I am not planing on going to gym anytime soon so is bowflex is good work out machine?If it is which model you guys suggest
http://www.bowflex.com/index.asp?Dom...Ebowflex%2Ecom
http://www.modells.com/product/index...entPage=family is this any good? i know its cheaper
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Thread: Bowlfex is any good?
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12-05-2006, 09:31 PM #1
Bowlfex is any good?
Last edited by mario200; 12-05-2006 at 09:36 PM.
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12-05-2006, 09:41 PM #2
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12-05-2006, 09:51 PM #3
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12-05-2006, 10:21 PM #7
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Bro, we're being serious here. Nothing beats weights when it comes to results. If you're looking to build serious mass, bowflex is not it. Don't get fooled by all the commercials and oiled before/after physiques on TV. You're still young and impressionable, so i don't really blame you for getting influenced like that.
So you gonna believe a crappy commercial or the members here?*Someday I want to meet this "Everyone," he seems to have written so very much, yet all of it is wrong.
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12-05-2006, 10:28 PM #8
waste of money...
ask for a power rack like this...
http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/ptec/spr.html
the weights... and a bench (get a free bench and just use it in your power rack)
and you will be good to go...
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12-05-2006, 10:56 PM #9
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12-05-2006, 11:21 PM #10
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12-05-2006, 11:59 PM #11
For the cost, you could really put together a sick home gym with free weights, power rack etc.
My dad has a bowflex, he's older (59) with bad joints. So it's good for him.
For you, at 16. Diet could possibly be more important then the weight #'s you put up. Grab a part time job, mow some lawns, beg your parents, etc.. whats' $30/month really? Get into a gym with some more serious lifters, research the diet's and routines. Read up on the wonderful sticky's. Hit the gym 3 times a week or whatever, stick to any reasonable, nominal, program + a good diet. You'll be tore up soon enough.something clever and witty
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12-06-2006, 03:44 AM #12
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Whoa whoa whoa... let's not say something we can't take back here.
Can you get stonger and in better shape using a bowflex? For the average joe shmo that's kinda sorta serious about staying in shape, absolutely. Will you progress at the same level as you would with free weights or to the level that the majority of the people on this forum are trying to atain? Absolutely not.
As for the smith machine, let's not go there. Speaking its name only gives it more power.Never criticize someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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12-06-2006, 03:53 AM #13
use bowflex only when u feel u reach ur max, and all u need to do is enter the cutting phase of cycle.
think bowflex will be great in that end but otherwise it sucks if ur goal is to bulk and gain alotta strength."Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."
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12-06-2006, 05:27 AM #14
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12-06-2006, 05:43 AM #16
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12-06-2006, 12:33 PM #18
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12-06-2006, 01:08 PM #19
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12-06-2006, 03:35 PM #20
I used the Bowflex for several years and it didn't really do anything for me. Finally one time when I went to a gym, after literally maxing out at the "405 lbs weight limit" for flat benching exercises on the Bowflex, I was barely even able to put up 225 lbs on a real bench. On top of that, you can't really even do squats, deadlifts, powercleans, dips, nor pullups with that machine, which are really important in my opinion. What I use to workout at home, is a power rack, with plate holders on some of the safety spotter levels (prefurably ones that you don't use), a high and low pulley system (attached to the rack of course), an adjustable bench, and a leverage preacher curl machine. All this stuff, plus the weights and the barbell of course, ended up costing me about $1750, which is certainly cheaper than a lot of the "high quality" bowflex machines that they sell. Remember that you won't need a human spotter when performing any of your exercises with this machine. Here's my power rack, just to give you an idea... http://www.box.net/public/static/yrk6j3pqrk.jpg
Last edited by JFraser1; 12-06-2006 at 03:38 PM.
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12-06-2006, 05:13 PM #21
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12-06-2006, 09:36 PM #22
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12-06-2006, 11:08 PM #23
use bowfllex only for stretch exercise, it can help to limited degree but certainly need real man's gym equipment the old fashion way.
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."
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12-09-2006, 09:13 PM #24
Where do they say it simulates a free weight? All ads I've seen for it expound on how unlike a freeweight it is. You get resistance throughout the entire repetition. It is less at the start, most at the end. While it's true free weights are cheaper, bow flexes are a lot lighter, take up less space, safer, and are faster to change between exercises if you're trying to work up to a good heart rate. I wouldn't call them crap, I plan to buy one.
Better how?
Wouldn't doing exercises that don't aggravate bad joints be good for young as well as old?
I don't see why your strength would progress any slower on a bowflex than when using free weights. As for max level, indeed, when someone theoretically does max out the machine, they'd probably need to go to free weights for further progress. How many people posting on this thread have actually maxed out the machine on even one exercise though? I'm actually going to e-mail Nautilus about how high it goes. I mean, I can understand limited space with those weird rods, but with BowFlex Revolution they use these weird plates with spiraling bands inside them, I don't see why you couldn't attach a near-infinite amount of those.
I'm pretty sure you've built the strength to unrack a 405lb barbell in the bench press, just not to lower it, since Bowflex's listed weight is for full extension. If you couldn't, the reason might be is that when using a bowflex, you slowly work up to producing optimal force from lesser tensions. In unracking the barbell, you'd have to go from zero to full throttle. You'd also be scared ****less of it crushing you. They are also very different movements. For example, just because someone can bench 225lbs, does not mean they'd be able to instantly do the 405lb weight limit on the Bow Flex. My bet is they wouldn't be able to reach full extension, or even halfway.
Some of the bowflexes have squat machine attachments. Bowflex uses the lat pulldown in place of the pullup. All the others' muscles can be stimulated with other exercises. These are great exercises though, which the bowflex can't cover, sure, though that wouldn't make progressing in the things you can do on it any less useful.
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12-09-2006, 11:44 PM #25
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12-10-2006, 07:02 AM #26
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12-10-2006, 07:27 AM #27
You say this as if it is a plus for the bowflex...
Originally Posted by Tyciol
Originally Posted by Tyciol
Originally Posted by Tyciol
The bowflex is ****, plain and simple.
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12-10-2006, 01:08 PM #28
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I have lifted free weights nearly all my life and Bowflex cannot compare, especially when you are young. I own a Bowflex AND freeweights so in my opinion at my age there is a place for both. I lift at home alone and more than once I've been pinned by a heavy bench press. (Hint, leave the outside collars off.)
Bottom line..... If your young, take the Bowflex money and invest in free weights. If you're an old fart, the Bowflex is eaiser on the joints.
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02-01-2007, 03:05 PM #29
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02-01-2007, 03:53 PM #30
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