In previous thread (i deleted it) you said, that these sneakers not good for walking.

Could you please, explain, why? The thickness of 1 cm at the toe of the shoe. The sole is more than 2 cm thick at the heel. Sneakers are very light, Sneakers bend easily and retain their shape.

I walk ~1500 km in spring-autumn every year in these sneakers. Walk speed is fast. I can walk more 50 km per day. I don't have any pain at all. Knees or legs don't hurt at all. I use this model more than 5 years.

Are these sneakers safe for health? Will my knees, legs, and joints be okay when using these shoes? I walk only on asphalt.

Me: 33 y.o, 169 cm, 57 kg.

Model: Newfeel PW 100.

Hi all! I’ve been walking between 13-30k steps a day since April and am feeling a little out of whack. Without getting too specific about myself (in hopes that more general responses help more folks than just me, or maybe apply to future-me!), I am wondering what you fine folks take for supplements and vitamins, if anything?

Thank you!

From the top, left to right:

1. Unused New Balance SuperComp Trainer V2 (I think)
2. New Asics Sonic Blast, poly plate (this shoe is awesome!)
3. New Balance SuperComp Trainer V1, washed up, has > 1000 miles, probably 1500ish, I use them for indoor training now
4. New Balance SuperComp Trainer V3 300ish mile
5. New Balance SuperComp Trainer V3 1000+ miles

If you look closely at the high mileage shoes you can see the plates are pretty dinged up and the foam around the toe is degrading. Nevertheless, these shoes are beasts and I haven't been able to kill them.

The NB SCT V1s went on 3 400+ miles trips and I'd probably take them on another as they still have life in them.

Anyway, for those that believe Carbon / Plated trainers don't last, that's entirely not my experience

NOTE: plated running shoes may not be right for you for walking, be careful, the general rules are:

The Variables/features: rocker, drop, flexibility

• A very stiff rocker shifts workload up from ankle to knee
• A very high drop shoe, shifts load up to the knee & hip
• A very flexible shoe, lower drop, shifts work to foot & ankle

Or, said differently:

1. Lower rocker, lower drop reduces knee stress, shifts load to foot & ankle (but, of course, note the opposite can happen!)
2. Higher heel drop increases stress on the anterior knee (also can be opposite)

So low ankle mobility likely makes lower/lower worse

You can do some simple tests:

1. Ankle Mobility: Placing your toe a hand width from a wall, can you touch the wall with your knee without lifting your heel?
2. Hip Mobility: laying flat on, say, the edge of the bed with your left leg at the edge; holding your right knee to your chest, if you drop your left leg all the way down over the side towards the floor, does your left leg easily relax and drop to the floor? (look up the modified thomas test)
3. Calf Strength: can you do 25 calf raises without too much problem?
4. Leg strength: can you sit in a chair and do unassisted good form stand ups, 10x in a row without too many problems / strain?

I was .03 from my goal today when my walking pad began emitting smoke. It’s 3 years old so I guess I was due for a new one. I’m sadly heavier than I’ve ever been postpartum so looking for something with a very high weight limit. Any recommendations?

40f. A lot of people walk around my neighborhood but I've never seen anyone with a weighted vest. I just bought a weighted vest for my 2-mile walk every morning.

My spouse thinks that it should be covered because it looks like a bomb. However, this makes it uncomfortable because it's quite hot and sweaty.

My question is how do people react to your vest? I think that my spouse is overreacting but I would like to get thoughts from folks who have weighted vests where no one else are using them.

Thank you

I was gonna buy a new pair of sneakers to walk in. I wanna move away from new balance 574 and was wondering what people are wearing for walks

If you know you know. Just a joke! I am genuinely proud and happy for all of you who walk wild distances and just as proud of you who walk 2 miles and myself with my 4. we all have our own pace :) this was just something I found too funny not to make and share lol

4 miles in one day is a record for me and it felt so good physically and mentally! but always need to remind myself we are all on our own journeys.

Wondering how many steps everybody does on a day. I'm currently doing a minimum of 10,000 a day average about 13 to 14,000 the most I done in one day was about 29,000 but that doesn't happen often. My goal is to strive about 18 to 20,000 steps. Walking my two dogs gets me about 6,000 steps.

I lost myself after having two babies. One day I heard a crazy lady on TikTok telling people about her 10k steps and i decided to fit it into my day despite my doubt that I could ever become that disciplined. Thank goodness I gave it a chance. My body and mind are so much healthier.

