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How to choose the right shoes?
Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
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[The main thing is to guess with the size
To choose shoes according to size, it is necessary that the distance between the toe of the shoe and the tip of the big toe is not less than the size of the nail of the same thumb.
Do not make compromises and choose tight shoes, even if it is very beautiful. This threatens the formation of calluses, skin hardening and corns. More spacious shoes a person needs in order to reduce the load from the thumb, which when walking moves forward about half a centimeter. How to check shoes for breadth?
It is important that the shoes are made of good and thin, but durable material. Then, putting on shoes or shoes, you can check the shoes for the correctness of the choice in width.
Do it this way. Put on your shoes and vigorously sweep along it from the little finger to the bone on your thumb. The correct footwear should slightly wrinkle along the line of the exercise. If this did not happen, you probably chose too tight shoes. And this - the risk of the formation of corns, corns, deformities of the foot and toes.
Quality of the pad
The shoe must be made of the combined parts. The part that comes from the fingers must be wider than the one that is in the heel area. Thus, the insole and the shoe must be made in the shape of a foot. Otherwise, the leg will get tired and the person will acquire diseases that he had never even suspected before. Therefore, you do not need to save and buy cheap shoes, otherwise this money will then have to be spent on medicines.
Quality of footwear materials
Shoes should be made of leather or natural cloth, so that the foot can breathe. He can never breathe in shoes from leatherette. This causes increased sweating and the effect of the steam bath. And in such an environment quickly develop fungi and multiply pathogenic bacteria.
This should be avoided, as well as choose socks made from natural fabric. Synthetic legs strongly compress the leg, increase the load on the blood vessels, worsen and slow down the blood flow.
In order not to cause excessive sweating of the foot, you do not need to buy shoes on the sole of rubber. Rubber outsole also causes the effect of the bath, you should choose a stronger and natural sole, for example, from rubber.
Choosing the right sneaker
If a person is actively engaged in sports, or even at least jogging, you need comfortable sports shoes. This shoe should be made of environmentally friendly materials. The sole of this shoe should be comfortable, rubber, and if a person goes to the mountains or sports in the winter, a sole with anti-slip is needed.
Sports shoes should be carefully seamed, and they should not go inside the scars, so as not to injure the foot during rubbing. Otherwise, corns, corns, hardening may occur. The seams of shoes must be well strengthened so that they can not part.
In order not to rub the heel during running or physical exercises, you need a boot of medium height, but not high (in the heel area). Because, wiping the heel, you can get an inflammation of the tendons.
What should be lacing in sports shoes?
First, it just has to be. Lacing allows you to simulate the fullness of the foot, if it swells or swells, or, conversely, reduces this completeness if the leg decreases in ascent.
Lacing in the right shoe should not strongly compress the leg, because it can disrupt blood circulation.
Orthopedic shoes
Such shoes necessarily have a depreciation system. When a person is running, even at a slow pace, the load is three times higher than the body weight. If a person is overweight, the knee cups and spine experience a tremendous load, so that the legs are healthy, it is important to keep the weight under control.
Reduce the burden on the spine and knee cups by buying shoes with a damping system. In this case, a layer of air is distributed along the sole. Then the shoes absorb shocks and bumps against the hard surface over which the person is running.
Even better, if the shoes will have under the insole near the heel a cushion made of viscose rubber.
If a person is engaged in jogging all the time, for comfort, you need to choose such shoes, which the insole well bends. Such shoes will enable the runner to move freely in any direction, the foot will be dynamic, and not frozen in one position.
Shoes for active sports
If the shoes are needed for sports, where a person constantly jumps, runs and generally actively moves, for example, during volleyball, basketball or handball, you need to protect the ligaments. You can do this with shoes if you pick up a model with a reliable fixation of the ankle.
This will make it possible to soften the blows of the feet against a hard surface, but at the same time move freely throughout the playground.
To check up such footwear simply: it is necessary to bend it in a sole - it should be bent in half.
If a person is playing on a winter playground where there are frostbite sites, the sole is thicker, where there is a relief and anti-skid system. Such a sole provides good mobility and on the road with relief changes - descents and ascents.
Shoes for training in the gym
It should be not heavy, not thick, the second name of footwear for a hall - "ease". It is designed for fast movements, so the sole of such shoes should be thin, light, but sturdy, and by no means from rubber.
If in sports shoes there is an orthopedic correctly cut shoe (wider in the toes, already in the heel) and fixing the heel with a comfortable backdrop - such shoes will reduce the load on the joints, ligaments and tendons. And also protects the spine and knee cups from overexertion and related injuries. Amortization in athletic shoes for easy and quick movement around the room should be always in the middle of the foot and around the heel.
Caring about getting comfortable shoes, you continue the life of your feet and improve their health for many years.