| You can exercise walk for long distances in running | | | | engineered as a complex machine. |
| shoes but you should not run too often in shoes | | | | The human foot has 26 bones and dozens of |
| designed specifically for walking. If you do, according | | | | muscles and tendons that are designed to work |
| to a podiatrist who administers to a professional | | | | together in a very specific way. Injuries occur when |
| basketball team, you will experience discomfort in | | | | the wrong kind of shoe force the foot to bend in an |
| your ankles and knees and eventually cause injury to | | | | unnatural way. It's no trivial engineering feat to design |
| those joints. | | | | and build a mens runner that can flex and bend to |
| Mens running shoes are specially designed to bend | | | | perfectly match the natural motion of the foot as it |
| more easily in the midsole area while still providing | | | | rolls from heel to toe during the running gait. It's |
| lateral support than other kinds of athletic shoes. A | | | | more complicated that that. A substantial number of |
| basketball shoe, for example, is designed for entirely | | | | runners have floppy feet that over pronate, or bend, |
| different kinds of bending and loads. For most of | | | | toward the body's mid-line while running, and others |
| man's existence shoes were just shoes made from | | | | have high arches that resist conforming to the shape |
| only a few different lasts, but modern shoes from | | | | of the ground during the weight-bearing portion of |
| the major brands are as carefully designed and | | | | the gait cycle. |