Hi and welcome back to Get Fit Guy. Kevin Donne here, as usual. Whenever I go to the gym,

it can feel like a bit of a mission. Now, I have to look at what I'm going to be training that day

and make sure that I pack the right things. For example, on

squat day, I want to have looser fissing shorts so that I can make sure I can get a larger

range of motion on the squat, for example, or if I'm swimming, of course, I have to remember to take

my budgie smugglers. But aside from thinking about the clothing I'm taking, there's another consideration, the footwear.

In fact, I often have to take two or more pairs of shoes that day depending on what I'm doing.

Why? Well, stay tuned to find out. So the first thing is to say that aesthetics aside, when go into a sports shoe store there must be a good

reason for all the different varieties of shoes in fact the name of the shoes is often a dead

giveaway tennis shoes for example are intended for tennis basketball shoes for basketball

but could you wear basketball boots to lift weights at the gym or tennis shoes to go for a run?

So the first thing to think about is what you're training and what impact your shoe choices may have on your chosen activity.

So when it comes to lifting weights, like squatting or deadlifting, for example, we're looking at the creation of force, specifically ground reaction force, which is self-explanatory really.

It's a force that you're creating when there's a reaction between you and the ground.

So let's take another example of force transmission.

Let's say I say, hey, you're going to be punched. It's only going to happen once.

You have one option is you're going to get punched as hard as you can,

and that person is going to be wearing a 12 ounce boxing glove or option two they're going

to punch you as hard as they can with only their fist which one would you prefer and why so most people

of sound mind will choose the boxing glove the reason is that there's a soft object between you

and the punch and the boxing glove also covers a larger surface area so the force is spread across

a larger area. So we can expand this logic to squats using a basic logic which is called modus penance.

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