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).
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.