Ask Pumpster. He's the Bowflex king.
that's the name. I knew someone here is quite fond of the contraption and it sells very well. I wonder if it's due to massive advertising or if it actually works?Pumpster says he can bench 500lbs on his. Why not PM him? He doesn't work and hasn't got a girlfirend, so he'll get back to you quickly.
Ask Pumpster. He's the Bowflex king.
I'm really trying to achieve the body of that guy from the Bowflex commercial.
You know the one where some guy in a shirt's standing by the pool and two hot ladies are looking at him, and the background voice says "come on, don't be afraid to take it off". Then he takes it off and he has an amazing physique.
Is that achievable with the bowflex?
Consider the source, UK Golden Shower king of buttplugs LOL
That guy in the commercial's in his mid-40s and uses a Bowflex + 400 lb. of Olympic weights/bars/bench.
I had a bowflex...they say its real weight...its not!Lol, try telling that to Pumpster!
It was pretty much a waste of money that should have been used on a gym membership.
are you talking about this guy?
http://www.bowflex.com/global/content_basic.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302038583&bmUID=1186602985434
he has good looking abs, and his ar shape is good. but his body isnt anything special.
did I hear somebody mentioned Bowflex=Gay? :)Sounds like someone's projecting their own views on others bwahahahaahahhahaha
Ask Pumpster. He's the Bowflex king.
Sounds like someone's projecting their own views on others bwahahahaahahhahaha
I'm really trying to achieve the body of that guy from the Bowflex commercial.
You know the one where some guy in a shirt's standing by the pool and two hot ladies are looking at him, and the background voice says "come on, don't be afraid to take it off". Then he takes it off and he has an amazing physique.
Is that achievable with the bowflex?
No.
Vince G. is the Bowflex guru. :D
He's going to prove it for the next Mr. Getbig!
I'm currently selling Total Trainer Machines but I will be selling this pretty soon. Blast from the Past, Bitches.... ;D
What the fuck is that?
finally, a thread about bowflex, and the clown pumpster can show us his true knowledge.
NOT
this clown has talked shit about most people on here, yet doesnt even go to a gym.
did he really try and make a connection between a bowflex workout and a free weight workout.
utterly pathetic - even more so that this loser thinks working on on a bowflex gives him the right to discredit bodybuilding champions and give out training advice.
yes, he's a moderator in the training forum, despite not going to a gym
on the 'truce' thread, he posted a picture of his home gym in a dumpy apt. with phone books to adjust benches.
LMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAO LMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAO LMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAO LMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAO LMAOLMAOLMAO
PUMPSTER, THIS IS A PEFECT OPP TO SHOW US HOW EFFECTIVE A BOWFLEX IS - POST YOUR PICS. BUT, LIKE ALWAYS, YOU'LL BITCH OUT.
The add that plays here in Australia late at night, has some beach volleyball player who says " i gained 15lbs of muscle in 5 weeks using bowflex".
I've already ordered my bowflex.
Haha yeah mate don't worry i didn't buy one,i prefer free weights aswell. Was only joking, should have used the winking emoticon thing. I just laugh at how stupid the whole ad is.
it breaks down like this... a lot of people own one, a lot of people say they're great but very few people actually use them
Well, not really. Not at all. Most people don't use most equipment and end up selling; weights, bowflex, total gym, nordictrak, etc. Nothing to do with effectiveness.Name one professional bodybuilder that has built his physique using a bowflex. Lol, gh15 knows about drugs, not training - and even that is under suspicion.
gh15 knows more than most here. As he said a long while ago, get a bowflex and some adjustable dumbbells and get to work. It ain't that complicated guys.
Name one professional bodybuilder that has built his physique using a bowflex. Lol, gh15 knows about drugs, not training - and even that is under suspicion.
All flaming aside 'pumpster', i really think you should join a real gym. Get one of the staff members to write you a program and maybe one day you'll have 15 inch arms! Hell, you might even get a girlfriend! [blind people use gyms to]
bowflex = lame
You can't build a great body with cables, dummy.
