Hey yall! We posted some links to examples of these products in the description. We kept everything to the more inexpensive side on Amazon. If you're looking for higher quality products I recommend checking out Rogue Fitness (or any competitor). If I could recommend one thing over anything else it's to get somewhere to hang from at home! What did we miss? What do you enjoy using that doesn't break the bank? Let us know in a comment below. P.S. We are thinking about doing this same video with some mid-range products... 100-400$ would you be interested? let us know.
Honestly a tennis racquet is great. Much more fun than jogging. Only need 1 friend to play tennis with. Most parks and highschool courts are free and decent shape. Probably like $50-$100 for a decent entry level racquet or a better used one. Nothing wrong with used equipment. Good way to save money.
I'll also vote for cones, low hurdles and a yoga mat. Sometimes I bring these items out to a basketball or tennis court along with my phone water bottle and speaker and you can create a real nice cardio and core circuit style workout (60 seconds rope, 30 seconds cones/hurdles, 30 seconds crunches/leg raises on the mat, 60 seconds water and rest, do it again, repeat cycle for 30 minutes). I've done this at hotels even with just my jump rope and some of their bigger pool towels
Great list, I think would add a med ball. Rotational strength is really important for athletes, so doing med ball slams/ tosses is great for your core and metabolic conditioning.
My gym rings and pull up bar saved my life. I had terrible upper body, rib, shoulder tightness and nerves being pinched. I started out with just hanging therapy and worked up from there. The freedom of upper body wellness plus strength is incredible
ruclips.net/video/rV3guC-z56g/видео.html Zenkahuna Reloaded is 75 and has a lot of videos on using what he calls Longevity Rings. www.youtube.com/@izzybarish Izzy is 72 and in 1979 his wife asked if he wanted to make an exercise space in their basement or a Disco, so he started with a small gym. His motto is "Don't get OLD while getting older."
Awesome! Swapped expensive gym for crumbling garage lifting rocks doing PUSH UPS on paint cans pull UPS on beams money spent 0 WILLPOWER 100% where THERE'S a will there will always be a way!!!
Hard not to start with Rings as numero 1 on the list 😉 I’ll keep saying it, the mountain scenery in your videos is so captivating. Awesome vid my dudes! ✌️ - Yassir
Solid advice for beginners or people wanting to explore other realms of fitness. I have a 20 lbs weight vest, dip belt, wooden gymnastics rings, and bands with 5 levels of resistance. They are extremely beneficial. The rings and bands are so versatile and are probably the biggest contribution to my gains.
This is brilliant guys. I've been doing calisthenics for about a year. Slowly progressing. I use rings, bands and parallettes. I love using rings because I can just hook 'em onto a tree in the park and away I go. Consistency, determination, patience and time are emphatically required with calisthenics. Rushing it is some guys' biggest mistake.
Got some parallettes for a gift recently. They have completely transformed my upper body training. I'm using them for deep pause pushups, L-sits, and pendulums currently so I can work towards the aspired handstand. You guys are spot on as usual. Thanks for keeping it real.
Nice suggestions. I would add following... Yoga Blocks: Extended ROM for Push Ups, Calf Raises etc. Broomstick: Shoulder Mobility (Dislocates & Extensions), Assistance for Beginners doing Split Squats (saw this in one of your beginner leg workouts). Towel: If hanging from a bar get's easy...put a towel over the bar and it will challenge your grip. Also you can wrap it around Posts and do Bodyrows this way.
One of the things that I so INcredibly appreciate about you guys, is your focus on primal movement. This is what so many people in our times not only miss out on, but also don't appreciate. It's incredible how much improvement I had just by putting more effort into my everyday movements. Life and body just by doing more and consciously putting effort into my everyday doings and movements. These subtle changes and attention into making full movement into everyday happenings, made remarkable differences in my health and wellness. Thanks for everything you do and all the effort you put into this, I've shared this channel with my family, especially my kids, and friends!😊💜
I have pretty much all of that equipment, but the slant board definitely looks interesting, and I would love to try that. Couple of things I would add especially for people just starting out calisthenics, are wrist wraps/guards, gloves if your doing exercises outside on concrete like me, and the right clothing. I think people overlook a good pair of compression shorts and a breathable shirt. I used to work out in like basketball shorts and some old t shirt thats been laying around my closet. Then I invested in a proper pair of compression shorts (shorts with a liner basically) and a breathable jersey/shirt, and it made me not only do more reps, but i did more comfortably with less fatigue. Awesome post guys!
I'm new to you guys I just hit 40 and feeling my age! I was in dance in my younger years but it's time to get back in shape!!! Thank you guys soo much great info! This is goin to be a great 2023! Thanks for tha info
WEB MD says Dance is an excellent form of exercise. I enjoy ZUMBA and Tae Bo. Joseph Pilates used his method for Dancers. Oh, and there is Line Dance and the Shuffle.
My doorframe pull up bar and jump rope have been essential for my home gym set up, dating back to high school. Super cheap, super effective. Nothing kills the momentum of a good workout than checking your phone. We only anticipate checking one text, one notification and then all of sudden you’re 5 minutes over your scheduled. The timer and Bluetooth speaker help to part from your phone and avoid those distractions. Great video, gentlemen. Peace and blessings ✌🏼
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned the yoga blocks, they can be so useful not just for flexibility stuff, but also to add range of motion to your push ups, HSPUs etc. You can do L-sits on them 💪Great video guys! (from someone who trains mostly on rings and hangs them from a beam next to my London City office)
Strength Side dudes enjoyable content as always and great to see the jump rope included on this great list of minimalistic but bang-for-bang pieces of exercise equipment.
