The latest fitness craze has nothing to do with yoga, Pilates or Sweatin’ to the Oldies. It’s all about walking. More particularly, walking while wearing oddly shaped shoes with an unstable sole that ...

Can you wobble your way to buns of steel? The popularity of “toning” shoes, whose unstable soles require you to work muscles harder to stay balanced, suggests consumers are banking on it. Sales of ...

Can a pair of shoes help you burn more calories, tone your butt and allow you to say good bye to your old cottage cheese thighs? Well, at least that's the claims made by toning shoes such as Skechers ...

Get a better body just by wearing the right shoes? It sounds too good to be true — and it might be. With promises of a tighter backside, toned thighs and lean leg muscles, companies such as Reebok, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Reebok will need to tone down advertising for its shoes that claim to reshape your backside. The athletic shoe and clothing company will pay $25 million in customer refunds to ...

ATLANTA,None — Toning shoes are the latest fad in fitness wear. Sales totaled more than $250 million in the first four months of this year alone. But do these shoes do anything besides lighten your ...

Shoe maker Skechers USA Inc on Tuesday refuted a recent study that suggests its popular toning footwear brand Shape-Ups does not have the beneficial health effects that have been its selling point ...

Toning shoes, we are told, will result in leaner legs, thighs and buttocks — and calories melting away. And it seems the promise of slimmer pins with a minimum of effort is one that women have taken ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - For a shoe brand, there's a lot to love about toning footwear. Potential annual sales of $1 billion and growing, shoes selling at double the average price, and a huge market ...

LOS ANGELES — Fitness shoes that wobbled into major-league popularity last year with names like Shape-ups, EasyTone and TrueBalance are getting a tough workout these days. Heralded as the secret to ...

Action News Anchor Margot Kim takes a look at the trend, and the word of warning from a South Valley woman who says she stepped into trouble. Eva Burguis: "I'm gonna die. I really thought so. And I ...