What's the matter? Can't afford an healthclub on the east side? ::)
Epic ghost written article.
Pumpster, can cables be used to build a good chest? Quads? Back? Not unless you have great genes or are on drugs.
I rest my case. Or maybe you can prove me wrong by posting pictures?
U R an idiot and BB wannabe. I'll take Coleman's insights over your dumbass any day haahahahaahahahah
Ronnie Coleman
Debunking the Barbell Curl
I never advocate the use of the exercises cited as the kind of mass building for the biceps: the barbell curl. Like everybody else, when I started bodybuilding, I waned bigger biceps, even tough I am blessed with good arm genetics. I though the route to follow was doing barbell curls, but my early experiences with that exercise taught me that although barbell curls allowed me to use heavy weights, the muscular stress caused by the poundage was in no way being applied 100% to my biceps. I believe that the heavy weights employed for barbell curls encourage the user to cheat through the exercise, perhaps without even knowing it. A person tends to bend the upper torso to let the momentum of the weight take over. In addition, instead of the biceps powering out the reps, forearms and front delts are called into play too much. You must analyze what kind of development you are aiming for with your biceps training. You should seek full development in terms of thickness and fullness of your biceps muscle attachments, plus optimum accentuation of the biceps peaks.
Those aspects are best achieved by exercises that isolate the biceps - ones that allow you to put maximum stress on your biceps throughout the completion of each set. Cheating on barbell curls means that at certain times during the course of a rep, the biceps are given an easy, if not free, ride. Based on the preceding thought, I came to the conclusion that cable work provided the required dual facilities of isolating the biceps while allowing them to be under constant stress throughout the completion of each set. The latter element is particularly difficult to attain during the negative (descending) part of each rep. This is where cables score heavily. With cables, you can maintain muscular stress during the negative phase to an extent that is not mechanically possible with free weights.
Many authorities claim that cables are solely for advanced bodybuilders, in order 'to refine what they've already built.' I don't agree. Cable work allows you to attack the biceps with 100% concentration, and that sort of exclusive application will make the biceps grow. Muscle fibers don't know whether the stress is being applied by free weights or a machine; they respond only to the level of muscular stress being placed on them. Whatever does the job, will do the job!
http://www.ronniecoleman.net/trainingbiceps.html
U R an idiot and BB wannabe. I'll take Coleman's insights over your dumbass any day haahahahaahahahahROFLMAO!!! If you think Ronnie wrote that then you're either insane or stupid. Even Hulkster wouldn't claim that to be Ronnie's handiwork.
Ronnie Coleman
Debunking the Barbell Curl
I never advocate the use of the exercises cited as the kind of mass building for the biceps: the barbell curl. Like everybody else, when I started bodybuilding, I waned bigger biceps, even tough I am blessed with good arm genetics. I though the route to follow was doing barbell curls, but my early experiences with that exercise taught me that although barbell curls allowed me to use heavy weights, the muscular stress caused by the poundage was in no way being applied 100% to my biceps. I believe that the heavy weights employed for barbell curls encourage the user to cheat through the exercise, perhaps without even knowing it. A person tends to bend the upper torso to let the momentum of the weight take over. In addition, instead of the biceps powering out the reps, forearms and front delts are called into play too much. You must analyze what kind of development you are aiming for with your biceps training. You should seek full development in terms of thickness and fullness of your biceps muscle attachments, plus optimum accentuation of the biceps peaks.
Those aspects are best achieved by exercises that isolate the biceps - ones that allow you to put maximum stress on your biceps throughout the completion of each set. Cheating on barbell curls means that at certain times during the course of a rep, the biceps are given an easy, if not free, ride. Based on the preceding thought, I came to the conclusion that cable work provided the required dual facilities of isolating the biceps while allowing them to be under constant stress throughout the completion of each set. The latter element is particularly difficult to attain during the negative (descending) part of each rep. This is where cables score heavily. With cables, you can maintain muscular stress during the negative phase to an extent that is not mechanically possible with free weights.