Great video as usual! This suggestion is more of a home made minimalist idea. The latest minimal equipment I added was converting foot long shelf brackets into a dip bar. find your 16" oc studs in your house or maybe 20-24" in your garage and drill the shelf brackets in and walah!!! I do want to mention that I drilled mine into exposed studs in my garage so it allows me to lean forward. Not sure if it would work well without that allowance. I had a rag on each bracket for more comfort. I put dips high up on the calisthetic pedestal along with squats, pushups, and pull ups. I'm sure there are other home made alternatives or you can go the Amazon route!
Rings are great not because of their instability but in spite of it. The versatility and freedom of movement they allow is unmatched, and ring exercises provide a potent strength and hypertrophic stimulus in addition to developing kinesthetic awareness while being easier on the joints for some movements due to their lack of rigidity. The vast benefits of rings make them extremely worth it.
You guys rock! Such great advice. The cherry on the cake for me was the bicycle at the end. I know so many people who drive to the local gym that's just over a mile away, and when they get there they start with cardio!?!?
Really cheap equipment often from thrift stores, someof which you mentioned: Pushup bars Handles chopped off stretchy tubes Rope Tie the rope to the handles. Go to a playground (with no kids around). Use as TRX-style equipment wrapped around posts. Use playground in other ways (chinups on monkey bars, etc.). Pushup bars can be used with bench for dips; put feet on bench or monkey bars while hands are on handles or other bars to do leg curls. Isometrics, while suboptimal, can often make certain exercises or difficulties possible to do at certain angles. For example, deadlift a fixed object gives you effectively unlimited resistance.
Another excellent video. I’m in the process of accumulating some of these as part of my home gym. Overall, it’s a nice shift from working out the old repetitive ways, with the old tools. Not that I’ve gotten rid of all of them, it’s just nice to evolve and approach exercise and fitness in new ways. At least to me they are.
Doorway pullup bars are great - I still have my old one - but when we lost our house to flooding 7-1/2 years ago, our new home didn't have sills on it where I could hang it, so they're not practical in every living situation - it depends on your house or apartment. This is where having heavy-duty brackets I could mount on the double joist in my basement, and either slide a piece of 1" dowelling through or hang gymnastic rings from, really saved me.
I got the rings just bought, I got a kettle bell, I got a set of elastic bands, I got a few pounds to give away😉, I got the bike, I got a nearby park with callisthenics playground. I NEVER thought about the speaker!!! 😂 In the gym I use head gears but at the gym is another story... Thanks for the advice. Appreciated 👍
Calling from Hamburg, Germany. I just came here to say that I have the same freestanding Pull-up rack you guys use. Changed my life; you can basically do any exercise with that rack and a pair of rings.
i`m so happy for all the inspiration. Today I made it a goal to do handstand within a year. I do have ME/cfs and can not train strenght or condition, but streching seems to actually make my health a bit better. even if I have to go very very slow. Also I sold all my stuff 1.5 years ago and have been fulltime travelling since. And I.m so inspired by the things you do without too much equipment... it`s very helpful. I also found that a lot of the joy of life for me is in not having plans... but to keep mye future and days open. It took me many years to find this natural joy of life back, like we all had as children... not knowing what tomorrow brings.. it`s not very highlighted in our culture. :D Best wishes and thanks for the deep divings, inspiration, learning and your open sharings.
As a climber, I just use my harness instead of a dip belt in order to add weight to exercises. So if you're into climbing, just invest in a harness and you got a 2 for 1 tool. For kettlebells I have ones that are filled with sand and come as a set in a duffle bag thing, so you can change out the number of kettle bells in the bag to get it up to 50lbs for sandbag cleans or rows, or carrying.
Great idea... I actually use my carpentry work belt (about 15 pounds loaded up) to do weighted pull ups. Not that much weight but it slows me way down. I think I'll try that climbing harness trick. Sounds awesome.
Great suggestions, guys! Since your video with Tim Shieff introduced me to rope flow, I have to say - a simple rope. I've got mine in the nautical store and have been enjoying using it for the past few months.
Very cool, lm motivated. 62 years old, I back to my very physical job in a month and a half. Going to install a hang bar, and aquire some of the other items mentioned. At my age it is more painful every year to start the season. Thanks
for last 3 months moved from yoga to your flexibility programs and also follow Mark's daily apple and starting to run and sprint doing HIRT , have to take a few days off to rest but feels great, thanks
Happy you showed a slant board. Months ago my wife bought me one, saying she thought it could really help with my feet and knee rehab…. And that’s it. So…. It’s sat in it’s box in a corner as I had no idea what it’s used for and what “gimmick” she’d seen where.
I finally was able to install a diy pullup bar in my storage room. The door frames in my house were too small for the door mounted ones which was such a let down for me, but now that I have one i plan to use it as much as possible
The one thing I would add is a TRX. Similar to the Olympic rings, however, you can do them in your house, all you need is a door, and you actually train your stabilizers more, because it has 1 arm. (as opposed to each ring having strap) Overall, great video!
The pull up bar has been a staple in my house for years, recently bought parallettes for better push up exercises but my fave has been the rings. Work for the airlines and they are so easy to bring along, same for the parallettes.
Great content and an awesome list for the minimalist. These are the best bang for the buck. Just sprinkle on some motivation and change your life. Thanks guys!
