Let me introduce you to the pair of shoes that brought me back from a tibial stress fracture back in 2008.

Before I purchased these I sang the praises of an Adidas running shoe purchased at Coscto for $35.

I told all of my running friends how crazy they were for shelling out $85 for a pair of running shoes when everyone knows that buying athletic gear from a wholesale grocery store totally makes more sense.

That was until I got a pain in my right ankle that quickly became a bruise and then a fracture.

I could barely walk for three months and had to buy a pair of cushioned shoes two sizes too big just to get around.

When my ankle started to feel a bit better, I went to the running store for the first time and was fitted for the above Saucony Progrid Ride. 

I trained for a 10K in them, running like a gazelle with a smile permanently plastered across my face.

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In the NBA world, athletes are subject to physical rigors that most laypeople cannot comprehend. For the elite basketball player, his/her body is his/her literal temple and principal livelihood, and while the roughly 400 players in the NBA put their bodies and minds to the test daily and yearly, those outside of that realm (in the so-called real world) also have become just as conscious about their fitness and health. The FIT is a series that will concentrate on the Fuel, Information and Training (F.I.T.) that it takes for both NBAers and laypersons to be at their very best in the world, as well as focusing on the literal Food, Intelligence and Technology that also comes into play in our physical fine-tuning—because after all, without having the vital fuel, guidelines and tech advancements to feed our bodies, help us better absorb and process what’s necessary, and make the labor efficient and effective, we don’t have much to advance our collective health and performance. The FIT is here to bring to light what can make us all the uniquely tuned creatures who we presently are and can continue or aspire to be.