97% of the time… it works every time
Hi friends! So glad you liked Mara’s guest post. She has a knack for creating recipes I would LOVE- can’t wait to make the sweet potatoes!!
Holler from the ATL 😀
I landed a little while ago, did some airport cardio (walked/explored some terminals) and then grabbed some dinner. On our last flight, I also experienced some of the highest-quality birth control ever: 3 hr 45 min next to a SHRIEKING child. I felt bad for the kiddo (and parents), but it was painful. That experience did a great job of promptly squashing any desire to procreate, for myself and everyone sitting around us. Pain.
Thank goodness for excellent reading material:
(Finished the Pioneer Woman’s book –adored it so much- and started “You Know When the Men Are Gone”)
and a meditation podcast on the iPhone 😉
Dinner was Moe’s!
Personal trainer salad: lettuce, black beans, guac, lots of jalapenos, pico and olives.
Something sweet:
I got a question on my last post about toning shoes, and since quite a few of ya’ll have asked me about them, thought we could talk about them tonight.
Do toning shoes work?
The short answer is yes.
The more detailed answer is that toning shoes throw off your balance, by being a little higher, curved soles, and more difficult to walk in. Since you have to work a little harder to stabilize, you’re engaging different muscles in your legs, which is what they’re intended to do, so technically they *work*. From using the shoes, your legs may see a tiny bit of new definition but nothing drastic (sorry). Also with the off-balance of the shoes, you have a much higher chance of injuring yourself from twisting your ankle, or eating cement from trying to walk around.
Some toning shoes look super cute:
(my nana rocks Fit Flops and they look awesome- she loves them)
and other styles are not so pretty 😉
Definitely use caution with your toning shoes if you decide to wear them, but I have to say that lifting weights will give better results.
Have you worn toning shoes before? Would you?
See ya in Valdosta- I cant wait to see Jeni and her new baby 😀
xoxo
Gina
Something to do: Don’t forget to send me your Luon for a Cause donation deets and pics if you’d like to participate 🙂 The bidding party will begin next Thursday!
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I have Fit Flops and I love them, though not for toning (I’m with ya on the strength training to build muscle). However, I find my Fit Flops to be extremely comfy, I love the arch support and I think they help with my Restless Leg Syndrome.
I haven’t tried toning shoes, but I have a few friends that like them. I personally just stick with wearing my regular running shoes more. I tend to walk faster, run up stairs, do some impromptu squats or lunges when nobody is around and just in general “Play” more when I’m wearing them 🙂
“highest-quality birth control ever: 3 hr 45 min next to a SHRIEKING child” … I bought the below headphones for my husband who travels a lot for work. He looooves them. Pricey, but totally worth it if you fly a lot 😉
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I have a pair of Fit Flops and I LOVE them! I did buy them when I worked at Lady Foot Locker and got 50% off, so I’m not sure if I would have regularly spent $50 on a pair of flip flops… but my goodness they are incredibly comfortable! I agree with your explanation of how they “work”.
I have a pair of fit flops and I didn’t get them because they were toning shoes, I got them because they are just so damn comfortable!! Totally worth the money and super cute too!
I bought some Reebok Easy Tone shoes in the summer because I work at a daycare, and we spent sooo much time walking around that I figured why not? I don’t know if I saw any changes or not, but they are ridiculously comfortable!
Hey,
Just a quick comment about toning shoes…I loved my Easy Tone shoes at first and wore them allll the time. But after awhile, when I tried to run on the treadmill, I’d notice that my left hip had started to hurt…I’m only 31 – so that was kinda odd…and then it got increasingly worse and worse and worse to the point that it was severe pain that would last for days if I tried to use the treadmill for running (or even walking at this point) so I always had to use the elliptical (which would still somehow cause minor hip pain). Anyway, I finally wised up (duh) and experimented by going back to my old regular workout shoes for about a month and the hip pain gradually lessened and now is completely gone. I think the shoes must have made one of my legs longer than the other or something and caused that awful pain?? Very strange but I can’t recommend the shoes now but of course, everyone will have different experience. Just definitely not worth it to me!
Chic Runner did a nice little review of some toning shoes: http://chicrunner.com/toning-shoes-review/
My mom has a pair of them – she definitely feels that they work different muscles…but a noticeable difference? no.
Okay, those FitFlops are pretty cute, but most of the toning shoes look like space alien footwear to me! 😉
I have Fit Flops and I love them for recovery after long runs because they’re super cushy!