What's your favorite exercise equipment for working out?

Personally, for body weight it has to be the pull up bar. There's so much that can be worked with it, your shoulders back, chest, abs, even legs, that in my opinion it's the one piece of exercise equipment that EVERYONE, even people who aren't into working out need to have in their homes.

For weights I've always preferred dumbbells and aside from fooling around have never used barbells to train. I don't see that changing in the future but anything's possible.

What's your favorite exercise equipment?

My favourite equipment is my own bodyweight. The only piece of actual equipment I use is a pull-up bar. I'm currently looking at one for my house, so I don't have to run to the nearest park - the kids give me weird looks if I go before 7pm (luckily I'm 15, and older kids use the park too).

I currently do not own any exercise equipment. And the only time i go to tha gym is when my friend is willing to sneak me in with his card.
Does anyone have any suggestions for using household items to work out. Specifically in the pull-up domain- I don't have a bar or anything of the sort, but i do have: trim around all the doors in the house, a rooftop with gutter ledge, and a banister by the stairs that does keep me off the ground, but is extremely slanted.
Anything more effective would be appreciated.

my favorite exercise machine is my own weight ;p

Frank wrote:
I currently do not own any exercise equipment. And the only time i go to tha gym is when my friend is willing to sneak me in with his card.
Does anyone have any suggestions for using household items to work out. Specifically in the pull-up domain- I don't have a bar or anything of the sort, but i do have: trim around all the doors in the house, a rooftop with gutter ledge, and a banister by the stairs that does keep me off the ground, but is extremely slanted.
Anything more effective would be appreciated.

Try taking a towel and putting it over a door, then pull yourself up with the towel. I just tried it now and it seems to work pretty well!

It depends on my mood.

Somedays, I need to lift heavy iron...on those days, an Olympic bar and a pile of iron is my favorite fitness tool.

On other days, it's my sandbags, or my kettlebells, or my fat ass sprinting hills.

But, overall, I would have to say that my JumpStretch bands are my favorite piece(s) of fitness equipment.

Loads of resistance, can be used to train any movement/bodypart, extremely portable, nearly indestructible (5 years & no damage)and pretty damn inexpensive