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ITs a sleeper - my athletes tell me it's the best hip stability exercise in their routine. Stick with it and remember to progress the resistance band as you can!

soooooo glad to hear - happy Sumer to you and your crew!!!!

yes - this isn't a balance exercise - its about loading the calf. So find something to hold onto. best!

Hi - glad you found this helpful. The BEST thing you can do for your elastic recoil is to do strength and power training to optimize your limb stiffness and force production to improve your run economy. Putting targeted work into your body will yield gains far and above any shoe! Some of the new un-plated compliant foams work well, and others don't. It's a new frontier, and tuning them matters. With respect to Haglunds - those changes take many many years to develop.....super shoes haven't been around long enough to blame them -ha! the reason more pro's are getting surgeries for these is because the surgical techniques (when needed) have improved significantly to allow people to return to high level running successfully.

the research identifies one significant contributor to achilles tendinopathy as poor rotational control of the entire foot, lower body, and trunk. Using the Alfredson protocol is a good stimulus to create mechanotransduction to stimulate the tendon to repair. But it does not help that person to better control and stabilize rotation through the foot and ankle. As a physiotherapist of over 20 years, one of the main issue seen in people doing heel raises off a step is that they collapse the arch as they raise up and down. And failure to learn to control the position of the foot and lower body is a BIG issue! Doing these on the MOBO doesn't give contact for the little toes (so you can't just shift your weight laterally) and providing support for the big toe cues the arch muscles to steer the foot straight. All this to say that doing calf raises on a mobo solves 2 problems at once. We just did an extensive newsletter on this in the fall. Please sign up - its totally free and we don't post desert recipes - we only deliver info that can help you succeed. best!

​@@moboboard thank you for taking the time to reply! I'll check out the newsletter

thanks and SO great to hear you are having success! wishing you the best in the New Year!

Hi - I'm part Sicilian, so speaking slowly is not something I'm good at! FYI - you can SLOW down the video speed on UA-cam if its helpful - sorry, but I'm trying - ha!

Hi - happy to help. A lot of thought went into the height of the fins. 2 primary reasons: 1) Wanted to ensure that the tilt of MOBO would allow you to go though the entire range of motion that your foot and ankle do as you walk, run, cut, and jump.....and it does. More tilt isn't necessary. Your foot rear foot doesn't move more than 15 deg under any weight bearing load, and that's how far your MOBO tilts. 2) safety - there are a lot of people who have chronic ankle instability (sprain their ankles often) and limiting the tilt of MOBO ensures they can train on it SAFELY. This being said, if you do want to take your post tab through a greater arc of motion, then I'd strongly recommend you do the banded foot sweep exercise (video is on our EXERCISES page - just click the FOOT on the clickable body). in that scenario you can take the foot through as much Range of motion as you want in open chain (foot off the ground) to build tissue capacity. Wishing you the best!

thanks kindly! and thanks for all you do for your patients!

thanks for watching!

its a NB Sonic Fuel Core. They stopped producing it last year. As I stated in the vid, the reason I used it was that it also has a high amount to toe spring, to show that its not JUST toe spring that makes the difference.

You make a great point and one that I agree with. Standards exist for a reason: to allow us to compare performances objectively! FYI, in competitive swimming, all pools are EXACTLY the same length, and the water temp must be in specific temp ranges, and even the lanes lines must "dampen" the turbulence of water. This allows the performance to highlight the ATHLETE, and not other factors. In cycling, there are limits on bike position in the 1 hr TT, time trial events, and different regs in ITU and long distance triathlon to aim to keep things consistent. With super shoes, the running community's romance with "pushing the limits of human performance" has allowed the use of shoe doping. Now the governing body DID impose a restriction of 40mm of stack height as I mentioned in this vide to serve as a limit. But totally agree that its not ethical to compare performances in super shoes to previous performances .....as they indeed would have been. I'm not saying we should limit the use of tech in all sport, but I do agree that the records should specify this. Just as they do in track when they say a performance was "wind aided". Thanks!

