Lot of a average Joe's can't do them. I'm probably in good company to say you really only need 6 exercises.

From light to heavy: Chinups, Shoulder press, Rows, Bench, Squat, Deadlift

Or, roughly, in calisthenics: Chins, shoulder push-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, squat, sit-ups.

Probably the most useful of these movements is deadlift, nothing will make throwing office furniture around more fun than the strength you can train with deadlifts. Front raising a TV off the wall is pretty cool, too.

Push-ups are great for strength, muscle growth, and health. But their usefulness for strength and muscle growth drops off once you are able to perform many standard push-ups. At that point you’d need to do harder variations (like archer push-up) or weighted push-ups to keep seeing muscle growth and strength gains.

Any exercise is better than no exercise. But in my experience, bodyweight training will not put you anywhere near the ballpark of size/strength that a good weight training program can.

I say this because I see a lot of impressive looking dudes selling calisthenics programs, but I heavily suspect that the lift weights and/or do steroids in addition to bodyweight programs.

I exclusively did bodyweight training during the pandemic and it kept me healthy and my physique definitely improved for the better. Once the gyms opened and I went back to weight training, my size/strength absolutely blew up from what it was before with no changes in diet/sleep/time spent training. I gained about 18 lbs of muscle in a pretty short amount of time and I suspect I can gain a good deal more once I dial in my diet and sleep.

I loved them. Get floor handles to avoid stressing your wrists at first. Go slow, stay flat, breath deep. Simple routine: pushups, crunches, diagonal crunches, squats like exercises.

But I prefer normal sports (running, biking, soccer.. anything) when I can.

I'd recommend squats instead.