Do my Vibram Five Fingers Shoes Smell?
People ask me that when they see me at the gym with my five fingers shoes. Because I don’t wear socks with them, they assume that all your foot sweat just oozes into the shoe. Well, I guess it’s true. I don’t think you can do anything to get pass that except wash them regularly or wear socks.
I learned this while in boxing class. We use the same gloves everyday and they get sweaty and smelly. However, what I do is that rub hand sanitizer on my hands and then put my hands into the gloves. I also do this again at the very end of class. My boxing gloves have never smelled.
So, with my shoes, I don’t use hand sanitizer, but I do use baby powder and I do put some into the shoe and shake it when I take them off. It’s been working.
But even with all that, you have to wash them once in a while. I just toss mine into the washer and air dry them. They come out good as new!
If you wanted to go the sock route, I suggest getting the Injinji five finger socks. But honestly, if your feet fit into them without socks, it will be real tight with these socks. So if you plan to use socks, I would get a size larger than what Vibram suggests.
Comment from they
Time July 27, 2010 at 4:41 am
I swore I’d never wear vibram five fingers. We called them the vibram kso of Suck a few years ago and I was sure they were crazy. Friends, I’m here to tell you I was wrong. And I’m sorry. Here’s my story: I ran a marathon a few years ago. I got plantar fasciitis and couldn’t run after the marathon. I worked through that inflammation but by the time I was ready to run vibram FiveFingers Sprint again I had gained thirty pounds. Wham. Shin-splints. So I was a fat former runner with leg problems. The prognosis wasn’t good. So I tried a few things – the elliptical, weight training, losing some freaking weight – but the thing that saved me were these vibram five fingers shoes.