If you came to me wanting to get bigger, I could help you on that path.
What equipment you do or do not have access to wouldn’t matter in the slightest.
Without any equipment I’d have you doing massive quantities of calisthenics, particularly pushups and squats, and eating like a heavyweight.
Every extra piece of equipment simply makes the process more variable.
Without that equipment you’d be getting jacked as fuck like a pehlwani.
The growth = volume + food.
Where so many go wrong in the gym is trying to build atop of a lacking base.
Every beginner, especially a rank “I’ve never been physical but played nintendo” beginner type needs to be being physical with volume at least six days a week.
Of those minimum six weekly workouts, at least half are high rep calisthenics.
The barbell?
Touching a barbell for low reps is a privilege earned by getting good at high reps particularly with bodyweight first.
i.e. :
If you’re benching an empty bar with cringe worthy form you need to be doing things more basic and your trainer needs to be fired immediately.
I look back over the years and realize I’m always at my physical best be it at 185lbs or 265lbs when my training is high volume, high rep calisthenics with everything else as a cherry on top.
As a beginner to weights I squatted 7 or 8 x 300 weighing around 175 of off high rep walking lunges. This was my best pound for pound squat set ever around the 8rm rep range.
My strength always goes up the better I am at high rep calisthenics.
My pressing always moves up. Why? Because I do my pushups religiously.
Between all the chins and bridging I say olys and deadlifting ability is just a matter of specialization.
And honestly…
Anything I can do physically so can you.
If I have gifted genetics it’s not on the physical front…it’s on…
Persistence & Tenacity
That’s how I see it.