Are body weight exercises the fastest way to recover from injury?

[Cody Hart]

I went under the knife to repair a torn Labrum a little over a year ago. I have now realized that body weight exercises may have been the key to a fast recovery. Obviously it took months to gain the ability to perform body weight exercises, but once I could perform sets of 6-8 on push ups, I slowly began working my way up to pull ups and dips. I am now at 100%, maybe even 110% and believe these exercises were the key to my recovery. Please share your recovery experiences.

 

[Brian Troost]

Don't overwork yourself! Take it slowly so that you don't run your motivation into the ground.

I go for a walk as active recovery to get blood and nutrients to the muscles and speed up the recovery process. And I've been doing home workout programs with my body weight - http://homegym-exercises.com/bwe_bodyweight_exercises.html (that's what I'm using). They are designed to go 5 days per week, two of the 5 days being a "recovery workout", and then only two true rest days. I'm doing 2x 24 hour recovery periods as an integral part of the training.

 

[Jabal-Tariq]

Possibly, I had a fractured neck and started and continue to do body weight exercises.