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! In this regard, Su Naive's children stand up and speak for themselves!
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.
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.