Working out without shoes on.

heybales

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I don't wear shoes on the erg . . . um, er, Concept 2 rowing machine. Long time ago, going to a big indoor race, I contacted the organizer to make sure this was OK (socks, not barefoot), because it's eccentric. She said it was fine, but told me afterward she thought, when I emailed, that I was a teenager. I was (IIRC) 48 at the time.

Fun fact: Kind of, most of us on-water rowing people don't wear shoes in boats, because boats have their own shoes atttached, mostly. Really!

Why am I picturing some sort of wooden clog attached?! I know that can't be right. Brightly painted with flowers and vines.

AnnPT77

heybales wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I don't wear shoes on the erg . . . um, er, Concept 2 rowing machine. Long time ago, going to a big indoor race, I contacted the organizer to make sure this was OK (socks, not barefoot), because it's eccentric. She said it was fine, but told me afterward she thought, when I emailed, that I was a teenager. I was (IIRC) 48 at the time.

Fun fact: Kind of, most of us on-water rowing people don't wear shoes in boats, because boats have their own shoes atttached, mostly. Really!

Why am I picturing some sort of wooden clog attached?! I know that can't be right. Brightly painted with flowers and vines.

LOL. I wish: That would be nice. Some have a thing we call a clog. I don't have a photo handy, but it's sort of a shaped foot-holder cup with a strap across the instep. It's similar to the Concept 2 strap-in, but a shaped thingie rather than a flat foot-plate. Most of us go sock-foot in those, but people with tiny feet sometimes wear water shoes in them.

Most serious boats have actual shoes, that look pretty much like any flat-sole athletic shoe. In boats that many people share, they're usually Very Large, like size 14 or something, to work for everyone. The newer (safer) ones don't have laces, but rather a velcro strap closure. The two velcro straps (L&R) are connected with a length of cord. If - regrettably - as occasionally happens - you find yourself annoyingly upside-down in the water, you pull that cord to get out of both shoes in one go. (The shoes also have a cord from the heel to a boat part, in the hope that gravity will simply detach you from the shoe if you flip - if I'm women's size 9, and the shoe is men's size 14, that theory almost always works. ).

Rowing has all kinds of arcane baby-feline stuff. Part of what makes it fun.

LivingtheLeanDream

For low impact at home workouts I do them barefoot - have done for years with no issues.

LivingtheLeanDream

oops old thread!

feisty_bucket

Old threads are the best threads

FWIW, I'm always barefoot in the house and that includes for exercising. No problems.

Grace_spaceship

I either workout barefoot or with barefoot shoes on, I love vivobarefoot, human feet are amazing feats of biological engineering! Shoes get in the way of your feet working optimally and if the feet aren't working optimally then the rest of the body won't be either.