What is pronation by @runningproject
Good morning Dear Friends Runners,
it was time to speak on a concept of the world all more or less know the name, the famous pronation, but what is really the pronation?
The pronation is the yielding, it is our primordial system of shock absorption that arise with the contact of a land after a step of run. In practice it is the version of a real car, thanks to the good possibility of dissipating the harmful vertical forces deriving from the impact with horizontal ground of a much less dangerous nature.
Mainly the runners are divided by 3 categories according to their degree of pronation:
- neutral support, consisting in a contact with the ground and the subsequent final phase of detachment from the ground with the finger, which is the strongest thruster;
- support with excess pronation, due to a marked muscular elasticity, so the breakdown would have been dangerous, and the Achilles tendon is exposed to risks of various kinds;
- support with a lack of pronation, also called supination, in which the support, the median phase and the final push phase all occur with the outer part of the foot.
To identify the personal degree of pronation and in order to choose a shoe that is responsive to our characteristics, it is necessary to observe some personal characteristics.
Resting your bare feet on the ground, holding them parallel to a few centimeters away, you can see if the ankle tends to load too much inwards, and in this case there will be a tendency to excess pronation, and the same can be done to affirm when the foot tends to be flat, or when we are in the presence of the so-called "X-legs", in which the knees give conspicuously inward.
A Support Shoe
All the signals described above are indications of a high body elasticity, and the choice of the footwear should go towards the shoes of the Support or Guidance category, equipped with a certain control of the movement towards the inside, often obtained with the insertion inside 'midsole of the footwear of a contrast element in the middle part of hardness higher than that of the rest of the midsole.
A Neutral Shoe
For normal pronation, the best option is to purchase a Neutral shoe, without any degree of correction, simply equipped with a good degree of cushioning.
A very large Neutral Shoe
For those who have an established lack of pronation, the choice of the shoe will always be of the Neutral type, but with an enlarged conformation, ie with a good base of support on the ground, as the runner with little pronation will tend to run on the outside of the shoe, so having a larger surface will help him in the dynamics of the race.
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Post created by @mad-runner as assigned Running Clothes Adviser of @runningproject
Good post maestro!
I am a fan of mizuno, specially the model wave rider, what do you think about them?
Hello, dear friend, I have known the Mizuno brand for a long time, since in the late spring of 1989 it arrived in Italy. They have always been a type of fast and light shoes, even in the models to come the Rider you used.
On paper, from the photos I see of you, is a shoe that can be considered a great cushioning, they are very reactive, this case, so they are ok for you.
Another feature a bit 'negative is to have a limited duration, as it tends to end the first performance of other models of the same category and price.
Fully agree with you, the duration is poor, miune has already 900 km, have to get another pair soon!
If you have make 900 km with yours Rider, you are a very good runner, because i know that some runners in Italy make half distance with Mizuno!!!