Many authorities claim that cables are solely for advanced bodybuilders, in order 'to refine what they've already built.' I don't agree. Cable work allows you to attack the biceps with 100% concentration, and that sort of exclusive application will make the biceps grow. Muscle fibers don't know whether the stress is being applied by free weights or a machine; they respond only to the level of muscular stress being placed on them. Whatever does the job, will do the job!
http://www.ronniecoleman.net/trainingbiceps.html
UK Golden Shower it's Thurdsday, which buttplug's up for this weekend? :-*
I never claimed he wrote it or that most BBs write their articles genius LOL
UK Golden Shower it's Thurdsday, which buttplug's up for this weekend? :-*Yes you did, moron. "U R an idiot and BB wannabe. I'll take Coleman's insights over your dumbass any day haahahahaahahahah"
I never claimed he wrote it or that most BBs write their articles genius LOL
Why are you defending Bowflex? ::)
Do you belong to a gym, yes or no?
Yes you did, moron. "U R an idiot and BB wannabe. I'll take Coleman's insights over your dumbass any day haahahahaahahahah"
SELF OWNED TWICE
hahaha "pumpsters" getting pwned as usual, only fa.gs train on bowflexs haha ;DI'll take gh15's advice on bowflex over "double penetrations" hahaahahahahahaah
I'll take gh15's advice on bowflex over "double penetrations" hahaahahahahahaah
I'll take gh15's advice on bowflex over "double penetrations" hahaahahahahahaah
U R an idiot and BB wannabe. I'll take Coleman's insights over your dumbass any day haahahahaahahahah
Ronnie Coleman
Debunking the Barbell Curl
I never advocate the use of the exercises cited as the kind of mass building for the biceps: the barbell curl. Like everybody else, when I started bodybuilding, I waned bigger biceps, even tough I am blessed with good arm genetics. I though the route to follow was doing barbell curls, but my early experiences with that exercise taught me that although barbell curls allowed me to use heavy weights, the muscular stress caused by the poundage was in no way being applied 100% to my biceps. I believe that the heavy weights employed for barbell curls encourage the user to cheat through the exercise, perhaps without even knowing it. A person tends to bend the upper torso to let the momentum of the weight take over. In addition, instead of the biceps powering out the reps, forearms and front delts are called into play too much. You must analyze what kind of development you are aiming for with your biceps training. You should seek full development in terms of thickness and fullness of your biceps muscle attachments, plus optimum accentuation of the biceps peaks.
Those aspects are best achieved by exercises that isolate the biceps - ones that allow you to put maximum stress on your biceps throughout the completion of each set. Cheating on barbell curls means that at certain times during the course of a rep, the biceps are given an easy, if not free, ride. Based on the preceding thought, I came to the conclusion that cable work provided the required dual facilities of isolating the biceps while allowing them to be under constant stress throughout the completion of each set. The latter element is particularly difficult to attain during the negative (descending) part of each rep. This is where cables score heavily. With cables, you can maintain muscular stress during the negative phase to an extent that is not mechanically possible with free weights.
Many authorities claim that cables are solely for advanced bodybuilders, in order 'to refine what they've already built.' I don't agree. Cable work allows you to attack the biceps with 100% concentration, and that sort of exclusive application will make the biceps grow. Muscle fibers don't know whether the stress is being applied by free weights or a machine; they respond only to the level of muscular stress being placed on them. Whatever does the job, will do the job!
http://www.ronniecoleman.net/trainingbiceps.html
ghost writers write the articles, they don't usually change the gist of what is said.
Frank Zane owns & endorses the Soloflex
:-\
That is about as dumb a statement as you have ever made. The pro's who get a byline for these articles have NO INPUT at all.