Home Gym, Dumbells

[Gjohnson7]

Ok, guys here's my deleima. I don't have a gym membership or the time to make it to the gym each week.(Considering I have a wife, 2 boys and just had a baby girl Monday.) I had a bowflex home gym, but for my body type and goals, the machine workouts wouldn't cut it. So I sold the workout machine to buddy of mine and I'm considering buying this to meet my free weight needs. Do you guys think that this free weight set up would help me put on the mass I desire or am I just cursed being scrawny until my free time increases when all the kid'os are older.

http://www.bowflexselecttech.com/bs...~710000/Bowflex+SelectTech+1090+Dumbbells.jsp

Additional Info:
I'm currently
6'1"
175 lbs
27 years old
Right now could probably max out on bench at 190lbs.
Hope this info helps.

 

[cmarcell]

We sell these in Sports Authority (the ones that go up to 52.5 lbs anyway). They are awesome. You'll have to see if the guys around here know of a cheaper/better one. If not, get them, with the 5.1 bench. That's a lot of workouts you can do. I would buy a barbell too, with some weights. You can get a bundle easily. This way you can do some things like deadlifts, military presses, squats, etc. Of course for squats and military press, you'd have to figure something out. But if you can start out with DB's, a good bench, and a barbell with some weight, that's a good start. At SA (for example), we have benches where you can stick the arms up to squat and stuff. Get them on sell cheap. If you can't do that, you can still do this with a barbell, weight, DB's, and a DB bench:

Back: Barbell Rows, Deadlifts, 1 Arm Rows, DB Rows
Chest: Flat/Incline/Decline DB Bench, DB Flyes, Pullovers
Shoulders: DB Shoulder Press, Military Press (Power Cleaning weight up), Lateral Raises, Rear Delt DB Raises
Hamstrings: SLDL
Quads: Lunges, Step Ups
And all the Biceps, Triceps, and Traps work you can imagine.

Great start.

 

[Gjohnson7]

Well, the selecttechs don't seem to be compatiable with a barbell, but I would be picking up the 1090's which range from 10 to 90 lbs, the 5.1 bench and the dumbell stands. I'm really liking this deal because of my space requirements and huge range of dumbells available using this set.

Can anyone with more weightlifting iknowledge let me know if these would be useful with putting on mass or why I shouldn't purchase these. I've owned a bowflex home gym before but it was directed more a toning which is not what I currently need. I can't see why these wouldn't be ideal, since I have great success putting on mass with free weights, I just don't have the access to a gym right now.

 

[cmarcell]

No what I meant was get a barbell on the side with weights. For example, you can get a 300 lb set for about $150.

Why get these on top of the DB's? So that you may be able to do things like deadlifts, power cleans, military presses (cleaned of course), barbell shrugs, hack squat (look it up using barbell), SLDL, barbell rows, barbell curls, barbell skullcrushers, and heck, even front squats if you can clean the weight up.

Those are some big exercises right there. And you only need a bar to do those. No bench. Nothing. Just a bar and some plates. You could do good with just the DB's, yes. But using both will be much, much better.

 

[Gjohnson7]

Oh, I see what your saying. I do have a curl barbell now, with a few plates. But they only go up to about 45lbs total and there just so much of a hassel dealing with them all and storing them all in my small house. My house is only about 1650 sq feet and I have a wife and 3 small kids. I would use the garage, but I have 5 cars right now. (1 of which is completely dissassembled in my garage awaiting an engine rebuild and turbo upgrade. I like the idea of the selecttechs because I can get up to 90 lbs of dumbells and have them stored in the corner of my master bedroom.

 

[[CinnamonBuns]]

5 cars?!
sell one of those badboys and build yourself a home gym!

 

[miplank]

I have the select techs...I love em'

 

[Gjohnson7]

5 cars?!
sell one of those badboys and build yourself a home gym!

I'm actually in the process of selling 1 and getting rid of another.(Parts car) They definately won't sell for enough to build a home gym, there just Nissan 240sx's, but they are a blast to drive when turbo charged and modified.

 

[Gjohnson7]

Great! Do you have the 1090's? Oh and I can't tell from the pics on the website, but are the benches collapasable(I probably spelled that wrong.) for easy storage.

 

[miplank]

Yeah...

I actually don't have the bench yet, you can do most exercises w/out the bench, but i'm still going to get one so I can do declines/inclines. I'm ordering it today or tomorrow. They do look like the fold up, but not sure how compact they'll get. I guess I'll find out soon enough, although I don't really need it to as I have a large gym in my basement.

I didn't get the stands either, they're nice don't get me wrong, but for the money they can just sit in on the floor as they take up no room anyways.

When I got them I was amazed w/the quality. I researched them for along time before I made the purchase and they're 10x better than I expected.