Running has become the popular sport most practiced. This is something we have been seeing the last ten years. It is a sport which has grown both in runners and competitions. Regarding running, every time has been growing more and more the love of trail, the races in mountains. And, within the races in mountains, the ultra distances are more popular every time.

After this short analysis, we can understand that around the runner there are, of course, a great network of companies and professionals devoted to the running industry. Regarding the running industry, we refer to all that thing which makes possible that a runner will be every time more enthusiast in this sport. From the possibility on countless competitions to attend, vast numbers of professionals with whom to be able to get these aims, like the places to practice or the clothing, both the technical clothes and shoes. It is about shoes where we want to focus a bit more, in order to speak in more detail.

The brands have been improving the materials, both in comfort and resistance. There is a great research behind every model of sneaker for running. The most curious is that a runner has seldom a single shoe, because the specificity of shoe has been created according to different aims which we use the shoe for running. There are, for example, shoes according to the physiognomy of the runner (weight, function/muscular anatomy, structure of the foot . . .), to the runner’s ability (if he/she is more or less fast), according to his/her technique (if he/she is allowed to wear more or less reagent materials, more or less cushioned . . .) and, of course, according to the land (trail-more less adherence, asphalt, polyvalent . . .), or the kind of training (short series trainings or longer distances. All this, makes the runner become almost an expert about understanding what kind of shoe he/she will need depending on the running he/she will practice and, in many times, not making the proper decisions to be able to learn during this process of becoming almost an “expert”. And, many times, to understand something about the subject, has been through checking what was working and what was not working.

This post, is exactly to increase the runner’s awareness about the existence of very important short cuts in order to understand better the process why one single shoe works better than another. We can say, that in the Institut Català del Peu, we are experts in helping the runner to make a better decision when choosing the shoes.

In the Institut Català del Peu we have our expert professionals in sports podiatry and sports biomechanics with a long experience in customer service.

Something fundamental for the choice of the appropriate shoes is to know, first of all, in detail, some intrinsic and extrinsic factors, like the type of foot, the kind of training, physiognomy of the runner or the running technique. Our long experience in sport, mainly in the customer service, has demonstrated us that these 5 mentioned factors are essential to establish the type of shoe the runner is going to need. The goal is not to say either the model exactly, but certain characteristics which the shoe must comply with. And we can mention the 5 basic factors that we have to bear in mind about the shoe, like the last, the heel stiffener, the drop, the cushioning and the shoe’s rocker. These 5 factors are going to bring about that the shoe for every runner must fulfill some specific and basic features according to its use.

With all this analyzed information, we can see that there are models of shoes in the market which can be good or a total disaster in the performance and prevention of lesions for the runner.

Nowadays, it is very difficult to analyze so much information, and also very difficult that most of runners will understand such information. Therefore, it is increasingly essential to turn to professionals to help in this election, above all, if they have lesions, overcharging, etc. And you can find the best professionals in a center directed to the podiatric treatment, where there are experts in sporting podiatry and sporting biomechanics.

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Running has become the popular sport most practiced. This is something we have been seeing the last ten years. It is a sport which has grown both in runners and competitions. Regarding running, every time has been growing more and more the love of trail, the races in mountains. And, within the races in mountains, the ultra distances are more popular every time.

After this short analysis, we can understand that around the runner there are, of course, a great network of companies and professionals devoted to the running industry. Regarding the running industry, we refer to all that thing which makes possible that a runner will be every time more enthusiast in this sport. From the possibility on countless competitions to attend, vast numbers of professionals with whom to be able to get these aims, like the places to practice or the clothing, both the technical clothes and shoes. It is about shoes where we want to focus a bit more, in order to speak in more detail.

The brands have been improving the materials, both in comfort and resistance. There is a great research behind every model of sneaker for running. The most curious is that a runner has seldom a single shoe, because the specificity of shoe has been created according to different aims which we use the shoe for running. There are, for example, shoes according to the physiognomy of the runner (weight, function/muscular anatomy, structure of the foot . . .), to the runner’s ability (if he/she is more or less fast), according to his/her technique (if he/she is allowed to wear more or less reagent materials, more or less cushioned . . .) and, of course, according to the land (trail-more less adherence, asphalt, polyvalent . . .), or the kind of training (short series trainings or longer distances. All this, makes the runner become almost an expert about understanding what kind of shoe he/she will need depending on the running he/she will practice and, in many times, not making the proper decisions to be able to learn during this process of becoming almost an “expert”. And, many times, to understand something about the subject, has been through checking what was working and what was not working.

This post, is exactly to increase the runner’s awareness about the existence of very important short cuts in order to understand better the process why one single shoe works better than another. We can say, that in the Institut Català del Peu, we are experts in helping the runner to make a better decision when choosing the shoes.

In the Institut Català del Peu we have our expert professionals in sports podiatry and sports biomechanics with a long experience in customer service.

Something fundamental for the choice of the appropriate shoes is to know, first of all, in detail, some intrinsic and extrinsic factors, like the type of foot, the kind of training, physiognomy of the runner or the running technique. Our long experience in sport, mainly in the customer service, has demonstrated us that these 5 mentioned factors are essential to establish the type of shoe the runner is going to need. The goal is not to say either the model exactly, but certain characteristics which the shoe must comply with. And we can mention the 5 basic factors that we have to bear in mind about the shoe, like the last, the heel stiffener, the drop, the cushioning and the shoe’s rocker. These 5 factors are going to bring about that the shoe for every runner must fulfill some specific and basic features according to its use.

With all this analyzed information, we can see that there are models of shoes in the market which can be good or a total disaster in the performance and prevention of lesions for the runner.

Nowadays, it is very difficult to analyze so much information, and also very difficult that most of runners will understand such information. Therefore, it is increasingly essential to turn to professionals to help in this election, above all, if they have lesions, overcharging, etc. And you can find the best professionals in a center directed to the podiatric treatment, where there are experts in sporting podiatry and sporting biomechanics.

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