Like in constant pain at the moment, mostly the arches and ankles. I run about 45min every day in 15 min intervals, among other exercises. I really think i just need to take a break from running and using my feet lol, but i don't want to let up on the cardio. What can i replace running with that wont require me to wear shoes and put a lot of force on my feet?
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My feet are killing me....
- Thread starter HatesHisMoobs
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Cycling, elliptical, swimming
Sorry should have mentioned no gym access at the moment. That's why I went with running in the first place, I hate doing it but it's simple and effective.
1. Buy footware thats appropiate for the sport you are doing: run with supportive footware.
2. If you do not eat all day (as all your other posts seem to say) then your body is not going to replenish itself well. What you do eat will be stored and not used to help your body repair and get itself back to normal (as I have previously explained to you).
Its your body, if you like screwing it up with malnourishment then this is fine, but it may help others to help you if you could explain this in your first post and you must understand that it is going to have an effect on your health.
Have you not wondered (and perhaps worried) about whats going to happen if you don't eat sensibly for much longer and then attempt to?
2. If you do not eat all day (as all your other posts seem to say) then your body is not going to replenish itself well. What you do eat will be stored and not used to help your body repair and get itself back to normal (as I have previously explained to you).
Its your body, if you like screwing it up with malnourishment then this is fine, but it may help others to help you if you could explain this in your first post and you must understand that it is going to have an effect on your health.
Have you not wondered (and perhaps worried) about whats going to happen if you don't eat sensibly for much longer and then attempt to?
1. Buy footware thats appropiate for the sport you are doing: run with supportive footware.
2. If you do not eat all day (as all your other posts seem to say) then your body is not going to replenish itself well. What you do eat will be stored and not used to help your body repair and get itself back to normal (as I have previously explained to you).
Its your body, if you like screwing it up with malnourishment then this is fine, but it may help others to help you if you could explain this in your first post and you must understand that it is going to have an effect on your health.
Have you not wondered (and perhaps worried) about whats going to happen if you don't eat sensibly for much longer and then attempt to?
yes yes summer i know. I am trying to do better honest, i just wanted to see how much i lose in a given a day is all. I eat oats for breakfast every day, have salad or sushi for lunch, and then an apple and light dinner. Plus like 3 liters of water a day. I'm eating trust me.
I am looking for better shoes but not really loaded on cash at the moment lol. I was thinking i could lie on my back and "bicycle" for an hour, its no feet but lots of legs that a decent alternative?
yes yes summer i know. I am trying to do better honest, i just wanted to see how much i lose in a given a day is all. I eat oats for breakfast every day, have salad or sushi for lunch, and then an apple and light dinner. Plus like 3 liters of water a day. I'm eating trust me.
I am looking for better shoes but not really loaded on cash at the moment lol. I was thinking i could lie on my back and "bicycle" for an hour, its no feet but lots of legs that a decent alternative?
Glad your eating seems better- much better! Hope your able to keep it up.
With regards to your feet- are you taking rest days? rest days are important as its the recovery period where your body does all its fixing. The idea is with exercise, you tear down muscles and in your recovery day/s they repair and grow back stronger. The more impact and the longer the exercise goes on, the more important the rest days which is why some joggers tend to omit theirs as they do only a little just enough that they don't need to pause to repair. As its all fairly new to you I'd say your body would likely really need the time to repair, its in your interest as a stonger body means your able to do more when your recovered the next time.
I'd say try to stay clear of the high impact stuff- there are other forms of exercise which are not as high impact as running and you may fare better. Also a cross training type of exercise regieme where you do lots of different types of exercise can boost your fitness level even more and help you gain more stregnth. Cycling/spinning would be fine, swimming, rowing would be fine too, but if all these really feel too much I'd see a medic- pain is a warning sign.
Have you tried things like Yoga? it could help with your posture and flexibility which in turn may aid your running- lots of the time running injuries are caused by our own bodies and how we perform certain tasks. If your running and slamming your feet onto the floor (very common) your likely to get an injury for example. Pronations, weak core stability and poor back posture are also other factors. Its a good idea to try to get things as close to perfect as you can before speeding them up or doing them every day.
Added to that stretching- very important I think. Makes a huge difference to weather or not I can get out of bed the next day anyway.
Cycling in the air would help your core and ab muscles (remember it wont reduce your belly size, it just helps the muscles) but if your going at it in order to form a type of cardio you may find its quite impossible- lying down your heart rate will automaticly be lowered (your heart really needs to be quite high to perform cardiovascular exercise) and doing more then the odd 5 mins of this may put undue pressure on your joins and could result in other injuries.
Hope you find a way out of that but if you haven't already tried, lie on your back, bottom against the wall, legs up against the wall straight up. You could tie together your ankles to make it slightly eaiser. 15 mins like this is good, I find 30 mins really works but if your feet go numb then stop- your circulation needs to be there! This will help lympatic drainage and odema which can also contribute to foot pain/heavy feet and doing this every day after exercise or a long day on your feet can really help make a difference. (Better then this though, if you do win the lottery, is a few sports massages or lymphatic drainage massages)
Glad your eating seems better- much better! Hope your able to keep it up.
