You can't progressively overload your muscles (easily). When it comes to weight resistance, specifically barbell work, you can just add 2.5ibs mini-plates to the ends and BAM you're stronger than you were the last time you lifted it. When you're doing things like pull-ups or pushups, doing sets of 50 is more cardio than weight lifting. And like everybody knows, cardio kills gainz.
There is less motivation when you are not working out in a gym. Hate me, r/homegym, I don't give a fuck. Will you really go to the park everyday to do pull-ups and flag stands? In front of toddlers and their dads? Really, you'll do it? I doubt it. When you're at a gym, you're motivated by the other people there. You feel camaraderie with the other overweight people at the gym sweating along side you. You're fueled by jealousy at the sight of dudes who are jacked out of their minds. You can only get jacked with that kind of motivation and discipline that's everywhere in a gym.
Your body will become adjusted to the exercises you use and will not grow. There are just not THAT many effective bodyweight exercises that you can do for a long period of time. Are you really just going to do pull-ups, pushups, and sit-ups for the rest of your life and expect to look like Arnie? In most commercial gyms, there are countless machines that you can incorporate into your workout. If you wanted, you could probably do a different routine everyday of your life. Variety is the spice of getting pumps, or something like that.
You can burn calories doing bodyweight stuff, but you won't grow traps. And isn't that the reason we slave away in a gym 6 days a week?
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