Yes, but the genie is out of the bottle in cycling and swimming as well (the "super suit" era post-Beijing saw races where it took a WR to make the final). And, like World Athletics, the governing bodies of these sports looked for ways to rein in the tech, but it's still had a huge impact. Then, there's nutrition, supplements, recovery aids, altitude training and tents and, of course PED's, all of which improve performance in ways that can't be compared to previous eras. Not saying we shouldn't have standards and I'm in favor of the 40mm limitation but it's only going to get more complicated in this arena on a number of fronts as time goes by (I mean we aren't even consistent with hormone levels that constitute a female from one distance to the next and the gene editing era may be coming soon). As an aside, many footwear manufacturers pay no attention to the rules when designing some models (not for use in elite competition) and we've even crossed the 50mm threshold in a few instances (surely this is the ceiling?) A few years ago I saw a cartoon where a runner was lined up for the 100m wearing shoes with a stack height of 100m. Gun went off and he fell across the line for the win :)

Hi Dylan - its not me "saying" .....the reality Is that the vast majority of these shoes out thee currently have been tuned to work best (meaning the most % improvement in running economy) for runners in the 115-135-140is lb range, while running the speeds that elites do (running speed matters a lot, as the rate at which you load these shoes matters). So think about it this way - the shoes were intended to be SQUISHED by runners in a certain weight range running certain speeds, and if you do that they they'll rebound at their intended rate and give you back your bounce. As I stated in the video (with references) that runners under that, or over that weight range, and slower, will get "some" result, but it will be less than the group they were engineered for. Said simply - we live in a reality where elites are given these shoes for free, and may in fact be getting the full 4% or whatever improvement in running economy. And in the elite world, that 4% can be not just the difference between 1st and 2nd, but running with the lead pack or being off the back. On the flip side, these shoes are VERY $$$ -and people love to model the elites....I've been shocked at the number of runners I've worked with who are well outside the target weight/speed range who buy these shoes because they think it will help them equally. They may get a small fraction of improvement (maybe .8-1.5%) but is that really worth it in the mid pack? That's for you to decide with your wallet..... I should note, again efforts by the industry have been targeted to hype up this tech and get results. The industry knows that the elites aren't buying these shoes, but the weekend warriors are. In the mid-term ahead, you are going to see companies release models of super shoes tuned more for the masses so people in different weight and speed ranges can get more from this tech. Great question - thanks!

Seems to me the next step like you say is just like snowboards ... Get a weight range for super shoes and actually put it on the stats for the shoe so when you buy it at least weight wise you will be in the range for it to be effective ... Like make a Vaporfly or Adidas pro for say 160 to 180lbs and one for 185 up ... Or even a shoe that's specific for the heavier runners who are still able to run good times

Hi Paul - Great question....but VERY COMPLEX, as it depends on the issue that is CAUSING their achilles overload to begin with. Overload to the achilles can be caused by: a) torsional instability in the foot, ankle that places the achilles in a longer position - for these people super shoes would be a VERY BAD choice! b) something called a positive ankle power, where the runner's gait tries to push too hard when the achilles should be absorbing (this is something we measure in the biomechanics lab, but cannot be seen with the naked eye - for these people, I'm actually not sure how they'd respond to this tech, as its more of a gait issue than a shoe issue. c) increased strain due to length issues - for these people, in theory, this tech MAY be slightly better.....as 1) the high toe spring results in less propulsive force needed from the achilles, and B) the research shoes that the shoe itself takes a lot of the strain....thus less is transferred to the achilles itself. But....due to the fact that the vast majority of runners have achilles tendinopathy due to A, I'd be caution here.....and would never recommend a runner training in these for their daily runs. Thanks for your question!

YES! and runners......"time" does not mean 24-48 hrs....!

In a marathon build right now and just bought the Adidas Pro 3 for the race. Decided to test them out in a 5k race for the first run... strained my calf muscle! 5 days later I'm feeling better, but it definitely knocked me out for 3 days and I'm still not back to my hard training. Should have eased into them more gradually.

