Effective cardio during a knee injury

[mlc2475]

So I found out that I tore my LCL six months ago and have just been "powering through it". I have, however, been doing all low impact cardio.

I've been slimming down from 182 (5'6") to 165 and don't want to derail my weightloss / cardio routine.

What is the best, effective fat & calorie burning cardio I can do? I don't have access to a pool and cycling seems to burn 1/4 the calories I burned doing elipticals. I would run on the eliptical for about an hour and cover 5-6 miles burning about 800 calories (it said). The same amount of time and sweat on the cycles burned 200-250 calories (it said.)

Does the eliptical lie?

Any advice?

 

[biggestloser105]

So I found out that I tore my LCL six months ago and have just been "powering through it". I have, however, been doing all low impact cardio.

I've been slimming down from 182 (5'6") to 165 and don't want to derail my weightloss / cardio routine.

What is the best, effective fat & calorie burning cardio I can do? I don't have access to a pool and cycling seems to burn 1/4 the calories I burned doing elipticals. I would run on the eliptical for about an hour and cover 5-6 miles burning about 800 calories (it said). The same amount of time and sweat on the cycles burned 200-250 calories (it said.)

Does the eliptical lie?

Any advice?

How hard would it be to get access to a pool? I also hurt my knee working out, and frankly I wouldn't put weight loss above something that could end up being a life long problem. It's been about 2 months since I hurt my knee and it still isn't 100%. For a while I was bedridden, all because of the quest to lose weight fast. I went from doing elliptical and bike and rollerblading to being able to only swim (with pain), and only gradually I was able to work back up to walking which is all I do now (and am still losing about 10lbs per month). I have had to eat less than I did when I was working out a lot.

I would just eat the smallest amount you can without going into starvation mode (like 1200 calories) and let your knee heal. Have you seen a physical therapist? If not, do so and you will be told what kind of exercises you should be doing for your knee.

Fast weight loss isn't worth possibly permanently damaging your body.