If you haven’t seen the commercial for Reebok’s EasyTone shoes, here it is:
If getting toned is as simple as walking around in this pair of shoes, I’m in.
Some friends and I tried to get these shoes before Christmas, but they were sold out everywhere and I haven’t tried looking for them since. I would still like to get a pair, but, for $100, I want to know if they actually work first. When my friends and I walked into Dick’s Sporting Goods, the salesperson said he sold a pair of the EasyTones to a woman and she wore them to work for seven hours the next day and was so sore the following day that she had to call in sick.
That’s a little intimidating.
According to Reebok’s commercials, Reebok’s EasyTones are “proven to tone your butt up to 28 percent more and your hamstrings and calves up to 11 percent more than regular sneakers.”
Here’s how they work: balance pods are built-in under the heel and forefoot of the shoes and are designed to create natural instability with every step which forces key leg and glute muscles to adapt and encourages toning.
^^ Here’s an up close picture of the shoes.
So, they’re not the coolest shoes in the world, but if I can be “working out” while I’m walking around at school or at home, it doesn’t get much easier than that. I want a pair, but I want to know if they work. I want to know if what they say, “better legs and a better butt with every step” is actually true.
I just bought a pair of the EasyTone shows last week and I do think they work. It’s not like I am checking out my legs and my butt in the mirror everyday thinking “Wow, thanks easytones”, at least not yet, but my hamstrings and quad muscles are definitely sore. I wore them all day yesterday and all day today and can hardly walk tonight. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my legs keep hurting because hopefully this means they are toning. In short, it’s worth $100 bucks to walk your way to toned legs.