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trollady Posts: 1 Joined: 2002/06/03	2002/06/12, 05:06 AM does anyone here workout on a bowflex? I'm just beginning...taking the BFL challenge. Desparately need to lose weight (about 50 pounds) and once that goal is reached I'd like to start building muscle...we're talking major body building...large dreams for a large woman of 45 years who has never really worked out...we all have to start somewhere right? ---------------------------- troll
rpacheco Posts: 3,770 Joined: 2001/12/13	2002/06/12, 10:31 AM Welcome to ft! It's never too late to change your lifestyle for the better! The best place to start is with your diet. Once you have developed one that you'll be happy with, the weight will melt right off when you couple that with resistance exercise. I don't personally use a bowflex as my preference is free weights. However, it still offers resistance training which will help increase your metabolism. Good luck! -------------- **_Robert_** Pain is temporary; glory is forever!
ischjli Posts: 408 Joined: 2002/03/13	2002/06/12, 11:22 AM Well, I don't own a bowflex but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night so I should be able to answer your question. No, actually I have a nice Total Gym (Chuck called me and said he'd beat me up if I didn't buy it!), in my basement collecting dust. It is GREAT, I mean I really enjoyed using it until I outgrew it. I understand the bowflex has more pounds of tension (400+), then my Total Gym which uses ones body weight as the tension mechanism. Anyways, both offer a much better stretch than free weights do, but I am convinced, far fewer exercises (at least, true exercises). They purport to have over 200 exercise, blah, blah. But they don't actually FEEL right when you do them and in the end the pump is different or non-existent. So, I guess what I am saying is, it works well initially but in the end it will be good for banging your shins on. The DIET is the key and being in a gym, for me, can be a great motivator. Good luck. -------------- Ischjli "Seven days without exercise makes one weak."
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/12, 12:54 PM I've heard that after good usage things like bowflex lose their resistance also.. -------------- Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice does.
mazzgolf Posts: 74 Joined: 2002/05/28	2002/06/12, 01:30 PM Well, I'm just beginning myself, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt (after researching a bunch of home gyms, I just bought one three weeks ago). But, I remember just looking at the bowflex and saying that it was overpriced for what you got. Wasn't the Bowflex approaching $2,000?? You could get a great home gym for that money, with some left over to buy other things like an exercise bike!
mazzgolf Posts: 74 Joined: 2002/05/28	2002/06/12, 01:32 PM Quoting from me: "I just bought one three weeks ago" I didn't mean to infer that I bought a Bowflex. I bought a unit from Body Craft (the xPress).
qualters Posts: 343 Joined: 2002/04/21	2002/06/12, 04:19 PM Free weights, nothing can imitate that movement. -------------- BQ AMERICAN MADE
Lumina20 Posts: 966 Joined: 2001/10/31	2002/06/13, 08:23 PM You could get a bench for $70 and a set of dumbbells for even less than that. I would start from there and get what you need as you go along.
magensha Posts: 37 Joined: 2002/06/20	2002/06/24, 06:40 PM yea, i went to modell's the other dy and saw tons of bench sets ranging from $50-100 bucks and weights sets were even cheaper. Getting a bench and weight set and adding on to it is a great idea. i have a total gym and it is basically useless now because i am used to the resistance from my body weight.