Truth be told you don't need a lot of equipment. Go on IronMaster's web site or Power blocks. A pull up bar, dip, bench with adjustable dumbbell and you can do an amazing amount of effective routines. Another direction is an olympic bar, bench, squat racks, chin bar with dips. For a $1000-1500 you have a complete gym.
The last direction is to go the body weight route. A work out could go like this with minimal equipment. Looking around amazon I found a chin dip set up that ratcheted around a tree. Looked really sturdy.
1. Body weight squats
2. split leg jumps
3. pull ups and dip super sets
4. body weight row (face the ceiling and pull you body to the bar having your legs elevated.
5. Push ups (all kinds)
6. head stand delt presses. ( The majority will only be able to do feet elevated push ups)
7. single leg calf raises with leg locked. ( try it. Lock you leg without even a block and see how many full range you can do. You would be shocked that for a guy that puts the pin really low for calf raises has trouble getting 15 with no weight.
8. various ab exercises
9. neck exercises like the wrestler bridge front and back
10. Maybe a package of exercise rubber bands. They are cheap and fit in a tiny package for some auxiliary work.
11. Don't forget conditioning exercises like burpees and mountain climbers.
12. Add some running both distance and sprints. Drum solos are optional.
Never think body weight stuff is for beginners. You could take an Olympia winner and turn him into a mess of exhaustion and sweat with body weight stuff. I remember a guy writing to the Navy wanting to become a Navy Seal and asked what type of lifting program he should be doing. Navy wrote back their is no weight lifting in Seal training.
