Shoes??

What type of shoes do you guys use for your lifting??
 
As my weight goes up on my leg work, I am becoming increasingly concerned about the stability of my feet.
 
I have always used cross trainers,  but after looking at videos, I noticed that very flat shoes seem to be the norm. And I do feel that would help me with some of my stability issues.
 
Recomendations anyone?
 
Especially shoes that come in extra, extra wide widths (mens 4E), I'm a special girl, what can I say.

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What are cross trainers?? I alwyas just wore my jordans

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reebok tennis shoes doesnt seem like it matters except those big powerlfits they usually have flat footed shoes

Usually wear the same sneaker I wear everyday. Hwoever I need a better squatting sneaker cause I dont want to ruin these, they're kinda nice. I'll get some 15 dollar crap shoes for leg day.

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wow, i thought now one besides workin hard would ever respond.
 
I don't know, I was noticing that when i do romainian deadlifts and squats that my feet pitch forward and since there is a slope (I hazard to say heel) in the cross trainers, that that might encourage my heels to come off the ground.
 
Spartan i have no idea how to describe cross trainers, They are just all around usefull generic sneakers, not specifically designed for basketball, tennis, or running, i believe
 

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What type of shoes do you guys use for your lifting??

As my weight goes up on my leg work, I am becoming increasingly concerned about the stability of my feet.

I have always used cross trainers,  but after looking at videos, I noticed that very flat shoes seem to be the norm. And I do feel that would help me with some of my stability issues.

Recomendations anyone?

Especially shoes that come in extra, extra wide widths (mens 4E), I'm a special girl, what can I say.

I love the flats and used to always use my aesics or otomix shoes, made for boxing and wrestling - and I was kickboxing a lot back then too, I have lately used my runners or cross trainers or my flats, you know those cool ones in style now for a year...........I have a pair that slip on and feel so nice, and being a gymnast I like being in bare feet or flat, I recently bought a pair of stansha split sole dance shoes which is for my dance and gymanstics but great for plyometrics and even in the gym, not sure about running though.  I also got capulet stanshas, those are also split but very flat, with a slight spring heal like nike shox, those were like not wearing anything, like having better feet than I do now, but I try not to use them for the gym right now as they are my routine shoes.
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I have a few pair of century shoes I wear.. nice flat sole and light weight and great floor grip.. better than some lifting shoes I've owned..
 
The one's I have are a little older style but here's a link to the site
 
Century martial arts shoes

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all these wonderful shoe recomendations, and is the story of my life, not a pair to fit my mutant feet .
 
Oh well at least I'm used to it.

ORIGINAL: thehardway

What type of shoes do you guys use for your lifting??

As my weight goes up on my leg work, I am becoming increasingly concerned about the stability of my feet.

I have always used cross trainers, but after looking at videos, I noticed that very flat shoes seem to be the norm. And I do feel that would help me with some of my stability issues.

Recomendations anyone?

Especially shoes that come in extra, extra wide widths (mens 4E), I'm a special girl, what can I say.

A good cheap option would be chuck taylors converse. A more expensive one would be weightlifting shoes.

http://www.dynamic-eleiko.com/products/shoesFR.html

If you train at home, you can also opt for no shoes at all.

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They might not be great for running and such, but their thin, flat soles and high sides make them nice and stable for lifting. Plus they're cheap so you can replace them often, and they stretch and wear to mold to your feet.

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nooooo, if you drop a weight on your foot your gonna want that little layer of extra protection.

I wear wrestling shoes.  Flat on the bottom and hi-top.

How do you drop weight on your feet?  I have never seen this happen and I see a lot of people doing dumb things at my gym.

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How do you drop weight on your feet?  I have never seen this happen and I see a lot of people doing dumb things at my gym.

 
You know, I have never done it, but I do fear  it. Which is why while I've cosidered lifting barefoot, I but I can't quite make myself do it.
 
Eventhough everyone has linked me to shoe sources, none of them offer shoes in wide widths, WTF? I would assume there are powerlifters, olypicic lifter and a whole variety of athleats that have large bone structure (such as myself), and therefore would need wide shoes.
 
I'm kinda annoyed! 

I wear Mizuno wave nirvana's which are strick running shoes, and although they arent flat bottomed they have a very stiff base (which for running gives spring), but i find myself on legs days in the same boat as you thehardway, because they are curved it feels like my feet start rolling forward onto my toes.

If i'm squatting i wear weightlifting shoes other then that i just wear regular track shoes. If u need a good pair of wide weightlifting shoes, vs athletic makes a good pair.

Otomix on leg days.  Other days are an Asics style cross trainer.

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converse hightops!

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 Of all the suggestions listed this far.
 
I HAVE FOUND ZERO IN WIDE WIDTHS!!!! 
 
How funny is that!
 
Beefcake I hate to say this but I have to, everytime I see your sign in all I can hear is Cartman, saying  Beefcake BEEFCAKE, from the weight gain 3000 episode of South Park.  

ya lol that's where I got it from.

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I wear DEWALT steel toe cap trainers.

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I wear DEWALT steel toe cap trainers.

 
I would never buy shoes from the company that makes my drill.
 
Just like I would't buy an Converse circular saw.
 
For work boots, there is no one better than Red Wings.

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Of all the suggestions listed this far.

I HAVE FOUND ZERO IN WIDE WIDTHS!!!!

How funny is that!

Beefcake I hate to say this but I have to, everytime I see your sign in all I can hear is Cartman, saying Beefcake BEEFCAKE, from the weight gain 3000 episode of South Park.

You can try DoWins (VS Atheltics) or Power Firm weightlifting shoes (pretty expensive), but both are wide. I even think that Power Firm choose the shoes they give you according to a pencil tracing of your feet.

Power Firm Weightlifting Shoes,
VS Atheltics Weightlifting Shoes - Those are cheaper and as far as I know people with wide feet find them very comfortable.

Chucks outta do the trick.

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Chucks outta do the trick.

No, I am a foot freak mutant.

Mens 8 EEEE They are like little flippers!
 
I always have to get the most exspensive, "special" shoes, otherwise they just don't fit.

On the plus side, and this has been validated by a host of miscelanious and unflinchingly honest people.

My feet are absolutely adorable, and the cutest toes you would ever want to see. They just don't fit in "normal" people shoes, eventhough they absolutely don't look abnormal, so that is something.

You have no idea what I go through to find heels, or girl shoes, and more often (much more often than not), I don't get anything.

If coldfire is correct and I can get shoes fron tracings of my feet unfortunately, that is what I will do when I have some money to blow.

Hmmm, okay then.  I just recommended chucks because they have completely flat feet and no compresiveness.  For standing exercises that require perfectly flat feet on the ground like squats or overhead presses, chucks work wonderfully.  I don't know what to recommend in your situation though. 

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Hmmm, okay then. I just recommended chucks because they have completely flat feet and no compresiveness. For standing exercises that require perfectly flat feet on the ground like squats or overhead presses, chucks work wonderfully. I don't know what to recommend in your situation though.

Those exercises don't require perfectly flat feet on the ground. There is a reason olympic lifters have shoes with heels.

This little heel helps you get deep into the bottom of a squat, and provides more quads involevment in squats and deadlifts which helps you to get out of the hole.

Powerlifters usually use chucks because of the wide stance, which is a bit different and does not benefit from a heel.