The men's list seems... off. Two suits (not including the tux) and three blazers, but only four shirts to wear under those jackets? Not one but two bow ties?

Quick followup: I can't find any obvious problem with the data, but I agree that it feels too high.

Stats aren't quite right; the WP number is for millionaire households, not individuals. There are 117,500ish households in the US. You're absolutely right that I misspoke on "assets"; I meant net worth.

Something like 6% of US households have assets of a million or more, so given that we're talking about people who've had (or are in) their peak earning years, 1% sounds about right.

Given the extent of big time student loans, I'm surprised there are so many folks above zero.

Explosive moves are a great step up for power, and I'm a fan, but they're still going to be of limited effectiveness for strength gains. Weights are just an easy and efficient way to keep progressing once you've built up a good base with body weight work, especially if you've built up a comfort level working out by…

Lots of other replies here, so just a summary: those variations do add difficulty, but they don't add resistance (unless you're adding weight). Difficulty goes up by transferring the loading from your chest to triceps (yoga or diamond pushups) or deltoids (elevated feet). They're just different exercises.

Totally agree, fitness in all it's forms is a great thing.

Body weight exercises are great, but they're not uniquely great for "definition", intensity, or flexibility. I've also noticed that my body ages at the exact same rate (one hour per hour) no matter what workout method I use, or even if I work out at all.

I hear you, and body weight is perfect for HIIT. Someone else mentioned a weight vest, which might be a better (but pricier) option than bands. Just be sure to clean it regularly.

Lots of people have mentioned these. Elevated pushups work for a very short range before they start transferring the weight to your shoulders and off of your chest. Diamonds just shift weight onto your triceps. You could try deliberately weakening an arm (fingertips only, etc.), but that's going to provide…

I've heard about the book and read some of Al Kavadlo's stuff. I'm happy with weights as a primary and body weight as a supplementary set of exercises.

Could do that. A good weight vest won't sag enough to interfere with push ups and lets you add resistance (although I'm personally not a fan because I sweat too much and it gets gross fast). Once you start looking to buy equipment, though, you might as well get weights or join a gym.

That adds a little weight, but also changes the exercise. Now you're pushing less with your chest and more with your shoulders. It's great for shoulders (superman pushups are badass), but you're still substituting a shoulder move for a chest move.

Moving your grip only partially increases resistance, though. It mostly just moves the resistance between pectoral, deltoid, and tricep muscles. Again, I'm a fan of body weight exercises. medicine ball pushups look really cool. It's just really hard to transition.

All good exercises, but those various hand placements only shift your weight between your chest and your triceps (or when raising your feet, your shoulders), or require balancing core work while doing them. What happens when you want to move from the 80% or so of body weight to the 160% (or so, you get the idea) that…

Even those move in gaps, though. Elevating your legs does more to shift the load to your shoulders than it does to increase the load on your chest. I absolutely agree that body weight is the way to start, but once you're doing pushups without difficulty, you have to add a lot of complexity to keep progressing. …

You can, and same to help lower resistance on pull ups, but at that point you might as well work with weights. Especially since the way you load the bands might mess with your form.

I've done that occasionally, but at that point if you have access to plates you might as well just use weights. The plate on the back does really help for planks, though.

The big problem with trying to progress with body weight is the chunky nature of difficulty increments. With weights, you can move up in 5lb increments to slowly make things more difficult over time (Milo's calf). With push ups, for example, you just have one giant leap from the push up to a one handed push-up. …