Calisthenics is an exercise in which you use very minimal equipment and rely on body weight. This is a great idea if you want a home gym as you can save a lot of money by not getting expensive equipment.

We have come up with a list of essential calisthenics equipment to build your calisthenics home gym so we will get straight to it.

Calisthenics Equipment

1. Power Tower

A power tower is going to be your most expensive investment if not your only investment if you are on a tight budget. Your calisthenics setup cannot be complete without this core piece of equipment. It doesn’t take up a lot of space, while it also gives you the limitless range to do multiple calisthenics exercises.

Yes, it might be costly, but think about how much money you would spend on a crowded gym it will soon pay for itself.

When it comes to which power tower to get anyone with the core features would do, the Wieder Power Tower. Is a good option

It has 5 different workstations and has various bars at different levels to up the number of movements you can do with it, and it’s made of solid steel for structural support.

If you were to only get one thing for your home gym, a power tower has to be the go-to.

2 Indoor Pull up bar

If you only wanted to buy two things the essential second piece would be an indoor pull-up bar.

Pull-up bars are traditional for a reason. They do not only permit you to achieve any and all the core calisthenic back movements, but they also give you a great way to build your core through the hanging ab exercises.

The perfect type of pull-up bar is an overall workout bar or one that separates from a doorway and allows you to use the bar on the ground

This gives you a freestanding bar that you can use as a grip for push-ups, handstands, dips, and more.

Also hence the “indoor” part of the pull-up bar you can use this anywhere in your house and not just in your garage workout area for example.

This specific pull-up bar is really affordable it uses leverage on the doorway, so you don’t have to screw or nail this pull-up bar into position. This allows you to put it on the ground for push work too, as previously stated.

3. Weighted Vest

Weighted vests are essentially adding bodyweight to your bodyweight exercises

One of the top weight vests out there is the RUNFast/Max weight vest.

This is a very handy piece of equipment because you can add or drop the weight attached to the vest.

So if your body weight is not becoming a challenge you can add more weight with the vest.

Progressive compound overload is also a key to building muscle which is basically adding more weight overtime a

So, if you gradually overload your lifts – which you certainly should – this is ideal for incrementally bumping up the load.

This vest ranges from 12 lbs all the way up to 140 lbs (if you get that version).

4. Ab roller

The next essential piece of Calisthenics equipment is the amazing ab roller.

An ab wheel roller is magnificent for directly targeting all the abdominal muscles.

There are 3 stages of the ab roller exercises; where if you are a beginner you don’t have to roll all the way down so it’s easier to do. And if you are an intermediate or pro then you can roll the ab Roller all the down and be straight on the ground it’s shown on the right.

The ab carver pro is our recommended product as you can roll in multiple directions which allows you to easily target all the ab muscles.

6.Jump rope

Not too much to mention here but this is one of the best and simple calorie-burning excursive you can do. The key to burning fat is a high-intensity exercise and the jump rope does just that. whether you want to warm up or just go full out and work up a good sweat a strong study rope is needed.

7. Gymnastic Rings

Gymnastic ring training is the last on this list but a very important part of your setup.

You can literally perform unlimited bodyweight exercises with many different ways of doing it. The rings can way to activate your muscles and core with exercises like pullups, pushups, dips, rows, and muscle-ups.

An added bonus with this is that it is great for kids to use in the backyard to play around with when you are not using it.

Also to note when doing high-intensity training if you do the with the rings the exercises can be almost 4 times MORE EFFECTIVE than dozens of regular gym exercises.

Not would your muscles work harder than ever to keep your core engaged and body balanced but your secondary muscles, tendons, and joints will get stronger as well since you are using them.

If you are also looking to build a home gym we have a post explaining essential items you would need.