5 Tips For Choosing The Best Shoes For Your Feet

Wearing good shoes is super important for your foot health, and in effect, your entire posterior chain’s health, including your knees, hips, and lower back.

Here are some tips that will help you make the right choice when deciding what footwear to purchase -

Your feet are your body’s foundation. It is important for this foundation to be strong and stable in our day to day life for us to perform at our optimum. Purchase shoes that have minimal to no cushioning in their outsole. A wobbly outsole means an unstable and a wobbly foundation, leading to undue stress on the body at every step. 

Store sales representatives are quick to say that a shoe will take the shape of your feet, but that is not entirely true. Shoes are one of the biggest culprits behind bunions, plantar fasciitis and collapsed arches. Most shoes, given they have a narrow toe box end up changing our foot shape and deform them permanently. But shoes with a wide toe box that allows you to splay your toes even inside the shoe.

Shoes with laces are generally preferred over slip ons as they provide better support and grip for your foot. When purchasing open footwear, try to purchase sandals which hold your feet from the ankle so your toes don’t have to be clenched at all times.

It has become very common for shoes to have cushions and arch supports in the insole of modern shoes, and even sandals.
Our bodies have been designed over years of evolution to take impact from all kinds of surfaces. Additional support in the shoe box prevents us from fully using our muscles, and eventually they get weak, which lead to long term ailments.

Shoes are supposed to uplift your movement ability, but a lot of shoes in the market only make it harder for you to use your feet to their fullest during workouts and even during regular activities. Get shoes that are super flexible and allow your feet to flex and bend and turn.