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The key to winning is what you wear when you´re not competing.

From running and martial arts to skiing and football, MBTs can do wonders for your athletic performance.

The unique sole design creates bigger demands on your body, so even walking around the block is a workout. For more serious athletes, the same principle applies, and the benefits of any training session are increased.

Because they encourage you to work harder, MBTs can strengthen your endurance, improve balance and coordination, and sharpen movement quality.

Yet while they increase the load on your muscles, they reduce the load everywhere else. By strengthening the small stabilizing muscles, MBTs enhance core stability. This improves posture, reduces the pressure on joints and discs, and provides efficient protection against injury.

And those are qualities no mere shoe can compete with.

Interview about the positive effects of MBT in Sports with Andy Dittert, former Professional Handball Player and MBT Retail Training Manager, and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erich Müller, Head of the Department of Sport Science and Kinesiology in the University of Salzburg.

Exercises

  • Slow Running
    Slow running in MBTs prevents injury by reducing stress on joints, can help stretch the hip flexor muscle, and speeds recovery by increasing blood flow. With upright posture, take shorter strides than you normally would. Roll from the Masai Sensor through the balancing area, to the forefoot. Variation: slow running with “exaggerated” pull-back motion can increase stretching of the hip flexor muscle.
  • Airplane
    Balancing exercises like this “airplane” pose decrease your risk of knee injury by strengthening the small muscles that keep your knees in proper alignment. Start by standing on both feet and lean forward into airplane position. Stabilize body over balancing area of MBT. Hold this position, and then repeat on opposite side.
  • Bridge with Ball
    The bridge with ball exercise increases core stability. These large muscles, such as abs and glutes, are active in most sports activities. Squeeze ball between knees and pull bellybutton in toward spine. Stabilize the body over the balancing area. Lift pelvis until upper body and legs are in a straight line. Hold this position. Note: Note: Exercise is also applicable without ball.
  • ABC Balancing
    Balancing exercises, like writing the ABCs in the air, decrease your risk of knee injury by strengthening the small muscles that keep your knees in proper alignment. Hold an upright posture in one-leg stance. Press into balancing area of MBT on standing leg. With other leg lifted in front of the body as high as possible, write ABCs into the air.
  • Single Leg Bridge
    The one-leg bridge exercise increases core stability. Start in a bridge position. Straighten one leg so the bridge is held on other leg. On the standing leg, press into balancing area of MBT and hold this position. Roll forward to forefoot, and then back to the Masai Sensor.
  • Sparring
    This sparring exercise strengthens the small muscles that support the knees and ankles. Both people begin by standing on left leg over balancing area of MBT. Join right hands and try to unbalance partner. Repeat on opposite side.