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Do you work out barefoot?
Posted on 8/24/23 at 4:43 am
Posted on 8/24/23 at 4:43 am
I usually do. Not best practice, but it's more comfortable and it feels like better balance and traction. I'm absent mindedly unloading the squat bar and I slide a 10 lb plate off the end. I have just enough time to think "well frick this is gonna hurt" before it lands a few inches from my bare foot. I'm no engineer but I'm pretty sure the impact would have been enough to put me in a boot for a few weeks. Stay safe.
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Posted on 8/24/23 at 4:58 am to Jim Rockford
I wear Xero shoes when I’m squatting and dead lifting. Same feel with a little bit of protection.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 5:29 am to Jim Rockford
No
Posted on 8/24/23 at 6:45 am to Jim Rockford
quote:
I'm no engineer but I'm pretty sure the impact would have been enough to put me in a boot for a few weeks.
it probably would do the same if you were wearing shoes.
I lift in socks mostly.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 6:48 am to Jim Rockford
Barefoot or Xero’s.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 7:41 am to Jim Rockford
barefoot when I'm just lifting in my garage
Vivos if I'm doing some running or something down the driveway
Vivos if I'm doing some running or something down the driveway
Posted on 8/24/23 at 7:45 am to Jim Rockford
Merrell Trail Gloves or barefoot. Trail gloves wouldn’t protect me for a dropped weight.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 7:49 am to Jim Rockford
Barefoot for most things. For legs, I wear a pair of ONs that have minimal cushion.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 8:05 am to Jim Rockford
I've done that with a 5 lb weight with shoes on and it hurt like hell. Luckily it hit the top of my foot, I think it would have broken a toe.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 8:35 am to Jim Rockford
I hope you are not talking about a public gym.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 8:45 am to Jim Rockford
There is a bigger girl who comes to the gym around the same time as me and she always takes her shoes off at the deadlifts mats. She doesn't do deadlifts there, just other exercises, but it just grosses me out.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 8:57 am to Jim Rockford
My go to for deadlifting was always completely broken in etnies or barefoot.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 10:40 am to X123F45
I sometimes just wear socks but I workout in my home office. I’ve got carpet and some mats in there. On leg days I wear shoes but if I’m just doing upper body I don’t bother.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 10:52 am to Jim Rockford
I workout in my garage at home. Never barefoot but I have some old Altra trail runners that are zero drop. They are my workout shoes
Posted on 8/24/23 at 11:09 am to Jim Rockford
i workout at the gym so no. if at home i would be barefoot.
i wouldnt think twice of anyone at the gym with socks only for squats and deadlifts though.
i wouldnt think twice of anyone at the gym with socks only for squats and deadlifts though.
Posted on 8/24/23 at 3:48 pm to Jim Rockford
I squat and deadlift at the gym in socks. Squat university guy is big on grounding. I work out in old running shoes which are not ideal for those lifts.
Posted on 8/25/23 at 7:49 am to Jim Rockford
In a public gym, I will squat/deadlift/RDL/BSS/etc in my socks or my Vivo's at most. I've gotten weird looks before, but I don't see the harm - can't be any less sanitary than taking a piss at the urinal and then going to do the same exercises - and if they cared enough they would say something. If I have my foot on a bench doing split squats I wipe it - which you don't see people doing otherwise. Would never go straight-up barefoot in public, mainly for my safety and sanitary concerns over other people's perceptions.
At home, I'm socks at the max but usually barefoot.
At home, I'm socks at the max but usually barefoot.
Posted on 8/25/23 at 8:42 am to hogfly
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Trail gloves wouldn’t protect me for a dropped weight
Nothing will do that.... unless you're wearing steel toe shoes.
Posted on 8/25/23 at 8:47 am to Jim Rockford
so i have my onclouds that i slip off for the lift and then put right back on to go walk as my rest. have done that a long time and really helps my feet.
now this week i was sprinting a lot because we started the 7v7 for 5th grade and i was teaching defense and was running in the on clouds...frick that, never again
now this week i was sprinting a lot because we started the 7v7 for 5th grade and i was teaching defense and was running in the on clouds...frick that, never again
Posted on 8/25/23 at 1:06 pm to Jim Rockford
Unless you working out in your own gym.... working out barefoot is disgusting.
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