21/07/2025
Ditch the Flip Flops!
I see it all the time in rehab work—clients dealing with aches, injuries, and compensation patterns caused by one thing: flip flops.
While high heels get a bad rep (rightfully so), flip flops often slip under the radar. But wearing them regularly can wreck your movement patterns.
Here’s what happens:
🦶 Your toes grip to keep the shoe on, changing your natural gait and tightening the arch.
🦆 Eventually, your body gives up and externally rotates the hips (hello duck feet) to drag them along.
⌛ This leads to your adductors doing the job of glutes and hamstrings, glutes shutting down, and your lower back taking the hit. It’s a chain reaction: ankles, knees, hips, back, shoulders… all start to suffer.
If that doesn’t seem like a big deal, it probably means your performance baseline is too low to notice the damage yet. But over time, this can mean chronic pain, injuries, and even joint replacements.
🟥 Everything is training. You can't train like an athlete for an hour a day, then sabotage your body the rest of the time.
My advice? Toss the flip flops. Choose shoes with a heel strap if you care about long-term health, mobility, and performance.
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