You can walk enthusiastically for long distances in running shoes but you should not run for exercise too often in shoes designed specifically for walking. If you do, according to a podiatrist who administers to a professional basketball team, you will experience discomfort in your ankles and knees and eventually you will even cause injury to those joints.
Saucony mens running shoes are specially designed to bend more easily in the midsole area while still providing lateral support than other kinds of athletic shoes. A walking shoe or a basketball shoe, for example, is designed for entirely different kinds of bending and loads. For most of man’s existence shoes were just shoes made from only a few different lasts, but modern athletic shoes from the major brands are as carefully designed and engineered as a complex machine becuase they must work with the most complicated part of the human body.
The human foot has 26 bones and dozens of muscles and tendons that are designed to work together in a very specific way. Injuries occur when the wrong kind of shoe forces the foot to bend in an unnatural way. It’s no trivial engineering feat to design and build a mens runner that can flex and bend to perfectly match the natural motion of the foot as it rolls from heel to toe during the running gait. It’s even more complicated that that. A substantial number of runners have floppy feet that over-pronate, or bend, toward the body’s mid-line while running, and others have high arches that resist conforming to the shape of the ground during the weight-bearing portion of the gait cycle.
The Saucony ProGrid Ride mens running shoe is loaded with cushioning. So much that Saucony’s selling slogan is that you ride on air with these shoes.
The ASICS GT2140 mens running shoe is ideal for heavier, recreational runners. The shoe is lightweight with lots of cushioning and a flex that ensures a smooth heel-to-toe transition.
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