ASICS is a Japanese athletic equipment company. Asics produces professional footwear and sports equipment designed for football,running,netball,tennis,squash, martial arts,cricket,golf,wrestling,Track  field,cross-
training,volleyball,cheerleading,lacrosse, and for many other sport disciplines. Presently the company has
become widely renowned for their running shoes as being amongst the top performance footwear in the market.
The name of the company ASICS is an acronym of the Latin phrase anima sana in corpore sano which translates to a healthy soul in a healthy body or a sound mind in a sound body which derives from the aphorism mens sana in corpore sano. Since 2007 there has been a larger emphasis placed on this acronym.