Exercises by Equipment
The fastest way to build a workout is to start from what you can actually reach. Pick your equipment below and get every exercise in the library that uses it, grouped by muscle group, with an animated GIF demonstration and step-by-step form cues on every guide.
Bodyweight Exercises
57 free exercises
Bodyweight training needs nothing but floor space, so it is the fastest way to start and the hardest routine to skip. These moves load the muscle by changing leverage instead of adding plates: raise your feet, slow the lowering phase, shorten the base of support, or move to a single limb. That gives you a progression ladder that runs from a first push-up to planche and maltese work without ever touching a dumbbell.
Dumbbell Exercises
37 free exercises
Dumbbells train each side of the body on its own, so a strong limb cannot quietly carry a weak one the way it does on a barbell. The free path also lets the joint rotate through the rep instead of being locked to a fixed bar, which usually means a longer working range and less shoulder and wrist strain. A single adjustable pair covers pressing, pulling, raising, and carrying for a whole home gym.
Cable Exercises
27 free exercises
A cable stack keeps tension on the muscle for the whole rep, including the positions where a dumbbell goes weightless. Because you set the pulley height and stand where you like, you can attack a muscle from angles free weights cannot reach: crossovers from above, pushdowns from a high pulley, low rows and front raises from the floor. That makes cables the best tool on the floor for isolation and for the stretched end of a movement.
Barbell Exercises
36 free exercises
The barbell is still the shortest route to raw strength: both limbs push one implement, so you can load more weight than any other tool and add to it in small, honest increments week after week. Squats, presses, rows, and cleans on a bar recruit the whole kinetic chain, which is why nearly every strength program is built around them. They also demand real technique, so learn the pattern light before you chase numbers.
Machine Exercises
23 free exercises
Plate-loaded and assisted machines fix the movement path, so you spend your attention on pushing hard rather than on balancing the load. That makes them the safest place to train close to failure without a spotter, the easiest entry point for a beginner learning a pattern, and a useful finisher once free-weight fatigue has already cut into your stability. Assisted units also let you train pull-ups and dips before you can do a full rep.
Smith Machine Exercises
6 free exercises
The Smith machine runs the bar on a fixed rail with catch hooks at every height, which removes the balance demand and gives you a bailout on every rep. That combination lets you take a squat, press, or row closer to failure alone than you safely could with a free bar. Because the path is fixed you can also stand in positions a free barbell would never allow, which is how the Smith is used to bias specific muscles.
Resistance Band Exercises
6 free exercises
A band gets harder the further you stretch it, so resistance peaks exactly where most muscles are strongest and eases off where the joint is most vulnerable. That accommodating curve makes bands the go-to for rotator-cuff and rear-delt work, for warming up before heavy lifting, and for keeping a full routine going in a suitcase. They also let you pull from angles a dumbbell cannot, because a band can be anchored anywhere.
Kettlebell Exercises
6 free exercises
A kettlebell hangs its mass below the handle, so the load pulls away from your hand and every rep becomes a grip and stabiliser task on top of the main lift. That offset is what makes the swing, clean, jerk, and windmill feel nothing like their dumbbell versions. Kettlebell work blends strength with conditioning better than almost anything else, which is why one bell can replace a whole circuit.