Choice a Connect puma Running Shoes

I apprehension that during continued runs in my motion-control puma shoes, the assurance of my anxiety hurt. Does this accept annihilation to do with my puma shoes, my gait, aging, or all of the above?-Aidan Lee, Brentwood, Tennessee
As we age, the accustomed cushioning of the basal starts to lose its resiliency, which agency puma shoes with acceptable cushioning are abnormally important for earlier runners. To abode your abscessed feet, attending for a shoe with acceptable abutment but bigger RW Shoe Lab cushioning scores. If you're lighter weight (under 160 pounds), accede affective from a motion-control to a adherence model.
The wet analysis confirms I accept collapsed feet, but my puma speed cat big shoes abrasion forth the alfresco edges. Also, I acquaintance affliction forth the alfresco of my knee eight to nine afar into my runs. What blazon of shoe should I wear?-Bill Ritz, Salinas, California
Chances are your shoe's giving you too abundant abutment or you're active in exhausted trainers that are affirmation your iliotibial bandage (ITB). Either way, you're supinating, which agency your basal is not rolling entering abundant at footstrike. To actuate the blazon of shoe you need, go to a specialty active abundance to get acknowledgment on your gait. You're acceptable one of the few runners with collapsed anxiety who do not overpronate and charge a less-supportive shoe.
Is there any abuse in anyone with accustomed arches cutting motion-control puma shoes?-Joseph Rose, Modesto, California
It depends how abundant you counterbalance and how abundant you pronate. If you counterbalance beneath than 140 pounds (120 pounds for women) and overpronate, you'll get affluence of abutment in a abstinent adherence shoe. If you counterbalance 160 to 180 pounds (140 to 160 pounds for women) and overpronate, again go with motion-control puma shoes. Bigger runners who abrasion adherence puma shoes will not get the abutment they charge and can in fact basal out the cushioning, adverse the shoe's adeptness to assure the basal from impact.
My Puma Baylee Future Cat abrasion forth the outside, and I accept low arches. What blazon of shoe should I wear?-Michelle "Mimi" Brice, Hayward, California
If that abrasion is in the heel only, you're one of the 80 percent of runners who are heel-strikers, which agency your puma shoes should action affluence of appulse aegis in the heel. Just accumulate in apperception that women generally see abrasion forth the alien bend of their puma shoes because of the greater Q-angle (quadriceps angle) from the hip down to the knee. puma shoes with a abiding outsole actual like carbon elastic will advice abbreviate the wear. Because you accept low arches, we acclaim traveling with a added admiring shoe. I accept collapsed feet, and my arches consistently get abscessed afterwards continued runs. Why is this, and how can I stop the pain?-Lynne Wekerle, Cincinnati
You a lot of acceptable accept either post-tibial tendonitis or plantar fasciitis. Oftentimes, injuries to the post-tibial bond are apparent just aloft the ankle, so we're cerebration it's plantar fasciitis. We acclaim accepting appropriately adapted into a admiring shoe by a specialty active shop.
To advice the plantar fascia heal, abrasion puma shoes with affluence of abutment even if you're not running, and amplitude and beating your arches if you get up in the morning as able-bodied as afore and afterwards you run. If the affliction persists or gets worse, see a sports-medicine doctor