I’ve completed my first workout on the Bowflex Extreme. My wife will be taking pictures of my progress over the next 90 days to show whether or not the Bowflex commercials represent anything close to reality.
I’m starting my Bowflex regimen with some initial impressions that might be helpful to people thinking about purchasing a Bowflex. There are a number of models and prices. My model is the Bowflex Extreme XTLU. After having assembled this model and performed my initial workout, I am somewhat irritated by how much time I had to spend playing with the cables. I spent about half my workout time playing around with the cable and pulley system. If I could do it over, I would probably choose the Bowflex Extreme 2, although it does cost several hundred dollars more.
Barring that, however, I was pretty happy with the quality of my workout and the included Bowflex i-Trainer software. I’ll discuss the i-Trainer software in more detail later when I have some data collected.