Losing weight (no running)

you have access to a punching bag?
do 8 rounds. 6 rounds of combinations, 2 rounds of up-downs (do say 100 continuous straights alternating right and lefts, then immediately do 100 continuous uppercuts to the body - alternate until the round is over, and make sure you focus on speed not power and with good technique of course - sorry if this is a **** explanation).
you can lessen the number of rounds if you are doing as part of a larger workout.
my 2c.

 

Im assuming that you cant skip rope either or put alot of weight on your knees, otherwise I would suggest to just skiprope.

Since you are not doing any roadwork, go and hit a heavybag for a bunch of rounds, or if you have access to a pool start swimming laps.

If you cant use your legs too much for weightlifting do a whole buch of isometrics, plyometrics, and focus on working large muscles of the upperbody chest and back.

 

Swimming, cycling if possible (did a lot of it myself with a bum knee), canoeing perhaps, that's the sort of thing I would look into. And of course good old fashioned shadowboxing and bagwork.

 

you get what you pay for really

 

Losing weight is mostly about what (how much) you eat.

Aside form methods already mentioned. lifting weights/body weight exercises will help you lose weight too. You could do push ups and pull ups (will your leg hold up for lower body stuff?)

 

Eating less before you sleep is a good thing, it means you wont be eating food you cannot burn off while sleeping, and you will feel more fresh when you wake up. But do eat something like brown/wheaten bread to have some energy in the morn incase you need to train then.

Also replacing juice/carbonated drinks with water helps, i read somewhere that if you do that you will lose roughly 2kg within the first month due to all the sugar in carbonated drinks and juice.

 

i'd guess the "inflatable punch thing" wouldn't weigh that much. from my own experience, i think a heavy bag should be at least 20kg otherwise you don't get the same resistance and you don't sweat as much.

 

I got a friend who got ready for a bodybuilding competition and got ABSOLUTELY cut up just from weightlifting, proper diet, and metabolism management and hard lifting.

IMO he'd have had much an easier time he had just run, biked, rowing machine, etc or some kind of cardio. Even low intensity cardio for 40+ mins help a lot.

 

Look into some Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and just focus on the ground grappling and not really the stand-up grappling. It's fun, you'll lose weight, and alot of schools focus on just flowing with technique. So you have less chance of getting injured or really damaging your knees.

 

Help to burn muscle as well as fat yes. Weightlifting can be extremely effective for fat burning, better then running, biking and rowing in fact.

 

a cruciate ligament injury is bad but after a while you will be able to run no probs, its turning that the cruciate ligament is involved so running on a threadmill in a straight line is sweet, anything involving pivoting turning etc will involve the cruciate inducings stress, for now as said before swimming cycling rowing is all grand, even some walking

 

If I recall George Foreman in his comeback did very little roadwork and sparring and he lost a ton of weight. Possibly figure out exactly what he did?