I warn you. This is a rant. I was recently in a well-known store that sells running shoes and happened to witness a lady wanting to buy running shoes. Great. It’s approaching the start of the new year, maybe a resolution has been made and it includes getting fitter/being healthier or some such goal related to why someone may take up running. Superb. Good on her. However, what I witnessed was nigh on bullying from the shop assistant who looked too young and to be frank (going by the state of his own trainers) lacking in knowledge and expertise fit enough to advise. The customer was put through the mind-boggling and mystifying kerfufflement of gait analysis, made to have their feet analysed on a pressure plate (why? this wasn’t explained), do squats (also not explained why), run on a treadmill to ‘assess’ their gait and then told they ran neutrally. But, she was then bullied into having custom molded insoles fitted….even though “there’s no obligation to buy”. Why would someone with neutral gait even need custom orthotics? Poor woman was so baffled and she obviously wasn’t being listened to. I heard her say, after being asked to run on the … Continue reading
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