Name: Men's Primal 3
Brand: Lems Shoes
Price: 120.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (470 reviews)

PRIMAL 2 VS. PRIMAL 3 OVERVIEW

Balanced Weight Distribution
The increased overall outsole width ensures that your body weight is spread out more evenly, reducing the pressure points on your feet. This even weight distribution enhances comfort during various activities. For those with lower arches and flat feet, you will find that this is a big improvement. But for those with high arches, you may feel very little, to no difference.
Enhanced Outsole
The Primal 3 is made with our Widest Fit Last, just like the Primal 2. The difference is that we developed a new outsole on the Primal 3 with a wider footprint for more ground contact underneath the foot.
Higher Sidewalls
When examining the Lems Primal 3 from a lateral view, you may notice a visual difference — the sidewalls now wrap up higher on the sides. This is a deliberate design choice aimed at improving both fit and lateral stability. The higher side walls provide a snugger fit around the contours of your feet, cradling them comfortably.
Zero-Drop Platform
Just like the Primal 2, the Primal 3 is built on a zero-drop platform which keeps your heel and toes level, mimicking your natural barefoot position on a flat surface.

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PRIMAL 2 VS. PRIMAL 3 OVERVIEW

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ENHANCED OUTSOLE

With its newly redesigned outsole, the Primal 3 features a wider footprint, offering improved weight distribution and stability.

WIDE TOE BOX

Unlike traditional footwear that squeeze the toes together, our foot-shaped toe box allows for maximum room giving the toes ultimate freedom to wiggle and spread.

ZERO-DROP

Places the forefoot and heel flat to the ground correcting posture, aligning your spine, and encouraging mid-foot strike.

FLEXIBLE

Made from our signature IBR outsole, the Primal 3 is an ultra lightweight and flexible option compared to traditional footwear.

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Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

Based on 470 reviews

Total 5 star reviews: 381 Total 4 star reviews: 67 Total 3 star reviews: 21 Total 2 star reviews: 1 Total 1 star reviews: 0

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
1 hour ago
Great shoe but maybe inconsistent
Great shoe that washes well. However I bought a second pair in black and they fit different with different inserts. Laces are even different lengths.
eric j.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
20 hours ago
Great minimal shoe
This is a great zero drop shoe with just a little more sole than a barefoot shoe. I work at an ER and am on my feet 12 to 16 hours a day and I love there shoes.
William K.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
21 hours ago
+Very wide toe box. +High instep. -Dubious outsole design.
Sizing: Feet measure 10.5 precisely. Size 11 fit best. Half-size up if you're right on the line.
I have freakishly wide, square toes, and perhaps a 99th % high instep. Shoes sizing has been an exercise in frustration at best, broken shoes at worst.
These actually fit (Primal Zen also).
Not even other products in Lems catalogue fit!
Historically I have managed the high instep fine, but the VERY wide toes have been a point of grief for 30 years. It is bizarre now to have a shoe that does not fight my feet. The shape there of, at least. I'll get to the criticism later.
If you're in a similar situation and even those so called "extra wide" shoes by any other brand or make somehow still aren't wide enough, these (and the Primal line generally) are likely your last option before consulting a cobbler.
With that said, I do NOT like the outsoles.
The heel in particular.
I have used minimal shoes with stack heights upwards 11.5mm that have more natural strike contact than these. MUCH better.
These may be zero heel drop, and have relatively reasonable stack height, but in practice these feel like heavy lug soles in-so-far-as how the blob of a heel makes anything but a heel strike gait feel awkward.
Midsole? You can do it, but expect to clomp clomp clomp.
This leads to something of a worst of all worlds situation where harsh heel strike gaits are the most natural, but being a minimalist shoe absent shock absorption to make such a gait... valid.
Not sure why the heel was made so…
Bryan R.
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