First: Why do you need a pair of running shoes? What is the meaning of running shoes?
I believe that most people, like me, are not professionally trained athletes, and their physical fitness is very average. In the floating capital
The purpose is the same: exercise. Why do people like us need a pair of running shoes? I can explain it clearly with my experience.
When I first started running, I wore a pair of Delhui sneakers (later I was sure it was a pair of jogging shoes). You can't even run a kilometer on the first day of running. For half a month, the jogging distance increased rapidly. In the second week, I ran to about 3KM. At this time, extremely serious sports injuries began to appear. At a distance of about 3 kilometers, the knee began to have severe pain. When running outside the right leg and knee, it hurts so much that you can't run at all. I didn't know anything at that time, but I tried to stick to it the next day, and I couldn't run in pain. So I can't come back online to find out why. When I checked, I was shocked. Jogging, no matter how slow you run, will have a serious impact on your knees. The impact force is about 3-5 times your weight. When running, fly first, then land, and fly again in an instant. People who have studied physics in middle school should know how big this impulse is. These pulses are mainly absorbed by the cartilage of the knee. According to my weight of less than 60KG, the impact on my knees during running is about 200KG. Many unprotected runners suffer from huge knee pain for the rest of their lives, and even need to hold things while walking to move. The buddy who plays the Tang priest's leg is a waste when he runs.
I fucking run to exercise, not to make my body die faster.
It is for this reason that people like me, who didn't exercise much before, were in poor health and didn't receive professional training, now run much, and need something to absorb the impact, replace the knees and protect the bones. Running shoes are not to make you run faster, not to make you hit the world record, but to keep you from getting hurt while running.
This is the meaning of running shoes.
How do running shoes work?
The working principle of running shoes is simple. Because the biggest injury in running is the impact absorbed by the knee, it is necessary to use something instead of the cartilage structure of the knee to absorb the impact. What completes this task is the shock absorption technology of running shoes.
Air in AD, gel in asics and absorb in NB are essentially one thing, that is, elastic materials. If the deformation of knee cartilage is to be borne by these materials, then the work of knee joint will be less. You can think of running shoes as sweat on springs.
Second: What kinds of running shoes are there?
There are many sports brands in the market, such as China famous brand, Double Star, Vito, Warrior, Delphi, Li Ning, global famous brand ad, Nike, puma, running friend famous brand asics and new.
Banlance (New Balance), Mizuno (Mizuno)
Mizuno and Essex are both Japanese brands. The former has specialty stores in big cities. Have a chance to visit Wuhan. New Balance is an American brand with a counter on the second floor of Jinhong. However, the salesman doesn't know much about the performance of shoes, and shoes are expensive.
There are countless brands called "running shoes". What should I choose?
Let me explain the classification of running shoes that can be bought in the market first. Running shoes can generally be bought like this:
1, jogging shoes: for ordinary runners. Pay full attention to protection to avoid sports injuries of users. Average life 1000KM. It is characterized by heavy weight and perfect protection. Users with different physical characteristics and different runway types have different series models.
2. Performance training shoes: for professional and semi-professional long-distance runners, specially used for track training. This kind of shoes pay attention to protection and light balance. On the one hand, it is necessary to prevent athletes from being injured in training, and on the other hand, it is necessary to let athletes make achievements.
3, marathon shoes: marathon shoes! Absolutely not suitable for daily jogging! Extreme shoes, really ultra-light, light to almost no weight, extremely poor protection and extremely short life. This kind of shoes exist only for one purpose, to pursue the highest achievement of professional marathon athletes.
Obviously, for ordinary fans without professional training, jogging shoes should be chosen for protection in order to keep fit instead of running a lot of achievements. Why not buy performance training shoes? Light and protective. How good-looking are Li Ning's ultra-light series advertisements? Because the protection of this kind of shoes is far from enough compared with running shoes, because on the one hand, the physical conditions of professional athletes are far better than those of us fans, and the skills of avoiding sports injuries are much better. On the other hand, in order to pursue portability, manufacturers must give up many protection technologies. Look at ASICS, the king of running shoes
Kayano's sole, with so much gel material piled up, can it be lighter? Does it still absorb shock when it is light?
