Functional Soles Podiatry

Functional Soles Podiatry Experts in lower limb rehabilitation

18/12/2025

TRAVIS' TOP RUNNING SHOES FOR 2025.

Here are Travis' top 3 favourite shoes from this year!

This was definitely hard to whittle it down to 3 options this year, but here are the 3 shoes I enjoyed the most this year.

Enjoy 50% off your kids foot health check! Children’s feet change quickly. Between growth spurts, new shoes, sport, and ...
14/12/2025

Enjoy 50% off your kids foot health check!

Children’s feet change quickly. Between growth spurts, new shoes, sport, and busy school days, a lot can happen over a year.

An annual foot health assessment with Functional Soles Podiatry is simple a way to make sure those growing feet are tracking well before they start the 2026 school year.

To book a kids foot health check, simply book online or call us on 0481 723 985

08/12/2025

Meet the Brooks Glycerin Max 2

02/12/2025

Chloe-May's top 3 running shoes of 2025.

Here are my top 3 favourite running shoes of this year!

-ASICS Megablast - an amazingly versatile shoe that can be used for a wide range of different training sessions
-Puma ForeverRun Nitro 2 - a really comfortable, cushioned stability shoe
-Altra FWD Via 2 - a comfortable, plush daily trainer with a wide toe box

Do you agree with my picks? What has been your favourite shoe this year?

19/11/2025

The New Balance Fuel Cell Elite 5. Now this is a nice race day shoe. It works well over short and long distances, and was my shoe of choice for the Melbourne Marathon this year. For a raceday shoe, it has a stable ride underfoot!



19/11/2025

- RUNNING DRILLS -

I have made a conscious effort to do these regularly, as a warm up drill before running, and to become better at teaching them. If we are gonna teach it, we’ve got to lead by example.

A SKIPS: Teaching hip drive and knee drive, while also maintaining a short ground contact time. Contact is made primarily with the forefoot, and landing under the body.

B SKIPS: The B skips adds leg extension as you bring the leg back down to the ground. The hamstrings really get to work here but actively ‘pulling’ the leg down. I need to work on less of the kick out and more of the drive down.

This was from a few months ago now, so I’d love to revideo these and hopefully my technique has improved!!

29/10/2025

BROOKS HYPERION ELITE 5: The midsole

27/10/2025

BROOKS HYPERION ELITE 5: The Upper

Get to know the construction of the upper in Brooks latest race day shoe, how well it locks down and how the heel of the shoe feels on the foot



When we were in the early days of building our business, long before we opened our clinic, we had a big discussion about...
26/10/2025

When we were in the early days of building our business, long before we opened our clinic, we had a big discussion about our vision, and how we wanted our logo to be a visual representation of that.

Our logo comprises of 3 components. The running woman, the Brisbane city background, and the diamond.

November marks 3 years of Functional Soles Podiatry, and we still love our final logo design and what it represents. It came a long way from our very first sketches!!

MELBOURNE MARATHON RECAP: The event was awesome and really well organised it was awesome to have the race precinct outsi...
21/10/2025

MELBOURNE MARATHON RECAP: The event was awesome and really well organised it was awesome to have the race precinct outside the MCG, there was something about all the history of the place and the atmosphere of the marathon.

I was hoping to go under 3 hours and 30 minutes for the marathon.

Unfortunately it was really my day and I missed my target time. I ended up with a finishing time of 3:38:48, which for me was still a massive PB my previous marathon time was a 3:53:19 so I’m happy with the time.

The course was nice and I didn’t find it overly congested which was nice to be able to run with some space, weather was great it was a change from the hot and humid conditions I had trainer through in Brisbane. I feel I went out a bit fast and this caught up with me in the end. I had a consistent first 30km and then got cramp in my right quad followed not long by cramp in the left. This made it more difficult for me to keep pace and heading into the final 12km is all the elevation.

The highlight of the race was definitely seeing Chloe-May and the kids at the 41km mark and then running into the MCG to finish. It was such a different experience finishing inside the stadium.

09/10/2025

SHOE PREVIEW: Nike Vomero Premium

We had to take the opportunity to try the shoe on when we found it at the Melbourne Marathon Runners Expo.

06/10/2025

SHOE REVIEW: Brooks Hyperion Max 3

This shoe proved to be popular in our run group testing! Hear Chloe-Mays thoughts on Brooks super trainer, after she took the shoe out for a spin

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