GORUCK Ballistic Trainers - Mid Top lunge
CrossFit Shoes

Ballistic Trainers in Green

Get the gung-ho look with GORUCK’s Ballistic Trainers in Green. This is a cross training shoe – great for CrossFit and other functional fitness style workouts. Even if you sprint faster, lift heavier loads, or ruck harder, you can still look cool with the Ballistic Trainer. It is the new standard in functional fitness footwear with 3X Support™ and 3X Stability for all three of your arches, making them the best workout shoes for men and women. By the way, you can check our earlier GORUCK Ballistic Trainer Review to find out how this shoe performs. The GORUCK Ballistic Trainer – now available in Green: Ballistic Trainers in Green – Overview The forefoot is completed using an engineered warp-knit technology that delivers a seamless one-piece vamp and toe cap while offering areas of supported strength and other areas of breathability and flexibility. The lace area, midfoot, and heel is constructed from two panels of 1680D CORDURA® Ballistic Nylon to offer the most rigid Special Forces grade abrasion resistance against the strains of rope climbs. This 1680D CORDURA® also provides excellent [Read more …]

Inov-8 F-LITE G-300 Training Shoe
CrossFit Shoes

CrossFit shoes from Inov-8

Rogue is now carrying various CrossFit shoes from Inov-8. Shoes are essential, especially when it comes to training as they can make or break your training. That’s why it is best to choose the right pair of shoes for a specific workout. CrossFit shoes are made for CrossFit to give you support and protection for high-intensity exercises. Get the best shoe from Inov-8: CrossFit shoes from Inov-8 – Overview Cross-training is a diversity of exercises and movements that includes strength training, aerobics, high-intensity interval classes, cycling, team sports like soccer, basketball, kickboxing, etc. With the intensity of these exercises, cross-training shoes are needed to confront a wide range of physical movements. Inov-8 is one of the companies that manufacture cross-training and CrossFit shoes. Inov-8 is a sportswear brand, especially concentrating on functional fitness, technical off-road running, and minimalist road running products. The brand lives by the ideology that an athlete’s synergy with the environment is the single most significant factor when developing products. Inov-8 F-Lite 260 V2 The Inov-8 F-Lite 260 V2 is a fully updated shoe co-developed with 10x [Read more …]

Altama OTB Maritime Assault Mid Boot Review
Rucking

Altama OTB Maritime Assault Boot Review

Let’s review the Altama OTB Maritime Assault Boot (Buy on Amazon) from Altama. No, it’s not a Chuck Taylor Converse – it’s a special-purpose boot originally made for the US Navy Seals. They wanted a shoe that fit and worked like the Converse shoes (i.e. a very simple design) but wanted something that could be used in amphibious operations. These are sometimes called tactical chucks for that reason. Luckily for the rest of us, these shoes can do a lot more than that – and they look good doing it!

GORUCK Ballistic Trainer Shoe Review - Stacked
CrossFit Shoes

GORUCK Ballistic Trainer Review

GORUCK just launched their newest training shoe: the GORUCK Ballistic Trainer. GORUCK makes serious, well thought out, and high quality training gear. They are looking to shake up the functional fitness/CrossFit WOD training shoe space with this new shoe. How well does it work? That’s what we aim to find out. We’ve got our review pair – and testing is underway. Here’s some of the styles we are going to look at: GORUCK Ballistic Trainer – Video Review on our YouTube Channel Why read when you can watch? Check out this video from our YouTube channel: Check back in a few weeks, and we’ll have the results of our side by side testing. GORUCK Ballistic Trainer – Overview This is GORUCK’s first attempt to create a functional fitness (aka CrossFit) style training shoe. How about some stats right up front? Upper MaterialsKnit mesh (forefoot) / Ballistic Nylon (Midfoot and heel) Weight15.0 ounces (Men’s Size 11) Drop8 mm CushioningMinimal SizingTrue to size. Toebox is wide Let’s start from the ground up – with the outsole. The all-rubber outsole provides grip in [Read more …]

Reebok Nano X Unknown Shoe Review - Front Quarter 2
CrossFit Shoes

Reebok Nano X Unknown Shoe Review

The Reebok Nano X Unknown is here. This is a lighter-weight, mid-cut version of Reebok’s CrossFit training shoe – the Nano X. Our review pair is here – and we like it! Let’s take a look at this shoe. Reebok says this is a mid-cut shoe for training. Here’s some of the styles we are going to look at: Reebok Nano X Unknown – Video Review on our YouTube Channel Why read when you can watch? Here’s our first hands-on look at the unknown, from our YouTube channel: By the way, we have high expectations for this shoe. The Reebok Nano X was a runner-up in our Best CrossFit Shoes for 2021 review. Here’s our long term performance update: Reebok Nano X Unknown – Overview Let’s take a look… Mid-cut means not quite high top. For comparison’s sake, here they are side by side with the NOBULL High Top Trainer – a shoe we tested recently. The shoe is mid-cut, but surprisingly light-weight at the same time. How do they do this? The upper is thin – very, very thin [Read more …]

Nike Metcon 7 - What I'd Like To See Concept Release Date
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Nike Metcon 7 – What I’d Like To See

UPDATE: The Nike Metcon 7 is here. You can now buy the Nike Metcon 7 Mat Fraser PE (Personal Edition) or the Nike Metcon 7 X. I’ll leave my hopes and dreams here. Maybe these ideas will go into the Nike Metcon 8. What would you like to see Nike improve or change in the Nike Metcon 7? I’ve got some ideas – and that’s what we’re going to discuss in this article. First of all, let me say that we are probably 10-11 months from the next version of the Nike Metcon shoe, as I write this. I don’t have any knowledge of the Nike Metcon 7 Release Date – or even that there will be a Nike Metcon 7. But, I’m guessing there will be, as there has been an annual product launch every year since 2015 or so. The Nike Metcon shoe gets better and better every release – and in fact, I’ve declared the Nike Metcon 6 to be the best CrossFit shoe for 2020. While we wait for the next round of improvements, check out [Read more …]