Transcript: The Shoe Update: Why I Went With Asics (And Why I'm Still Looking)
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Ashley explains the urgency that drove her shoe purchase — holes forming in her old shoes — and how her husband's recommendation led her to try and order the Asics Nova Blast 5s after Dick's didn't have her size and color in stock.
Well, Ashley, what shoes did you go with? What's up, you guys? Famous Ashley Gert here. Welcome to More Movement, Please, the podcast where I hope to inspire you to move your body more. So recently, I shared an episode that I was looking for new shoes. And if you missed that episode, there'll be a link in the show notes that you can check it out. But basically, I was on a quest to find the perfect shoes to try. I ended up going with the Asics Nova Blast 5s. Since then, I have seen a lot of articles that basically I tried the wrong Brooks shoes or I tried the wrong insert shoe here. And I did have one particular person who was like, you should have gotten Rikers and said that they were created for women. So I wanted to explain why I went with Asics and...
that I'm still basically hunting for new shoes. And here's what's going on. So the shoes that I bought, the reason I needed them so urgently, rather than giving myself time to do what I normally like to do, which is research and thoroughly review shoes before I commit to them, is like I had mentioned in the previous episode, I started getting holes in the other shoes that I had. And so now that I've at least taken care of the urgency factor of the fact that I needed new shoes so badly. Now I intend to like thoroughly research and review and see what my next pair of shoes will be, because I don't remember if I said it in the last episode, but I'm incredibly hard on footwear. Like I'm I'm very hard on footwear.
I don't know if it's because of my arches or or my my balls on my feet or what it is. It always seems like the holes happen in the balls of my feet on my shoes. I've never been to a podiatrist about this to my knowledge. I mean, my mom is a listener of this show and she'll probably correct me if I'm wrong. But to my knowledge, I've never really seen a podiatrist about my feet. I was basically realizing like I needed to find a good enough pair as quickly as possible. And I was already wearing Asics. I had gotten a coupon and I bought a pair of 50 % off at. I can't believe I'm about to say this, at my local grocery store.
And so I went with Asics. And the reason I chose the Asics Nova Blast is because my husband actually wears Nova Blast 5s. And he was like, well, if they have a female version of this, you should try it. And so we went to Dick's and I tried them and loved them. And of course, they didn't have the color and the size I wanted. So we ordered some. They came pretty quickly. And I... tried them out for a little while to make sure that I was going to be happy with these shoes. And I've tried it out for several workouts and I've been very happy with them so far. But now that I've settled the urgency issue, I can't help but wonder if maybe there is even a better shoe.
Ashley says she's happy with the Asics so far but is already researching future options — including Brooks Ghost and Brooks Adrenaline — because she knows she'll wear through shoes again and doesn't want to be caught in the same urgent scramble.
Since the time that I mentioned that I tried the Brooks shoes and hated them, I have found out that there are several other types of Brooks shoes that are apparently much better. people that are very active. Uh, I've been told to try the, let's see, what were they? The Brooks ghosts and the Brooks adrenaline. And what's interesting is I just happened to find an article recently, um, saying that those two shoes were considered like the best walking shoes of ever. And so I'm still looking because I still want to know more about shoes. It might sound silly to someone who's hearing this being like, well, You already got your shoes. Why do you still want to be shopping?
And like I said, the thing is, since I am so hard on my shoes and I know I will need to replace these again, I don't want the urgency factor to hit me next time like it did this time and me just make a choice based on the fact that I really, really need shoes. So I want to start looking now before this. issue comes up again and so basically I want to hear your recommendations if you go to famousashleygrant .com backslash feedback I want to know what kind of shoes you wear and tell me why and you know I mentioned in the last episode like hey if your companies hit me up I would love to to talk to you and try out all the different shoes like if you think that your shoe is the best and you want me to try it I would love to do a whole review series on the different shoes that are available and I'm totally willing to be a guinea pig and try out all the things because I want to know the truth like I want to know like is it all marketing
hype or are the shoes that I'm looking for like really the best of the best I think it'd be fun to to just try out a bunch of different shoes and and see now that I don't have like a clock on it really give myself time to really investigate and find out what the best shoes are. And hell, I'm even going to try the Rikas. So I'm going to I'm going to just purchase a bunch of shoes or like I said, footwear companies, if you are interested in helping me with this project of reviewing the best shoes, I would love to chat with you. So I think it'd be fun. I think it'd be a good time. And in other news this summer, I will be going to Gen Con and I'm stupid excited about it. I just wanted to. share about that because there will be some interesting fitness content coming to this podcast as a result and so I just wanted to tell you guys about it in case you don't know Gen Con is the largest tabletop
Ashley invites listeners to share their shoe recommendations and calls out footwear brands directly, saying she wants to do a full review series and is willing to be a guinea pig — including trying the Rikas she was told about.
