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The gym you can't forget at home, because it's attached to you.
means Exercise that uses your own body as the resistance, instead of weights or machines — think push-ups, squats, and planks.
from A straightforward compound of 'body' and 'weight,' tracking back to each word's Old English roots (bodig, gewiht). As a fitness term it's a modern coinage, rising with 20th-century calisthenics culture and then booming again as home workouts and minimalist training trends made 'no equipment needed' a selling point rather than a limitation.
- no equipment
- push-ups predate every gym franchise combined
- scaling trick
- leverage, not weight stacks, makes it harder
- astronaut problem
- useless in zero gravity, mass without weight
- ego check
- your own body can still humble you