Can you build muscle with bodyweight?

Can you build muscle with bodyweight?

Yes but you will reach a plateau soon

As a noob for sure so if you want to start at home just go for it but if you're a lazy slob then it's better to pay for a personal trainer/group training because you can't cancel them easily and it will help you to sink into lifting.

>will reach a plateau soon

Explain.

Yeah to begin with - the basic calisthenics movements like push-ups, pull-ups, chin-ups and dips will put on some muscle. Eventually the resistance becomes too small and all you are doing is increasing muscular endurance and you won't game anymore size. Then you would need to increase the resistance by adding weigh via a dipping belt for example. You can make decent upper body gains but your lower body will look like shit, pistol and body weight squats won't get you far.

you can't load more than your bw.
ex: pushup,pullups,dips, which after a few months of consistency, you'll blast sets of 20 barely breaking a sweat.

At this point, you've reached bw plateau. from there on, your only way too increase difficulty is to work with angles, but then it's not the same muscle working (ex pushup>pike pushup>handstand pushup)

let's not talk about idiocies such as 25+ reps, save yourself the trouble and just sandpaper your joints.

yes but you need to buy weighted vest and overload like you'd do with lifting

Can confirm from personal experience. Don't have a choice though because the only gym within 40 miles is tiny, crowded and gay.

Pistol squats with a 50 lbs kettle bell, explosive squats will get you pretty far. Not sure you know what you're talking about.

50lb kettle bell isn't body weight Sasquatch