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The better half and I are tossing around the idea of getting a Bowflex - mainly because we're thinking of buying a house built on a crawl space and we don't want to be putting too much weight on the floors. I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience (good, bad, or otherwise) with them.

Had one. With all the bells and whistles. Didn't much care for it, for reasons that the range of motion sucked/awkwardness. At least for me.

... mainly because we're thinking of buying a house built on a crawl space and we don't want to be putting too much weight on the floors. ....

Duhhh, OK.

Remind me to stand on the joists when I visit, and I wouldn't put any bed room furniture in there either... just a mattress.

No Termite Inspections?;)

Of course, if this is a justification for getting a Bowflex over free weights, well thats a different bird. :p

Duhhh, OK.

Remind me to stand on the joists when I visit, and I wouldn't put any bed room furniture in there either... just a mattress.

No Termite Inspections?;)

Of course, if this is a justification for getting a Bowflex over free weights, well thats a different bird. :p

Actually the house she likes is a recently renovated older home built in the 1890s. I don't think there would be any problem with the floors supporting the weight as the house was built by the owner of an old local shipyard and the floor beams are at least 12x12. Unfortunately there isn't any room on the first floor for workout space so it would have to go on the second floor. For noise reasons (along with a few others) I would rather not put weights on the second floor. I could always put the workout equipment in the garage but the house only has a small two car garage which means I would have to park my truck outside. Of course all of this is in the early stages and I'm just exploring my options.

That makes more sense.

Living in a two story myself, I could understand why you wouldn't want a lot of noise upstairs.

I had thought about putting some type of machine in my 2 car garage as well, but my wife has dibs on the empty side when we can finally get her car back in.

She wants to put a tap floor down so she can practice at home.... :o

What about some exercise tubing? Don't laugh, you can do a lot with them, and you can double and tripple them up to make it harder for things like bench and rows. When ur done you can hang themin a closet.

I've had a Bowflex for several years and I really like it. I can do everything I want on that and be done in thirty minutes.

The only bad things I've heard about it from others is that they can't do enough weight with it. If I ever get to the point where I need more than 300 pounds for any exercise maybe I'll consider something else, but I really don't think I need to worry about that.

My wife uses it too and she likes it.