Bowflex Home Gym Fitness Blog

It was only a few decades back when the first Bowflex Fitness Machines took the fitness market by surprise with brand new, amazing yet very simple power-rod technology. It functions by harnessing the power that’s contained in a bow when it’s pulled back. Note: A Bowflex 410 Upgrade is Not an Option on All Machines.

Over the course of the years since then Bowflex has come out with a complete line of fitness machines and all come stock with a set amount of resistance and while some can be upgraded in weight resistance others can’t. It is worth noting that no machines with Spiraflex technology will go over 300 lb.

The Following Machines are Not Compatible With the Bowflex 410 Upgrade

(The Bowflex Power Pro) can be upgraded twice. It comes stock with 210 pounds of resistance and can be upgraded to 310 lb and again to 410 lb.

(The Bowflex) Motivator was introduced in 2005 and “can not” upgraded. It comes stock with 210 pounds of resistance.

The Bowflex Revolution Home Gym was introduced in 2006 and comes stock with 220 lb of resistance and is upgradeable once to 300 lb. (Spiraflex Technology)

The Bowflex Revolution XP Home Gym was introduced in 2007 and comes stock with 220 lb and is upgradeable to 300 lb. ( Spiraflex Technology)

The Bowflex Revolution FT Home Gym was introduced in 2007 and comes stock with 220 lb of resistance and is upgradeable to 300 lb. (Spiraflex Technology)

The Bowflex PR1000 Home Gym was introduced in 2008 and comes stock with 210 lb of resistance and is NOT upgradable.

The Bowflex PR300o Home Gym was introduced in 2008 and comes stock with 210 lb of resistance and can be upgraded to 310 lb.

The following Machines are Capable of the Bowflex 410 Upgrade

The Bowflex Sport Home Gym can be upgraded to 310 lb or 410 lb.

The Bowflex Xtreme Home Gym (2006) can be upgraded to 310 lb or 410 lb.

The Bowflex Xtreme SE (2007) can be upgraded to 310 lb or 410 lb.

The Bowflex Xtreme 2 SE Home Gym (2007) can be upgraded to 310 lb or 410 lb.

The Bowflex Ultimate Home Gym (2007) comes stock with 310 lb of resistance and can be upgraded to 410 lb.

The Bowflex Ultimate XTLU Home Gym (2007) comes stock with 310 lb of resistance and can be upgraded to 410 lb.

The Bowflex Blaze Home Gym (2007) comes stock with 210 lb of resistance and can be upgraded to 310lb or 410 lb.

The Bowflex Xceed Home Gym (2008) comes stock with 210 lb of resistance and can be upgraded to 310 lb or 410 lb.

See larger image Bowflex 410-Pound Rod Upgrade (Sports) List Price: $99.00 USD New From: $99.00 In Stock Release date March 23, 2006.

There was a time, up until around the early seventies when not much thought was giving to low impact exercise. In deed there were very limited options anyway. It was get out there and “pound the pavement”, take your knocks and deal with the aftermath when it came later in life.

The fact is that heavy high impact exercise of any type will lead to injuries to one degree or another if given enough time. So back then, in time, as people aged those who engaged in heavy exercise, including daily jogging eventually found their way into a clinic for joint and connective tissues problems.

Then as more people became aware of the “exercise injury” connection, swimming and water sports began to be promoted as a safe option. Speed walking also began to come into vogue as well. Then something happened that began to allow people more options to exercise the way that they wanted to without the risk of injuries.

The First Low Impact Exercise Machines

This was the development of the first low impact exercise equipment that duplicated natural pavement pounding exercises, only without the pavement pounding. One of the very first of these types of machines and device was the original Bowflex weight machine that uses low impact power-rods to supply the weight resistance.

Also around this time around 35 years ago the treadmill machine began to be marketed as a low impact option to running. Of course treadmills had been around for years and in fact were even used as a “disciplinary/torture” device in prisons during the 1800s. Even so, they had never been marketed to private parties in the way that they began to be.

Now fast forward to the present time and today there is an amazing selection of low impact exercise machines available on the market. One of the most recent to make its public debut is the engineering masterpiece commonly referred to as the treadclimber. Truly a work of mechanical art.

There are several versions of this wonder machine ranging in price from $50 all the way up to $5,000 but they all function off of the same premise. This is the duplication of the body motions and actions of walking up a set of stairs. It truly is amazing how well the better of these machines can do this with zero impact.

See larger image Bowflex PR1000 Home Gym (Sports) List Price: $799.00 USD New From: $549.00 In Stock Release date September 22, 2008.

All weights and weight equipment have one thing in common and that is that it’s heavy. It’s this one very aspect that so often makes it so hard to get rid of once it is no longer needed. Kids grow up, roommates move away and people just peter out on their workout regimens and the end result is that there’s a heck of a lot of free weight equipment out there to be had.

Once It’s No Longer Being Used – It Becomes a Problem

It can’t be set out front for the garbage man to pick up because they won’t take it. Besides, all to often the weights themselves are too heavy for the people left with them in their garage or on their back porch to handle. So there they sit until they can find someone to take them off their hands.

Check the Classifieds for Free Weight Equipment

In this age of the Internet, far too many people and you may be one of them, have completely forgotten about traditional “age old tested” methods of advertising and soliciting. One fine example is the classified section in your local news paper. You can well rest assured that people are still using it or they simply wouldn’t print it any more.

Place Your Own Adds in Local Papers

Step one would be to place an add there for free weight equipment. Then as soon as you finish with that call, look up the number of a local “Penny Saver” bi-weekly advertiser. They’re still in business and people still brows them for local deals.

Think Local for Something That Heavy

Remember that when you think free weight equipment, you must think “local”. Shipping costs on something that heavy will eat you alive and beside, most people giving something like this away free just aren’t going to want to hassle with it. So you will want to keep your “cost factor” down to a minimum.

Hit the Local Laundromats!

Finally, one last stop that you’ll want to make, is your local laundromat. If you have never been in one, which is possible, yet highly unlikely then you need to know that every laundromat has a cork bulletin board where people can tack up adds. Simply make up a few hand written cards and drive around tacking them up in local laundromats.

See larger image BodyCraft F602 Flat / Incline / Decline Bench (Sports) List Price: $349.99 USD New From: $299.00 In Stock Release date September 19, 2007.