Have you ever walked barefoot just to make your feet tougher,so u are less dependent on shoes?

Answer 1

I rarely ever wear shoes, except to go to store or to jog.

Answer 2

I usually walk around in bare feet because I enjoy the comfort and feeling of it but one of my reasons has always been to adjust to going barefoot more and more until the day I can always go barefoot 99.9% of the time. I feet a reasonably tough as it is and I am not that dependent on shoes unless I am walking on gravel or similar ground.

Answer 3

Yes, all the time and preferably on the hottest asphalt even if it will blister my soles, as long as it won't cause third degree burns. If the soles have blackened with burned on ingrained dirt, and the calluses are very white showing through the dirt with little to no dirt on the white calluses, then I've definitely burned the soles the minimum I need to burn them, not just red and stinging for a bit longer after I'm done barefooting for the day.

I also regularly use a hand grater on the soles of my feet, making crosshatching lines in both diagonal directions opposite the normal grain of the foot, in order to build thicker and rougher calluses. Those newer rougher calluses are slightly less heat resistant the next day because the crosshatching does slightly grate away existing callus, but the day after that they are more heat tolerant than before so I can stand and walk on even hotter asphalt whether or not I once again get blisters on the soles.

If I know I can end barefooting immediately and go home to tend to blisters, I will always push to blisters when the temperature is in the high 90's degrees F to low 100's degrees F. I consider blistering on asphalt in triple digit weather to be normal and essential for getting used to extremely hot asphalt temperatures that much more quickly. Otherwise, without blistering, it could take several weeks just even start to gradually tolerate that much heat that much more slowly, and in summer the temperatures get hotter sooner, making the asphalt even hotter that much sooner.

In the best possible scenario, I want my soles as tough walking on rough surfaces without the sharpest rocks feeling even slightly uncomfortable, and as heat tolerant when standing for longer times and when walking much longer distances on the hottest possible asphal, as if they were the soles of thin leather flip flops. Standing would be the most difficult since the bare foot soles are still thinner than the soles of the most thinnest leather flip flops.

Answer 4

More like the other way around; I walk barefoot because I enjoy it, and my feet get tough in the process.
I do sometimes walk specific places to toughen my feet up more than they normally would; like if there's gravel or asphalt and a grassy or soft dirt path, I'll walk on the rough stuff. It may seem very weird to folks with soft feet from wearing shoes, but as a seasoned barefooter, it's more pleasant than the soft stuff (feels like a massage, not painful) and a good way of toughening up my soles even more!

Answer 5

I have only ever walked barefoot because it is comfortable and feels good. My feet must have been tough when I was born because I have never needed to make myself less dependent on shoes.

Answer 6

Till 17 years old I was barefoot. It does not matter much in the tropics, except that midday sun can raise blisters on the sole. In India one has to be barefoot within temple precincts, inside any house, and many other places. One is frequently barefoot. It is not, however, with any intention to make the soles tougher.

Answer 7

I didn't try but when I was smal I never wore shoes but now I just stepped on a nail a while ago and my parents don't let me anymore but I think my feet are tougher

Answer 8

i like walking barefoot but i can't do it often... at present i know taht, if i had to, i could make it...well, i'd just have some less problems than someone that never walks barefoot hehe!! anyway it's just cause i like it...it's not a sort of training :)

Answer 9

I used to always be barefoot except for going to school. My feet were pretty tough. The worst thing was hot asphalt.

Answer 10

I tried outside but it hurt so it gave up. Besides, it's not like I'll ever be without a plentiful supply of shoes to wear; at the moment I have about 30 pairs.

Answer 11

No, because last time I looked there was not a shortage of shoes anywhere and I always wear them when I go out so if I am stranded somewhere I would have shoes on.