Bodybuilder Arts And Crafts; or, Shoes for Cutting Shapes & Shuffle Dancing

To protect your feet, and knees, and not damage anything, you have to increase friction between shoe and floor.

And you do that by sticking a piece of high density plastic on the bottom of your shoe.

I cut out a vegetable cutting mat made out of, High Density Polyethylene.

And I try to glue it with carpet tape, and try is the best you can do.

For what is very much a high friction, pretty much non-stick surface.

I've been experimenting with various material all winter, but it all fell apart when it started raining.

The water resistant cheap carpet tape I have been using, is actually not water resistant, and moisture will unstick it.

Two days ago, when it was raining, I didn't even try gluing anything, until I got to the gym.

I've been testing new shoes with a pronounced tread, I used to uses bold shoes that I already tore up.

To increase glue surface I wedged shoe-insert-shaped carpet tile, between the plastic and shoe.

I was thinking the soft carpet would work it self into the tread, and its hardened backing would stick to my HDPE plastic.

Well, that only works, if you use a carpet tape with a mesh, and wrap the mesh around the carpet tile cutout.

If you just put a strip of the double sided mesh tape, on top of fuzzy carpet./

It won't have time to work it self into the tread, before the carpet cut out falls off.

And you comically stick to the gym mat, and then, defeated, walk back to your arts and crafts station making sticking noises.

Mesh tape is a great idea, imagine a bandage soaked with glue, that never really dries.

This will abso-freaking-lutley stick, to our basically non-stick HDPE surface, always use the shinyer side.

It is the oiliness of the glue that re-attaches it self, to the non stick surface - I think of it as a meta glue.

But as noted, the product I purchased is defeated by moisture, it makes sense that it will not stick to a now wet non-stick surface.

And if you use a carpet tile cut out in wet weather, nothing will work after the carpet soaks in water.

Drying does help, a little.

On top of these findings, I ended up with a bad batch of HDPE, it appears to be softer acrylic glass-like material.

Softer, of lower density plastic, does not significantly decrease the friction coefficient.

It will protect flooring, it will protect you from feeling nails, but it will hurt your ankles - do not attempt to dance without HDPE.

For those of you who are concerned about slipping, that is not an issue because you do expose the sole around the edge.

You may slip a little on carpets, made out of high density plastic bristles.

But once you shoe angles, you regain traction as the edge of your shoe makes contact.

Ceramic tile is less slippery than carpets, but the same applies.

Artificial intelligence assures me, that there are tow more plastics you can try.

But at that point, it maybe a better workout to get the workout rope, give everyone the shoe kit, and pull them like on a sled ride.

Your mileage may vary, pun intended.

In closing, the instructions, of the best case scenario.

Oh, find a safe way to remove the shoe tread, do not cut yourself, cutting hard rubber wrong, will result in emergency room visit.

Unfortunately, you will need two pairs of shoes, the HDPE shoes, are for dry rubber mats only, it is the only way.

Experiment with double sided sticky tapes, I found a no-mesh variant yesterday.

That is basically a hardened glue slab, and it held during the workout today extremely well.

The patch of glue is dense enough, not to need a mesh.

Test your HDPE, I've been buying the same dollar store product, but they changed the type of plastics they used.

And finally, just as inconveniently as having to pairs of shoes, you need to drag a repair kit with you.

Scissors, cutouts of HDPE, full sole, like a shoe inert, and round patches that are less slippery.

You need double-sided tapes, gloves and wipes, you maybe repairing wet shoes, get some gloves.

The recipe is bold shoe, gnarly double sided tape over HDPE cutout, and then align and stick it.

It is not perfect, but it will save your feet.

For those of you who are sill confused what the hell this is bout, but enjoyed the passion of my reading.

There is a new trick in bodybuilding, where you dance with dumbbells, thus, converting the 4-6 muscle exercise to a full body workout.

Think of it as eventually heavier dumbbell aerobics, as your body adapts to current load:

Dance while lifting light, but not so light that you can lift more, and never so heavy that you will be forced to stop.

Hit every beat, in your songs, one beat up, next beat down, and you will enter a trance, similar to when you drive back home.

Borrow techniques from joggers, aim to eliminate all rest, up until then, you are just training for a workout.

This is a safe, low-impact, extremely rapid bodybuilding technique.

It will make you strong, beautiful, and above all else keep you forever young.