Not exactly, it’s trying to cue good squat form: integration of foot stability into an equal distribution of knee and hip loading. Obviously lots of ways to bias a squat, but this simple drill cleans up a lot of imbalances- have fun!

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Anterior. (frontside) knee pain could be caused by about 18 different problems.....Pretty challenging to say without doing an individual assessment. In the meantime, try limiting your squat depth to pain free only, but we do strongly recommend seeing someone locally to dig deeper for your individual needs. Best!

Thanks! so much noise out there- just trying to HELP!

These were recorded in a follow along format. All of these exercises ware also shown on our website - no audio on that format, but we’ve got close ups of the feet and board fir you there. Check out the exercises page and you’ll find over 35 exercises. Best!

thanks!!! Wishing you all the best!

We designed MOBO to work with a wide range of foot sizes: from a Women’s 6.5 to a Men’s 12.5. If your feet are smaller or larger than this, you can still use the MOBO (my kids use mine!), but its best used for the sizes it was designed for.

@@moboboard I'm a UK 12 which is a U.S 13, so I'll hopefully be ok with it. Fed up with everything being built for small people. I paid a lot of money for this. What about all them basketball players out there? Guess they'll not be able to use the MOBO board. I'm gonna be pissed if the width of my feet doesn't allow all my small toes to clench in to the hole in the board. When my MOBO board is delivered I'll post the results of whether I can use it or not.

@@mathewstovell5167 Personally I am a 12.5 US so I am right on the cusp. I think it would be a great idea to have a small- and large-sized MOBO board. Yes, there is manufacturing and inventory issues, but it would appeal to a wider market.

​@@mathewstovell5167well.. Could you use it..?

Please check out the EXERCISES section on our website, as we've got all the differences between fin configurations spelled out, and mentioned specifically in each video. In short though: the EVEN slots will work the foot as it naturally pronates and supinate. the ODD slots work the perineal muscles in the outer shin (especially helpful if you are someone who sprains ankles a lot!) and sometimes the fins go in the front slots, back slots, or the outer slots. Again -we've got this all outlined in the EXERCISES page. Best!

Good eye....Max was in one place long enough to get in some stability work , and then went on to bag multiple peaks that day!

Hi! If you ankle pain is super severe or really irritable, you may need to go easy into this, but the reason your achilles gets angry is because the foot it sits on isn't showing up solid and stable to support that big rubber band (the tendon! ) MOBO is a way to rebuild your feet, and apply progressive loads to the tendon to heal. We can't comment on specific treatments programs since we don't have you in front of us for an individual eval, but follow the progressions we've got on our website and you'll be well on your way!

Hi - so happy you are pumped on your MOBO! One of the biggest points we try to get across is that you shouldn't stress about a specific diagnosis, but instead try to fix the PROBLEMS that create overload and imbalances. Yes, MOBO cues your feet, but you also likely feet your hips fire up as well. The key is that MOBO cues you to drive your big toe down for support while also demanding the muscles in your hip drive it straight. So doing ANYTHING on your MOBO will help improve hip cueing. This being said, after your son has mastered the Foot 6-pack exercises on our website, I'd rotate between the wall clams, hip hikes, star squats, weighted tippy birds, and hip kicks to build an insanely solid hip control. But you also need to cue gait - have him think about his kneecaps as flashlights: yellow and blue should shine forward- not cross ad make green. best!

Hi- the fins are numbered to that the EVEN slots for right foot are same as the EVEN slots for the left. We made it easy! But yes, you do switch them to the opposite side of the board

Hi - YES - we numbered your fins the same for both R and L feet. So the EVEN slots on the left foot are in the exact same axis/configuration as the EVEN slots on the left.

Hi Roberta! no harm in doing them daily at all! we've got this on our website, in the exercises section, but the goal of MOBO is to improve position sense and "steering" in your body. When doing this, your brain can get tired! So we always advise people to do a little bit more often during each session, rather than do a 40 min one day a week. best to you!