Painful feet while on ski-lift!

Ian Wickham wrote:To strengthen the leg and knee muscles all you need to do is stand next to a chair hold on to a chair with one hand, stand on one leg, and then squat 45 degrees and repeat about 20 times then do the other leg 8)

Ian, Ally G, I will let you both know how I go when I try this tonight at home :shock:

Carol

AllyG wrote:Look here Ian,
I have enough trouble doing leg squats with both legs, never mind on one leg :roll:

Do you do one handed press ups as well?

Ally

I was put on to it by a physio to start with use the chair as a Crutch, it really strengthened my dodgy knee 8)

Ian,
I was only joking. I can actually do it with one leg as long as I lean on the chair.

And, in fact, I have one leg stronger than the other one, so I might find this exercise beneficial, thanks. I find I can balance for much longer standing on my stronger leg, and I notice my turning is much easier in one direction than the other, when I'm ski-ing.

Ally

AllyG wrote:Ian,
I was only joking. I can actually do it with one leg as long as I lean on the chair.

And, in fact, I have one leg stronger than the other one, so I might find this exercise beneficial, thanks. I find I can balance for much longer standing on my stronger leg, and I notice my turning is much easier in one direction than the other, when I'm ski-ing.

Ally

It is a really great exercise and it really strengthened my knee 8)

Thanks - especially to CEM for those pointers. I can almost get my knees over my toes but not quite. For the test about where the foot sits within the liner, should I attempt taking the liner out of the shell, or is this a job for the professional?

I have been for my 4th lesson this evening, and as a trial I replaced the footbeds with some superfeet non-custom ones and I did not do the bottom straps on my boots up so tightly. This certainly felt more comfortable, although towards the end of the hour it was getting painful again.

In this lesson, we took the drag lift to the top of the slope. The second half of the slope is steeper and I actually found this half less uncomfortable. I found that I was naturally taking this part with my legs straight, whereas they were bent more for the lower half... so what is the ideal position to be in on a drag lift?

I concentrated a bit on where the pain/uncomfortableness was today and I'd certainly now describe it as under the arch - the full width of both feet.

I've therefore decided to go to another boot fitters and get them to do the propper test to see if the boots I have been sold are the right size, and whether a custom footbed might make things more comfortable. I'm going to see if I can find a good boot-fitter in either the Leeds or Manchester areas, otherwise it looks like a trip to Bicester is called for!!!! :-)

Thanks again everyone for all the advice on here - it is really appreciated!

Matt

I think you need lift lessons. I can get you on a 1 hour course for £500 )

Tony H - that's a very kind offer and I may yet take you up on it!

However in the meantime, I have now managed to get the liner out and I estimate that the amount of space between the back of my foot and the boot is a whopping 5cm, so roughly double the amount that CEM was saying it should be.

I have clearly been sold boots that are too big, so tomorrow I shall be going back to the shop for a refund.... wish me luck everyone!

Matt

shamp00 wrote:Tony H - that's a very kind offer and I may yet take you up on it!

However in the meantime, I have now managed to get the liner out and I estimate that the amount of space between the back of my foot and the boot is a whopping 5cm, so roughly double the amount that CEM was saying it should be.

I have clearly been sold boots that are too big, so tomorrow I shall be going back to the shop for a refund.... wish me luck everyone!

Matt

Jeez, they are WAY too big, I did have my suspicions from what you had posted.
When did you say they sold them to you? If they have had little use, you might be able to get something back for them, or at least something off a replacement pair.
Make sure you stress that THEY advised you and recommended the boots (assuming they actually did of course) and that you believe them to have mis-sold a product to you, tell them all about your pain!
Worse case scenario is they might knock something off a replacement pair, maybe £50 or so, best case scenario is they refund you in full, but I would not hold my breath if I were you.

What make and model are they out of interest, what size, and what size shoes do you wear?