Binding: Sports
Brand: Bowflex
EAN: 0708447163059
Label: Bowflex
Manufacturer: Bowflex
Model: Bowflex Conquest Home Gym
Publisher: Bowflex
Studio: Bowflex
Features:- Provides more than 65 gym-quality exercises
- Base platform with pulleys allows you to do bench presses, lunges, and squats
- Included mat provides stability for the machine and protects flooring
- Three-year warranty on machine; lifetime warranty on Power Rods
- Includes home gym unit, instructional video, mat, and t-bar
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Product Description:
Bring the power of Bowflex to your home gym with the Conquest Home Gym, which provides a gym-quality workout in the comfort and safety of your own home. It offers 210 pounds of Bowflex Power Rod resistance technology and more than 65 exercises to get your body in shape. This machine can fit in the corner of your home, garage, or even small apartment or condo. You can hook one, two, three, four or all of your Power Rod units to the cable pulley system and go from as little as 5 pounds all the way up to 210 pounds of resistance. Great for all fitness levels, this versatile machine helps work the back, shoulders, triceps, lats, chest, abs, glutes, hamstrings, quads, and more. It offers the following exercise options: - Base platform
- Lower pulley/squat station
- Lat station
- Lat bar
- Leg curl/extension station
The sliding seat allows for aerobic rowing while a Bowflex equipment mat is included for stability and floor protection. The Conquest folds up and rolls on wheels for convenient storage.
Bowflex's patented Power Rods provide resistance, or weight, that feels as good as or better than free weights--but without the inertia or risk of joint pain usually associated with free weights. You can hook one, two, three, four or all of your Power Rod units to the cable pulley system and go from as little as 5 pounds all the way up to 210 pounds of resistance.
They're precisely manufactured from a high-tech composite material under the highest quality control measures, then sheathed and tested four separate times to ensure quality and durability. The Power Rod units are so strong, you can flex them repeatedly but you won't be able to wear them out. In fact, they're so strong, they're backed by a lifetime warranty.
Specifications: - Weight resistance: 210 pounds
- Number of exercises: 65
- Open dimensions: 40 inches wide by 76 inches long by 84 inches tall
- Folded dimensions: 40 inches wide by 40 inches long by 84 inches tall
- Maximum user weight capacity: 300 pounds
Manufacturer's Warranty
Three-year warranty on machine; lifetime warranty on Power Rods
What's in the Box?
Bowflex Conquest home gym unit, instructional video, equipment mat, and t-bar
About Home Gyms
While offering the convenience of working out in the comfort and privacy of your own home, home gyms also allow you to focus on specific routines without having to wait in line or switch between a complex array of machines. In addition to improving strength, power, coordination, and muscular endurance, weight training can enhance weight reduction, enhance the immune and cardiovascular systems, and help prevent injuries. In general, home gym machines are compact units designed to strengthen and exercise many parts of the body. While no single home gym can provide a complete strength training solution, they are a convenient way to combine many exercises into a single unit. Some home gyms focus exclusively on upper-body workouts, while other, more advanced units focus on upper- and lower-body conditioning.
Product Description:
This Bowflex home gym utilizes the same Power Rod Resistance as the top-of-the-line Bowflex models with 210 pounds of Bowflex Rod Technology resistance
Average Rating: 
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My Wife and I, both in our 60s, have been using a resistance band machine for many years and found it to be basically adequate. The manufacturer no longer supports that machine and we eventually ran out of bands requiring us to replace it. We're sorry now that we didn't replace it with a BowFlex sooner. The Conquest is perfect for our purposes of generally toning and conditioning. It is easily adjustable, providing a wide range of motion and resistance. The book and video provided with the machine are extremely helpful and the set-up instructions accurate and easy to follow. We assembled and set up the machine in a matter of a few minutes. We can recommend this machine without reservation.
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The Bowflex Body Plan
By Ellington Darden, PhD
(Rodale Inc., © 2004)
And Bowflex Conquest
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After purchasing both the Bowflex Conquest unit and The Bowflex Body Plan, it became obvious that one could not be reviewed without the other. Although cross-references will be made in each review, I will do my best to keep the reviews separate.