I hike and mountain bike a lot, and have always had decently developed calves. I started jump roping at work recently, and f-ing hell it kicked my ass. Great exercise, looks way easier than it is. I just ran into you guys and find your movement, strength, and matter-of-fact presentation inspiring.
SO helpful. I've been thinking about lo-fi ways to change my strength and these tools are great. The door frame pull up bar is going to be a must. Thanks so much!!
Agree on almost all the stuff you guys said. Just a quick advice that is to swap the speaker for a pair of anc headphones, that make a world of difference and don't bother other people at public space
I DIY'd a yoga hammock to a doorway pull-up bar. The hammock allows me to hang upside down, fully extended. I can also stand in the hammock to assist w/ pull ups.
Omg you guys are so unbelievably cool. Yes! I have some 2 kilo dumbells I hold them when I do sit ups and sideups. A frisbee. Also a small fairly tough bouncy ball that you can catch in one hand! Play a bit it increases one's reaction time and the playfulness is so good for the mind! Awesome brothers I thank you for your great Videos. Peace love and unity, from Norway
Very nice. Now if you're REALLY a brokie, you can get a dip station for around 10 bucks or maybe LESS at just about any thrift store...Disguised as a WALKER. Yep, the ones the elderly use. Plus, these Walkers are rated for people over 300 lbs. So they're durable AF, and you can also get creative with them and also use these walkers for inverse rows!
Slant boards are a must for those with hard skin on their feet. Simply apply some adhesive backed 180grit sandpaper to the slanted face for silky smooth heels.
My current setup is a 24 kg kettlebell, doorway pull bar, gymnastics rings, low paralettes and an ab-wheel. Eventually I'd like another kb, a lighter one for stuff like TGUs and halos, and a sandbag around 50-60 kg
Awesome content, very practical and approachable for many levels. I also used to live a few blocks from that park on Gillaspie. Miss the front range. I vote you guys the ones i'd most like to grab a java porter with.
Great video. Completely agree with rings at #1. Aside from "open floor space", they are the most versatile and scalable piece of equipment I use. The one thing that I feel is missing from your list is a heavy rope to use either as a battle rope or for climbing and power pulls.
Furniture sliders if you're working out on carpet, or an old t-shirt if you're working out on a smooth floor. Lots of variety of movements. Can do similar things like an ab wheel.
Awesome that you guys included the bicycle. I will never understand why people drive to go work out when they can easily bike, or run if it's close, to their park, gym, track, pool, lake, whatever. Even without the climate catastrophe, it just makes no sense (except for getting rained or snowed on and having to clean the bike after when you have limited time).
Great video. Thank you for your work. On a personal note, I love the ab wheel. it’s one affordable tool that can be very helpful training abs and core.
Barefoot shoes. ...Not the brand but those minimalist shoes. I bought a pair years ago, & they're still with me. Excellent for beginning to strengthen the feet and/or barefoot walking outside. Excellent video gents and thanks for the tips!
Excited about the equipment and may have to use what's available in the limited environment which is not my own. The resistance bands are helpful and used them in the hotel recently received from my daughters. I work out my upper body strength and additional a chair 🪑 for lower body strength. I want and desire my mid section to be back and people says I'm not overweight and I feel it that I am. When you are use to how your body was with 3to4 hour work out usually at night 🌚 after 9 or 10 pm. I feel do refresh and great especially in morning. One day will be able again to exercise with natural or interesting equipment that targets a women body concerns same for men I'm sure. Thanks for sharing and your ideas are helpful. Great business brothers.🙏📖😇
Circle Balance Board. So good for core and stabilizer strength. I will also add. . . A refrigerator magnet or two: Put a refrigerator magnet right in front of your face with your diet plan and one with your work-out plan and it will keep you motivated and psychologically influence you for better behavior to stick to your plans over time.
(I also have a metal door at my apt, so I put my workout routine at eye-level right there so I have to look at it every day before I go out.) Very effective subversive motivation.
Great point on the tripod/camera to record yourself. I recorded my workout yesterday for the first time and was so surprised with what I saw. I use my phone for guided workouts with voiceovers that make it easy to follow a workout for the first time including rest periods and warnings for upcoming switches so I used my gopro. The wide lens was super helpful since I didn't have my tripod but had a few things to set the camera on. Reviewing the footage was painful and felt time consuming but was also quite revealing for form improvements. I'd be interested to see more detail around the ways you use your workout journal. I'm finding with the current program I'm doing, I haven't been tracking my reps/sets/times or anything about how I feel. Previously, I had built my program using a workout and manually entered it into an app called strong. It was mostly just tracking exercise sets and reps. A paper journal might be a good option since I'm already using my phone
Good list. I don’t have rings, but I do have a knock off TRX I’ve worn out! Bands are so great - unlike free weights the resistance increases throughout the range of motion. I would add a stability disc and sliders or even lower tech - paper plates to slide on!
I have an EV, so to help keep up grip strength, I use adjustable grip strengthened each time I charge. Great for using dead time for exercise. And pretty cheap.
like a number of people mentioned...yoga blocks. i use them primarily for l sits. i'm not strong or flexible enough to do them off the floor yet. a yoga mat is great for stretching. i concur with everything you guys listed. the only thing i would add is that a beginner doesn't need a weighted vest, the slant board, or the parallettes. the doorway chin up bar is a great tool for anybody who lives in an apartment or a house without a basement. that being said, for a total beginner with little back strength it wouldn't be the first thing i'd buy, but many of them can be placed on the floor for pushup variations, and the doorway bars are generally inexpensive, so they're stiil a great tool. also; as trevor said. you can use a chair and practice the movement until your strength level improves. i recommend the rubber bands for stretching out your shoulders. i do them before every workout. i got a set of bands off amazon for $20 that are pretty good. i'm 68 y/o, train every day.
