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Tips for blister prevention please!

  • 16-09-2015 10:27am
    #1
    Kirm2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭


    I'd be grateful to all you pros for advice on how to care for feet while training. I seem particularly prone to a foot load of blisters. I'm using blister plasters but they never stay on.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Kirm2 wrote: »
    I'd be grateful to all you pros for advice on how to care for feet while training. I seem particularly prone to a foot load of blisters. I'm using blister plasters but they never stay on.

    Thanks.

    Wear woolen socks.Wash socks with soap and water. Allow to dry without rinsing out the soap.


  • #3
    marty555
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭marty555


    Bridgedale sock are very good !! Expensive but well worth it. I have used them for years on the hills and very happy with them. Now their not going to prevent them totally but every bit helps and socks are very important!!


  • #4
    Savage93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Savage93


    Make sure your boots are properly fitting and broken in.


  • #5
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    I didn't get on well with the Bridgedales. Some other people love them though. I got a pair of 1000 Mile hiking socks (I've been using their running socks for years) and I think they're brilliant. Far nicer for my feet.


  • #6
    marty555
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭marty555


    Yeah I uses 1000 mile running socks and also find them very good !!


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  • #7
    discus
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    Once they are broken in, test and adjust how you lace them - ie, having the lower loops of the laces pulled tighter. It's all down to shape of the foot


  • #8
    John_D80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    Blisters are just a part of life until your feet get used to getting battered. Some people suffer more than others.

    In the meantime the best method I ever found of preventing them was wear a pop sock under a cotton or wool sock. Put a very light smear of Vaseline on problem areas only. Heels, balls and arches. Before you put on the pop sock. Expensive boots and/or socks won't prevent blisters. They are prevented at skin level.

    Don't know what a pop sock is?? Ask your mum/sister/wife/girlfriend.


  • #9
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Savage93 wrote: »
    Make sure your boots are properly fitting and broken in.

    Good fitting boots. Better medium quality boots that fit well, than good quality boots which do not. I perpetually bless the woman who measured my feet in Fort Knox, she got me just right.


  • #10
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Zinc oxide tape can be good for taping up your feet. Stops your feet from tubbing against your boot.

    But having the right boots is really important. The black issue boots that have just been phased out of the british army gave my feet loads of nlister while tabbing. I got some new Bates which have been far far better and i get hardly any blisters now.


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