Whether you are a beginner or a regular runner, it is essential to know the nature of your feet. If you want to avoid injuries, it is better to equip yourself with a well-adapted pair of shoes. Athletes these days can be totally lost with the increasing number of styles of running shoes appearing on the market.

In addition, it is very important to choose the right shoes because a poorly adapted shoe greatly increases the risk of injury. So you can choose now the most popular shoe brands.

We will now get to the heart of the matter:

Choose a model according to the use you are going to make of it

Indeed, knowing the duration of your races, the frequency of your training, the speed and the nature of the ground is important. So if you start running or if you run a marathon, it is not necessarily the same models.

Likewise, if you start trail running, it will still be different models. And above all (really) avoid going for a run with your “lifestyle” sneakers which are totally unsuitable and above all which may injure you.

Know the nature of your stride or how to tell if you are pronator or supinator or universal

They feature good cushioning and flexibility while being stiff enough to properly stabilize the foot. Moreover, they are also the most suitable for accommodating orthopedic insoles. These shoes are the ones that chiropodists recommend the most since they are the one that best adapts to the different situations that a jogger may encounter.

This type of shoe does not seem to me to be very suitable for any sporting practice, forcing the foot into a rather unusual position during sport seems to be the best way to trigger pathologies such as plantar fasciitis (pain in the sole of the foot).

You have to be very careful with the so-called sellers of specialized sports shoes and their very marketing jargon

The fact of having a pronator or supinator foot (which in itself does not mean much either) is not necessarily indicative of anything, moreover the fact of putting the foot in supination or pronation has well obviously biomechanical consequences on the overlying articular stages (knee, hip and back).

These shoes therefore train a movement contrary to pronation, that is to say a lifting of the internal edge of the foot, we then unload the internal part of the foot and load the external part (excellent way to make sprains of the foot. ankle).

Once again, this position for the foot does not seem to me to be very judicious either, they can also trigger several pathologies, especially in the knee (in the case of a genu varum which is very masculine).

Do not hesitate to go to a store with your old running shoes. This is because the wear and tear on your shoes will help the salesperson determine what type of runner you are and which parts of the shoe wear out the fastest in your home.

Clare Louise