Just depends on what your ideal rep range is with respect to your strength/hypertrophy goals. A beginner with pushups, for instance, may only take a month to start exceeding that rep range and therefore a weighted vest would be a great addition.
@@zacharyshort384 buy a vest if you want one. i'm sure they help develop strength. i'm more of a bodyweight purist at my age, even with a past that includes a 355# max bench at 22 years old, at a bodyweight of 192#, 6' tall, and no steroids or supershirt.
I got jumprope, slant board, doorway pullup bar, bands, 10 & 20 lb dumbbells and Bluetooth speaker. Came in handy during COVID lockdown, was able to continue stay strong and flexible at home. Ankle weights were good too. Bought a bicycle finally last year as well.
Thanks for the content! It's by far the best one stop shop to try and get a family member to try and start exercising and working out. ..and for someone like me who's worked out their whole entire life I love the content is it incorporates minimilism, looking good, strength and flexibility. Love you guys!
I can do many pull-ups but I still use bands to do drop sets, super useful for increasing hypertrophy when you get strong, loop it around a dumbbell or kettle bell and around your waist to do band pull-ups, or if you're out, attach a strap to the band and you can do weighted pull-ups anywhere almost You can also add handle attachments to the loop bands with socks, and you can add wrist straps round the handles and do really powerful rows without wrist strain I just love bands. Really good for shoulders. Like you say. But also assisted pistol style leaning squat things, leaning band lateral raise or behind back cross lateral raise, shrugs, band skiers, OHP, tricep extensions, not so good for biceps imo but it can't be good for everything
Thank you for the videos, you guys are great. I’ve seen several of your vids separately, they’re all so useful. And the tone and delivery here is super, just low key sharing of info. A couple of questions: 1. What are you using for the A frame for your pull-ups and ring work? Any product you recommend? 2. I want to use rings but holy smokes they look tough. Any tips for new ring users? Cheers and thanks again, jz
For me i would add a rubber massage ball, a small wooden box you can step on. Polypipe, a silicone sleeve for gripi g the band and adjustable kettlebells handle you can use weight discs in.
Good reminder of the jump rope. I've started running again recently and tore my calf the other day. Probably would be better to start with jump rope (as I'm heavier now than I used to be).
My all time best equipment is wall bars or sometimes called Swedish ladders. I generally use them for pull-ups etc. However I also use it for stretching, dragon flag, human flag, incremental incline push-ups, Bulgarian squats and much much more.
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Hey yall! We posted some links to examples of these products in the description. We kept everything to the more inexpensive side on Amazon. If you're looking for higher quality products I recommend checking out Rogue Fitness (or any competitor). If I could recommend one thing over anything else it's to get somewhere to hang from at home! What did we miss? What do you enjoy using that doesn't break the bank? Let us know in a comment below.
P.S. We are thinking about doing this same video with some mid-range products... 100-400$ would you be interested? let us know.
Ill get ripped on some rubber bands.
Honestly a tennis racquet is great. Much more fun than jogging. Only need 1 friend to play tennis with. Most parks and highschool courts are free and decent shape. Probably like $50-$100 for a decent entry level racquet or a better used one. Nothing wrong with used equipment. Good way to save money.
I'll also vote for cones, low hurdles and a yoga mat. Sometimes I bring these items out to a basketball or tennis court along with my phone water bottle and speaker and you can create a real nice cardio and core circuit style workout (60 seconds rope, 30 seconds cones/hurdles, 30 seconds crunches/leg raises on the mat, 60 seconds water and rest, do it again, repeat cycle for 30 minutes). I've done this at hotels even with just my jump rope and some of their bigger pool towels
Great list, I think would add a med ball. Rotational strength is really important for athletes, so doing med ball slams/ tosses is great for your core and metabolic conditioning.
What is the large A style frame you have for pull-ups/rings??
My gym rings and pull up bar saved my life. I had terrible upper body, rib, shoulder tightness and nerves being pinched. I started out with just hanging therapy and worked up from there. The freedom of upper body wellness plus strength is incredible
very nice!
Fantastic!
ruclips.net/video/rV3guC-z56g/видео.html Zenkahuna Reloaded is 75 and has a lot of videos on using what he calls Longevity Rings. www.youtube.com/@izzybarish Izzy is 72 and in 1979 his wife asked if he wanted to make an exercise space in their basement or a Disco, so he started with a small gym. His motto is "Don't get OLD while getting older."
Ditto!
Awesome! Swapped expensive gym for crumbling garage lifting rocks doing PUSH UPS on paint cans pull UPS on beams money spent 0 WILLPOWER 100% where THERE'S a will there will always be a way!!!
Proving it on your channel garageman BRUTAL keep it up 🔥
very nice. simple
Perfect!!
Hard not to start with Rings as numero 1 on the list 😉 I’ll keep saying it, the mountain scenery in your videos is so captivating. Awesome vid my dudes! ✌️ - Yassir
Thanks brother!
Solid advice for beginners or people wanting to explore other realms of fitness. I have a 20 lbs weight vest, dip belt, wooden gymnastics rings, and bands with 5 levels of resistance. They are extremely beneficial. The rings and bands are so versatile and are probably the biggest contribution to my gains.
This is brilliant guys. I've been doing calisthenics for about a year. Slowly progressing. I use rings, bands and parallettes. I love using rings because I can just hook 'em onto a tree in the park and away I go.
