I have no equipment with me (not even dumbbells). I use this app for my workouts at home. I was wondering, how far can they take you? Since the main idea is to use body weight (and I do some cardio too), I assume they can take you up to some point. Now when you reach this maximum point, will you be fit (like toned muscles, decent biceps, and abs)? So will I have to join the gym at some point? And are home workouts useless if you want to be ripped (I know they are good for my health, so they aren’t completely useless).
Lol. ‘Home’ workouts will take you as far as much effort, will, time, dedication, and just fking stuff you put into it. I have never been to a gym lol. It can take you even ‘further’ than a gym or not as much; it depends on you.
@Rowan
Best answer in the thread. It’s not about the setting and it’s only maybe 10% about equipment. If you work hard and put in the time, you can get an amazing body with just your bodyweight.
Cassian said:
@Rowan
Best answer in the thread. It’s not about the setting and it’s only maybe 10% about equipment. If you work hard and put in the time, you can get an amazing body with just your bodyweight.
Equipment simply is a k.o. criteria. Either you have suitable one or not.
For the upper body, you can go pretty far with just bodyweight. I don’t think you need weights at all for the upper.
For lower, bodyweight can help but eventually, you’ll need some weights, most likely.
Day said:
I use this app?
Yeah, that app. You don’t know it? /s
Day said:
I use this app?
I don’t know, do you?
Keegan said:
Day said:
I use this app?
I don’t know, do you?
No, I don’t use this app.
I use it, and I can confirm it’s an app.
Day said:
Keegan said:
Day said:
I use this app?
I don’t know, do you?
No, I don’t use this app.
I use it, and I can confirm it’s an app.
I use that app too!
@Valen
Ahh… What’s it?
There is a book by an old-time strongman (Court Saldo), which shows that non-apparatus training can be used to progress to the very highest levels of strength. Check it out: Advanced Non Apparatus Training Saldo : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
In principle, you could build an unbelievable amount of strength and fitness with no equipment at all.
Getting ripped is a matter of eating fewer calories than you burn and training really hard so that you keep muscle and lose fat. But the potential to become ‘ripped’ is largely genetic - you will see many professional gymnasts who are not really ‘ripped’ (10% bf is actually ‘healthy’). But you will see plenty of actors, models, etc., who are really ripped. But this is clearly due to the use of chemicals, combined with ‘starvation diets’, or maybe surgery.
To answer your question, you can easily get toned muscles, decent biceps, and abs with bodyweight fitness.
A bar in your doorframe, a set of rings, and a floor and a wall is enough to make you jacked. Add a jumprope, dip parallettes, and some rubber bands, and you’re golden.
I am in the best shape of my life, including that time when I did heavy gym workouts 3-4 times per day for years, and I use 95% of the equipment I listed up there (plus my bike when the weather is good and a gym workout once a couple of weeks). In fact, not to be braggadocious, but I feel like I look leaner and stronger than my gym-goer friends.
Of course, you need discipline both in terms of diet and your routine. And another thing: heavy deadlift and leg exercises are not really doable outside of a gym.
@Presley
I would like for a routine from you. What does your week look like with this?
@Presley
What’s your routine for home workouts?
Paris said:
@Presley
What’s your routine for home workouts?
4-5 times a week: 30ish minutes of skipping rope (1-2 minutes of skipping, 1 minute rest), then either 5-10 sets of ring dips or ring pushups or 5-10 series of pull-ups. Sprinkle in a couple of sets of hollow body holds and handstand holds. That’s it.
Keep in mind that diet is very important; I eat small amounts of high-quality food, and I’m mostly maintaining.
My home workouts took me as far as the gym.
Keegan said:
My home workouts took me as far as the gym.
I have discovered home workouts as being better than an expensive gym membership that you never attend.
Keegan said:
My home workouts took me as far as the gym.
I have discovered home workouts as being better than an expensive gym membership that you never attend.
I have discovered that going to the gym 5 days a week and lifting heavy is better than home workouts.
If you want to do something, you will find a way to do it. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.