Equipment setup
Training with a pull-up bar only
A pull-up bar plus bodyweight is a surprisingly complete setup. The bar unlocks the entire vertical-pull ladder plus hanging core work — the two things a pure bodyweight inventory can't reach.
A pull-up bar unlocks pull-ups, chin-ups, hanging knee and leg raises, and every vertical-pull progression in the tree. These are gated on owning a bar (or rings), so this one purchase is what switches them on.
Combine that with push-up progressions and bodyweight leg work and you have a genuinely complete program.
What a bar does NOT unlock is dips. RepRoute gates dips behind dip bars, rings or a TRX — a doorway pull-up bar is none of those, so dips will not appear in your plan no matter how many pull-ups you can do. If you own a dip station or rings, tick them separately and dips turn on.
As everywhere in RepRoute, the regression tree sets your starting variant and the "Too easy" / "Too hard" buttons move you along it. Nothing promotes you automatically — when the bar gets easy, you tell it so.
Sample 3-day week
| Day | Focus | Exercises |
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| Day 1 | Push + pull |
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| Day 2 | Variations |
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| Day 3 | Mixed intensity |
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Example exercises
Pullups
lats
Chin-Up
lats
Hanging Leg Raise
abdominals
Inverted Row
middle back
Pushups
chest
Pike Push-Up
shoulders
Bodyweight Squat
quadriceps
Walking Lunge
quadriceps
Common questions
Move to a harder variant — and you make that call, not the app. Tap "Too easy" during the session and RepRoute steps you up the regression tree. It does not promote you automatically when you hit a rep ceiling.
Not in RepRoute's plans. Dips are gated on dip bars, rings or a TRX — if none of those are in your equipment, dips are never programmed. Tick the one you own and they appear.
Bodyweight squat progressions, split squats and pistol squat progressions cover legs without external load. All of them are available with an empty inventory.
Generate your plan
Free plan, no credit card. Tell RepRoute what you own and the plan adapts immediately.