Err, Gym. As in I joined one. I just quit one a few months ago, and here I am.
I don’t love the gym. I am not going to lie. But I needed to workout, no matter the outcome.
It _did_ make my heel worse. No doubt about it. But it will just have to take longer to heal. I can’t continue to sit still because of this injury. It’s not terrible, and it really hardly hurts at all, but I wasn’t feeling anything before I went in the door, and now I have some tingling and some minor pain. It’s a case of, “Oh well”. It will be longer till I get back to running I will bet, but I also won’t run to fat before I get there.
I have stopped taking the ibuprofen as well. That was going on 2 weeks and it did seem to help, but 3200mg a day isn’t really why I got into fitness in the first place.
So, I am person who goes to a building to simulate work in the hopes that I won’t get fat. I do not consider this a win.
Does the heel hurt when you walk, or just when you run? If you can walk without pain, there’s a peculiar new office exercise concept: http://www.squidoo.com/walkingwhileworking I don’t know what your gym membership costs, but cheap treadmills are about $500, and you could probably get a used one for much less. I saw a news story about an entire office that did this, even for their conference room. Everyone in the office lost weight and/or got fitter.
By the way, it’s interesting how many Google hits there are for “James Nasium” I can’t tell if that’s a real name or if there are really that many smartasses in the world.