supination

In praise of pronation

In praise of pronation

Our feet are amazing. Every time we take a step, they have to do a dance between absorbing the shock of our body weight hitting the ground as we land, and providing a firm, stable base from which we can push off into the next step. So, somewhere in our evolutionary history, we came up with an incredibly clever design. And it involves two things that have become somewhat dirty words in running circles: pronation and supination.