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| Skechers Men's Shape Ups Lace Up |
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Product Description |
 | | Shape Ups from SKECHERS are designed to get you fit while you walk, work, shop, and more. Shape Ups have as much a place in your life as your boots, sandals, and dress casuals, and can retrain your muscles, helping you walk with a positive impact. Used properly, Shape Ups change the way you approach your daily activities. Used regularly, Shape Ups will enhance the way you feel and look; muscles get toned, calories are burned and your posture improves.
Shape Ups are designed to: - Promote weight loss
- Strengthen the back
- Firm calf and buttock muscles
- Reduce cellulite and tone your thighs
- Increase cardiovascular health
- Improve posture
- Reduce stress on knee and ankle joints
Three Reasons You Need Shape Ups: 1. Stronger You
Shape Ups are designed to help you tone your muscles – from your back and abdomen to your buttocks and calves. 2. Healthier You
Shape Ups will help you lose weight and improve your circulation, creating a healthier you! 3. Easy Exercise Routine
Wear your Shape Ups everywhere and anywhere you walk (or stand), and your body will feel the benefits. Three Reasons You Want Them: 1. In Style
Look good while getting fit. There’s no reason to ruin your outfit with unattractive footwear that’s a fashion don’t! In your Shape Ups, your style will still be right on as you power through your everyday life. 2. Portable Power
Shape Ups are the ideal fitness equipment for the on-the-go, busy lifestyle. Wear them to and from the office, pack them in your suitcase, or keep them in your car for shopping trips. They are portable power in a small package. 3. A Brand You Trust
There’s a lot to be said about familiarity and credibility. When buying SKECHERS, you know you are getting style and quality at a reasonable price. We’re a company you’ve trusted for more than 15 years.
| The design technology behind Shape Ups changes the way you walk.
As we move through our lives, we typically walk on hard surfaces, which places stress on our knee joints and lower back. People who are required to stand for their jobs feel the impact on their bodies the most, and don’t gain the benefits that come with all that activity.
The goal with Shape Ups was to simulate walking on soft ground. SKECHERS has turned hard surfaces into comfortable ground through revolutionary technology designed into the framework of the shoe. The core of this technology is in the dynamic rolling bottom, the soft foam insert under the heel, and the dual-density midsole. These three elements work together to give you the feeling of walking on sand or luxurious pile carpet--regardless of the actual surface. Walking on softer, uneven surfaces forces you to engage muscles not normally used when walking on hard ground. Not only does this strengthen your muscles, but it also increases blood flow and reduces the impact on your joints and lower back. Designed to improve your life by changing the way you walk, Shape Ups feature a unique soft kinetic wedge insert and dynamic rolling bottom to simulate walking barefoot on a giving surface that gives such as sand. With the comfort of Shape Ups, you will feel your heel sink to the ground as you step, roll forward as your weight shifts to its center, and push off with your toes. This movement will result in stronger leg, buttock, back and abdominal muscles as you stabilize your steps. 
Barefoot walking simulation on soft ground
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The heel sinks comfortably into the soft ground as you step -
You naturally roll forward as your weight shifts to the center and your balance is centered -
Easily push off with your toe pads Due to this unconventional manner of walking, we suggest you moderate your walking routine in Shape Ups for the first week or two (25 to 45 minutes per day), depending on your level of fitness. As you continue to wear your Shape Ups, your body will adjust to this new method of walking. You will find it easy and comfortable while still enjoying the strengthening and cardiovascular benefits.  Get in the Routine
1. Kick Back: Stand upright and place feet parallel and hip distance apart, balance centered. Roll your weight onto the back of the soft foam heel – hold for a count of five and then back to the center. Do not lock knees or tip backward. Stretches calf and hamstrings. Repeat 5 to 10 times. 2. Rock and Roll: Stand upright and place feet parallel and hip distance apart, balance centered. Roll your weight forward so you are balancing on the underside of your toes – hold for a count of two, then slowly rock back to the soft heel – hold for a count of two, and then back to your center of balance. Do not lock knees or tip backward. Stretches calf and hamstrings, warms up Achilles and ankles. Repeat 5 to 10 times.
3. Roll and Rock and Roll: Follow the Rock and Roll stretch, but alternate feet so one is rolling to the toes and one is rocking back. Repeat 5 to 6 times.
4. The Lean: Place your hands on a wall, parallel and slightly above your head. With one leg in front of the other and your arms forward, press with your palms as if you were leaning on the wall. Keep your back leg straight and your front foot on the floor, then bend the front leg and lean forward by moving your hips toward the wall. Hold for a count of five, then repeat on the other side. Stretches calf and Achilles. Repeat 5 to 6 times. 
What's Inside Shape Ups? -
Upper: Superior quality, well padded uppers of durable leather and breathable mesh designed to provide needed support and supreme comfort.
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Sockliner: Soft EVA insole designed to protect the foot.