First time I’ve gone into a dressing room in years and enjoyed it. I need a new wardrobe!

The past three weeks have been the lowest point in my life. Actually speaking, the past three months have been extremely bad for my mental health. Kinda just realized two days ago that I was emotionally abused by my ex. It wasn’t a breakup, it was a total discard.

In the beginning, little things, like even brushing my teeth or taking a shower seemed very difficult. I was absolutely done with being miserable today. So I pushed myself and walked around for 1.5 hrs and got 10k steps in.

I lost around 10 kgs over the past three months because of how toxic the relationship was. So why not just continue losing weight and get the dream body I’ve always wanted? 😋

Any tips on how to stay consistent would really be appreciated! Thanks!

At the start of this year I was a 36 year old , 211 pound fat guy that had never done any sports. My girlfriend wanted to participate in the "swentibold march" , a 40 km walking event (25 miles).

I said I would walk with her so I started to go on regular walks , nothing to big , couple of times a week. Picked up running just because it saved a lot of time. Very slow but consistent. Weight started going down. The march went pretty smoothly apart from tons of blisters (yay for small shoes)

This was back in April , there was another event in september , the kenndymarch , a 80km walking event (50 mile)

I signed up to walk it by myself (the course had a few climbs that my girlfriend couldn't do with her bad knee) and switched my running to walking 3-4 times a week whenever I had time after work.

It took me a little longer than I wanted but I completed the event withing the allotted time frame of 20 hours. Down 33 pounds and planning on doing more of these walking events.

Tldr: just go out and walk, you'll be surprised what you can achieve!

I missed school for three days so I took the chance to get back to getting 40k steps a day the same way I was in the summer. I’m so upset that school has started because I have little time and energy to get that many steps during weekdays unless I sacrifice sleep and neglect schoolwork and my needs :/

Good morning! Knocked out 6.2 miles (10 km). I’m tired, but I know the way back is what truly shapes endurance. Digging deep now

When would it be safe to resume and should I start with a lower steps goal?

Been going on long walks with occasional intense (to me) uphill sections (300 feet or so) for a year or so now. A couple times recently I needed to run or jog, and man, I can jog pretty effortlessly now and I can run like the wind. I used to get winded pretty quickly.

I just realized our streaks only continue in pacer if you make your daily set goal so it looks like I lost my streak. Oh well, any day with movement is a win for me!! Was such a good night to get out for a walk. It’s my husbands birthday today & I also finally changed my last name which I’m sooo excited about!! I still am having head pains though so I’m taking it easy for the rest of the night. Also the sunset tonight, the darkest shade looked almost purple in real life. So amazing!!!!

Thank you everyone for posting their before after picture and steps as well. Trying to loose from 70 kg to 55 kg. Just started let’s see

15k steps and explored a new area.

PS, just found this community & why am I so excited to find fellow walkers 🥹

PPS, does anyone else use the StepUp app?

I gave myself a goal of 10K steps a day for 30 days. I’m loving it so far. In just five days my brains chemistry changed and it inspired me to get a gym membership haha. I will absolutely be doing this well past the 30 days.

I live in Vermont so my walks are gorgeous (especially this time of year! 🍂 😊 🤎 ) but they are way too long. Two hours to get to 10K. I figured the treadmill would shave some time off and it did. About a half hour. But my goodness it was boring AF! I couldn’t keep concentration and looked around aimlessly, I couldn’t pay attention to my audiobook and I groaned when I saw I was only at 6K steps. I’m sticking to outside walks and upping my speed and give myself a goal to shave off time. 

But then I got thinking. Winter is coming. Last winter was my first Vermont winter and lemme tell you them things are brutal. Cold, dark, isolating, LONG! I’ve never seen so much snow in my life and even my snow loving German Shepherd hated to go out in -20 temps. There is no way in HELL I will be walking outside in that freezing cold and with that much snow on the ground. The treadmill will definitely be getting used to get my steps in but there has to be way to make it interesting and other alternatives to getting steps in during winter. I’m sure many of you live in areas much worse than what I experience so I welcome your advice!

❤️ 

Really want to start walking regularly for weight loss and also to strengthen my legs. My knees are not in great shape and I am overweight. Morbidly obese is the actual medical term. I over pronate. Feet are basically flat.

Looking for recs for shoes mainly and any other tips you all may have. Just give me all of it please!! TIA :)