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Anonymous File :-(, x)
First you need to find out weather or not you pronate.
Get in your bare feet and have a friend kneel down and watch you jog directly away from them for several yards, and then back to them. They need to watch the ankles and see if they collapse inward when your body weight is on that foot. That is pronation. Uncorrected, pronation can cause a host of problems. Shin splints, plantar fasciitis, achilles tendonitis, ITB agitation, patellar pain (runner's knee)...basically fuck you up if you're doing anything over 3 - 5 miles.
Having a low arch does NOT always correlate directly with pronation! About 80% of the time it will, but I've seen high arched people who do and flat-footed people who don't. cont...
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