Courtney Conley

Because, you know, I live in Colorado now, so I don't have that – there's not too many women in Colorado that are wearing heels.

However, when I go to New York City, it's a different conversation, different environment.

So, you know, I have to say – I have to use the – that is not the position that you want to keep your foot in.

It's changing the structure of your tissues, changing the pressures in the foot, not to mention –

I don't care what anybody says.

That's not comfortable to walk around in.

People will be like, oh, I'm really comfortable in heels.

I'm like, are you really, though?

That is Ultra Running.

So...

Let's talk about the things you want to look for in a functional shoe.

My non-negotiable is the wide toe box.

The toes have to be able to splay.

When you think of all the diagnoses that we talked about, bunions, neuromas, hammer toes, when the forefoot can splay, the foot's going to function better.

So that's number one.

Number two is having the heel and the toe in the same plane.

And number three is having a shoe that is thin and flexible.

When you wear this type of footwear, I call this a workhorse shoe because there is more loads going through all of your tissues, through your bones, through your ligaments, through your tendons, through your muscles.

So your foot gets stronger when you wear this type of footwear.

There's research on that.