Pushups are great. If you do regular cardio the only strength training you really need (if your stated goal is to "look good") is regular pushups.
That being said, if you really are just in it for getting ogled, I'd suggest swimming. I don't swim too much nowadays but really nothing ever made me see an Adonis in the mirror like swimming lengths. It has a great way of working a ton of sexy muscles in the right proportions.
you can often find cheap-ish adult beginner lessons. I re-learned how to swim from my local YMCA, and my college offered cheap lessons to students and people in the community (which I never took advantage of but I considered it often)
Try the libertarian workout: pulling yourself up by your bootstraps
Mental gymnastics routine explaining why age of consent laws are bogus
calisthenics legend here
get a pair of rings to do dips, inverted rows, and elevated ring pushups.
For legs do Bulgarian split squats, and progress towards pistol and shrimp squats if you want, or just add weight to the bulgarians
I can do shrimp squats very easily because I think that's more thigh, but am no where near doing more than 1 proper pistol squat because that needs more butt I think.
Any tips for that?
just keep doing what you're doing
once you can do 8-12 reps for 3-5 sets you should be ready to progress. If you aren't just hold a weight while doing it and again, 8-12 reps you should be ready.
Honestly, I don't think Pistol squats are worth it. I can do them fine but I think they're a miserable exercise that requires more mobility than strength for most people. Most strong legged dudes I know who hit the squat rack can't do a pistol squat, but me, who works legs only once a week doing bodyweight stuff can.
I've just gone backwards in the progressions so I just do Bulgarian split squats, progressively overloading (making heavier) the dumbbell weights I'm holding. Finding it much more effective and achievable.
These are great but make sure they fit your door properly. My ex fell and broke her wrist when hers slipped off the frame
Lift your legs while hanging (for core strength), then you can do it together with pull ups, but don’t go immediately at it
r/bodyweightfitness is a good resource.
i've used rings on my bar pretty effectively. for lower body, i invested in a heavy kettlebell; already paying big core dividends, along with maintaining strength in hammys, hips.
If you are looking for similar low investment stuff. I would think farmer's carry, atlas stone, or kettle bell. I used to work at a boring job and I wouls occasionally pick up some maintenance equipment and set it back down just for that kinda low effort workout vibes.
Basically anything you have around the house could be imrpvised into a tool.
If you have nature nearby you probably have rocks big enough to pick up and carry about. Picking up a big rock and walking around carrying it is a strongman classic.
Kettle bells are cheap and you can do pretty much any gym type exercise with them and they stow into a very limited space easily. So if you sre serious you could do a "starting strength" program with some cheap kettlebells and not be out much of any storage space
Imma be real for a second there I thought you were admitting to a ABDL fetish.
Nutrition and rest are just as important as working out. Eat lots of protein, especially lean protein. You want to eat .8-1g of protein per pound of bodyweight, and you shouldn't be doing the same exercises every day. If you do a bunch of pull ups one day, you should rest for a day before doing them again, or at least do something else that works out other muscle groups like squats, leg raises or situps. Most importantly, you should try to get at least 7 hours of sleep every night. When you work out, you're creating little rips in your muscles that get repaired in your sleep (protein is the building block of this process). That's essentially what building muscle is. If you do calisthenics every day and only sleep 5hrs per night,you will get stronger but it will be a slower, less efficient process.
I used to be pretty into lifting and have some friends who are into bodybuilding, and the working out part is the easiest and most fun part of fitness. The struggle is always nutrition and sleep.
Add weights in a backpack. Do pull ups with a wider grip, and a thinner grip as well.
Pull ups are the best
Pushups, pull ups, squats, lunges, two leg mountain climbers, Russian twist.
Normally I'd suggest building up to a lot of those, especially the pull ups, but you're already doing those, so I think this is your style. Only the Russian twist requires a weight to start; you can do bicycle crunches instead if you don't have one. Squats and lunges will eventually require weights.
This won't hit literally every muscle, but it'll get all the major functional groups. Pay attention to what's sore after non-workout exercise and then look up exercises to add to your workout that fix that (for example, if you're just doing the above routine then go hiking, your inner thighs will tire out first, and side squats will fix that). And you can also add exercises because you want a particular muscle to be bigger for aesthetic reasons (e.g. dumbbell wrist flexions because you want big forearms).
The biggest thing it's missing is a cardio workout, but I recommend settling into your strength routine first. Starting both at once will probably burn you out.