Generally speaking, domestic counters will not tell you what running shoes are like, and tellers simply don't understand. How to separate is simple. Horse shoes are very thin, almost weightless, and the soles are very thin, which can be seen at a glance. Running shoes are generally heavy and have thick soles. Performance training shoes are in the middle, which feel lighter than ordinary sports shoes and far lighter than jogging shoes.
Knowing that you should choose "jogging shoes" instead of horse shoes and performance training shoes, will you still go to the mall? That's not enough.
As I said before, jogging shoes are designed for different users' physical conditions and different road conditions. You also need to figure out what kind of jogging shoes you are suitable for, that is, your position in the running shoes matrix.
Running shoes matrix has three dimensions, one is running posture. Second, weight. Third, running road conditions.
Roads are first divided into cross-country and cross-country running. Cross-country refers to running roads that are not artificially built or not so "good", such as mountain roads, dirt roads and Woods. Track running includes track, highway and other very straight roads, plastic, cement and asphalt.
After determining the road conditions, determine your running posture.
2. Running posture
This is the most important step and the least error-prone step. If you make a mistake, you may end up spending hundreds of thousands of running shoes you think are awesome, and running for a day will make your life a hell!
There are three general running postures: eversion, eversion and severe eversion. These three relationships are continuous and gradual. Generally speaking, these three have such a corresponding relationship:
Eversion-high arch-no splayed feet or internal splayed feet-corresponding running shoes: shock-proof type
Inversion (insufficient eversion)-no external splayed feet or external splayed feet-low arch-corresponding running shoes: stable type.
Severe varus-typical flat feet-severe external figure-corresponding running shoes: posture correction type
The vast majority of people are everted or everted, and they still run when everted seriously, which is pitiful. If you are really Varus ... unfortunately, it is difficult to buy shoes with serious varus ... especially good ones are rare. ...
It is easy to judge the foot type. Take off your socks and you'll know for yourself. But you can judge your posture roughly according to your foot type, but remember: this judgment is not accurate! High arches may also be everted, and low arches may also be everted! Whether there is a splayed foot can be more accurate, but the running posture is slightly different from the walking posture, so it is still not 100% accurate.
100% There are several kinds of accurate judgments. One is a machine that professionally measures your running posture, or an experienced person looks at your running posture. For those who sell running shoes in Europe, America and Japan. This is the basic configuration and the basic common sense of the clerk. In China, sorry, I can hardly find it.
It's like letting you run on a treadmill and then taking pictures of your steps with a camera. It's new.
Balance occasionally conducts foot testing activities in stores in China. When the testing activities are held in Wu Hanyou, you must attend.
Another 100% accurate method is to find a pair of running shoes that do not need posture correction, including shock-proof running shoes and horseshoe shoes. Until they are seriously worn, and then judged by the wear situation. This method is accurate, but I do not recommend it! Because most people don't know if their shoes have posture correction, if there are shoes with posture correction function, the judgment result is biased! It is clear that the shoes without posture correction are Dowell's marathon shoes, double stars and ordinary board shoes. If you run in these shoes, you can look at the forefoot. If the forefoot is worn on the outside (little toe side), then you are everted, and if it is on the inside (big toe side), it is everted. If the two sides are basically the same, it seems that the middle is badly ground, then you can try shock absorption and stable running shoes.
Since most people don't have the conditions to do what 100% can accurately judge, what should they do to judge what shoes they should wear? I recommend the following methods:
Judge your foot shape, high arch or low arch. Then the shoe store's high arch main force considers the shock absorption type and tries the stable type, while the low arch main force tries the stable type and also tries the shock absorption type. See which is the most comfortable and which model to choose. Remember, not two steps, but two laps! This is a big difference!
Let's explain the specific differences between several kinds of shoes.
Actually, running shoes are shockproof. Therefore, the so-called "shockproof" running shoes are not more shockproof than others, but have no more functions except shockproof. Stable posture correction, in addition to shock absorption, is also responsible for correcting bad running posture into good running posture, making you more comfortable. So if you buy the wrong type, you may face the problem that your running posture is distorted by mistake, or even worse. Think of it this way: the best running posture is 0, and everyone's running posture is in the range of -2 to 2. Running shoes provide an addition and subtraction method to make your value closest to 0. If your posture is 2, you should buy -2 running shoes. If you buy a pair of +2 running shoes, your posture will become more painful.
