My GP said the rads report suggested limitations with midfoot stability due to joint dislocations / bone malformations rather than limitations with ankle dorsiflexion imposed by plates and screws. My dorsiflexion is slowly improving with mobility drills.
Propping up my heels with 3 gym mats or plates about 1 1/4 inch seems optimal for descent / ascent with an upright spine. After a lot of warm up or persistence I can sort of get away with 2 gym mats or plates about 1 inch. Less than that and I simply can’t seem to keep my spine upright and not fall over.
For my first pair of shoes would I be best to go with a bigger heel and I can worry about a smaller heel later once my mobility has improved? Can you have heels that are too big? What does that do? Create problems with walking around when you aren’t actually doing a lift?
3/4 inch heels seem standard for women’s shoes and I’m worried that that won’t be enough. But maybe I just need to suck it up and practice more until about that height is enough… Worried about quality control with the women’s do-win’s too (though they do look pretty, that is true).
http://buyweightliftingshoes.com/reviews/pendlay-2010-womens-weightlifting-shoe/
Athletes foot assessor says I have normal width women’s feet. I do typically get guys shoes (docs, chucks, cross-trainers) and they don’t seem too wide if I can get them in a small enough size to fit me (a mens 6 is firm and I prefer firm shoes even though athletes foot assessor says I’m a women’s 9 so a 7 in guys). Some sites are saying ‘the heel is proportional to the shoe size with 1 1/4 for mens 9’. I guess I’d be about a guys 5.5 for oly shoes. I don’t know what that means for heel height, though. I really wish I could try a few on and see which feels the best but I think I’m going to have to get these things shipped from the US to Australia so returning them if the heels aren’t even or if they don’t fit or if they really aren’t comfy isn’t going to be trivial.
Otherwise, these are looking pretty good to me (in a bowling shoe kinda way):
I heard the heel height is about 1 inch? I like the idea of an adjustable midfoot section (my midfeet are differently sized) and the Aussie dollar is doing good right now and they don’t seem all that expensive compared to a lot of running shoes / crosstrainers…
But does anyone have any suggestions (on heel height or good quality shoes that are on the narrower end of the spectrum that hopefully aren’t too hideously ugly)?