Body weight workouts

well, when u become comfortable doing all the exercises with your body weight switch to weight, u mentioned dips, but lets say u weight 100 lb. im sure u do not lift 100 lb in both hands when u do dumbells for your triceps xD

Yes you can, providing you keep adding intensity as the exercise you are doing becomes easy enough to do say three sets of fifteen; then make the exercise more difficult and so on. People will no doubt tell you there is a limit to the strength you can build but they are usually not looking beyond push-ups.

The best way to build back muscles and biceps strength at the same time has to be chin-ups and pull-ups. Use resistance bands on the pull-up bar and do negative reps if you cannot manage a proper pull-up yet.

two books I recommend and am working through at the moment:

You are your own Gym, and

Convict Conditioning

Will give you correct form, progressive exercise routines and ways of intensifying bodyweight routines for maximum strength and gains within a bodyweight program.

OK, you won't see bodybuilding or Olympian strength or muscular gains but not everyone wants that. What you will acheive will be a fine physique and remarkable strength compared to the un-trained physique.

I'm not knocking anyone who wants to lift weights but I do think bodyweight exercise deserves its place in strength training as a real alternative. All best.

Can you build muscles by doing body weight only?

Yes.

OK, you won't see bodybuilding or Olympian strength or muscular gains but not everyone wants that.

Ummm, yes you can.

Muscle gain happens because of your diet, not the exercise you do. You have to strength train, yes, to build muscle, but this exercise doesn't work better than that one. Resistance is resistance.

Men's Olympic Gymnasts, guys that are quite muscular, build their muscles almost exclusively through bodyweight exercises.

I am using Bodyweight stuff and like it. I add dumbbells to some things, like to lunges and squats russian twists . It here is an app for the book "Ypu are your own gym", by Mark Lauren. The app is about $3-4 and you can get by with the app for the book, I think. I bought the book, before I knew about the app.

I am happy with doing body weights.

It doesn't take any more time than any other sort of workout either.

Gymnasts if anything are low, not high, on their muscular potential. Just like a competition Olympic lifter (except heavyweight), to reach a world class level one needs to specifically avoid hypertrophy as much as possible. Excess weight is the enemy of performance. In general strength exercises will not be taken to reps/times that favor muscle growth over strength adaptation.

The body can only handle so much time working in the 1RM, 3RM, 5RM, 8RM areas. As you get stronger your ability to do a ton of volume of easier stuff will increase, but your capacity to work higher volumes of higher intensities does not change much. If anything it goes down, not up.