I have new balance shoes that I love.  I am not sure what is wrong with these shoes but I cannot wear them.  I would never try to work out in them.  I just tried to walk my dogs in them and it was blister city.  They are hard and stiff.  I wish I had saved the box so I could have sent them back.  I just had assumed it was new balance and they would be fine.  Not so.  Oh well.