Now your young one can feel the shoe with the energy boost. ZigEnergy, the first ZigTech shoe built for running, allows key leg muscles to do less, so you can do more. Its patented sole technology maximizes energy return for a soft and springy ride. Reebok was founded for one of the best reasons possible: athletes wanted to run faster. So in the 1890s, Joseph William Foster made some of the first known running shoes with spikes in them. By 1895, he was in business making shoes by hand for top runners; and before long his fledgling company, J.W. Foster and Sons, developed an international clientele of distinguished athletes.