Working Out When You Have a Blistered Foot?

[MandyH]

Last week I started walking on a treadmill. I started at just 2-2.5mph for 30-45 minutes and have gradually worked my way up to 3mph and on a 3.5% incline. I do a full hour which comes out to about 400 calories according to my treadmill. This may not be much for some of you, but for someone who's overweight and rarely exercised, this is a very good workout for me and I'm really starting to enjoy the feeling of it. My goal is to get 6 days a week in on the treadmill and eventually I'd like to start jogging on it too, but that's still a ways off.

Anyway, these workouts have given me a blister on the bottom of my right foot. The padded area right below the toes. This is making it difficult for me to walk normally let alone really walking at 3mph on the treadmill. I hate the thought of NOT walking now so I'm trying to find an alternative on what I can do to burn some calories until it heals. I don't have any other exercise equipment other than two 1lb weights. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do at home to get in some exercise? How many calories do you think your suggestion(s) would burn for me? I take in an estimated 1,000-1,200 calories mattering on what I eat for dinner and I'm a 32 year old woman currently at 220lb and 5' tall.

 

[Omega]

I did a lot of walking every day in my big weight loss project a few years back... I was bigger than you when I started out and walking every day was my key exercise. For the first year and a bit it was all outdoors - then I got a treadmill and walked indoors or outdoors...

I still do walking every day and have a gym quality treadmill permanently in my living room.

I have had a lot of blisters...

Walking was too central to my project for me to not do it...

I know that this is contrary to medical advice - but it worked for me...

I burst blisters on my feet with a needle and drain the liquid off. I then have often put a couple of cotton wool pads over and use lengths of elastoplast to hold them firmly in place...

Sometimes in recent times I have burst and drained the blister and then covered with compeed... That has worked quite well too.

I don't get very many blisters these days. I still walk a lot and dance a lot too (my pedometer clocked up three days last week with over 30,000 steps)... I think that the fact that I am now quite particular about being sure that I am wearing well fitting shoes...

I find that hard skin on my feet and cracked heals can also give me problems - but specialist lotions and bandaging can help these too.

 

[jtattoo]

There are some great bodyweight exercises to help keep you in the game and burning some calories...