Yeah totally, pull up and dips are huge... especially if you concentrate on using your back/should muscles on the pull ups and not just your biceps. You can do your lower abs with the pull up bar too if you set it up right...

Oh, yeah, I know, dips are hella compound. And pullups are THE thing, if you get that "my arms are just a strap connecting my hands to my lats" thing going. Got some Zoom Vomero 3s yesterday, gettin' my jog on. And as it turns out, I had one of these type things in storage:

Those things rock Flint. I have not been able to find a pull up bar high enough. Doorway ones don't cut it.

Do a search for "bodyweight exercises". There's an enormous amount of things you can do without any equipment.

Crossfit for all your training needs.

Got my pullup station rebuilt. Using the Dip handles to rack an ez-curl bar (can't roll off) and do SQUATS.

Yeah. Ran my normal two-mile jog yesterday right after doing squats and deadlifts. Running uphill was hard.

Both ways? in the snow? no shoes?

i'm going to use this thing. it counts calories, and records exercise. also weight and measurements.

I've been doing it on and off, but have resolved to do it 100% and see if it makes a difference. I think just having to know that I have to record what i eat will help. they have a forum we could troll too!

I'm all about body weight workouts: http://www.fitdeck.com/. Works for me because I'm just built a big dude. Mix in some stationary biking and elliptical training (to preserve my knees as opposed to running) and some racquetball for cardio, and I'm doin pretty good.

link wants me to sign in? got another or a description?

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

it's a daily calendar thing that you can plan your meals on, or just record them. also logs exercises. It's worth registering for, classic....
easy to use....

you can make custom meals for stuff you eat frequently and save them with your own names for them.

Update. Regarding basic "compound" movements.

I now have a real squat/bench rack (somebody was giving it away by the side of the road). The kind you can rack an olympic bar on, and also set safety stops at the bottom if you can't finish a rep and need to rack the weight. Now I can do barbell bench presses (been doing heavy dumbell presses) and heavy squats (been racking an ez-crul bar on the dip handles of a power station).

I also have perfected my deadlift form...the biggest thing to not rounding your back is LOOKING UP. Your posture follows your eyes--try to look BEHIND yourself, over the top of your head (I got that from yoga).

Regretfully I have determined that Clean and Presses are just not something that I can do safely. I have frequent wrist issues and do not want chronic pain there. I'm still working on an alternative...I noticed that the "log lift" as in strongman competition is done with a hammer grip. I'm thinking I should get a hammer grip/tricep bar and do them this way. Tried with heavy dumbells and found that it puts my shoulder in a bad position trying to cheat the dumbell up.

Maybe I will just do seated military presses on my new rack. Squat + Bench + Deadlift + Military Press. I've been doing all incline presses to hit the front deltoids with the pecs, so I probably just need to go to a flat bench and a true barbell shoulder press.

In any case I am bigger and stronger than ever before, and now I don't care so much about carrying some extra fat.

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Revised: I have a wife who is a genius in the kitchen, which is allowing me to reap the full benefit of a weightlifting regimen, by constantly flooding my system with a surplus of calories and nutrients!

Last night, we went out to eat, I had a bacon-chili-jalapeno-cheeseburger and multiple beers and fried everything, and I said "This doesn't conflict with my training regimen, as long as I'm training to be a turn-of-the-century strongman..."

You can't get really strong without carrying some fat.

I could totally kick your ass.