Shoes Insoles ?

Its been a while that I was thinking about this....does shoes insoles have any major role?

I understand that this topic is not related to strength conditioning, but its best if you know the answer. This guy the other day tried to fool me that I have flat feet and he was insisting that I personally want shoe insoles for better support.

Well, the answer to the question is that you do not need shoe insoles. Actually, the best form of training is without shoes. What really happens with the shoes is that they do not let the muscles of your feet to work properly, yet your feet muscles are shut down completely. The foot fingers are in a fixed form and do not move freely engaging all the foot muscles to contract.

If all the foot muscles work properly, there is better proprioception, and support through your feet. Sometimes this can cause less problems in the knee and hip joint....if you let your feet muscles to fire (orthopedic problems to the feet can cause problems to the above joints or vise versa).

In cases though, where othopedic problems are evident, the shoes insoles are used to re- align the biomechanical position of the body joints.

As for shoes, try out the Nike Frees and you can see the difference.

I'm out...........