Consistency, determination, patience and time are emphatically required with calisthenics. Rushing it is some guys' biggest mistake.
Ah so true. The one thing you can't buy is showing up every week :)
Got some parallettes for a gift recently. They have completely transformed my upper body training. I'm using them for deep pause pushups, L-sits, and pendulums currently so I can work towards the aspired handstand. You guys are spot on as usual. Thanks for keeping it real.
I love my paralettes also. Those leg through pendulums are an overlooked full body power generator. Keep up the good work!
Nice love the parrallettes
Nice suggestions. I would add following...
Yoga Blocks:
Extended ROM for Push Ups, Calf Raises etc.
Broomstick:
Shoulder Mobility (Dislocates & Extensions), Assistance for Beginners doing Split Squats (saw this in one of your beginner leg workouts).
Towel:
If hanging from a bar get's easy...put a towel over the bar and it will challenge your grip. Also you can wrap it around Posts and do Bodyrows this way.
Very nice recommendations! I agree. Love a good broomstick
One of the things that I so INcredibly appreciate about you guys, is your focus on primal movement. This is what so many people in our times not only miss out on, but also don't appreciate. It's incredible how much improvement I had just by putting more effort into my everyday movements. Life and body just by doing more and consciously putting effort into my everyday doings and movements. These subtle changes and attention into making full movement into everyday happenings, made remarkable differences in my health and wellness. Thanks for everything you do and all the effort you put into this, I've shared this channel with my family, especially my kids, and friends!😊💜
I have pretty much all of that equipment, but the slant board definitely looks interesting, and I would love to try that. Couple of things I would add especially for people just starting out calisthenics, are wrist wraps/guards, gloves if your doing exercises outside on concrete like me, and the right clothing. I think people overlook a good pair of compression shorts and a breathable shirt. I used to work out in like basketball shorts and some old t shirt thats been laying around my closet. Then I invested in a proper pair of compression shorts (shorts with a liner basically) and a breathable jersey/shirt, and it made me not only do more reps, but i did more comfortably with less fatigue. Awesome post guys!
I'm new to you guys I just hit 40 and feeling my age! I was in dance in my younger years but it's time to get back in shape!!! Thank you guys soo much great info! This is goin to be a great 2023! Thanks for tha info
crush it
You got this - let's goooo
WEB MD says Dance is an excellent form of exercise. I enjoy ZUMBA and Tae Bo. Joseph Pilates used his method for Dancers. Oh, and there is Line Dance and the Shuffle.
My doorframe pull up bar and jump rope have been essential for my home gym set up, dating back to high school. Super cheap, super effective.
Nothing kills the momentum of a good workout than checking your phone. We only anticipate checking one text, one notification and then all of sudden you’re 5 minutes over your scheduled. The timer and Bluetooth speaker help to part from your phone and avoid those distractions.
Great video, gentlemen. Peace and blessings ✌🏼
So true with the phone. Timer helps a bunch. Pullups and jump rope you can stay fit for ages
A set of adjustable weight dumbells and a tiltable bench are also cool
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned the yoga blocks, they can be so useful not just for flexibility stuff, but also to add range of motion to your push ups, HSPUs etc. You can do L-sits on them 💪Great video guys! (from someone who trains mostly on rings and hangs them from a beam next to my London City office)
We thought about adding that in at the last minute :) Yeah yoga blocks are a great tool
Honestly there's been multiple instances where a pair of Yoga Blocks would of saved my ass in the gym. I was wondering....where are the blocks? xD !!!
I use small/short parallettes to add ROM for my HSPUs. Yoga blocks could work too, but parallettes serve multiple purposes.
i've used it on the highest height to tap my butt on in deep squats too :)
Strength Side dudes enjoyable content as always and great to see the jump rope included on this great list of minimalistic but bang-for-bang pieces of exercise equipment.
such a solid tool
Great video as usual! This suggestion is more of a home made minimalist idea. The latest minimal equipment I added was converting foot long shelf brackets into a dip bar. find your 16" oc studs in your house or maybe 20-24" in your garage and drill the shelf brackets in and walah!!! I do want to mention that I drilled mine into exposed studs in my garage so it allows me to lean forward. Not sure if it would work well without that allowance. I had a rag on each bracket for more comfort. I put dips high up on the calisthetic pedestal along with squats, pushups, and pull ups. I'm sure there are other home made alternatives or you can go the Amazon route!
Very nice! love the DIY stuff :)
I'm liking the vibe. It's really a promotion of a fun and active lifestyle more so than "let's get fit/jacked" and I like it.
Rings are great not because of their instability but in spite of it. The versatility and freedom of movement they allow is unmatched, and ring exercises provide a potent strength and hypertrophic stimulus in addition to developing kinesthetic awareness while being easier on the joints for some movements due to their lack of rigidity. The vast benefits of rings make them extremely worth it.
You guys rock! Such great advice.
The cherry on the cake for me was the bicycle at the end. I know so many people who drive to the local gym that's just over a mile away, and when they get there they start with cardio!?!?
haha so true! We miss a lot of opportunity for movement throughout the day
I love you guys! You are so real and down to earth. No bs. Thanks for addressing knee issues when talking about the jump rope. ❤
Really cheap equipment often from thrift stores, someof which you mentioned:
Pushup bars
Handles chopped off stretchy tubes
Rope
Tie the rope to the handles. Go to a playground (with no kids around). Use as TRX-style equipment wrapped around posts. Use playground in other ways (chinups on monkey bars, etc.). Pushup bars can be used with bench for dips; put feet on bench or monkey bars while hands are on handles or other bars to do leg curls.
