to get your opinion on something, so my daughter is 12 by the way which uh we would think who am I talking to I’m talking to youtube, I’m making a video. What do you think about this shoe? You guys need your opinion for okay for to one minute. She can’t keep me straight.

What do you think of this shoe? Do you think it looks cool? Do you think? Definitely I’m sorry. What’s that huh? No, you don’t think my shoe is cool. It looks like you’re wearing hard socks looks like I’m wearing hard socks, okay, so it you heard it here, folks from the coolest of the cool it looks like you’re wearing water shoes, and thank you for your opinion.

I appreciate that so we’ve established that this shoe is not cool. Looking even though I bought this shoe for calisthenics, I have um, I have run in them some of the benefits of a minimalist shoe, the the fact that it, instead of us running on our heel, our heel, it promotes running on the forefoot or the mid foot, which number one is more natural running uh.

It also promotes better balance. It also promotes uh the us humans to take shorter steps, which is more natural, which in turn helps us to go faster. So I will say I don’t run more than three miles in it and the first time that I ran in these only did a mile. After I run in this shoe my calves, my quads um, even my shins, are just a little.

You can tell that they’ve been worked, you know, um, they they’re a little a little tired and a little sore in the beginning when you first start using them, and that’s just to show you that in when you’re wearing a regular shoe, though you’re not using these muscles. Because of you know the shoes designed these days to to number one absorb a lot of shock.

They also promote heel, running your foot, becomes lazy, pretty much and the bones and the muscles and the ligaments and your foot aren’t being really utilized to the fullest capability. So what I would say is good for short distance, running um excellent for calisthenics man. I think I’m gonna get I’ll, probably buy another one of these um, eventually, maybe one that looks a little bit better but great for calisthenics you’re.

Looking for a calisthenic shoe, it’s light, it’s durable! It’s able to move with. You never tried a minimal shoe. This would be the one to try because it. Why do I keep pointing with the shoe? It’s called the witton men’s trail running shoe. I will include a link to it in the bio if anyone’s interested in getting it. I don’t have any affiliation with them.

I don’t get anything from it. I just think it was a good find- and I didn’t see many people talking about this and uh. I think it’s worth trying out so all right, thanks for watching guys um. If you found any of this information, useful I’d appreciate a thumbs up, it does help with metrics with youtube and uh. If you want to get more information from me on calisthenics or on working out or just really bettering yourself, physically and eventually mentally, please subscribe.

So that’s it until the next video you.

Hey it’s Spencer I want to tell you about a product that I just recently purchased through amazon com. It’s the within minimalist trail runners, but I just want to say that the shoe is not within minimalist trail runners, it’s white, tin or Whitten. I’m, pretty sure it’s whiting, but I just want to mention that briefly before we go on so I hope you enjoyed the video in the nest, this nice review and look at that little dog right there, whoa Morty.

Now this is a zero drop, shoe very little space in between you and the road or the treadmill or just the ground in general. I guess so these shoes they come a little bit bigger than your than what you would expect so I personally am a 10 and a half, and these shoes I bought a nine and a half and I also bought a size 9 just to see what what the difference was and the nine and a half I did think were a little bit big, but they, but actually they actually turned out to be a lot better than the nines.

So let me take you over to the shoe these right here. The the green ones, let’s start off with those so they’ve got they’ve got a really good grip on them. You know I I recently just went out with these in the snow for a nice little run list well, three and a half mile run. It was nothing too big but sort of my relaxing day. So the first thing I did notice. When I put these on as they are, they are extremely comfortable and they they’re they’re extremely flexible.

They come with a removable sole that you can take out if you want, but honestly the nine and a half I think would be a little bit too big if I took the sole out, so I’m gonna keep them in for that I wear a size, 10 and a half normally like that’s the perfect size for my for my foot, but these nine and a half’s were just a little bit too too wide out here. I didn’t feel like they were perfect leave snug to my feet, but they’re extremely comfortable.

Nonetheless, when running now, these are the nines, and you could tell there’s two different styles that come with this shoe. You’ve got the velcro strap, which I honestly find a little bit more like snug to my foot. They don’t feel like they’re gonna, you know fall off around this part, so I do feel like the velcro strap on. These does make them a little bit more secure now these ones. These are like perfect size to my feet.

I would say that these have to be broken in a little bit. I feel like I ended up taking out the soul because the soul was actually. It was actually like, crushing my foot when I had it in there, it wasn’t very comfortable, but as soon as I took the sole out, it was a lot more comfy for this price, $34 99 or even these are. These are a little bit more expensive than these I think it’s because the velcro strap, but so we got $34, 99 and I believe these are $31 99 and for the price yeah, that’s unbelievable.

