Bowflex

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These guys have been advertising on TV for a very long time, after many other exercise machines fads have come and gone.

Has anybody used this before?

[RiveraRa]

I have not but my mother in law just bought one. Ill have to use it a bit and give a report.

[SuperCrew]

I have heard that they have issue with the bands wearing out quickly and/or breaking. I see they have a new design out now, maybe that was to help correct this issue.

I have a very old (10+ years) Pro Form trainer that still works great. It is programmable and allows you to program workouts into it and save them on a disk and automatically set the weight for the next set. Hard to explain, but it was top of the line when I bought it and it still works, so I guess it was money well spent. Now if I only had the time and dedication to really use it like I should...

[47MartialMan]

These things come and go.

I went to visit someone's house and asked to try it.

It was a good workout.

People tend to see them getting in the way and later joining a gym.

Pick up the classfieds and you will come across one for sale.

[sannin227]

I tried one in a sports authority, it was a really good workout on the abs. I would reccomend it.

[wannabe]

the machine is a scam. don't buy one. they do a very very good job of advertising the machine, all it works,is your wallet getting thinner. i bought a bowflex extreme 2 acouple years ago.
I used it for awhile then got tired of it. the resistance wore down after a period of time. after work outs, u feel the burn of ur mucsles for an have hour and thats it. it didn't take me long to max out the machine at 250 lbs resistance. the resistance of the bowflex doesn't even come close to standard free weights.
stick to freeweights.....
PUT IT THIS WAY. IF U LIFT SOMETHING SLIGHTLY HEAVY(DOSEN'T HAVE TO BE WEIGHTS), SOME THING YOUR YOUR BODY ISN'T USE TO. U WILL BUILD STRENGTH. NOT ALOT OF IT, BUT U'LL BE STRONGER THAN U WERE PRIOR.


WANNABE

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Having the convenience of home exercise machine is nice (better than nothing) but nothing really beats going to the gym and using the freeweights.

[Chapel]

Originally Posted by wannabe

it didn't take me long to max out the machine at 250 lbs resistance.
WANNABE

What did you start at? If you gained substantially up to 250 I would say that it did it's job. Also I could have sworn the ads were fat burn not muscle build, so maybe you were just looking at it for the wrong reasons.

[Shinobi_Kokujin]

ive always wanted to get one but never got around to it

[47MartialMan]

Bowflex, like many home fitness equipment become de-motvational. Il ost count on how many weight lifting benches and free weights that came and went.