MBT Shoes
Shoes have long been designed to help absorb the impact of the ground to our body as our feet make contact with the ground bringing down all the weight of our body with it, but the people in the MBT shoes lab have been working harder than ever to create the ultimate shoe in this respect. Shoe technology (everywhere else) has for the most part made small adjustments here and there but often you couldn’t find all the different things in one shoe let alone a shoe that helped you with all the different impact zones.
Not too many people realize how much of an impact their walking has on their body. In fact the body takes a lot of hits especially when your walking barefoot on concrete or asphalt. You have to figure that your carrying the entire weight of your body on your feet so every pound down on the pavement sends a shock-wave up to your foot and on to the knees, back, and more, even when you walk softly. In many respects walking softly alone doesn’t cause a lot of damage, but it is the consistent walking on hard surfaces, the incorrect posture in the very design of normal shoes, and the wrong distribution of your weight that causes the problem.
It’s simply not enough to put “air” in the soles as many bigger name brand shoes do, the shoe is actually in a dire need of a complete rebuild and overhaul because although it is much better today than it was 100 years ago, we are still damaging our bodies due to the design still having it’s flaws. Some of the elements in today’s shoes can be used with much more efficiency in a redesigned shoe, but in today’s old model it is practically useless.
A company creating a shoe called MBT shoes actually put an enormous amount of research and development behind the way our body is impacted by the shock-waves that flow up our feet as we walk and have re-engineered from the top to the bottom the average walking shoe. What they came up with is nothing short of incredible.
Everything was taken into consideration from the curve of the bottom of the shoe which assists to bring an even pressure to the very pattern of walking, to a sole long bladder that distributes the energy of the impact across the entire foot not just one part leading to pain in knees and other areas like the back of the shin. They even redesigned the inner sole and outer soul. The shoe is completely redesigned in such a way that it changes the entire way you walk and feel while walking.
Converting the hard sidewalk into a sandy beach feel is just the beginning. The shoe actually wakes up neglected muscles in the legs and foot and helps them retrain themselves to become useful there by bringing extra support and stronger legs, which protect the joints and absorbs more of the shock evenly. They are calling this the worlds first physiological shoe and they are right! This is not a cheap shoe but anyone who owns a pair will tell you, it is well worth the price!
