There is plenty you can do. Pushups, situps, leg lifts, back raises, lunges…etc. Doing a healthy amount of these daily along with some good cardio will suffice in place of weights and knock off the fat. This will enhance the lean muscle that’s already there and have you looking solid. When you start to see the vascularity show up, that’s when your at the end of the plateau and there isn’t much more to do aside from going back the other direction and starting to bulk back up if you wish, or simply maintain if what you see is satisfying.

Supplement some protein and probably a good multi-vitamin. Shouldn’t need much more than that if you are watching what you eat and laying off the sugars and fats. Stick to carbs and protein for fuel.

Just know ahead of time that size isn’t going to come without weights, however, you can still get really ripped and solid without them, which in my view typically looks far better than bulk anyway.

I’m in favor of it. It’s a good idea in my opinion.

Also as been said, pushups, chair dips, single leg squats etc.

Guys in solitary seem to get a good system going ☺

Then all you have to do is run and do bodyweight exercises.

I lifted from around 16 or so, although my muscles didn’t really start developing huge until my mid-20s. Prior to that, I was physically bigger than most people just doing pushups. I was over training with weights even in my early 20s, when I began to move away from bodyweight, and met a pro bodybuilder that taught me how to life and gave me routines that seemed like less work than I had been doing but got me the biggest I got in my life.

However in terms of athleticism and raw power, lifting weights was pretty useless.

Eventually I stopped lifting, a large part from lack of time and a larger part from an injury I sustained. I went back to bodyweight and I’ve never gone back to lifting since.

I am convinced body weight exercises are far better.

All you really need are about 4-5.

Pushups (regular, triangle and even handstand)

Squats (squat deep, do them slow when you can)

Indian Pushups/dive bombers

Pull ups (chinups, wide and parallel grips)

Leg lifts/raises (do them hanging off the pullup bar, you can also do them on the ground)

Additionally you should do back/neck bridges, Iron Mikes and sometimes planks.

Basically these will keep you occupied for pretty much forever. You can do dips too, I used to do them, but I don’t think they’re necessary if you do the triangle pushups. There is also a frog pose and one handed variations if you really get advanced. There are also replacements that you can do if you want to change things, like chinese pushups and chinese military pushups.

If you can get the big 5 above to at least 200 a day (100 for the pullups, 50 for the leg raises) you will be in excellent shape. Allegedly the great wrestlers in history through Greco-Roman times all the way through to India only did bodyweight exercises, and they were absolutely huge and ridiculously powerful. Even today among boxing circles it is often stated that you want to get to at least 500 of pushups/dips/situps a day and ideally at least 2000.

And if you REALLY want to be powerful and strong, just get a manual labor job. Nobody is stronger than someone that does manual labor for a living.

Say hello to Frank Medrano. Achieved these results via calisthenics AND being a vegan whilst doing so.

I started his program after having grown weary of gyms and paying excessive funds to trod off toward a structure packed with people that I’d have to maneuver around to utilize “machines.”

Trust me, this can be done. My results: amazing!

No gym memberships for me and I have a better body those most of those gym rats that think benching and curling are the only exercises on the plant and they’ve spend less cash in 10 years than they did in 1 year.