After judging whether to use stability, shock absorption or posture correction, we enter the last step of the running shoe matrix.
3. Equipment quantity.
Equipment quantity is a collection of two concepts: your weight and your exercise intensity.
The greater the weight, the higher the intensity of exercise and the greater the influence of running. Weight represents the intensity of a single impact, and the intensity of exercise represents the degree to which this impact will last. Running is almost equivalent to hitting your knee. How hard and how long did you hit it each time? ...
Generally speaking, good running shoes are designed to cope with the exercise intensity of more than 3 kilometers at a time and more than 3 times a week. So the most important thing is your weight. But almost all running shoes are not necessarily. For example, Decathlon's own brand Kalenji, the low-end model clearly States that it is only suitable for running once a week to once a month for less than 20 minutes. ...
Running shoes can generally be divided into two equipment levels: lightweight and large.
Take asics as an example:
Stability: KAYANO, the famous king of running shoes, is a big class, and GT 2 130, the champion of running shoes sales, is a lightweight.
Shock-proof type: large-scale aura, light weight bamboo pole.
There is a very important misunderstanding: the price of large size is much more expensive, and the price of lightweight is much lower, so large size is higher than lightweight? If you have money, you should buy a large number of top models?
That's not true!
A large number of grades are designed for heavy weight, which means that if you are underweight, the impact of your running may not be strong enough, so these "top-level" elastic materials designed to absorb large impact are too hard. Just like a spring, if it is designed to bear the pressure of 1 ton, you can press it to 100KG, but the spring can't press it down. For runners, the obvious feeling is: the soles are so hard! In this case, the running shoes don't absorb enough energy, and your knees will absorb more energy. The most obvious one is Mizuno, and the flagship shoes are a pain for people who are not too heavy.
So try to choose the equipment level according to your own weight, and don't just stare at the top model. The boundary between large instruments and light instruments is generally 75KG. If your weight is close to this line and your running distance is large or small, you'd better choose flexibly according to your own situation. 70KG running every day 15KM. Buy Kayano, that's right! If you are 80KG and run 3KM every day, buy GT.
2 130 is also good. If you weigh 45KG, why buy KAYANO!
You should now be able to determine your road conditions, running shoes and equipment. Then I have decided which pair of running shoes to buy.
Third: Which one should I buy?
I have found my place in the matrix of running shoes. Among several professional sports brands, according to the official running shoes matrix, which models can be bought has been decided.
Which brands do you want to buy? What models are recommended?
For ordinary fans, we don't recommend "domestic professional sports brands" with low prices, such as Double Star, Warrior and Vito.
Why? Quite simply, Vito, Double Star and Warriors do have a certain position in professional marathon and long-distance running training. But we are not professional athletes. You don't have that physique and skills-if you do, why are you reading this article!
The protection and shock absorption technologies of these brands are very simple, and the ergonomics is far from perfect.
For fans who have run a lot, well-known brands such as Li Ning, AD and NIKE…… are not recommended.
AD, NIKE, no good running shoes? Don't! But can you buy it in China? ..... almost impossible. They can make good shoes, but all the shops in China sell tide shoes. If you really want to run, forget it. ...
Where is Li Ning?
Can I despise this brand more?
Does Li Ning have any good jogging shoes? No, when there was no good jogging technology, the concept of ultra-light began to be hyped. As I said before, ultralight and protection are irreconcilable contradictions. There is no harm in recommending "ultra-light" daily running to long-distance runners!
The good running shoes that can be bought in China are generally ASICS and NEW.
BANLANCE and Mizuno are three brands. Besides, Brooks and Sokoni have long since disappeared in China.
Off-road. I don't understand. Simply recommend several models with good reputation:
ASICS: stable: quantity of large equipment: KAYANO, quantity of light equipment: GT 2 1X0.
