“Everyone is all the gym they’d ever need” – me, enough times I may as well quote myself
Multiple times over the years I’ve given someone wanting to start working out the same advice :
“Dude, start doing a small amount of calisthenics at home every day. Be consistent with it, add a few reps every so often, and down the road it’ll pay dividends. Don’t think of what you don’t have, use what you do.”
Fitness can be as free as you want, as free as you require. The motivation? While a training partner can help, the motivation, the drive is internal, in you yourself.
No one going to skip rope, do chins, pushups, and lunges for you.
It’s you on the floor, the bar, the street, not your trainer, training partner, brother, dog, or mother…YOU!
Where so many go wrong is getting sucked up into the “I need a gym with ___ equipment” mentality. Calisthenics are free, always accessible, and allow everyone to be all the gym they’d ever need.
No commute and not a penny of dues required. The dues are paid in sweat…anywhere.
It’s most often unrealized just how far a frequent simple full body calisthenics routine will bring you when you truly milk the movements.
I often call calisthenics “Cardio Calisthenics™” as many styles of doing them will cause a cardio effect.
(Nicely without the catabolic effect of such things as jogging.)
High reps will make you strong. There’s been so much lost potential due to a rigid internet beginner belief in “high reps only build muscular endurance”, something that if honestly tested against would be found to be false.
Freakish strength is built going high reps as heavy as possible, or when unable to load movements high volume.
(How many pushups did I do yesterday?)
You are all the gym you’d ever need. Are you training or making excuses?
I can teach you how to train, but I’m not forcing you to do so.
Your gym is you.
Persistence & Tenacity