A Look At The Recent Trends In Health and Wellness Footwear

March 10th, 2010 | by zoe |

A whole new class of footwear is now being meant to help us lead a more fit life. Exercise or wellness shoes can improve your posture, eliminate cellulite, relieve lower body agony, and tone your legs justby walking in them. At least, that’s what the corporations are telling us, and with promises like that, we all just have to get a pair and see for ourselves.

These new shoes for walking are everywhere, and Reebok is the most recent and most visible manufacturer to jump on this very profitable bandwagon, with their commercials showing a super-slim model with a nicely toned rear and legs. Reebok’s EasyTone guarantees’better legs and a better butt with each step.’ Their EasyTone sole technology mimics walking on sand, and they claim wearing these shoes will improve the muscle tone in your calves, hamstrings, and glutes by as much as 28 %.

FitFlop was one of first to tout the exercise powers of its footwear. Its trademark is ‘Get a workout while you walk’ and they are serious about it with a growth away from the original flip flops into a full line of shoes, boots, and even house slippers. FitFlop shoes contain an amazing Micro-wobbleboard which increases muscle stress and tones and firms you while you walk. Read the testimonials on the FitFlop site and youwill be hunting out the best spot to buy them! Women discussed feeling like they’d worked out for hours after wearing them, and others reported reduced foot, back, and leg discomfort.

Masai Barefooted Technology ( MBT ) makes a different sort of exercise shoe. Wearing MBT footwear can give lots of fabulous results, including reduced body discomfort, toning and bolstering, improving posture and assisting with other physical illnesses. These shoes have built-in pressure distribution mechanisms which create constant unsteadiness in your feet, which in turn causes your muscles to efficiently counteract that slight motion and tone you up in the process.

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Earth Shoes makes shoes with negative heel technology that helps to perfectly align your body for great posture, easy breathing, and no back pain. The Earth vegan shoes new trademark is ‘Burn more calories with every step’ and their advertising claims that you burn four times as many calories wearing these shoes than you do wearing ordinary shoes.

Skechers Shape Ups appear similar to MBT shoes, with a rocker bottom that is very told on some styles. Skechers appeal mainly to younger people and Shape Ups are no exception, and their novel looks would possibly not be for some of the people. They promise to tighten up your muscles and promote healthy weight management while you walk or workout with them.

Chung Shi one-upped everybody else with the introduction of their exercise shoes. They guarantee to ‘work legs 257% harder’ than standard shoes. They also claim abuilt in Pilates system that utilizes a protected bar in the center, and afifteen degree curved sole. What all this means is that the shoes don’t sit flat, and your body must continually adapt to re-balance itself. There is also evidence that these shoes cause far less result on ankle and knee joints, so they are ideal for those recovering from joint injuries.

While the jury is out on the effectiveness of these shoes, it seems that one just desires to try them for two weeks to decide if they live up to their claims.

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