Can toning shoes–those heeless soft-soled sneakers sold with a promise of tighening your buttocks- really tighten your buttocks? The short answer is "probably not." A longer answer is offered by New York Times writer Gretchen Reynolds, who found a professor of biomechanics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who did the research to find out. The researcher recruited a group of female students and had them walk on a treadmill for 10 minutes at a time while wearing, alternately, a walking shoe or a toning shoe. He attached sensors to the women’s legs to measure the electrical impulses generated as their muscles contracted, and he measured the women’s oxygen consumption to see if they burned more calories with one shoe rather than the other. And the answer is: muscle activation and oxygen consumption were almost identical whether the women wore walking shoes or Shape-ups. Reynolds tells us that the results matched those of another study conducted last year by exercise physiologists at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, which found that muscle activation and calorie burning did not change whether people wore ordinary athletic shoes or any of three different models of toning shoes. But wait: one study that did show greater muscle activation with Reebok toning shoes involved all of five women and was paid for by, yes, Reebok.
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Im such a newbie when it comes to all this, thanks for taking the time to write this up, keep them coming! was a wonderful read.
About the only thing it did for me was make my legs feel like they had shin splints.
I have 3 pair of these shoes and whether they make a difference or not I enjoy wearing these shoes because they feel goo on my feet.
they will make you feel lighter in the wallet only and make your husband tighten his grip on the finances. that is all.
I’ve never tried these, but my sister does have them. she doesn’t actually see the results, but she has great tight buttocks anyway)