Shoes: Foundation of Posture
Altra Zero-Drops:
Help to realign your hips and posture
Help you relax when your nervous system is not stressed from posture
Support learning Primal Movements like walking and standing
Shoes are a root cause of misalignment.
There are three problems:
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Altra Olypmus Trail Mens
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Altra Olympus Trail Womens
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Few shoes are designed properly.
Barefoot is the ideal mechanics that allows your arch to work properly. But on hard surfaces cushion is still needed. The best of both worlds I found is in Altra running shoes, and they have a casual wear model, too.
Mens and womens pictured here. |
Few local shoe stores have Altras.. It is one more example of how both business and customers lack both theory to understand what is needed and experiential feel to evaluate.
This includes lacking a sense of gradual transitional implementation processes to make the changes, which involve stretching the calves and Achilles tendon into the new position. Instead people often just react with fear and laziness in defensive of existing habits and mediocre results.
Not even the "experts" in the stores usually understand or can sell these shoes.
There was a store in Cambridge, Mass, where the owner would yell at the people coming in the store for having the wrong shoes based on evaluating their walking style in seconds. It was hilarious. He knew what he was doing. There is a science and art to everything. Superficial preferences can be deceiving.
This includes lacking a sense of gradual transitional implementation processes to make the changes, which involve stretching the calves and Achilles tendon into the new position. Instead people often just react with fear and laziness in defensive of existing habits and mediocre results.
Not even the "experts" in the stores usually understand or can sell these shoes.
There was a store in Cambridge, Mass, where the owner would yell at the people coming in the store for having the wrong shoes based on evaluating their walking style in seconds. It was hilarious. He knew what he was doing. There is a science and art to everything. Superficial preferences can be deceiving.