ow i just did my first ever long barefoot walk (about 4 miles on pavement and road) and bugger me i have huge blisters on the soles of my feet i can barely walk its agony anyone else had this happen?? any tips on to stop it hurtin lol ??
ouch. Happens to us all, mate. Sounds like you over did it at first - when you're still toughening up it's best to ease into it - so avoid long warks when the grounds warm (it may not be so hot that it hurts when you stand on it but the heat does accumulate over time after a walk and you can get blisters that way). What I suggest now is to give your feet a rest for a few days, and when the soreness dies down you can release the fluid from the blisters and those blisters will then act as protection for the next time you walk, for those areas of the feet where you had the most contact with the ground. You'll then be able to walk barefoot with no problems at all.
It's totally like playing guitar. You gotta build up the dead skin on your fingertips before you can play 8 hours a day.
I know how that feels. After a while, the tips are just numb all the time. (A side note: I'm not really a guitarist. I own a guitar, but I am not proficient at playing it. I sometimes pick it up and work on fingering and chords and stuff, but I need to be more dedicated and disciplined, plus get some lessons, if I ever want to really play it. But yes, I do have some minor callouses on my fingertips from it.) I don't understand this getting-blisters-on-your-feet-from-walking-barefoot thing. It has NEVER happened to me, and I go barefoot all the time. It never happened even when I was new to doing so. Here in West Palm Beach there is an annual huge outdoor five-day-long music, food and art festival. I have gone to it for 6 out of the last seven years, five days straight, barefoot the whole time, walking on a closed-to-traffic stretch of waterfront road that is really rough on the feet. Never have I gotten a blister, not even a little one, even though I've walked that pavement in noon-day heat, and for hours at a time. I just don't know what's different about me, but I don't get blisters like others have mentioned here. Blue skies, -Jeffrey
You're fortunate. Jeffrey. I've only gotten some blisters after winter ends and I've walked on dirt-gravel trails too long the first time in warm weather when my feet are still tender. It caused a few regular blisters and a few blood blisters, which look like a small bruise.
It'll only really happen if you do it after a long period of wearing shoes, and in wamr weather and if you over do it on your first barefoot walk in bloody ages. And once it's happened once it'll be far easier the next time.
ok the blisters stopped hurtin and feel alot better so yay lol ill wait a couple days and go barefoot again (been wearin my sandals since it happened)
yeah i know how that feels dude lol its kinda like bike ridin if u dont ride for ages the callusses go soft and u get blisters on ur palms after a 9 hour street sesh (unlucky for me i havent been able to ride in about 2 months ooh the first few weeks back on the saddle are gonna hurt)
I get the same problem at the start of the summer, I try to walk to far on too punishing a surface; usually hot pavements seem to give me blisters - always on the ball of my foot which last a couple of days and then leave a tough area behind, sometimes I drain some of the fluid if they last for ages I think it is just over doing it on the wrong surfaces - also i walk really fast and my toes cannot get a decent grip (too small :-( ) so that part of my foot takes a real battering !
Hi Mellow, Hows the feet now? are you still barefooting or have you given it up? keep em bare Barefoot Andy
This is something I've never understood, this idea of getting blisters from walking barefoot! It's never happened to me! And not that my feet are so incredibly tough or anything -- they look like normal feet, not heavily calloused or anything. And I have spent five days straight, walking on rough street pavement at an outdoor festival they have here in Florida in May, and never got more than a little bit sore. Even with the pavement being pretty hot, nothing ever happened from it. I'm confounded. I don't know why you got blisters. You should see a doctor about the best way to care for them. All I know is you are not supposed to pop them, and if they pop on their own, leave the skin over them, put antibacterial on them, and cover them so they don't get dirty and infected. Heal soon! edit: Whoop! This thread was started so long ago that I totally forgot that I had already responded to it, with essentially the same stuff I said here! Sorry! -Jeffrey
