The Bowflex Home Gym is appropriately named.  It creates powerful resistance through the use of rods so well-designed that they flex and bend like bows.  You won’t see any weight plates here.  You increase or decrease resistance simply by hooking the cables to different rods.  You use the handles to pull the cables and then let the rods pull the cables back.  You use your muscles to control the force and speed of each movement.  This is essentially how you use the Bowflex PR1000 to tone and strengthen your body.  These are not ordinary rods.  They are constructed using a proprietary Power Rod technology so advanced that you get a no-time-limit warranty on each power rod.  This tells you that Bowflex stands fully behind its merchandise.

The greatest advantage that the Bowflex PR1000 has over free weights is that you don’t risk hurting your joints, limbs, chest, or back when you work out with power rods.  If you don’t know how to use free weights properly, you can hurt yourself.  You can injure your joints when you use improper technique or don’t control your movements well.  You might even drop the dumbbell on your foot or the barbell on your chest if it’s too heavy for you.  You can also hurt your back bending down to pick up the weight.  Those who are new to strength or resistance training and are not fit to begin with are especially prone to making these mistakes.  The Bowflex PR1000 carries up to 300 lbs. of body weight and comes with 210 pounds of resistance.  You’re not going to need much more to get a lean, fit, and strong body.

You can perform approximately 30 exercises on the Bowflex PR1000.  These include leg squats, shoulder presses, chest flys, back rows, ab crunches, hip adductions,  tricep extensions, and bicep curls.  Another advantage of the Bowflex PR1000 is that you can pull the cables anywhere you want to go without harming your joints, so there’s a lot of variety in the way you can do your exercises.  You can go straight from a bench press to a chest fly in one smooth transition because you don’t need to switch from barbell to dumbbell.  You can even do biceps curls either sitting or lying down!  You can perform squats by pulling up the handles to your shoulders, getting down into a seated position, then pushing back at the ground with your heels to get back up.    This engages all your lower body muscles including the buttocks, thighs, hamstrings, and calves.

The Bowflex PR1000 does not just provide strength exercises.  It also includes a rowing machine to give you a great cardiovascular and aerobic workout to get your heart pumping and your lungs full of fresh oxygen.  This feature has a sliding seat rail on which you can warm up and cool down before and after your workouts.

Since the Bowflex PR1000 is on wheels,  you can push it anywhere you want to go.  You can work out in your living room, bedroom, recreation room, or even outdoors – wherever you feel most comfortable and motivated.  You can even place it in front of a full-length mirror so you can track your progress.  It’s easy to fold up the Bowflex if you want to store it out of sight and out of your way, but it’s not going to be one of those exercise machines that will just gather dust in your closet.  No matter how out of shape and heavy you are to begin with, the Bowflex PR1000 will help you burn those calories in just 20 minutes a day three times a week.  You’ll be so thrilled with the results that you’ll want to use it every day!