The Best No-Equipment Home Workout Setup: Your Phone and a Patch of Floor

A 21-exercise library that covers your whole body

An effective no-equipment routine needs a push, a lower-body drive, a conditioning movement, and core stability. Hughie covers all four with 21 camera-tracked movements organized into Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced tiers:

• Push — wall push-ups → knee push-ups → push-ups, plus wide push-ups for more chest: chest, shoulders, triceps
• Legs — squats, sumo squats, side lunges, split squats, glute bridges, calf raises, wall sits, squat jumps: quads, glutes, hamstrings, calves
• Cardio — jumping jacks, standing marches, high knees, knee tuck jumps: conditioning and heart rate
• Core — planks, knee planks, crunches, side bends, knee-to-elbow: stability and midsection strength

Every one of them is tracked live with your camera in a bedroom-sized space — and the tier system means a true beginner can build a complete routine without ever touching a movement that feels out of reach.

A week you can actually run

Three sessions, 15–20 minutes each, using Hughie's circuit workouts:

1. Day A — Strength: 3 rounds of push-ups (near your max, minus 2) + 15 squats + 30-second plank.
2. Day B — Conditioning: 4 rounds of 30 jumping jacks + 12 squats, short rests.
3. Day C — Mixed: a program day — use your free Hughie-built program to structure it around your level, or build your own with the manual program builder.

Every rep of every round is counted automatically, and circuit workouts chain the movements together so the session flows. No notebook, no counting in your head, no "was that round three or four?"

Prefer to split it up? Keep each area in at least two sessions a week, say an upper-body-and-core day and a legs-and-cardio day, alternating. Ask Hughie for one area, like "a core workout", and he builds the session around it.

Why tracking is the missing piece of home workouts

The reason home training fizzles is rarely the exercises — it's the invisibility of progress. At a gym, the weight on the bar goes up. At home, "I think I did more push-ups than last month?" isn't motivating. Hughie makes home progress visible: set-by-set history, per-exercise stats, weight tracking, a weekly streak, and a home screen widget that shows how many days you've trained this week. Daily challenges and accessories for Hughie add a small reward today for work whose physical payoff takes weeks.

A full home gym that fits in your pocket

Download Hughie free: live rep counting, a free Hughie-built program, and a training partner with floppy ears.

Home workout FAQ

How much space do I need?

Enough to move with your whole body visible to your propped-up phone. The rule is a middle distance: far enough back to be fully in frame through the whole movement, close enough that the camera can clearly see what you're doing. A bedroom, living room, or hotel room all work.

Is it really free?

You can run every session in this guide for free. Every push-up (wall, knee, standard, and wide) and squats are camera-tracked free forever with no limit. Every other exercise, planks and jumping jacks included, gets two free live tries that never expire, new exercises are unlimited for their first week, and logging by hand is unlimited on all 21, so Day A's plank and Day B's jumping jacks can always be logged. Streaks, challenges, the home screen widget, Apple Health and Health Connect export, the Muscles Worked body map, and Hughie himself are all included, plus one Hughie-built program to try. Unlimited live counting on all 21 exercises, more Hughie-built programs, adaptive progression, Chat with Hughie, and post-workout coach notes are Pro features.

Can beginners use it?

Absolutely. You can start with wall or knee push-ups and work up to standard ones, squat targets start modest, and the programs Hughie builds match your experience level.