Your stride matters!

Do you get sore feet, ankles, or even pain up your legs? It is especially bad after walking or running or a day on your feet?

You may have underlying issues with your stride, or gait.

Whether your feet tend to roll outwards (underpronation), inwards (overpronation), or somewhere in between, your stride can have a big impact - on comfort, injury risk, and even how well your footwear works for you.

Understanding your pronation type can help you make good decisions about activity, footwear, and injury prevention.

The OutwardStride approach

OutwardStride focuses on information and tools to help you understand and manage your stride. The site is built around a three-part approach - Diagnosis | Lifestyle | Footwear - with a Blog sharing case studies, experiences and ideas.

Not sure where to start?

1. Diagnosis section - provides an overview of pronation types. And there’s a simple Self-assessment to help you identify your pronation tendency.

2. Lifestyle section - helps you identify factors in your daily activities and habits that may be helping (or hindering) your pronation.

3. Footwear section - explores features of shoes to look for that work with your gait.
   

Putting it all together

When diagnosis, lifestyle, and footwear are considered together, you can make smarter decisions about:

• sports and lifestyle choices

• activity levels

• footwear

• injury prevention.

Over time, this approach can help you track changes in your stride and reduce the risk of pronation-related discomfort and injury.

Tools and checklists

Use the links below to explore the tools and checklists in each area.