Shock absorption: large equipment capacity: smooth wheel, light equipment capacity: culmbus
ASICS is probably the best brand of running shoes. The difference between his large equipment and light equipment is not particularly great. Even if you buy a lot of lightweight equipment, you won't feel uncomfortable. The latest series is Kinsey. Never buy this series ... sweating, expensive and uncomfortable. I don't know why. ...
Mizuno: Stability: Light: Motivation, Magnitude: Nirvana: Nirvana.
Shock absorption: light: rider, big: creation.
Mizuno has won the prize of WAVE technology in the past two years. The price is more real than ASICS, and there are many shops, so it is easy to buy. But obviously, Mizuno's big equipment is "hard", so don't buy light ones.
New balance: stability: 1224 shock absorber: 1063.
No heavyweight recommendation ... why ... because it's new.
Banlance didn't really make mid-range lighting equipment ... so only the top models are recommended. Fortunately, the top matching is quite good for lightweight support, and it is generally easy to wear as long as it is above 50KG.
There is another important tip: although running shoes are divided into two parts: shock absorption and stability. But in fact the change is linear, not absolute. As mentioned above, if the running posture is between -2 and 2, the correction of running shoes is also between -2 and +2. Even for the same type of running shoes, the correction coefficient is different, and the support for the arch is different. Same stability type, ASICS
The arch support of gt 2 130 is obviously higher than that of Mizuno's inspire, and the arch support of INSPIRE is higher than that of NB, which is equally stable.
1224 high. NB 1063 shock absorber is much lower than NIMBUS arch bracket of ASICS, and is closer to the level of GT 2 130. Many of them wear the famous stable running shoes GT.
2 130 students may not be suitable for NB's top-stable type 1224, but more suitable for NB's shock-proof type 1063! Therefore, the type of running shoes is only a rough indicator, which is more suitable for your feet, you must try it yourself.
Some misunderstandings about jogging shoes
1. Nike and Adidas make the best jogging shoes?
Basically, Nike and Adidas' jogging shoes suck. This is recognized, well done by asics, saucony, new.
Balance and Brooks (Brooks didn't wear it)
2. Since Nike's shoes are not good, why do many marathon runners wear his shoes?
Marathon shoes are not equal to jogging shoes and are suitable for long-term training. So they have good shock absorption and can protect feet by fixing these systems. Marathon shoes are generally not available. Marathon shoes pursue lightness and breathability. After all, running 42km doesn't hurt your feet much. Therefore, there is not much difference in the shoes worn by major athletes during the competition. All brands are similar. Nike sponsors athletes to wear their own shoes for brand effect.
3. Be sure to buy the best jogging shoes?
In fact, the best jogging shoes may not be suitable for you. For example, many people in China say kayano is the king of shoes. At first, I wore GT2 1 10, and later I changed to Kayano. It turned out that it was not very comfortable and a little too hard. Because the weight is not very big, the gel can't be pressed down, so it feels hard, so there is no shoe king, only one that suits you.
4. Is the skill in jogging shoes necessarily much worse?
Believe me, it's basically the same. There is not much difference. I bought the sausage myself. Compared with asics, everything is similar except that it is airtight. My feet will get hot after running 2 1km. But as far as shock absorption and fixation are concerned, these are similar.
5. Do some people really need jogging shoes?
I saw a lot of people burning shoes in the forum and insisted on dying. I am speechless. Do you really practice long-distance running? Running shoes are not for being handsome, nor are they simply comfortable to wear. If we run like this, our knees will be seriously injured without special running shoes. A brother who saw the forum also said that his knee hurts. What I want to say is that athletes often have some unattractive equipment, such as sneakers, such as wrist guards, such as ankle guards. Therefore, people who rarely run don't need to buy jogging shoes, because they are too wasteful, so expensive and ugly. If you run occasionally, you don't need to buy a top-class one. A general one with shock absorption is enough. Therefore, every time I see those people who have bought top jogging shoes, they are embarrassed to die after running for 2km. There are also some sports shoes that say Nike and Adidas are good, but I insist that ASICs and Saucony are not good. I am speechless, too. Are you really engaged in this sport? Understand the same thing very well.