These are these are so comfortable when running and working out. Your your toes, you just feel like you’re connected to the ground, I mean I, don’t know if you’ve ever experienced minimalist style shoes, but these, in my opinion, are great I’m used to wearing of what they call like trainers or whatever, and switching over to these there was not a big difference. You got to be really careful when you are choosing your size.

I chose a nine size lower and one and a half size lower, and it’s still the nine-minute the size lower. It’s really hard to tell which one I love them both I really like them, both. So you can, you might have to play with it. You might have to return one if you don’t, because I’ve I saw other people’s reviews saying that the the size they chose their actual size foot a perfect fit. So if I think it really depends, if you have a wider foot or not, because me I took a size and a size enough lower, and that was like.

Those two are like perfect fits for me, depending if I take the sole out of those nines. Some people complain that they would like to have more cushion I mean. If that was the case, then they might want to switch over to a trainer type. A trainer type shoe because these are designed for minimalist as shop, is basically designed to strengthen your strengthen your feet so that you know it’s like running barefoot almost without you know it hurting.

So these things are Moore’s, mostly designed for light trails and running on the road running on the treadmill walking around everyday type stuff. Some people mentioned they use these at work. If they’re on their feet all day, and it’s great you some people, don’t like the way that these look on the front I mean they’re they’re, really designed for training and for running. So, if you’re, using them for everyday type, stuff I would recommend maybe getting the black ones.

That might look a little bit. That might look a little bit nicer. The bumps might not stand out as much and there’s also the second black one, which it’s still good, I, don’t know what it looks like in person, but it looks pretty good on the on the website and these gray ones. I mean they’re they’re, not too bad. I was thinking about bringing them to on my next trip to walk around but I, don’t know, I, don’t know. If I want to do that, there’s still great workout shoes and that’s what I’m gonna mean they use them, for they have this mesh this mesh top to them, and they actually, they actually feel like super durable.

One person said they they went. They put a hundred miles on I’m, ready and they’re great. So when I was running him the other day in the snow, they might have that mesh top. But your feet don’t really get all that wet like I was running up, snow bounds and jumping and and my feet stayed dry, so I also wasn’t running through puddles like I. Normally do it was like 30 degrees out, so I don’t feel like getting soaked they’re.

Definitely not waterproof they’re, definitely water, but your feet will get wet if you jump in a puddle and they get soaked these gray ones, you can see they look a little bit more water resistant than the green ones. Do the green ones, look like the water will go right through them. Even the texture on the gray ones feel slightly more water resistant, so I’ll have to try that out. They feel super durable. Your feet spread out like if you’re squatting, if you’re doing squats or deadlifts anything that requires you to like you know, keep your balance.

These shoes are great and they don’t hurt your feet at all. I never had a minimalist style shoe before, but now I, don’t think. I’ll go back to the trainers so check out the link below that I provided for you bring you right to Amazon, we’ll bring you right to the shoes. This is a great opportunity to try a new type of shoe that you’ve never had before, and it’s a great price so coming from me, I, wouldn’t I, wouldn’t give you a bad review.

I want to give you a dishonest review rather, so let me know what you think: if you have any questions, leave a comment below and until next time you have a good day and a good life.

Hello, it’s helder here and today I want to talk to you about these bramford’s shoes brought to you by a company called birchberry. I am a big fan of minimalist shoes, and these shoes offer a couple features that make them very good to go in my book. So let’s get into some more detail on these bramford’s when it comes to minimal issues. Two key features that I look for are a zero drop heel, which means that as the heel progresses going backwards, it doesn’t get higher or add more padding or what I call a high heel.

The other thing that I look for in a minimalist shoe is a wide toe box, so that my toes in there don’t get all scrunched up, causing all sorts of havoc, especially as we get older. My toes are actually allowed to spread in these shoes because of the wide toe box. These branfords offer both of those features I own quite a few pairs of minimalist shoes, and I like them all they all serve their specific purpose and application.

But when it comes to the look I’ll be honest with you, these bramford’s definitely have them beat. They are the type of shoe that you could wear out and people don’t think that you’re wearing minimalist shoes or something different than what they’re used to seeing, and they actually look really good. So you could wear them out in town. You could wear them at the gym, wear them to a business meeting.

So when it comes to that aspect of a shoe, these uh bramford’s definitely have many of the other ones beat. Another cool feature of these birchberry shoes is that they are super easy to slip on and slip off because of the lace setup that they have here and if you do decide that these don’t work for you and you want standard laces, you can go ahead and remove these and replace them with those standard laces.

These shoes are made from full grain, american leather and they’re assembled in vietnam. They do come with insoles that are easily removable. So if you do want more of a minimalist field, go ahead, take those out, which is what I prefer, and you have even more of a minimalist shoe. I’ll, have much more information and specifications in my blog post and I will place the link down in the comments below so be sure to check that out so bottom line.

If you’re in the market for a pair of leather minimalist shoes that not only feel great but also look great, definitely take a look at these bramford’s by birchberry.