Each iteration of every Nike Metcon gets tested by Nike’s most elite training athletes — Mat Fraser, Kara Webb, Josh Adidas ZX 750 Mujer Bridges and Sara Sigmundsdottir, among others, have all provided feedback on various Metcon silhouettes throughout the years. “I always rip through shoes. There’s always a hole Nike Air Max 90 Dámské somewhere from doing way more rope climbs, box jumps and burpees than most people do. Or something is falling off. Or something is broken,” says Josh Bridges, a Nike athlete and functional fitness professional Nike Air Force 1 Damen who has been involved in testing the Metcon since the shoe's beginning.
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And that’s to be expected. Nike Air Max 270 Femme The guy trains for up to five hours a day six days a week in the same pair of shoes. “I got my first pair [of the new Nike Metcon 4] back in March, and I wear it for everything,” he says. Nike Air Max 95 Femme “And they’re still completely wearable — no tears, no holes, the heel’s not falling apart, the toe box isn’t ripping — it’s unlike any of my other shoes.”The outsole. It has the same allover-rubber tri-star design (for traction in multiple directions) and the same 4-millimeter offset (which is relatively flat for a stability Nike Air Max 1 Dam shoe) as the Nike Metcon 3, so you get the same underfoot experience you’ve grown to love.
The underfoot cushioning. All the cushioning you need for high-impact movements comes from a drop-in midsole Nike Air Huarache Damen — not the full rubber outsole (most traditional running and training shoes get their cushion from foam that’s exposed on the outsole, Adidas Superstar Mujerwhich doesn’t offer great traction and can get shredded during high-contact movements such as rope climbs).
Aside from the Nike Romaleos (a pure heavy-lifting shoe), the Metcon silhouette Adidas ZX Flux Mujer is Nike’s most durable training shoe. It shines in workouts that involve lifting, functional movements and metabolic conditioning — and especially during exercises that are really going to push a shoe to the max (say, going for a snatch balance PR or climbing a rope). When it came time to update the shoe for the fourth time,Nike Internationalist Femme designers had plenty of feedback on what was working well and what could be better. They took a don’t-mess-it-up approach and kept some things exactly the same, and improved what needed improving. www.wimatherm.de Here are the specifics: