I bet when you were buying your trainers for the gym and for exercising you went for two things over anything else. Look and Comfort. Thats great for ensuring that people might be attracted to you but not so useful if you are there to work out properly.
When you decide which shoes to wear to the gym, you should consider what exercises you will be doing. Take treadmill running for example, you need a cushioned sole with high enough grip to ensure you dont slip on the rubberised running surface. Cross country running you need shoes with a little more stability in the sole. Tennis you need ankle support for the fast turns and changes of direction.
Similarly when lifting weights or cycling, you need a solid sole. Having an air cushion in your shoes when cycling means a lot of your effort is going into compressing air instead of pushing down on the pedal. Lifting weights is even worse, each time you push a weight with the base of your foot or are doing a standing rep, your body changes its stance, balance and motion ever so slightly. You wont notice the minor instabilities but they will build up and cause you to swing the weights instead of lift/curl or press them.
Try cycling or lifting weights with a solid soled shoe, with minimal lift and padding, sure it might not be the best walking shoe in the world but then again, you aren't walking are you? I always use Lonsdale trainers - the stuff boxers wear. No, I don't think I am a boxer and don't pretend to be, but the training they go through and the rigorous years of studying to be a boxing trainer must mean something, and if they suggest those shoes then there must be some thought behind it. And they dont look too bad either...
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