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Originally Posted by Andrew.cook
Track shoes can be problematic when squatting. Though the heel rise is nice, the amount of cushion built into the shoe makes them less than ideal. As silly as you might look, bowling shoes might be better  I know that JV Askem (fairly famous trainer and Oly lifter) used to find weird shoes in discount shoe stores and use them as cheap lifting shoes. Everything from bowling shoes to ugly orthopedic shoes. The only things he cared about were a very solid sole (hard rubber, leather, wood) and that there was some lift in the heel. |
These have barely any cushion at all. That's the other good thing. They have a LOT less cushion than the running shoes that I wore before. They were the cheapest, which might be one reason that they had less cushion than all of the other track shoes in the store when I looked this morning. I don't think the cushion in these new shoes is enough to have a significant impact on anything. Why is cushion bad?