Gait Analysis

At Bill's Bike and Run we want you to have the best experience possible.  With the new running store, we offer a fit and gait analysis test to help you get the right shoe.  All these years you may have been running in a shoe that isn't right for your foot.  I highly recommend to let the professionals who have been trained at Bill's to do a gait analysis on you.  Now, I have encountered with many people who are just starting out running or even walkers, that they have never heard of or have never had an analysis done. If you are wondering what it one entails, I will tell you.

A gait analysis will provide information about your foot and running style.  Only through knowing this information and your running style, we will be able to select the right shoes.  How it works?  We will do a video analysis by having you run on a treadmill in a neutral shoe.  You will run for about 15-20 seconds while we take the video from behind looking at your feet.  The video will show how your foot strikes the ground, where it strikes, and how much it pronates.  Then, the video is slowed down and analyzed.

As I said, we look at how much the foot pronates.  Pronation is referred to the natural inward roll of the foot as the outside of the heel strikes.  Your foot could tell us that it overpronates or is underpronating.

Overpronation- is where the foot rolls inward too much.

Underpronation-the foot doesn't roll inward enough.  

The analysis will guide us to which shoe should be selected to help correct the degree of pronation and help reduce the risk of injury and improve running efficiency (http://www.asics.co.uk/running-advice/preparation/foot-mapping-and-gait-analysis-how-it-can-improve-your-running-efficiency)

Check out these videos from Runner's World http://www.runnersworld.com/running-shoes/pronation-explained?page=single  It's definitely worth looking at.