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Noooo, there are soooo many exercises that take nothing extra. ... ok maybe you can double or triple the number of exercises you can do with even just like... a playground within jogging distance, but still.
The vast majority of muscles can be exercised either with body weight, or a few heavy items that are easy to grab. Add a sturdy bench you can lay on or put weight on without it flexing too much or falling over, and you can cover basically any muscle.
It is purely a lack of knowledge of anatomy that drives someone to say you NEED a gym's amount of equipment. Muscles are dynamic, but you can only move your body in so many ways.
Depending on where you’re at in life, gyms with machines can be really useful. It forces certain muscles to activate and if you’ve lived a sedentary lifestyle, it’s very useful.
Otherwise, yeah. The only thing you need is body weight and a set of dumb bells.
After that gets meh, get a squat rack/ bench press combo as well and you’re set
This is going to trigger people who just forked out for "insanely expensive" gym memberships, but it's obviously true.
I can think of two caveats:
The funny thing is, you can get DAMN jacked with only bodyweight. You just won't look like a steroid-addled meathead, which far too many people assume is just time in the gym.
Yea, even personal motivation changes a lot when you go to some other location to do something. Don't have much choice but to procrastinate or do something if you're standing in the middle of a gym in just shorts and a shirt.
I don't go to the gym either but know several people who do and the equipment lets you strength train with a lot more weight than your body weight if that's what you're going for. You can use water jugs and stuff at home but that can be janky and potentially dangerous.
Also there's probably something to be said about traveling to a dedicated location for your workout to help you get out of the house, in the right mindset, etc. I'm sure it's similar to how some people love working from home while others prefer to go to the office to help focus better and socialize.
The vast, VAST majority of people do not need weight that is greater than bodyweight.
Exercising in a unique place is huge for at least removing distraction and easy excuses to not exercise, though. For some people I can see that being important enough for the membership.
Like how my buddy went to college just to learn some programming when there are a million quality tutorials/books/guides/docs out there for free these days. He wanted the forced structure and push to do homework.
He now regrets paying college prices for that knowledge.