What Shoe Wear Patterns Mean About Your Walking Stride
Because walking is repetitive — the same footstrike, thousands of times a day — the same spots on your soles erode again and again, and a pattern emerges within weeks...
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What Shoe Wear Patterns Mean About Your Walking Stride
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The Importance of Proper Work Footwear
The average full-time employee spends 2,080 hours of their year at work. That’s about half the typical person’s waking hours.There are people whose job requires them to sit for long...
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Healthy Eating Habits
Here at Z-CoiL, we’re all about being healthy. We want people to live their best so they can stay strong and active. And we believe in capitalizing on all the...
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Staying on Track After Your Vacation
Aren’t vacations great? All the plans and reservations are made and you finally get to go visit that place you’ve dreamed of. What a blast!Then it’s time to go home....
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Posture's Importance
Here at Z-CoiL, we spend a lot of time talking about the importance of your shoes. Of course we do, it’s what we do for a living! We’ve spent years...
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Fashion vs. Function
Why oh why can’t all those fashionable shoes in the world be comfortable and good for your feet as well? It seems like a shame to not buy that sweet...
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How to Have Fun this 4th of July
Independence Day celebrates the United States’ declaration of independence from England. The drafters of the declaration document started working on it on July 2, and by July 4, 1776, had...
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Helping Lower Back Pain
Eight out of ten of us—that’s right, a whopping 80%—will suffer lower back pain sometime in our life. Lower back pain is the single leading cause of disability, and Americans...
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Biggest Myths About Foot Care
We all want to take good care of our feet so that they will remain healthy and pain free. But feet are complicated! All those nerve endings and bones and...
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Taking Care of Your Feet
Our feet are some of the hardest working parts of our body. We use them to go, go, go! Up and down stairs, lifting things in the wrong position, leaping...
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Staying Active in Warmer Weather
It is getting awfully nice out. Nice enough to set aside all those cold weather excuses from the last few months and venture outdoors for some fun in the sun.Yes,...
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The Importance of Right Shoe Fit
Anyone who has ever suffered foot pain knows first-hand how debilitating it can be. Wincing your way through aching, pinching steps, or feeling your arches, ankles, knees or back groan...
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How to Cure SAD: Walk (Especially in Z's)
We’ve talked a few times over the last few months about how walking helps out with different aspects of your health. Walking does wonderful things for your cardiovascular health, as...
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Healthy Joints
We humans often take our joints for granted. After all, they’ve been there our whole lives helping us stride, squat, reach, and lift our way through life. But as time...