Is it that ungodly bad to roll your back foot during lunges?!?!?1

[dogbuffet]

Aren't adidas shoes designed with the feet being rolled forward..

Why must people make a big fuss over roll your back foot forward during lunges instead of planting them.....

[rmyounis]

Cause 1) Youll fall 2) Youll twist your ankle and 3) Its 10x harder to recover doing that

[esskreemr]

I guess that's a personal decision. It is bad form to roll the rear foot during every lunge. The extra two inches or so you get doesn't make up for what you lose. Still, anything that is considered "bad form" serves its purpose every once in a while.

I've rolled my foot for the most of my fencing career. When I started focusing on not rolling it I noticed that it can be a detrimental practice.

[Peach]

I don't think it makes much difference.

[kalivor]

Because you need to have enough control to decide what you're going to do, and it's easier to push further and roll the foot than hold back and keep it planted -- at least if you're bothering to do a half-decent lunge at the same time.

It's much harder to recover from a lunge when you've rolled your back ankle. It's also much easier to hurt your ankle. If you are recovering, it's harder to change your mind and lunge a second time mid-recovery.

All of these are exasperated by having bad shoes -- if you've got something with a thick sole, like a running shoe, it's usually an extreme angle. If you're wearing something like the Adidas Adistars, you're really more on the edge of your foot than the side.

That said, sometimes it's the right thing to roll your foot. Sometimes it's the right thing not to roll your foot. Most of the time, it probably doesn't matter.

[Peach]

Originally Posted by kalivor

All of these are exasperated by having bad shoes

I didn't know they could get annnoyed . . . oh, you mean exacerbated

I have more problems with my back ankle when I don't roll it, myself, but then my ankle problems are due to a flexible and very high arch, not to my ankle joint.

[kalivor]

Originally Posted by Peach

I didn't know they could get annnoyed . . . oh, you mean exacerbated

I have more problems with my back ankle when I don't roll it, myself, but then my ankle problems are due to a flexible and very high arch, not to my ankle joint.

It's Friday ... I'm working ... I'm tired. Leave my grammar alone! I get exasperated by bad shoes. I'm sure it transfers to my lunges somehow ...

[Peach]

I'm sorry . . . It was Friday . . . I was working . . . I was tired . . . and I'm an English teacher!

My ankles get exasperated on a regular basis, I dunno abowt you'res.

[mrbiggs]

Originally Posted by dogbuffet

Aren't adidas shoes designed with the feet being rolled forward..

Why must people make a big fuss over roll your back foot forward during lunges instead of planting them.....

There are some who say you should, and some who say you shouldn't roll your back foot. Every coach I've ever had says you shouldn't, so I don't.

[Alain]

I've always taught and been taught that rolling your back foot in the lunge is vewy vewy baaaad. Mostly because it makes the lunge more difficult and slower to recover from, but also because it can knacker out your ankke. But as long as you hit with your lunge and don't get hit back, it doesn't really matter...

[ReverseLunge]

Originally Posted by Alain

I've always taught and been taught that rolling your back foot in the lunge is vewy vewy baaaad. Mostly because it makes the lunge more difficult and slower to recover from, but also because it can knacker out your ankke. But as long as you hit with your lunge and don't get hit back, it doesn't really matter...

no. It depends on if you are recovering forward or backawards and with the way fencing shoes are designed you can't tweek you ankle much.