Well, yesterday I ended up getting a blister on my foot, and popping a blister on my hand (as I'm on a daily mission to do 250 swings: my hands lasted to about 230 but I had to finish!)
And this reminded me about the fab anti-blister sports socks I discovered a few months ago, when a friend of mine, James Davis, sent me a pair of training and a pair of snowboarding socks that would have stopped my feet getting blisters (I wasn't wearing socks at all yesterday - d'oh)
James is an online retail entrepreneur and owns an online shop selling technical sports socks, his shop is www.buyXsocks.com. Back at the early part of this year James offered me the chance to test out some X-Socks and knowing that I would be almost the perfect person with the
amount of training and workouts I do he knew the socks would be thoroughly tested.
James kindly sent me some womens's X-Socks , these were the X-Socks
Speed One Lady Socks and the X-Socks Ski Lady Comfort Socks I had not tried X-Socks before, and although I am used to spending a lot on snowboarding socks (I was highly dedicated to my previous brand, safe to say I am now converted!) but as for training, I usually wear very basic cheap socks from Tesco, so I was quite skeptical as to the benefits of these socks - would they be worth the cost?
The x-socks arrived in lightning speed, neatly packaged and, I was immediately impressed at the presentation as the packaging tells you all about the the technical design. I was going training later that day so popped on the socks and my feet felt extremely comfortable straight away, but I thought to myself, "Good so far, but let's see what they're like when I'm training hard".
During my training my feet felt cool, comfortable and cared for and where I usually got hotspots or blisters I had nothing of the sort. What I am interested in is how these socks can improve performance: there's lots of technical stuff on the packaging but essentially it boils down to this...
...X-Socks reduce blisters, reduce overheating and reduce muscle cramps and I am sure that if you haven't got to worry about your feet you're sure going to be concentrating more on your training and after all that's what it's all about.
As a reward for all of you lucky readers, you can get a 5% discount if you check out my page on James' web site and use a voucher code - this gives you 5% off all your orders through his online shop. Yep, that means that you can order a pair now and get 5% then using the same voucher code again as many times as you like and you'll always get 5% off your orders. You'd best
check it out:
My Page at James' shop is here: http://www.buyxsocks.com/page/carolineradway
Here's to comfy feet and no more blisters!
My only request - can you do some for hands so I can complete my 250 a day swing challenge with some skin intact please?!
Caroline.
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