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Save the money and join a gym.
macrophage69alpha
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if you want a piece of equipment for home get a fit ball and some adjustable dumbells.
wartime100
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It sucks. The weight doesn't go up high enough at all and the way the movements are are somewhat awkward.
I saw that damn infomercial a year or 2 ago and ended up buying one(mistake). While I believe it is ok to use once and a while, I would not use it if I had a choice. The nice thing about it is your workouts don't take very long. Paid $1400 had it a year and sold the damn thing for $400.
If ya can get one cheap and need a home gym, it might not be bad. But I'll stick to free weights.
If ya can get one cheap and need a home gym, it might not be bad. But I'll stick to free weights.
tried one at the store, i made up my mind to buy one from the infomercial, just had to test it out to make sure, i walked out not wanting one, most of the movements felt kinda jerky, and it wasn't as easy to roll as i thought to put away, i ended up buying a power cage,bench,lat machine and dumbells, and about 700lbs total weight,total cost was still alot cheaper then the bowflex, i think the bowflex was around 3500 CDN, and my weights cost around 1700CDN
mikelong23
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no offense but why would you want one? Its a damn girls macine
Guess I'm unique here but I recently bought a Bowflex and I'm pretty happy with it. My situation is limited space which it is great for.
I've worked with free weights and weight machines a well. It is different but I don't really have a problem wtih that. The idea is to build muscle and so far it seems to work well for that.
My only problem wtih it so far is the crunch excercises, in that they require your arms invovlement to hold the resistance you are crunching with. I tried with the waist strap around my shoulders but that is a problem and there doesn't seem to be an attachment for this as they have for some other excercises.
Most seem to feel it is too expensive but you want an excercise machine with the "Flexibility" of excercises you get with teh ability to move from one excercise to anoter and change resistance quickly, I don't think you can do much better. I did research before ordering it using Consumer reports and it ranked top in it's class. They also mentioned it is pricey but also commented it's hard to do better with that little space. Regarding price also you can get a used one and save some money. I bought mine on ebay. I've seen some say they sold theirs for a fraction of what they bought it for and they must not have used ebay because I've seen many sell for pretty close to what you would buy new from Bowflex. Many are willing to pay it because they can get it MUCH faster that way, rather than waiting the crazy 6 weeks from Bowflex.
The convenience of having it right in my home to use regularly when I want can't be beat.
I was originally looking here to see if I could find some tips for improving the abs exercises, but it appeasrs that is unlikely since most don't seem to like the machine let alone ahv any user tips for improving the exercises.
I've worked with free weights and weight machines a well. It is different but I don't really have a problem wtih that. The idea is to build muscle and so far it seems to work well for that.
My only problem wtih it so far is the crunch excercises, in that they require your arms invovlement to hold the resistance you are crunching with. I tried with the waist strap around my shoulders but that is a problem and there doesn't seem to be an attachment for this as they have for some other excercises.
Most seem to feel it is too expensive but you want an excercise machine with the "Flexibility" of excercises you get with teh ability to move from one excercise to anoter and change resistance quickly, I don't think you can do much better. I did research before ordering it using Consumer reports and it ranked top in it's class. They also mentioned it is pricey but also commented it's hard to do better with that little space. Regarding price also you can get a used one and save some money. I bought mine on ebay. I've seen some say they sold theirs for a fraction of what they bought it for and they must not have used ebay because I've seen many sell for pretty close to what you would buy new from Bowflex. Many are willing to pay it because they can get it MUCH faster that way, rather than waiting the crazy 6 weeks from Bowflex.
The convenience of having it right in my home to use regularly when I want can't be beat.
I was originally looking here to see if I could find some tips for improving the abs exercises, but it appeasrs that is unlikely since most don't seem to like the machine let alone ahv any user tips for improving the exercises.
BigBarbarian-chargeback
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It's a good home system if you need to workout and can't make it to the gym. Theproblem I had with it was range of motion. At 6' 7" I have a very long range of motion on all exercises but as far as home systems go it's pretty good, especialy if you ave limited space. I have mine for sale do if you are interested send me an email and we'll talk.
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flo0rida fah q
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blech
a friend of mine has one and i think its a piece of cow dung.
i used it and the motions are akward, clipping the weights takes too long, and i couldnt keep my arms from wobbling around.
waste of money
heres my $.10 my $.02 is free
a friend of mine has one and i think its a piece of cow dung.
i used it and the motions are akward, clipping the weights takes too long, and i couldnt keep my arms from wobbling around.
waste of money
heres my $.10 my $.02 is free
