As all knows that the apparel of an sports person varies according to the sports they plays. It is very much obvious when one talks about the shoes. For example the spiked shoes are mainly contrived for playing baseball. It is quiet impossible for anyone to play football with the spiked shoes that are meant for playing baseball. So it is very much apparent for weightlifting that there should be a different kind of shoes. It has been considered in the world of sports that the weightlifting shoe is sort of radically distinctive. Over the hundred years of international weightlifting competitions the form of the weightlifting shoe has been formulated. The shoe type that is available today is the model in the form of top class …show more content…
Combat boots, Chuck Taylor's, and even leather with a hard glossy surface oxfords are the options for weightlifting shoes till the 1970’s. Today the design of weightlifting shoes has been evolved in such a manner that provides stability to weightlifters to perform in its optimal level. It is inevitable for a weightlifting shoe to offer safety in the fittings in order to provide surpassing support. On a limited basis, when Adidas from Germany and Kahru of Finland became available in the US, weightlifters finally got the possibility in distinction from others to use equipment designed for their activity. These shoes that are high topped and not especially stylish, had the least possible entreaty to the fashion conscious. But it attracted the lifters as they loved them because ‘they worked’.
There are some technical Rules of the International Weightlifting Federation considering Weightlifting Footwear of which most interesting is the second rule where it has been said that athlete should not have the unfair advantage or additional support through