With regards to your feet- are you taking rest days? rest days are important as its the recovery period where your body does all its fixing. The idea is with exercise, you tear down muscles and in your recovery day/s they repair and grow back stronger. The more impact and the longer the exercise goes on, the more important the rest days which is why some joggers tend to omit theirs as they do only a little just enough that they don't need to pause to repair. As its all fairly new to you I'd say your body would likely really need the time to repair, its in your interest as a stonger body means your able to do more when your recovered the next time.
I'd say try to stay clear of the high impact stuff- there are other forms of exercise which are not as high impact as running and you may fare better. Also a cross training type of exercise regieme where you do lots of different types of exercise can boost your fitness level even more and help you gain more stregnth. Cycling/spinning would be fine, swimming, rowing would be fine too, but if all these really feel too much I'd see a medic- pain is a warning sign.
Have you tried things like Yoga? it could help with your posture and flexibility which in turn may aid your running- lots of the time running injuries are caused by our own bodies and how we perform certain tasks. If your running and slamming your feet onto the floor (very common) your likely to get an injury for example. Pronations, weak core stability and poor back posture are also other factors. Its a good idea to try to get things as close to perfect as you can before speeding them up or doing them every day.
Added to that stretching- very important I think. Makes a huge difference to weather or not I can get out of bed the next day anyway.
Cycling in the air would help your core and ab muscles (remember it wont reduce your belly size, it just helps the muscles) but if your going at it in order to form a type of cardio you may find its quite impossible- lying down your heart rate will automaticly be lowered (your heart really needs to be quite high to perform cardiovascular exercise) and doing more then the odd 5 mins of this may put undue pressure on your joins and could result in other injuries.
Hope you find a way out of that but if you haven't already tried, lie on your back, bottom against the wall, legs up against the wall straight up. You could tie together your ankles to make it slightly eaiser. 15 mins like this is good, I find 30 mins really works but if your feet go numb then stop- your circulation needs to be there! This will help lympatic drainage and odema which can also contribute to foot pain/heavy feet and doing this every day after exercise or a long day on your feet can really help make a difference. (Better then this though, if you do win the lottery, is a few sports massages or lymphatic drainage massages)
I don't take rest days actually. I workout an hour in the morning as soon as i wake up and then an hour right before i go to bed in the evening. I took a rest day once and gained like 1.5lbs so i stopped doing that. My feet are the only part that ever gets sore or hurts though. But i lift weights, do sit ups, pushups, pullups and all those muscles feel fine.
I don't take rest days actually. I workout an hour in the morning as soon as i wake up and then an hour right before i go to bed in the evening. I took a rest day once and gained like 1.5lbs so i stopped doing that. My feet are the only part that ever gets sore or hurts though. But i lift weights, do sit ups, pushups, pullups and all those muscles feel fine.
And there lies your problem.
I'll leave you to re-read the above posts where I have written about rest days. They do matter and your feet are obviously the first thing to have gone.
Pain is a warning sign, ignore it at your own risk but put your feet out (I have known people who have done this) and you do risk requiring surgery if they get worse and also no exercise. Its your call to make not mine but faced with the choice of no exercise/bedrest for months while you wait for the operation or continuing with exercise but taking it seriously and respecting my body I know what I'd pick.
And there lies your problem.
I'll leave you to re-read the above posts where I have written about rest days. They do matter and your feet are obviously the first thing to have gone.
Pain is a warning sign, ignore it at your own risk but put your feet out (I have known people who have done this) and you do risk requiring surgery if they get worse and also no exercise. Its your call to make not mine but faced with the choice of no exercise/bedrest for months while you wait for the operation or continuing with exercise but taking it seriously and respecting my body I know what I'd pick.
I am just so desperate to lose this weight, it's like a mental thing at this point, though if you could see my tubby tummy, and giant moobs you would be desperate too! I have lost a good amount at 165 now and dropping about a half pound a day or more sometimes. but i dont look or feel any different to be honest. =/
I am just so desperate to lose this weight, it's like a mental thing at this point, though if you could see my tubby tummy, and giant moobs you would be desperate too! I have lost a good amount at 165 now and dropping about a half pound a day or more sometimes. but i dont look or feel any different to be honest. =/
I can see that your desperate, but you really need to be patient- your body can only metabolise so much fat per week/10 days, anything more then that and its muscle, water and glycogen your losing, not fat.
Worse is the fact that if you dip too far below what your body needs or work it too hard or get an injury, your levels or cortisol go up, this is a stress hormone, its side effect is for your body to hold fat around the waist- its VERY hard to get rid of. Your body does this as in ancient times, cortisol/stress was a reaction to us being attacked. Our bodies needed to have quick energy to use without running out and having to work harder to break down muscles. The fat sat around the waist would be quickly obtained and great for fuel. It would be replaced very easily too- your body would have altered its use of energy to store energy as fat rather then to build it as muscle. Not that it would never build any muscle, but that a high and disproportionate amount would be held around your torso.
Your weight will be dropping yes, and at the rate you have stated, its likely to be muscle. There is such a thing as skinny-fat, wqhere you look skinny/weight less but actually have a very high percentage of body fat and still have things like a belly, back fat or even 'man-boobs'.
You really need to sit back and look at what your doing. There is no easy way or short cut to losing weight and definetly no easy way to losing fat. You also need to take better care of your body if you want it to help you lose weight, whats going to happen when your stuck at home, nothing you can do as your injured but eat? this is how things could turn out- please take it slowly and really think about what your doing, it can so easly come to a crashing stand still and mate, with what your saying it really sounds like your heading there.