To think your body can adapt to heels?

[FairTurtle]

I wore some heels for the first time after ages yesterday. They were these: https://www.reiss.com/style/SU416555/AA4571?utm_content=search&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoae5BhCNARIsADVLzZckMVGe6XrGvCeqMN4WHe8aS9mYOcfJcBNWe3AbZ0jmHIA8XZ3eyOQaAncOEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds#AA4571

About 7 inches. Today my lower back is killing me. So are my calves, hips and hamstrings. They weren't even that high, plus I was sitting down most of the evening as it was a dinner. Only walked for a total of 30 mins?!

Does anyone have any advice? I really wanted to buy some nice Esska heels, which I'm told are comfortable and high quality, but if they also result in more than a day of back pain, its not worth it!

I dance in very high heels and it takes conditioning to get comfortable. It takes time. Right now your body is dealing with using muscles in a way you aren’t used to.

You can adapt, but it takes time and persistence, which to be fair, isn’t probably worth doing for wanting to wear them sporadically.

High heels cause foot and spinal problems.

I've no idea now how I ever managed to wear stilettos when I was in my early twenties, but I did. I gave up on them just before becoming pregnant with DD1 in my mid twenties and never went back to them. I just felt so unstable and insecure. I will never wear high heels again.

I now only wear Skechers slip-ins. I am 58.

I'm not a surgeon of any kind but you speak sense to me.

I did wear a few court shoes in my twenties when I consider that I was young and foolish. I gave them up fairly quickly too though as I didn't feel secure in them, particularly when pregnant with DD1. I've never gone back to them.

At age 58 now, I wear Skechers slip-ins, crocs and my furry mule slippers. Quite the fashionista am I!

As a PP said I have definitely become unadapted - used to be able to walk (and run in!) in a pair of four inch stilettos for ages and wore them most days - so much so that wearing flats hurt as my calves were so used to being that contracted. Now the most I can do is half an hour standing before I have to sit down. Wedges are my go-to now if I need a bit of height for any period of time.

I love heels. I'm never going to not wear them.

I am also a ballet dancer, though no longer doing so as intensively as I am old. So I have a lot of strength in my ankles and just about everywhere else. I have never found wearing heels to be and issue, and the reputation that all ballet dancers feet are ruined us also tosh. If you're ruining your feet your technique is poor. Same thing for heels. If you slop about in them drunk once a week of course you're going to mess yourself up. If you wear them regularly and you're strong and have good balance etc you will be fine. Other factors like your weight and how flat footed you are etc will also impact how much strain the foot is under.

If you get out of the habit of heel wearing it's hard to go back. I wore heels for a party last year and after about half an hour took them off and put my flats back on. I wear flats all the time and couldn't manage a heel. I felt like I couldn't actually walk. Shame because I used to love them. A platform hero maybe better.

My (ex nurse) grandmother used to tell me off for wearing heels as she said my tendons would shorten and I wouldn't be able to walk in anything else. My GP told me not to wear heels when I developed arthritis, although if I get the exact height my hip doesn't hurt.

They're gorgeous shoes but agree with others, since hitting my late 30's and two pregnancies down the line high heels are no longer for me. I've binned most of mine. I still wear boots with a shorter heel but not all the time.

I am used to wearing high heels , love them and dance in them (do the twist etc) -also wear flats/ trainers/bare foot as do lots of sport.

Is it because of pregnancy, increased weight etc or just out of practice?

Rubbish! Have always worn heels. Just started Pilates and my balance and core is (according to the trainer) exceptionally good.

7cm not 7inches, it Says it on the ad

Life is too short to do this.
Also breaking in DM boots.
Nope.
I'm gonna be comfortable thank you!

I'm late 30s, used to wear heels now and then when I was younger but never acclimatised to them. It's a skill. I like to know I could run fast if I had to. I love that the pressure to do so is no longer there and you can get nicer low shoes now.

I have been also taught at my yoga class, that bunions develop not only because of badly shaped shoes that squash toes but also by the distribution of weight that puts too much pressure to the front of the feet.