Fitness Friday * Best foot forward
When was the last time you got new workout shoes?
No matter what kind of workout you do, your shoes are a critical part of your success (well, unless you’re swimming). Be sure you’re wearing the right style of shoe for the exercise you do. We made that mistake – buying running shoes and using them for walking led to a year (because we’re stubborn about admitting our mistakes) of tired legs, creaky knees and weak ankles. New – appropriate – shoes fixed all those problems.
Shop at a sporting goods store – you don’t have to buy the shoes there, but you can get a good idea of what’s available for your workout, and how different shoes feel.
Replace your shoes often. You can get a little extra wear from your fitness shoes by swapping out the insoles for a good-quality sport insole and replacing that a couple of times, but you need to replace your workout shoes pretty much every year. You don’t have to throw them away; most of them can be used for yardwork or painting for awhile . This really is one place to spend your money.
Now, if you thought this post was going to be about pedicures and fitness? Sorry. But you can always get a pedicure and then protect those pretty toes in the right workout shoes.