Isometrics, while suboptimal, can often make certain exercises or difficulties possible to do at certain angles. For example, deadlift a fixed object gives you effectively unlimited resistance.
Ultimate list for minimalist equipment! If I would add something to this list - it will be sandbag, sliders and 2-3 different clubbells.
ah sandbag is such a good one
Awesome list. Really dig this channel. You guys do a solid job! Thanks for all the help over the years!
Thanks!
Another excellent video. I’m in the process of accumulating some of these as part of my home gym. Overall, it’s a nice shift from working out the old repetitive ways, with the old tools. Not that I’ve gotten rid of all of them, it’s just nice to evolve and approach exercise and fitness in new ways. At least to me they are.
Nice nothing better than a minimal home gym setup
Doorway pullup bars are great - I still have my old one - but when we lost our house to flooding 7-1/2 years ago, our new home didn't have sills on it where I could hang it, so they're not practical in every living situation - it depends on your house or apartment. This is where having heavy-duty brackets I could mount on the double joist in my basement, and either slide a piece of 1" dowelling through or hang gymnastic rings from, really saved me.
Listen, the way you all explain is really appreciated!!
I got the rings just bought, I got a kettle bell, I got a set of elastic bands, I got a few pounds to give away😉, I got the bike, I got a nearby park with callisthenics playground. I NEVER thought about the speaker!!! 😂 In the gym I use head gears but at the gym is another story... Thanks for the advice. Appreciated 👍
Calling from Hamburg, Germany. I just came here to say that I have the same freestanding Pull-up rack you guys use. Changed my life; you can basically do any exercise with that rack and a pair of rings.
Y’all guys really have it put together,really enjoy your videos
Thanks man
My vest has slots for 2lbs sand packs,,it holds from 2 to 20 packs
i`m so happy for all the inspiration. Today I made it a goal to do handstand within a year. I do have ME/cfs and can not train strenght or condition, but streching seems to actually make my health a bit better. even if I have to go very very slow. Also I sold all my stuff 1.5 years ago and have been fulltime travelling since. And I.m so inspired by the things you do without too much equipment... it`s very helpful. I also found that a lot of the joy of life for me is in not having plans... but to keep mye future and days open. It took me many years to find this natural joy of life back, like we all had as children... not knowing what tomorrow brings.. it`s not very highlighted in our culture. :D
Best wishes and thanks for the deep divings, inspiration, learning and your open sharings.
As a climber, I just use my harness instead of a dip belt in order to add weight to exercises. So if you're into climbing, just invest in a harness and you got a 2 for 1 tool. For kettlebells I have ones that are filled with sand and come as a set in a duffle bag thing, so you can change out the number of kettle bells in the bag to get it up to 50lbs for sandbag cleans or rows, or carrying.
That's high bang for your buck right there!
Great idea... I actually use my carpentry work belt (about 15 pounds loaded up) to do weighted pull ups. Not that much weight but it slows me way down. I think I'll try that climbing harness trick. Sounds awesome.
Do you use a carabiner to attach the kettlebell or whatever else to your harness? Anyway, great idea, will try that!
@@benibf yeah, I loop a short bit of rope through the weight plate or kettle bell and then carabiner to the harness
And if its an old harness that is not suited for climbing anymore, just cut the leg loops off and it's even more convenient as a dipping belt :-)
Great suggestions, guys!
Since your video with Tim Shieff introduced me to rope flow, I have to say - a simple rope. I've got mine in the nautical store and have been enjoying using it for the past few months.
yes sir a simple rope can bring you to some cool places
Very cool, lm motivated. 62 years old, I back to my very physical job in a month and a half. Going to install a hang bar, and aquire some of the other items mentioned. At my age it is more painful every year to start the season. Thanks
for last 3 months moved from yoga to your flexibility programs and also follow Mark's daily apple and starting to run and sprint doing HIRT , have to take a few days off to rest but feels great, thanks
Happy you showed a slant board. Months ago my wife bought me one, saying she thought it could really help with my feet and knee rehab…. And that’s it. So…. It’s sat in it’s box in a corner as I had no idea what it’s used for and what “gimmick” she’d seen where.
I have all those you described, except the rock-climbing board! great video!
Great setup!
I finally was able to install a diy pullup bar in my storage room. The door frames in my house were too small for the door mounted ones which was such a let down for me, but now that I have one i plan to use it as much as possible
Great video. I will add sandbag and/or sand kettlebell :)
The one thing I would add is a TRX. Similar to the Olympic rings, however, you can do them in your house, all you need is a door, and you actually train your stabilizers more, because it has 1 arm. (as opposed to each ring having strap)
Overall, great video!
The pull up bar has been a staple in my house for years, recently bought parallettes for better push up exercises but my fave has been the rings. Work for the airlines and they are so easy to bring along, same for the parallettes.
It's like you read my mind! I've got most of the items on the list. The rings, especially, kept me going through the pandemic.
Great content and an awesome list for the minimalist. These are the best bang for the buck. Just sprinkle on some motivation and change your life. Thanks guys!
yes motivation has to be there before all the equipment... good point! :)
You gentlemen are such a blessing. Thank you for sharing all you share 💗🙏
Thanks guys,
Great suggestions.
Your fitness vids & motivation is much Appreciated.
Cheers from Taiwan 🇹🇼
I hike and mountain bike a lot, and have always had decently developed calves. I started jump roping at work recently, and f-ing hell it kicked my ass. Great exercise, looks way easier than it is. I just ran into you guys and find your movement, strength, and matter-of-fact presentation inspiring.
