These Bowflex® Home Gyms are unique in offering the advantages of resistance training with dumbbells but the safety of training using a fixed resistance machine.
For most purposes to gain the full benefit from resistance training you need to repeat the exercise until your muscles are fatigued. The problem with dumbbells and barbells is once fatigued you then have a problem of how to safely release the dumbbells/barbells. One alternative for those preferring to train at home on their own is to use a home gym, but many of these involve movement through a 'fixed path', that can lead to unbalanced development and ultimately injury.
Take a chest press for example; with a machine that has a fixed path, only the muscles used to push the bar away from you are being worked, those required to stabilise the shoulder and stop the weight from moving back and forth, side to side are not being used. This is why most people find they can not manage the same weight on a barbell as they can on a fixed resistance machine, or the same weight on a dumbbells as they can on a barbell.
The Bowflex® Home Gyms offer the perfect solution, by using cables with handles rather than levers the machine closely mimics the use of dumbbells, without the associated problems for those training on their own.
Engineers, physical therapists and trainers design each Bowflex® Gym so that every exercise is -bio-mechanically sound so you get the best results.
