Bowflex Power Pro XTLU

Pros: Features, Cheaper Than Ultimate, IT'S A BOWFLEX!
Cons: None

The Bowflex Power Pro XTLU is the highest end model of the Power Pro line. It's about $400 cheaper than the Bowflex Ultimate, which is my favorite Bowflex. However, if you want to get close to the ultimate experience without paying the full...

Pros: Versatile, effective, as a home gym that allows toning and strength training.
Cons: Don't try to use a friend's machine without learning the proper techniques for each exercise.

I work 90 minutes from home, and I have 4 children, so I elect not to spend another 60 minutes+ away from my family in a gym. (Before I was married, I belonged to a gym, though, and I now have access to a gym at work during my lunch break -- so I can ...

Pros: Safe, fast, decent workout, its in your house
Cons: Big, some motions clunky, not as good as free weight, showing some wear

This is a review for the Bowflex Power Pro XTLU which currently lists on their web site for around $1600. However, if you ask about specials sometimes you can save several hundred bucks or let you step up into the next model up for just a few dollars...

Pros: Best home gym I've ever seen or used
Cons: some minor design flaws (see review)

After 13 years of military life, the sedentary lifestyle of pushing a desk had started to take its toll on me. I had allowed myself to balloon way beyond anything I had ever dreamed I would weigh. Family responsibilities made it almost impossible to...

Pros: fabulous solution for exercising well at home
Cons: offers very little "cardio" solution, but great at what it does offer

We've owned and worked out on this machine since Oct 2000, and while I can see where it might not be the best solution for everyone, it was certainly a very smart and beneficial investment for us.

With young kids at home, there was no getting...

Pros: I don't feel pain. I FEEL THE BURN.
Cons: Plastic parts make me say Hmmmmm?

Whew. I got the unit about 3 months ago. First time visiting this sight. Wanted to add my opinion to the rest of them. I'm a push it to the edge kind of methodical health enthusiast. I love a good workout and love to see results. I've always have a...

Pros: It gives a complete body workout
Cons: took long time to get it

I don't know where to begin. Here's my best attempt...WOW. I needed a machine in the house to help me get on a regular workout routine. This is it. All I can say is that when I was at the gym I occasionally stressed a muscle or two from pushing...

Pros: Provides resistance training
Cons: Sub-par quality, a hassle to use, irregular resistance

I purchased the Bowflex because I started working out with weights back in June of this year (2000). I loved the results I was getting with weights, but hated going to the gym -- I especially hated the thought of going to the gym in cold weather....

Pros: any exercising is better then none.
Cons: too many to list

I wanted a Bowflex for sometime before I broke down and spent over 1700 dollars for it. I bought every option offered. I took the 6-week challenge and wound up returning it. The follow is a summery of the shortfalls and surprises that I did not...

Pros: Resistance training is easy on the joints. Plenty of weight possibilities.
Cons: rubber cable stoppers do not stay in place at times. Muy Spensive

Let's start off by calling it straight, this is a HOME exercise machine. If you are a gym grunt or want to be a gym grunt at home, this will not make you happy. Free weights have their place in life and in mine they hold doors open on windy days.
...

Pros: There's a Fitness machine in my home gym
Cons: Space savings...yeah right. I said There's a fitness machine in my home

O.K. I decided to spoil my husband and order one for him with all the trimmings including the full 410lb compliment of resistance (notice I said resistance) and later on the chest bar attachment. Well, maybe it was for me too and I just used my man as...

Pros: Ease of setup, good resistance, wide range of exercises
Cons: expensive piece of equipment, slow delivery after order placement.

I've only just received my Bowflex a few days ago, after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. It took the whole 4 weeks to get it. You would think as much as they advertise these machines on TV it would ship the next day. But anyway, back to the...

Pros: It really is the ultimate gym....I guess...
Cons: Way too many to list!

Ok...so I'll admit that when it comes to my physique, well...I'm no Sly Stallone. But...this is why I decided to purchase one of these "ultimate gyms", or as most people know them as...the Bowflex.

I should have known that the purchase was...

Pros: Versatile, multi workout
Cons: With accessories: too big, too expensive. Dont use it alone!

We had been looking at the Bowflex Unit for over 3 years..since we first started working out at the local Gym. I'm thankful we didn't buy it back then, because we gained a lot of knowledge and appreciation for what the term "health club style" ...

Pros: Private workout
Cons: Jerky, uncontrollable motion. Timely Changeovers

The likely reason that you're reading this is because you have become enamored with the highly-produced Bowflex infomercials with the cut models moving easily about this wild looking engineering "feat" of a machine. I almost fell prey to their...