barefoot sounds great the day you or someone else drops a dumbbell on your foot
t shirt , shorts, barefoot
Unless you workout in steel toed RedWings, with a strap on arch guard, dropping a 45 on one's foot is not going to make that much of a different barefooted or not. Those $130 cross training shoes will not help at all. Though you may look cool in them while being rushed to the nearest ER room. And their going to cut them off anyway due to your foot swelling to twice it's normal size.. Even in reinforced RedWings, some foot damage is going to happen. Good luck.
Of course if anyone only worked with a BowFlex they would not have that problem with those nasty 45's. Good Luck.