Bowflex Ultimate XTLU Home Gym [Discontinued]" />
Get serious about your strength training at home with the Bowflex Ultimate XTLU home gym, which includes everything you need to keep fit and build up muscles in your own home. It comes standard with 310 pounds of real Power Rod resistance (which can be upgraded to 410 pounds with optional additional Power Rods). The Ultimate includes a lat tower with an angled bar to help you build back and shoulder muscles, a low pulley/squat station for building glutes, hamstrings, and quads, and a leg extension/curl station for developing muscular legs. The adjustable pulley system is designed to change your angle of resistance to help increase the effectiveness of many upper body exercises. It also offers a smooth, built-in rowing machine [Read More...]
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October 3rd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Though once this piece of excercise equipment is built, it’s everything the advertisements, from print to infomercial, declare. However, somewhere, I swear, I read it takes only 45 minutes to put together and just taking the parts from the 5 large boxes took well over an hour. Further, the actual installation took over two days; and I’d like to think my buddy and myself are pretty good at these things. However, as I said, once put together, this is one solid, helpful piece of excercise equipment. One more thing, be sure you have the space for it once assembled. It really is a large piece of equipment, both vertically and horizontally. Good Luck!
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
The Bowflex is one of the most amazing machines I have ever used. With its range of exercises and a little creativity on your part, you can do just about any exercise you want to do. I completely recommend this if you don’t have the time to go to the gym or if you just really enjoy working out at home.
One disclaimer, don’t think you can get the same results you can get from free weights. If you are an avid free-weight lifter, you can get your kicks out of maxing the leg press and perhaps even maxing the bench. The PowerRods have a tension that is proportional to the amount of bend you give them. Thus, if you do an exercise with 100 pounds of resistance, but only move the power rods through their first half of bend, you aren’t getting 100 pounds of resistance. Also, when you extend the arms of the pulleys to do the wide grip bench, you decrease the amount of bend in the rods to the point where, even if you bend them all the way, you aren’t getting full resistance.
Don’t get me wrong, I love this thing; I’ve had mine for the past 2 years and it is amazing. I work out twice a day for about 45 minutes to an hour each session, only because I don’t have the time to make it to the gym. Get this if you are very serious about workout out at home and don’t have a lot of space to fit other equipment. Make sure you have a positive attitude going into the lifting programs. Experiment with ideas on different exercise movements. More than anything, this piece of equipment is a blast to use, have fun with it!
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I’m a small person, not a bodybuilder and hated free weights. However, I realized as I got older that I really needed to do some type of strength training. I’d been thinking about a Bowflex and after looking at the literature, decided I wanted an Ultimate. I purchased a used one and don’t recommend that route since the seller lost some of the parts and delivered a damaged machine (long story). I was able to order the missing pieces from Bowflex, but it took forever to get them. Once I was able to use the machine, I absolutely loved it. It’s especially good for me since I’m usually alone when I work out and was concerned about injury with free weights or other types of exercise/weight machines. Additionally, due to a neurological problem, I had little extensor function in one hand. Using the Bowflex, I’ve been able to rebuild some of the muscle tone and would highly recommend this for anyone who needs physical therapy requiring weights. I use this faithfully every day, alternating between arm exercises and shoulder exercises. It’s a pleasure to use and not at all tedious. I think I probably could have done with one model under this since I never use the leg equipment. Nevertheless, I’d recommend buying this item new from the manufacturer. It’s pricey, but well worth the money.