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Midsole: Firm polyurethane frame designed to support and stabilize the foot.
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Kinetic Wedge: Super soft foam designed for maximum
shock absorption to protect the body while exercising core muscles.
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Outsole: Long-lasting rubber outsole designed to contribute to
biomechanical motion vital to a natural walking state by propelling the wearer into their next step. |
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Product Details |
- Men's Skechers, Shape Ups - What's Hot
- Shape Ups men's design designed for male physiology
- Discover fitness with the SKECHERS Shape Ups shoes.
- Leather and suede upper in a lace up fitness sneaker
- Designed to promote weight loss, tone muscles and improve posture while you walk
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Customer Reviews |
 Hubby LOVES these! |
| Review Date: January 12, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Leslie, Shreveport, LA USA |
| I got a pair of a different brand very much like the Shape-ups at Christmas. Everyone complimented me on my "neat looking" shoes and I think maybe my DH got a little jealous. Hee hee! But I kept telling him and everyone else, I don't care what they looked like, they were like walking on clouds! I loved my shoes and recommended them to everyone. However, my husband couldn't take me up on my recommendation because the brand I bought only carried women's shoes/sizes. The Skechers so far is the only shoes that carry the men's styles and sizes without breaking the bank. Granted, they are a little pricey, but I think they have been well worth it because my husband is absolutely in love with the pair he just received (he got the white and navy ones). The extra height is an added bonus as well. They make him about 2 inches taller and he's totally digging that. Ha! He will be attending a conference later this month where he has to walk around most of the day, so that will be well worth the price if it can save his feet and back. So far he has no complaints and has walked around quite a lot to get used to them (can you say Sam's Club and Wal-mart browsing!) and says he actually feels invigorated after walking in them and his posture is better!. That is a thumbs-up in my book! |
Love it, love it, love it!
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| Review Date: March 5, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Edward L. Williams, Dacula, GA United States |
| I've been using my Shape Ups for 3+ months now, and I love these shoes. I had to give up running because of knee pain, and walking every day wasn't giving me the weight loss I enjoyed before, so I decided to give the Shape Ups a try to increase the challenge. Learning to walk in them took a little work, but the instructional DVD really helped. Since I switched to walking in these shoes, I get a real workout in my calves, hams, and glutes (and abs, if I walk for an hour+.) I really love how my calves are looking now, I'm getting better definition in them than when I was running every day. I'm losing weight a lot faster than walking in tennis shoes, and my average heart rate gets a lot higher. Additionally, my knee and back pain have been dramatically reduced, as the Shape Ups force your muscles to really do the work in supporting you, rather than the impact of every step going straight up your shin, and thereby transmitted to your knee. The shoes force good posture (but not uncomfortably), really benefiting my back. I resent days where I have to wear any other shoes, because these make me feel so good! As far as walking and "every day" shoes go, I think I'll keep buying these until I'm in the ground. |
Wonderful results with Skechers Shape Ups
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| Review Date: May 4, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Imndzone, Florida |
I bought my Skecher Shape Ups in early February of this year. I am a 66 year-old male. I had been walking 3 miles per day, but my knees and hips often hurt during and after my walk. The first time I wore the Shape Ups, my knees and hips did not hurt. It is now early May, and they still don't hurt during or after my walks. I have increased my distance to 4 miles per day, and I have cut 1-2 minutes per mile off my time (15-16 minutes per mile down to 14-15 minutes per mile).
I ride a recumbent bicycle 70 miles per week and had noticed some painful calluses on the bottom of my feet caused by the pedals. Because of the thickness of the Shape Up soles, I no longer have the calluses.
In March I bought a second pair so I would have one pair for workouts and a second pair for everyday.
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| Review Date: January 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: T. M. Gore, |
These shoes take a little getting time to become accustomed to. At first you feel as if you are walking on spoonge balls, but you quickly learn to walk in them and they become comfortable and useful.
They will change how you walk, you step will become longer and you will start to feel a spring in your step.
I like them and believe they will make a difference in my overall health. |
Joint Savers!
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| Review Date: January 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: N. L. GAIN, BRADENTON, FLORIDA, US |
| The trainers are extremely comfortable. If you walk and hold your posture as instructed you definitely do feel the workout, particularly in your calves and hamstrings. They give you the feeling (and the actuality) of some extra height, which is enhanced by your automatically improving your posture as you go. It's a psychological thing - they somehow make you correct slouch, extend your spine and hold your core muscles in tight as you walk. The balance training aspect of the trainers' usage is less easy to measure, but everything feels like it's being improved - little by little. My "shattered" soccer knees have rarely felt more impact-protected. I have had numerous cartilege operations, have a torn irreparable anterior cruciate ligament and some arthritis in those joints. I attend gym and gym classes regularly and am pretty fit aerobically etc. These trainers definitely help me to protect my knees and keep active in the gym. Good value for money, reasonably good in the styling, comfortable and effective. |
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