A User’s Experience With The Bowflex Power Pro XL
Here’s a blog post of someone who has used a Bowflex Power Pro XL home gym for 3 months, and then explains how his body felt once he headed back to a more traditional gym:
After a few weeks of using the Bowflex, I noticed I was definitely getting stronger, but I wasn’t gaining as much muscle mass as I had when I used conventional weights. There was more muscle definition in mostly my forearms and triceps, but not as much as I expected elsewhere. In my prior experience, I would’ve expected more from a few weeks of lifting.
Another thing to note is the “weight” markings on the rods. On this particular system, there are rods marked 50, 30, 10 and 5. In just a month of using the Bowflex, I was easily using the 50 rods to workout my biceps. With conventional weights, I’d have a hard time curling 100 pounds once, nevermind work out with it. I merely took this to mean that the markings on the rods are only meant as a measure to log your progression by, but in no way could one say they workout with 100 pounds if they’re measuring by the Power Rods.
One exercise I particularly liked was the laying down curls. This is one exercise that I don’t believe I’ve seen able to be done in a gym and is unique to the Bowflex’s design. Doing the laying down curls helped me keep my back straight and totally avoid “throwing the weight” as is commonly easy to do with a curlbar and weights.
My time is about up with the Bowflex, as Andy has found an apartment he will be moving into soon. This week I’ve started back at the gym at work, and already I notice a huge difference in the exercises. While I’m definitely a lot better off had I not worked out at all before coming back to the gym, my muscles are very sore. I also realize now that with the Bowflex, I can’t recall a time I actually got very sore at all. To me that means the Bowflex simply isn’t ideal for increasing muscle mass, as the pain would tell you there’s some muscle ripping going on, something I just didn’t feel enough of.
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