Preface. If you are considering purchasing exercise programs or equipment (such as p90X, the Total Gym, Vigro Fit, treadmills, bar bells, elliptical machines, etc.), as did I, please consider your goals. My wife, who suffers arthritis in her hands and decreasing bone density, wanted something that would help her in both categories. I believe everyone understands that stronger muscles increase bone density which helps persons with arthritis. For myself, I wanted an alternative exercise to a nightly cardio, stretch and limited resistance workout on my Nautilus NordicTrack CX 1055 (which is a very good and useful elliptical machine); as one who is trying to be liberated from impaired glucose tolerance (pre diabetic), it is necessary for me to exercise a minimum of 30-60 minutes a day. The information I was reading about resistance or strength training suggested that my cardio workout could be reduced if I increased my muscle mass (which continues to "work" the physiology of my system, even when I am resting). In addition, I wanted stronger lower back muscles (my family has an unwanted tradition of pain in that part of our bodies).
With these factors in mind, I ordered the literature and free DVD from Bowflex. The testimonials and information were very encouraging, but I was unwilling to spend a bunch of money on a Bowflex. Besides, the size of the units created space problems, because we had no room for a piece of equipment as large as a Bowflex.
Book Review: The Bowflex Body Plan.. One weekend while I was visiting a used bookstore in Texas, I stumbled onto Ellington Darden's book, The Bowflex Body program. After flipping through the pages, I decided it was worth a try, so I bought it. This turned out to be a pivotal event.
Darden has been a body builder and body trainer for over 40 years. He holds a PhD, likes to investigate things and learn about new disciplines. He has also written lots of books on body building. He is a pretty good writer, which helps us readers.
One of the surprises in the book relates to his knowledge of nutrition: he has taken post-graduate courses in the topic, and studied the principles of Understanding Nutrition (a thick, heavy, lengthy book, used in colleges and universities). As I read more in his book, it was obvious that Darden knew more about nutrition than most, and although he is not at the level of Marion Nestle or Eleanor Noss Whitney, nor does his program touch on "hot" topics such as carbohydrate reduction diets or mineral additives, his weight loss and body building programs take into account some fundamentals of nutrition.
In short, Darden appeared to be a learned man, who was willing to admit he was wrong. In the book, he points out erroneous perspectives he had formulated (including taking the wrong or unnecessary dietary supplements, over exercising, etc.), and explains why his beliefs were out of kilter.
The book has lots of materials, ranging from the science of dieting (for example, diets won't work without exercise - although this fact ought to be obvious, Darden explains why one doesn't work without the other), to specific dieting programs, to the science of strength training programs (frequency of exercises, meaning, no less than 20 minutes nor more than 30 per session, no more than 3 sessions a week so your muscles can recover and rebuild, no less than 8 repetitions nor more than 12 per session, using short pauses between exercises - i.e., circuit training, etc.). He concludes with the observation that all exercise regimens (stretching, cardio and resistance) can be accomplished by using a Bowflex machine.
Although the principles of strength training are Bowflex oriented in this book, they could be adapted to any resistance training program and produce the same results. Even if you do not own or purchase a Bowflex, you can use the principles.
Much of the book is devoted to helping people lose weight, which was not one of my objectives. Apparently people want to lose weight when they buy exercise equipment. If one factors in Michael Pollen's observation in The Omnivore's Dilemma, that a third of our population is overweight, and according to Darden, between ages 30 and 50, we lose 15 pounds of muscle mass, the handwriting on the wall is obvious: we cannot expect to have healthy bodies if we do not eat properly and exercise.
The book contains so many Bowflex exercise routines, that over the course of time, I will have no problem adapting what I now ... Read More
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Just finished working out my eighth day on the Conquest. Feels great! I trust in time, my goals of increasing muscle tone and stamina will be achieved, but for now I have been pleasantly surprised by just how good working out makes me feel. I recommend the Conquest model over the Blaze because of the close similarity of the products and the lesser price of the Conquest. The conquest s a very good tool but like any tool, it is only good if it is used. Good luck on your purchase!
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Had my Bowflex in 10days. About 3hrs to unpack & set up. Bought the Bowflex Body Plan book, would highly reccomend. Great experience, no issues getting my order. The way on-line buying should be.
It really does take only 20 minutes a day, 3 days a week.
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All the pictures make you think this thing is not that big, but it is. It is about 7 feet high, 6 feet wide and 8.5 feet long when all is said and done. It weighs 156 lbs. It is strong, should last a very very long time. It took me about two hours to put togeather, READ the Directions and look at the pictures time and time again. You will need a 9/16 wrench and a number 2 philips head acrewdriver, along with the allen wrenches supplied. I did it alone, but two people putting this togeather would be better. It is heavy and has some heavy parts. As for the workings of it, it is great, every part of your body has a good exercise or exercises for it. It comes with a book and a CD, and eating guide to help you along. For price I paid, it was a fantastic buy. But be prepaired and ensure you have room for it.
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