Anthony L

Hi all, Kit asked my to put in my two cents into this discussion. I'm the one he mentions who managed to correct pronating feet and mild bunions. I think it was a combination of several things that helped strengthen and transform my feet, as follows in no particular order: · Stretching the hip flexors and strengthening the glutes and lower abs – this helps to combat the internal rotation of the legs that accompanies pronation. This for me would have been one Posture & flex class and two Strength & Flex workouts per week · Correcting my foot position every time I was conscious of pronating (this was partly to stop Kit yelling at me!) · Doing all my strength training barefoot. Interestingly I found that single kettlebell snatches really worked my feet. Uni-lateral exercises such as weighted lunges also seemed to help. · Doing single leg balancing exercises (such T-pose etc.) with spread toes and a strong foot position. Again, this would be once per week in Greg's Kitchen Stadium class (Intermediate-Plus P&F that is) · And probably the most effective – about 12 months of regular running on grass in Five Finger shoes (of course barefoot would have been just as good). This was mostly playing lunchtime frisbee twice a week, so nothing fancy, however it did include forward/sideways/backward movement which might have helped. I think the uneven surface of the grass was important for strengthening the foot through bending and twisting etc. I was doing a little bit of regular running at the time, but not a huge amount, although I did work up to doing two or three 10km fun runs in the Five Fingers. As Kit said, my big toes straightened out, my bunions settled down, and a strong foot position with spread toes and good arch is now pretty much habitual. Cheers, Anthony.