Get Your Feet Fit With Our Award-Winning Recovery Slides

Most recovery footwear is built around one idea: make it soft and stay out of the way. Thick foam, flat footbed, and your feet sink down and switch off.

We built ours the other way around.

Three ergonomically shaped features sit in the Flex 3 Fulcrum footbed, each one placed with a specific part of your foot in mind. You feel them the second you put them on. That's the point. Every step does something instead of nothing. 

These innovate slides are leading the way in foot fitness. Active recovery slides for people who treat recovery as part of training. Because fitness and performance begins and ends with your feet.

How Is a Recovery Slide Different From a Regular Slide?

A regular slide is just a sole and a strap. Recovery slides are designed for feet that have already done the work and need something more. Or less from some other brands.

Most recovery slides have the same approach: maximum cushioning. Deep, soft, nothing for your foot to push back against. Comfortable but completely passive. 

pushpül is doing something different. Our proprietary KineticPülse™ technology activates foot muscles and mobilizes joints and connective tissue with every step. The Flex 3 Fulcrum footbed is contoured, with three raised features sitting under specific parts of your foot. Instead of absorbing everything, our patented footbed gives your foot something to work against as you walk. Your recovery becomes active. 

Each approach to recovery slides has its place. The question to ask yourself: Do you want a passive sandal, or an award-winning training tool engineered to build stronger, healthier, more resilient feet?

U.S. Patent: 12,011,066

3 Patent Footbed Features

  • Heel Ball
    A firm rubber dome just in front of your heel, pressing along the back of the plantar fascia.
  • Meta Pad
    A teardrop-shaped rise behind the ball of your foot that lets the long toe bones spread out.
  • Low-Rise Arch
    Centering your feet over the ball and pad, this low contour supports without locking in.
What Is "Active Recovery" Footwear?

What Is "Active Recovery" Footwear?

Active recovery means light movement after hard training instead of just sitting still. An easy bike spin the day after intervals. A walk after a long run. Move a little and you feel better than if you had not.

Active recovery footwear applies that same idea to your feet. But here's the problem with most of it: it's not active. Instead, it cushions, period. Your foot sits in it and nothing happens. And your foot switches off.

Active recovery shoes should do something. The Flex 3 Fulcrum footbed is contoured, so the small muscles in your foot stay working across the hours you wear it. The best part? They actual feel really good. Even better? You don't have to think about it. The slides do the work. You just walk around.

> > > Learn More:  What Is KineticPulse Technology?

Slides, Sandals, and Flip Flops

People use all three words for the same thing. The real difference is how they hang on your foot.

Slides. One strap over the top. Nothing between your toes. On and off in a second.

Sandals. Add a back strap or an ankle strap. More secure, better over distance, slower to get on. Recovery sandals for men usually run wider through the strap than a slide does. 

Flip Flops. A post between your first and second toe. 

pushpül makes a slide. One strap, no toe post, on and off in a second. It’s the format that’s easiest to slide on after training. 

Out of the bag, on your feet, done. 

Which Size Should I Order?

The Flex 3 Fulcrum are manufactured using a single custom Last with an expanded toe box and produced in a single size run. All slides are scaled accordingly — the strap fit in the smaller sizes is appropriately more snug than in the larger sizes.

Same slides. Different labels.

+ For men, sizing runs M5-M14, whole sizes only.

+ For women, sizing runs W6.5-W15.5, half sizes only.

When selecting your size, please note options show a combined men's and women's size (M#/W#). For example, a men's 5 is a women's 6.5 (M5/W6.5). And a men's 8 is a women's 9.5. (M8/W9.5). You get it. 

> See the sizing chart for the full listing of sizes.

If between sizes, we recommend sizing DOWN, because fit matters here more than on flat slides. The three footbed features are positioned to hit specific areas of the foot, so slides that run long or short puts them in the wrong place.

What about wide or narrow feet?

Here's the truth: while our toe box is technically wider than most footwear, it's likely not wide enough for truly wide feet. The opposite is true for narrow feet: our expanded footbed is likely too expanded for folks with truly narrow feet.

Fact is, footwear sizing will always leave a group of folks out of luck, especially because feet come in all shapes and sizes, even on the same person, including when their feet are swollen after a race or when wearing thick socks or cold from a swim.

Regardless, you can buy with confidence, because all standard U.S. shipping is FREE, including exchanges or returns. No sneaky fees. Guaranteed. 

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When to Wear Your Flex 3 Fulcrum

When to Wear Your Flex 3 Fulcrum

After Training. Hop right out of your trainers and into these slides, then walk to the car or whatever's next.

Between Sessions. Two-a-days. Brick sessions. Back-to-back classes.

Rest Days. Around the house, running errands, whenever you're on your feet and not in training shoes.

Travel. Airports, hotels, the drive home from a race.

Most people work up to them. Start with twenty or thirty minutes and build from there. The footbed makes an early impression and settles once your feet know what to expect.

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FAQ: Before You Buy

Recovery shoes are footwear you put on after training, not during it. Thicker sole, contoured footbed, easy to change into. Most of them use soft foam. Some, including ours, use a structured footbed instead, which we think is a better idea about what your feet should be doing afterward.

Slides have one strap across the top and nothing between your toes. Sandals add a back or ankle strap for more security over distance. Flip flops have a post between the toes, which makes your toes grip with every step. We make a slide.

Yes. Our slides are unisex, so there is one line of slides for men and women. All slides are labeled in both men's and women's sizes. And the combined sizing is clearly mapped out when ordering.

Here's how the labels work: men's run on whole sizes; women's on half sizes. For example, a M5 is a W6.5, and a M8 is a W9.5. There are more details and a helpful size chart to review when ordering.

Here's the truth: while our toe box is technically wider than most footwear, it's likely not wide enough for truly wide feet. The opposite is true for narrow feet: our expanded footbed is likely too expanded for folks with truly narrow feet.

Regardless, you can buy with confidence, because all standard U.S. shipping is FREE, including exchanges or returns. 

Yes. The high-density EVA outsole is durable by design, though these are not specifically built with rough trails and hardy, rocky surfaces in mind. And while the slides are not fully waterproof and may temporarily hold moisture between the various molded pieces, they are certainly locker room-, rainy day-, and pool deck-friendly.

Start with twenty to thirty minutes for the first couple days and build up as the footbed becomes familiar. Plenty of people end up wearing them for several hours at a stretch. There is no target number.

Many customers wear them for long periods on their feet. Build up gradually rather than starting with a full shift, since the footbed is more textured than a flat sandal. If you're literally standing all day, that's less than ideal, in general, and the slides will likely become uncomfortable sooner than later if you don't walk around. Imagine getting a deep tissue massage in one single spot for hours.

The Flex 3 Fulcrum replaced them in the Flex 3 line with no major changes. Same patented footbed, some upgraded materials, and small tweaks to the strap fit. But now they come in four colors instead of just one.