game convention in North America and it's held in Indianapolis, Indiana and I will be heading there at the end of July. My husband and I are celebrating 20 years and it's our wedding anniversary and so we were talking about all the things that we could do and And we actually chose to do a board game convention for our 20th wedding anniversary because, y 'all, it is so us -coded. We are, we're some of the biggest nerds you could meet.
We love, like, Star Trek. We love Stargate. We love board games. Now, our favorite board game together is Firefly. For those of you who don't know, I'm obsessed with Firefly, the series. Brown Coats for life. And, yeah, and screw the Alliance. So we found Firefly the board game and we actually have a habit of when we play the game, we actually also have the series running in the background. And so it just adds to the extra layer of fun. We absolutely love board games and we love card games too. And like my favorite card game of all is Cards Against Humanity.
My second favorite is Exploding Kittens, if you know, you know. And I just get an absolute kick out of the fact that you can pay. one fee and you can have hours upon hours of fun and then you get to play it again and again and again and again. I love games. I love to have fun. I love getting together with people and just goofing off and having a good time because I'm a huge advocate of having as much fun in life as you possibly can. I think that we only get this one life. We need to squeeze every ounce of fun out of it that we possibly can. Board games is just one of those things that just brings me an immense amount of joy. And so that's why we're going to Gen Con. And the reason I bring that up is because over the next few episodes, you may hear me talking about my game plan for how I intend to continue doing the fitness stuff.
In fact, I have quite a bit of travel coming up this summer. And so I will be sharing how I intend to keep working out on the road because y 'all know I love my group fitness classes. I'm going to miss them so much. I'm addicted to them. But I've already been talking to my instructor, Rhonda, about, you know, the fact that I still want to be able to work out. And so I actually asked her if she would put together a custom fitness plan for me for while I'm gone.
And yeah, I'm anxious to hear what she comes up with. She's already told me that it's going to hurt and I believe her. So yeah, in the coming days, you'll hear episodes related to the fact that I will be going to Gen Con. And I can't wait to share all of it with you because I... intend to keep going with my workouts and I want to share all the things that I will be doing because I believe that just because I'm going out of town doesn't mean I should let my fitness fall to the wayside and I don't want you to either so if you too are going to be traveling at all this summer maybe these will inspire you maybe these episodes will inspire you and maybe you'll come up with some fun ideas that that you can use to to continue working out on the road So I'm excited for the things that are coming. But yeah, I ended up with the Asics Nova Blast 5s.
Ashley announces she and her husband are going to Gen Con in Indianapolis for their 20th wedding anniversary, shares her love of board games and Firefly, and teases upcoming episodes about how she plans to keep working out on the road with a custom plan from her instructor Rhonda.
That's the update on my shoes quest. And as I find out about other shoes, and honestly, you know what? I'm willing to be a guinea pig for anything. So go to famousashtagrant .com backslash fitness. And if you would like to participate in the show, be on the show, I would love to hear from you. And yeah, I think it'd be a lot of fun to try all the things. Like if you're a brand that does footwear or if you're a brand that, hell, if you do snacks, like, I mean, I want to try all the things. So famousaftergrant.com backslash fitness. You will find the forms there to either leave me a voice note to be on the show or if you want to leave me some feedback, there's a link there that you can leave feedback about what you would like to hear, what you want to know, all the things. But until next time, onwards and upwards, my friends. Have you worked out today?