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Choosing Appropriate Shoes

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Looking for new trainers for power walking? Discover how to choose the best pair for you with this short tutorial.

Discover more information about picking appropriate kit for power walking by watching the next videos in this series on power walking.

Learn how to find the perfect pair of shoes by ensuring they both protect your foot and go with your natural movement by watching this short and comprehensive tutorial video.

Voice-over: Will Davies

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Choosing appropriate shoes

In this video you are going to learn how to choose appropriate shoes for power walking.

Choosing a good pair of shoes is not easy, so we ask you to focus on two key criteria: a good shoe should protect your foot, and go with your natural movement.

Firstly, a good shoe should protect your foot.

Whilst you walk, you have to be able to count on a shoe that protects your foot from impact and prevents you from slipping. Therefore the soles must be sufficiently thick and grippy. Favour rubber soles that are more resistant to wear and tear.

A good shoe should also protect you from blisters, by allowing the foot to breathe, that is to say, evacuate the humidity caused by natural perspiration. In fact, humidity weakens the skin and makes it more sensitive to friction.

Finally, a good shoe protects the foot by keeping it in place at the heel and at the instep, to avoid friction.

Secondly, a good shoe should accompany the natural movement of the foot.

The movement of the foot whilst walking is specific: it takes place rhythmically on the ground, from heel to point.

So that there is continuity in your steps, the thickness of the heel of your shoes should be only slightly greater that that of the toe

The average thickness of the heel will leave you more space to completely extend your leg during the impact on the heel.

Finally, the soles of your shoes should be flexible, above all at the toe, to go along with your movement.

Test the flexibility of the sole of your shoe by bending it with your hands.

To check the flexibility of the sole, take your shoe and bend it : the more easily it bends, the more flexible the sole.

Make sure that the shoe does not loosen too much when it bends to ensure that your foot stays snug in the shoe

You now know the elements to take into account when choosing your shoes for power walking

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