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as a fellow person in the gym, i wouldnt be offended by it. i would think the person shouldnt want to do it because its unsanitary for them. of course, lifting or being around weights with nothing on their feet is very dangerous and so its very dumb.
Even if I do yoga in a session instead of at home, I wear yoga socks...they have a little pocket for each toe and grippy studs on the bottom. No way am I letting my bare feet touch the floor anywhere in the gym. But I don't care if other people walk around barefoot.
I swear we are creating a race of germaphobes. If you dont want to be barefoot then dont. If you have shoes on and the other folks dont, I am not sure why that is a problem. Are their feet cooties going to permeate through your shoes?
Personally I hate shoes and would be barefoot everywhere if I could be.
My son took taikwondo in a very clean dojo - but even there there was a plantar wart outbreak - yes - dojos do have problems - some instructors even wear special martial arts slipprs to avoid this.
Walking barefoot in a public gym is abosolutely disgusting!
I would think it was pretty strange, but it wouldn't disgust me unless someone had like - a really bad case of toe-jam or something. But those floor mats have dried stinky man-sweat dripped all over them, underarm goo, mixed with dandruff and flaked skin and sneeze-spit and grunt-drool and all kinds of nasty stuff. I think the last thing I'd worry about is the aesthetics of someone's bare feet.
Your palms flat on a mat where someone's shoes were an hour ago, is a more disgusting notion than someone's bare feet. Those shoes generally are all over the place - walking on dog-pee and in puddles filled with bacteria and on sidewalks where sick people might spit and bird poop...and you put your palm down on all of that when you do your pushups and planks.
You are -less- likely to get these things on your hands, when the person who was standing there before you got there was barefoot.
I'd be worried about the possibility of athlete's foot or contagious warts and other things that can be spread. Just the general ick factor of bare feet doesn't bother me though.
By the same token, no one could EVER make me take my shoes off at the door and go barefoot in their house. Same reason. I go barefoot in my own house and outdoors though. But not in territory where I don't know what's been there especially if it's sweaty and a good incubator of athlete's foot fungus.
of course, lifting or being around weights with nothing on their feet is very dangerous and so its very dumb.
How much protection do you think you are getting from 1/8" of shoe fabric?
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