Working out barefoot?

iamsam373

http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/index.htm
you should invest in some of those, I don't have a pair but I have friends with them that love them.

pyroxian

I usually do my P90X workouts barefoot, but I will be starting to wear shoes for Plyometrics as my toes and the balls of my feet often hurt afterward.

As others have said, it really depends what you're doing and whether or not it hurts your feet during or after.

Interesting - I had just the opposite experience with P90X Plyo-X - if I wore shoes my knees and hips would be unbelievably sore afterward, but when I did that video barefoot, it changed how I would land, forcing me to absorb the impact on the balls of my feet which seemed (for me) to be a lower impact way to land, and thus no pain. In fact during my first round last year I almost gave up on Plyo-X until I accidentally started it in only socks one day and had the revelation that it didn't hurt at all when I was landing... I never looked back & did Plyo-X in socks only from that point on. My chiropractor also confirmed that in his opinion it was actually preferable to do higher impact workouts barefoot so that your natural "suspension" (joints/ligaments/tendons) could do it's job better...

CakeFit21

I usually do my P90X workouts barefoot, but I will be starting to wear shoes for Plyometrics as my toes and the balls of my feet often hurt afterward.

As others have said, it really depends what you're doing and whether or not it hurts your feet during or after.

Interesting - I had just the opposite experience with P90X Plyo-X - if I wore shoes my knees and hips would be unbelievably sore afterward, but when I did that video barefoot, it changed how I would land, forcing me to absorb the impact on the balls of my feet which seemed (for me) to be a lower impact way to land, and thus no pain. In fact during my first round last year I almost gave up on Plyo-X until I accidentally started it in only socks one day and had the revelation that it didn't hurt at all when I was landing... I never looked back & did Plyo-X in socks only from that point on. My chiropractor also confirmed that in his opinion it was actually preferable to do higher impact workouts barefoot so that your natural "suspension" (joints/ligaments/tendons) could do it's job better...

My podiatrist confirmed this for me as well.

jaybaileys

I do my kettlebell workouts barefoot, and haven't had a problem. Most other excercises I do wear shoes except for yoga, also do that barefoot.