It isn’t hard to exercise without fancy gym equipment. Every result you want from equipment can be done with body weight and minimal equipment you can make yourself.
The second part of the comment is incorrect, as you noted, but exercising without equipment is cheap and effective at getting fitter. Getting big needs equipment but Getting fit can be done with calisthenics.
So to get big, I need to buy one of those 1960s machines with the rubber belt that goes around your waist and shakes you back and forth? No wonder I haven’t been seeing those gains.
Power lifting requires practice of technique to win. However with just body weight and the right technique to make it better you can get as strong. Few people try this though as the good body weight exercise is hard.
Though power lifting can substitute rocks which are easy to “make” at home. (you cannot maintain perfect form with rocks though so you won’t win competition, but if strength is the goal rocks work)
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against a good set of weights, if you want to buy equipment I’d put good weights at the top of the list of equipment to buy. However you don’t need them if you get creative with body weight and are not trying to win competitions (unless the competition is really poor, you need to practice with the right equipment to win).
I would cancel my gym membership.
And then discover every other gym is doing the same thing.
So then I figure to hell with it, I’ll just exercise at home.
Only to discover my “smart” home gym equipment is also spying on me.
And then Cory Doctorow will step out from behind a curtain and say “I tried to warn you”.
And he was spying too, so theres literally nobody you can trust
It isn’t hard to exercise without fancy gym equipment. Every result you want from equipment can be done with body weight and minimal equipment you can make yourself.
Bodybuilding and powerlifting would like a word.
The second part of the comment is incorrect, as you noted, but exercising without equipment is cheap and effective at getting fitter. Getting big needs equipment but Getting fit can be done with calisthenics.
So to get big, I need to buy one of those 1960s machines with the rubber belt that goes around your waist and shakes you back and forth? No wonder I haven’t been seeing those gains.
Power lifting requires practice of technique to win. However with just body weight and the right technique to make it better you can get as strong. Few people try this though as the good body weight exercise is hard.
Though power lifting can substitute rocks which are easy to “make” at home. (you cannot maintain perfect form with rocks though so you won’t win competition, but if strength is the goal rocks work)
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against a good set of weights, if you want to buy equipment I’d put good weights at the top of the list of equipment to buy. However you don’t need them if you get creative with body weight and are not trying to win competitions (unless the competition is really poor, you need to practice with the right equipment to win).
Except for doing wide grip pull-ups. That thing that lets me offset some of my weight is great for that.
Just get dumb bells…
Good idea! A few have already replied!
“Please log onto your dumbbell account.”