Bowflex Dumbells
As soon as I saw SelectTech Dumbbells advertised I knew I had to have them even at their hefty price. I stopped weight lifting and wanted to focus on fitness training. I also needed a solution for clients that did not want to go to a gym (which accounts for most of them). Since resistance training accounts for such a major part of weight loss, these became one of the solutions for clients as well. Dumbbells sell for about $1.00 per pound. For about $110.00 I could have bought dumbbells and added weights to them. Along with the weights go a clip so the weights do not slip off. However the convenience factor and the mess all those individual pieces would be to travel with made the purchase an easy one for me. I am convinced that the convenience factor is worth the money. I am standing by that conviction. These are truly amazing. This is how they work. The dumbbells sit on a base. I turn a dial to the weight I want. So let’s say I am doing dumbbell curls (An exercise for the biceps which are the muscles on the upper part of the front of your arm.) and want 25 pounds. I just turn the dial to 25 and when I lift up the dumbbell all the plates or weights that I don’t need stay behind! The mechanism locks into place. So when I turn the dial I actually feel the knob sort of rest in a notch and I hear a slight noise. This is how I know that I have the right weight in place. In fact if, for example, I want 20 pounds but haven’t turned the dial to 20 and it is just shy of 20 (think of a combination lock), the SelectTech locks and I won’t be able to take the dumbbell off the base. The dumbbells are covered with plastic. This means that they make very little noise when I put them back on the base. For us it will be great because if I do a fly (Another chest exercise where I lie down and bring the weight to the side being careful not to bring them below shoulder height.) I often hit the dumbbells together. What is fantastic is that up to 25 pounds I can pick a weight from 10 to 90 pounds in 2.5 increments. So I do not have to do lateral arm raises (An exercise for the shoulders where I lift my arms to the sides keeping a slight curl in them.) with 10 pounds which is too much for me. I can use 5 or 7.5 if I want. Once I hit 25 pounds the increments are in 5 pounds. I am used to this because this is how most dumbbells at gyms are weighted. Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbells have a very unusual feature. (Well the whole design is unusual but this is really unusual.) It is called offset weight selection. For example when I am doing overhead tricep extensions (These are for the part of your arm that flaps in the wind. I do these either sitting or standing. I lift one dumbbell holding it with both hands behind my head and lift it straight up and then bring it down again.) I might want more weight at the base of the dumbbell. So I can set the top for 10 pounds and the bottom for 20. The same thing can be said with dumbbell curls for my biceps. It is nice to add a small squeeze inward at the top of the movement. Your pinky finger points toward your chest. Adding addition weight on that side of the dumbbell will challenge you. Each dumbbell is 15 3/4 inches long by 8 inches wide by 9 inches high. A DVD comes with the dumbbells. It is helpful if you are new to weight training. Bowflex gives you six weeks to try out the SelectTech Dumbbells. If you don’t like them you can return them but you must pay for shipping. The weights on the dumbbells have a five year warranty. These are made by Nautilus for Bowflex. Needless to say I love these. Please feel free to leave me a comment or question. Order Your Bowflex
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