Bowflex Blaze The Complete Home Gym

Over 60 exercises allow you to work your entire body
210 lbs of Bowflex Power Rod Technology Resistance
This Bowflex Blaze Home Gym is upgradeable to 310 or 410 pounds
Lat tower with angled lat bar helps build back and shoulder muscles quickly
Lower pulley/squat station enables you to do squats and build your glutes, hamstrings, and quads
Leg Extension/leg curl attachment helps develop strong, muscular legs
Home Gym Fitness Equipment features a sliding seat rail that allows you to perform aerobic rowing and leg presses
Triple function hand-grip/ankle cuffs
Multiple cable/pulley positions enable custom workouts
Dimensions: 90 inches long by 38 inches wide by 83 inches tall
Folded Footprint is 52 inches long by 38 inches wide
Workout area needed is 8.5′ feet by 6.5′

Get in shape from the comfort of your home with the Bowflex Blaze Home Gym.

The Bowflex Blaze Home Gym with Power Rod Technology is a serious piece of fitness equipment. If you’re searching for a way to look and feel better, the Bowflex Home Gym will give you fast results, with just 20 minutes a day, three times a week. The Blaze offers over 60 gym-quality exercises that work all your muscle groups, and with 210 pounds of Power Rod resistance (upgradable to 310 or 410 pounds) this device offers plenty of room for strength-training growth.

Available exercises include lat pull-down and bench press, plus a lower pulley and squat station for glutes, quads, and hamstrings. Use the lat tower with angled lat bar to feel the burn in your back and shoulders.

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Over 60 strength-building exercises are available in total.
A manufacturer’s warranty is included.
Over 60 strength-building exercises.
210 pounds of Bowflex power rod resistance.
Upgrades available to 320 or even 410 pounds.
Measurements: 59L x 23W x 14H inches.

Manufacturer’s warranty included (see product guarantee).

Tips on using the Bowflex Blaze

The bows work by stretching, and can get stretched out of shape like a rubber band.So make sure you tie them back with the included strap after every workout. If you mess up and stretch them out, you *could* try connecting them to the opposite hook and leaving them like that for a couple of days. I did this and it seemed to fix the issue.
By the same token, the resistance varies with temperature.I found this out by accident when my AC stopped working. The temp went up by 10 degrees and I was suddenly able to lift about 10% more.
The bows are not like physical weights.The resistance changes from easy at the beginning of the motion to hard at the end. Also I believe they are overall lighter than physical weights.
The weight labels on the bows don’t add up mathematically.For example, 30lbs + 10lbs + 10lbs is much “lighter” than the 50lb bow. So while you are making gains you should actually increase from 45 to 30 + 10 + 10 to 30 + 10 + 10 + 5 to 50 instead of jumping directly from 45 to 50.Another way to think of it in your head is that the 50lb is actually 60-ish in Bowflex units. This is also true for the jump from 25 to 30. Since there are only 2 10lbs weights I get around this by doing extra reps at 25 until I can finally do a full set at 30.You could also try raising the room temperature by about 5 degrees which should soften them up to start, and gradually increase it with each workout.
Despite what Dr. Bowflex says, the machine just isn’t made for a cardio.I got a schwinn exercise bike to compensate for this. I immediately noticed being able to have longer workouts due to my increasing cardiovascular endurance.
The manual also states not to rest more than a minute between each exercise.I did this at first, but then (anecdotally) I discovered that if I rested longer in order to catch my breath, I could do more reps and make faster gains.
Certain exercises just don’t work that well – basically anything involving legs, feet, or cardio.The supposed rows are not even worth it. Also the leg curls are very awkward. The manual does not even describe how to do them but according to an old manual I found on the net, you need to lie halfway on the leg station seat and halfway on the bench (the opposite exercise – I forget the name – let’s call it “leg raise” – does work rather well though).Finally the leg press might be worth it after you upgrade to 310 or 410 pounds, but at 210 even someone completely out of shape might find them wanting – mainly because your legs are the strongest part of your body, even on a sedentary person. On top of this it is hard to get the leg press strap to stay in place when you are first getting into position.
In my case there were some exercises that hurt my joints.I’ve never had joint injuries that I know if, so it may just be my body shape. I’m pretty sure I did them correctly. However, in the manual it lists the muscle groups of each motion. Instead of trying exercises that hurt, I picked others that would exercise the same groups.