SO helpful. I've been thinking about lo-fi ways to change my strength and these tools are great. The door frame pull up bar is going to be a must. Thanks so much!!
I would add simple sliders. They are light and portable and you can do an amazing workout with them. And foam roller for recovery days.
sliders are super handy!
Agree on almost all the stuff you guys said. Just a quick advice that is to swap the speaker for a pair of anc headphones, that make a world of difference and don't bother other people at public space
I DIY'd a yoga hammock to a doorway pull-up bar. The hammock allows me to hang upside down, fully extended. I can also stand in the hammock to assist w/ pull ups.
Omg you guys are so unbelievably cool. Yes! I have some 2 kilo dumbells
I hold them when I do sit ups and sideups. A frisbee. Also a small fairly tough bouncy ball that you can catch in one hand! Play a bit it increases one's reaction time and the playfulness is so good for the mind! Awesome brothers I thank you for your great Videos. Peace love and unity, from Norway
Adding to your list a tibialis bar, hand grip, nordic curl strap.
Thank you! the slant board looks like something that can be relatively easy as DIY project
Very nice. Now if you're REALLY a brokie, you can get a dip station for around 10 bucks or maybe LESS at just about any thrift store...Disguised as a WALKER. Yep, the ones the elderly use. Plus, these Walkers are rated for people over 300 lbs. So they're durable AF, and you can also get creative with them and also use these walkers for inverse rows!
Best idea ever!!!
Repurposing them is a fabulous idea...
I need to see this in real-time lol
Great job you've got everyone thinking of the possibilities and benefits... with the mimimum and less espensive of equipment.
Love it. I have gymnastic rings, weight vest, the mini bars from baseblocks, b bars from base blocks and basebench. All I’ve needed to make gains.
simple home gym right there
Great ones. I will buy a kettle bell. I also use Tennis balls for juggling and coordination between my mind and body
love that!
Slant boards are a must for those with hard skin on their feet. Simply apply some adhesive backed 180grit sandpaper to the slanted face for silky smooth heels.
My current setup is a 24 kg kettlebell, doorway pull bar, gymnastics rings, low paralettes and an ab-wheel. Eventually I'd like another kb, a lighter one for stuff like TGUs and halos, and a sandbag around 50-60 kg
Phenomenal video great explanations especially for the person just purchasing equipment for the first time! Awesome
That tall, A frame pull up bar you guys got there. I want to know more about that bad boy.
i would never of thought of the rings as i thought they would be expensive, thanks for the info cant wait to get some.
Journal and timer- basics! I’ll incorporate these immediately
Oh, plus the hanging/pull-up bar
Awesome content, very practical and approachable for many levels. I also used to live a few blocks from that park on Gillaspie. Miss the front range. I vote you guys the ones i'd most like to grab a java porter with.
Great video. Completely agree with rings at #1. Aside from "open floor space", they are the most versatile and scalable piece of equipment I use. The one thing that I feel is missing from your list is a heavy rope to use either as a battle rope or for climbing and power pulls.
good addition right there... a rope to climb
Furniture sliders if you're working out on carpet, or an old t-shirt if you're working out on a smooth floor. Lots of variety of movements. Can do similar things like an ab wheel.
sliders are great!
I would really appreciate it if you teach us how to use gymnastic rings and how to start doing exercises from scratch using them. Great video
Awesome that you guys included the bicycle. I will never understand why people drive to go work out when they can easily bike, or run if it's close, to their park, gym, track, pool, lake, whatever. Even without the climate catastrophe, it just makes no sense (except for getting rained or snowed on and having to clean the bike after when you have limited time).
Great video. Thank you for your work. On a personal note, I love the ab wheel. it’s one affordable tool that can be very helpful training abs and core.
Great video!!! Very informative! Thank you, so much! Ya'll are more shredded than a julienne salad! Keep up the good work
Barefoot shoes. ...Not the brand but those minimalist shoes. I bought a pair years ago, & they're still with me. Excellent for beginning to strengthen the feet and/or barefoot walking outside.
Excellent video gents and thanks for the tips!
next week we are doing a minimalist shoes review :)
Can u add a clothing recommendation video sometime?
Adding the benefits to shoulder health have me considering the rings, thanks for the idea.
If you really want to go minimal Wooden Rings, a good jump rope and one rubber band can be a mini gym for the rest of your life. Nice list ❤
Very true
Excited about the equipment and may have to use what's available in the limited environment which is not my own. The resistance bands are helpful and used them in the hotel recently received from my daughters. I work out my upper body strength and additional a chair 🪑 for lower body strength. I want and desire my mid section to be back and people says I'm not overweight and I feel it that I am. When you are use to how your body was with 3to4 hour work out usually at night 🌚 after 9 or 10 pm. I feel do refresh and great especially in morning. One day will be able again to exercise with natural or interesting equipment that targets a women body concerns same for men I'm sure. Thanks for sharing and your ideas are helpful. Great business brothers.🙏📖😇
Definitely the rings. I know all the gymnasts use rings, and they are in really awesome shape
I was considering how to expand my economic gym equipment. This video was the perfect answer...
All great suggestions. So glad you didn't mention ab-wheels... 'cuz I hate using them. ;)
I have a pair of adjustable kettle bells. They use 10 pound plates and work really well.
nice!
Thanks, really helpful, perfect,interesting information. Your enthusiasm is like an engine!
Circle Balance Board. So good for core and stabilizer strength.
