It seems a common assumption that bodyweight training can work for the upper body, but not for the lower body. It’s often said that bodyweight isn’t enough for the legs. That’s flawed reasoning, I can tell you it is, bodyweight training builds the legs.
To those who say it can’t I wonder many things :
Have they never done peak contraction bodyweight squats? Have they never done very high rep bodyweight squats? How about hindu squats?
Did they forget about glute bridges, and hip thrusts?
Are they incapable of finding space to lunge walk, or better yet do the same with swamp lunges?
Do they not know how to flex?
Are they sprinting? What jumping do they do?
Do they not realize the best quad exercise is the sissy squat, and the best hamstring exercise is the leg curl using an exercise ball?
(Those both work the muscle hard.)
Do they not do the step up, likely the exercise that develops the legs in the most muscularly balanced manner aside from sprinting itself?
Is there no park bench or similar that they can use to do these for high reps?
Have they pumped up then stretched the muscle with a nice deep stretch? The DC training quad stretch is fantastic.
Have they never held a horse stance, wall sit, warrior pose, wrestler’s bridge, or deep lunge split like they used to do in weightlifting?
Surely they must have tried stomping, and kicking.
Have they done high reps of shiko, the sumo wrestler leg lift, stomp, and squat?
Have they attempted pistol squats? (You can use hand balance to allow the legs to work.)
Could they possibly not be doing high rep calf raises?
If they can’t get a solid leg stimulus, enough to grow on out of bodyweight only…clearly they aren’t trying.