{"id":4334,"date":"2009-09-08T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2009-09-08T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:36:07","slug":"vibram-five-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/09\/08\/vibram-five-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Relationship Alert! Vibram Five Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4336\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"amymac vibram five fingers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/amymac-vibram-five-fingers-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"amymac vibram five fingers\" width=\"261\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/amymac-vibram-five-fingers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/amymac-vibram-five-fingers-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/amymac-vibram-five-fingers.JPG 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><strong>The Meet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw him walking down the street one day and thought, &#8220;Not really\u00c2\u00a0 my type.&#8221; Our next encounter was at a friend&#8217;s place.\u00c2\u00a0 I still wasn&#8217;t won over but definitely knew that we would see each other again.\u00c2\u00a0 The other day, I picked him up in a store.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve spent a couple of hours everyday together since.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s still too early to tell but I think we might end up in a long term relationship&#8230; we&#8217;ll see!<\/p>\n<p><strong>So Far:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I struggle to put the Five Fingers on, but I&#8217;m getting better and looking forward to a day when my pinkie toe won&#8217;t hide from the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; After wearing the shoes around the house for a couple of days, we ventured out for a 30 minute hike and it felt good.\u00c2\u00a0 Amazing how you can walk over rocks and not flinch!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m one step closer to being a barefoot walker!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I notice a difference in posture and muscle usage when wearing these shoes&#8230;hoping its as good as the stats say it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; My knees haven&#8217;t bothered me when wearing these shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Going to start looking for a barefoot running expert to give me the lowdown on these shoes, walking and running technique and help me prepare a Fit Life episode doing a Five Fingers product review and a rundown of this new trend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a friend, so far, of the Five Fingers KSO and thinking that I will soon be a fan.\u00c2\u00a0 I will keep you posted as our relationship progresses.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know your thoughts on these shoes and the hype behind barefoot running\/ barefoot walking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meet: I saw him walking down the street one day and thought, &#8220;Not really\u00c2\u00a0 my type.&#8221; Our next encounter was at a friend&#8217;s place.\u00c2\u00a0 I still wasn&#8217;t won over but definitely knew that we would see each other again.\u00c2\u00a0 The other day, I picked him up in a store.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,552,545,551,546,547,12,23,225,549,93,550,548,21],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-barefoot-runner","tag-barefoot-running","tag-barefoot-running-shoes","tag-barefoot-walking","tag-chi-running","tag-exercise","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness-tips","tag-five-fingers-shoes","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-product-review","tag-vibram-five-fingers","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}