I will also add. . . A refrigerator magnet or two:
Put a refrigerator magnet right in front of your face with your diet plan and one with your work-out plan and it will keep you motivated and psychologically influence you for better behavior to stick to your plans over time.
(I also have a metal door at my apt, so I put my workout routine at eye-level right there so I have to look at it every day before I go out.)
Very effective subversive motivation.
Great point on the tripod/camera to record yourself. I recorded my workout yesterday for the first time and was so surprised with what I saw. I use my phone for guided workouts with voiceovers that make it easy to follow a workout for the first time including rest periods and warnings for upcoming switches so I used my gopro. The wide lens was super helpful since I didn't have my tripod but had a few things to set the camera on. Reviewing the footage was painful and felt time consuming but was also quite revealing for form improvements.
I'd be interested to see more detail around the ways you use your workout journal. I'm finding with the current program I'm doing, I haven't been tracking my reps/sets/times or anything about how I feel. Previously, I had built my program using a workout and manually entered it into an app called strong. It was mostly just tracking exercise sets and reps. A paper journal might be a good option since I'm already using my phone
Good list. I don’t have rings, but I do have a knock off TRX I’ve worn out! Bands are so great - unlike free weights the resistance increases throughout the range of motion. I would add a stability disc and sliders or even lower tech - paper plates to slide on!
I have an EV, so to help keep up grip strength, I use adjustable grip strengthened each time I charge. Great for using dead time for exercise. And pretty cheap.
I love this channel. Great advice from nice people
like a number of people mentioned...yoga blocks. i use them primarily for l sits. i'm not strong or flexible enough to do them off the floor yet. a yoga mat is great for stretching. i concur with everything you guys listed. the only thing i would add is that a beginner doesn't need a weighted vest, the slant board, or the parallettes. the doorway chin up bar is a great tool for anybody who lives in an apartment or a house without a basement. that being said, for a total beginner with little back strength it wouldn't be the first thing i'd buy, but many of them can be placed on the floor for pushup variations, and the doorway bars are generally inexpensive, so they're stiil a great tool. also; as trevor said. you can use a chair and practice the movement until your strength level improves. i recommend the rubber bands for stretching out your shoulders. i do them before every workout. i got a set of bands off amazon for $20 that are pretty good. i'm 68 y/o, train every day.
Happy to see yopu are crushing it at 68. Nice work
Just depends on what your ideal rep range is with respect to your strength/hypertrophy goals. A beginner with pushups, for instance, may only take a month to start exceeding that rep range and therefore a weighted vest would be a great addition.
@@zacharyshort384 buy a vest if you want one. i'm sure they help develop strength. i'm more of a bodyweight purist at my age, even with a past that includes a 355# max bench at 22 years old, at a bodyweight of 192#, 6' tall, and no steroids or supershirt.
Getting started. Thank you both! great thought starter and framework ideas.. Thank you.
Thank you guys! Top quality content as always.
I got jumprope, slant board, doorway pullup bar, bands, 10 & 20 lb dumbbells and Bluetooth speaker. Came in handy during COVID lockdown, was able to continue stay strong and flexible at home. Ankle weights were good too. Bought a bicycle finally last year as well.
Nice! I also use some ankle weights from time to time, they are pretty solid
Thanks for the content! It's by far the best one stop shop to try and get a family member to try and start exercising and working out. ..and for someone like me who's worked out their whole entire life I love the content is it incorporates minimilism, looking good, strength and flexibility. Love you guys!
Thanks :) Glad we are on the same vibe
Great information from you guys....AGAIN💯. Thanks👍.
Well done! Thanks for sharing this informative video!
A very interesting video! I liked particularly that inclined plane, very useful fo one-leg squats and mainly for stretching Achiles tendons.
I can do many pull-ups but I still use bands to do drop sets, super useful for increasing hypertrophy
when you get strong, loop it around a dumbbell or kettle bell and around your waist to do band pull-ups, or if you're out, attach a strap to the band and you can do weighted pull-ups anywhere almost
You can also add handle attachments to the loop bands with socks, and you can add wrist straps round the handles and do really powerful rows without wrist strain
I just love bands. Really good for shoulders. Like you say.
But also assisted pistol style leaning squat things, leaning band lateral raise or behind back cross lateral raise, shrugs, band skiers, OHP, tricep extensions,
not so good for biceps imo but it can't be good for everything
Thank you for the videos, you guys are great. I’ve seen several of your vids separately, they’re all so useful. And the tone and delivery here is super, just low key sharing of info.
A couple of questions:
1. What are you using for the A frame for your pull-ups and ring work? Any product you recommend?
2. I want to use rings but holy smokes they look tough. Any tips for new ring users?
Cheers and thanks again, jz
For me i would add a rubber massage ball, a small wooden box you can step on. Polypipe, a silicone sleeve for gripi g the band and adjustable kettlebells handle you can use weight discs in.
Good reminder of the jump rope. I've started running again recently and tore my calf the other day. Probably would be better to start with jump rope (as I'm heavier now than I used to be).
Rings, a doorframe Pull-up bar, Parallettes, and a Jump Rope got me through COVID. I still use them daily, but I am also back in the gym.
great home-gym setup right there
Rebounders as good too. Great video.
My all time best equipment is wall bars or sometimes called Swedish ladders. I generally use them for pull-ups etc. However I also use it for stretching, dragon flag, human flag, incremental incline push-ups, Bulgarian squats and much much more.
Rings are brutal.
Yeh the shoulder thing was a big one for me as well.
Join a gym and you don’t need to buy anything. This is the best minimalist advice