Shape ups/ curved sole shoes DON’T work according to studies

Wall Street Journal:

Researchers conducted two studies, with two different groups of 12 physically active female volunteers in the 19-27 age range. One had the women doing a dozen five-minute stints in which they walked on a treadmill set at different grades wearing each kind of toning shoe, as well as a control pair of regular running sneakers. Researchers  measured the study participants’ oxygen consumption, heart rate, perceived exertion and calorie burn. A similarly conducted study measured activity in six different back and lower-body muscle groups.

You can see all the charts detailing their findings in  ACE’s report. The gist: “Across the board, none of the toning shoes showed statistically significant increases in either exercise response or muscle activation during any of the treadmill trials,” ACE says

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/07/21/american-council-on-exercise-study-finds-toning-shoes-dont-work/

Everyone pay close attention, it doesn’t matter what type of shoe, shorts, shirt etc…… you wear during exercise AS LONG AS YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING!!  If you go from being sedentary(inactive, lazy, whatever you want to call it)  to actually moving around you have no option but to lose weight, tone up and get more fit.  Get crazy and combine that with watching what you eat and FORGET IT!! You’d be fit in no time.   The point of this, just get off your butt and do something, you’ll feel better and who knows, maybe you’ll tone up and lose some weight.