Hair line fracture in my heel....help?

[MsGinger]

I've started doing squats/lunges, I put one foot (my weight is on the arch of my foot) on the coffee table, it's a heavy coffee table, and the other foot/leg is about 3 feet behind the foot on the coffee table and I push off the coffee table, really focusing on my thigh muscles. I'm not able to speed walk nor jog, or do any jumping, and I'm at a loss on what exercises I can do until my foot/heel heals.
I clean stalls (12 of them on Saturdays and Sundays) work full time at an office during the week. But while cleaning stalls, I'm using a lot of arm/shoulder strength as well as holding my abs in tightly when sweeping two long wide aisles. My toes actually go numb after cleaning a few stalls, but I keep going (slower) until I'm done for the day.
The buckets are very heavy, arms are getting toned, but I really am desperate for lower body work. I don't have access to a pool, but the gym I have access to only has treadmills. I tried an eliptical, but the same things happens, I eventually put too much weight on my heel and it's so painful, I want to cry.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd really appreciate it.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Hair line fracture in my heel....help?

ouch

do you have a bicycle? you could cycle as the pressure is on the ball of your foot

[MsGinger]

Re: Hair line fracture in my heel....help?

A horse came runnning up behind me when I was getting my horse from the pasture and when he passed me, his front hoof kicked my heel, it took my breath away and then, about a month later, I was taking my horse out of her stall and she tripped and got me in that same heel. I wanted to die.
Anyhow, no, I don't have a bicycle, nor a stationary one. If I did have one, we (like almost everyone else) got 10 more inches of snow on Monday.
I am a little impatient to begin with, but I'm going to CA in 12 days and I have gotten much more strict, in fact, my induction probably wasn't as accurate as it should have been. I lost 4 lbs. in 6 weeks, but 5 days ago, I really cracked down and am doing it right. I had to buy the book again, because I lent mine out and never got it back, and I thought I would have remembered, but ... nope, not enough. So, I'm back reading it, trying to exercise, doing crunches, working my arms and my so-called squats.

[Desertthorn]

Re: Hair line fracture in my heel....help?

Swimming? Water arobics? Two of my favorites

[MsGinger]

Re: Hair line fracture in my heel....help?

I think there is a YMCA or something like that, about 45 minutes away, and I'm not sure if they have a pool, in fact, I'm not even sure they're still open. There is a pool (outdoors) not 15 yards away, except we can't until at least mid-May. I do love to swim and do exercises in the pool. I've tried pilates, and of course free weights, I just would like to get my heart rate up and lose some fat. But, until then, I'm doing some things. If only atkins helped some cellulite. One can only hope.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Hair line fracture in my heel....help?

can you get a theraband and use the tension in it to do lower body reisistance exercise?

[MsGinger]

Re: Hair line fracture in my heel....help?

Great idea, thank you. Last night, I was standing, and kind of swaying side to side, leaning further away, but I was staying more on the balls of me feet, off of the heel, just to feel like I'm moving. Need to do that to music and get a little faster or something to work up some what of a sweat.
Thanks for your suggestion.