Are you still running in those?
I can’t tell you how many new runners I’ve sent to Fleet Feet over the years to help them get into some decent, appropriate running shoes.
Now folks in Folsom will have access to two (2!) legit running shoe stores.
The Sacramento Bee has the details.
(Hat tip to K.Y.)
Hopefully, we’ve all had the experience of buying running shoes at a real running store. If you are a new runner, or asking for help, the salesperson will have you stand with your shoes off and look at your feet and advise you about a shoe that will best fit your needs. (The better shoe stores will put you in the shoes and actually watch you run in them.)
In the US Military, the most typical injuries for new recruits are running related. To address this, they decided to evaluate the feet of recruits and supply them with shoes that shoe companies promote for the recruits’ foot shape.
Normally, the story would stop there. However, this time the Marine Corps decided to actually test the results and see how these recruits fared. It turns out the results were about the opposite of what the shoe companies would have liked. The New York Times reports: (more…)
Is there a footwear fad that American can’t get behind? A couple of months ago, I started seeing them everywhere: those funny sneakers with the rounded bottoms. They were otherwise normal looking people wearing some really odd looking shoes. Even Chuck Norris was getting into the act, hawking these shoes on television. (Okay. Maybe Chuck’s not the best example of “normal” but bear with me here.)
Like so many fitness fads that have come before, the reports of danger come following after. The Boston Globe reports:
A study released Wednesday by the nonprofit American Council on Exercise found that toning shoes failed to live up to promises made by manufacturers. “Toning shoes appear to promise a quick-and-easy fitness solution, which we realize people are always looking for,’’ Cedric X. Bryant, the council’s chief science officer, said in the report. “Unfortunately, these shoes do not deliver the fitness or muscle toning benefits they claim. Our findings demonstrate that toning shoes are not the magic solution consumers were hoping they would be, and simply do not offer any benefits that people cannot reap through walking, running, or exercising in traditional athletic shoes.’’
