I Love My Bowflex for Toning and Maintaining
The only reason I honestly have a Bowflex is to look decent for my girlfriend. I’m male by the way! By decent I mean in shape and toned but not bulging with muscles or having a 6 pack or anything. Decent enough in plain English that its acceptable enough that a woman isn’t going to think twice about having sex with me! I know I’m suppose to say all the health stuff which is a side benefit but I wanted to blunt with people like me who need motivations to work out!
I’ve had my Bowflex for over 16 years now, I guess its old school and its no longer even being sold and has been replaced by several better models. I haven’t replaced it though because it does exactly what I want it to do, has worked perfectly for 16 years and I’m very happy with it but if youy’re reading this and don’t own a Bowflex, the new ones like I said seem great and I’d get one if you want a great machine to maintain and tone in a fast work out. As far as building huge muscles, I can’t comment on that one way or the other because I don’t work out that way. My Bowflex cost about $1300 back then and its been more than worth every penny.
The great thing of having a Bowflex in the House is you don’t have to go through the hassle of going to a health club and you can work out any time you want. I have my Bowflex located fully ready to use in my Den, when I first got it I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment and kept it in a closed folded up and wheeled it out 3 days a week and opened it up. It took me all of 5 minutes to do that! If you have an extra room or space, I suggest you leave it out fully assembled to save the 5 minutes to open it up!
I just do the basic 3 sets of the basic exercises and I’m done: Military Press, Bench Press, Flys,Lat Row,Lat Pulldowns,curls,reverse curls,triceps extensions,Bicep curl,French Press,Leg Press,Leg Extension and so on. I may have missed a couple as I’m writing this off the top of my head. The bottom line is there are so many exercises you can do its up to you. I’m sure the current Bowflex models have even more exercises available,
On my Bowflex as I’m sure are most of the current ones, the leg exercises use a seperate part of Bowflex that you need to attach each time which takes less than a minute. I keep this part in my dens closet. I did notice Bowflex has some models with this part built in. My Bowflex uses the Pully Cable system which takes all of a second to change. Some of the newer models don’t need that.
Bowflex comes with an excellent instruction and assembly book - I paid someone $75 16 years ago to assemble it, at the time Bowflex had a list of people in the area who could assemble it for you, you just have to call and ask them. If you’ve worked out before, using Bowflex will require virtually no acclimation time and if you’ve never worked out, maybe 2-3 times. I suggest if you’ve never worked out to work out for the first 2-3 times with a friend who has. I think within 3 weeks of working out 3 times a week you will see results. As a lazy man, Bowflex is perfect enough to get results good enough that no woman is going to turn you down because she thinks you body is a mess. Of course, if your face is Ugly that’s another story!
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