Bowflex Xtreme 2 SE
The trendiest home gym on the market nowadays is the Bowflex home gyms. There is a variety of alternatives and a lot of different goods from Bowflex. One of their more reasonably priced home gyms is the Bowflex Extreme 2 SE Home Gym. It is not the best home gym that is offered from Bowflex, but it is still one of the best on the market. There are not other companies that can top the Extreme 2 SE Home Gym.
The Bowflex Xtreme 2 SE Home Gym could be your key to looking years younger and feeling like you did back in the day. Strength building exercises for your entire body gives you a ton of age defying benefits. With the help of an efficiently designed home gym, you can flash through your workouts in just minutes per day. And the benefits you can reap include a trim, tight, and more muscular body.
The refurbished Bowflex Xtreme 2 SE presents a compact total-body workout solution that allows you to execute over 70 exercises. It includes a Lat Tower that adjusts to two positions, leg extension for developing strong, muscular legs, an abdominal crunch shoulder harness to help you build strong, defined abs, and a 4-position lower pulley/squat station that helps in building your gluts, hamstrings, and quads.
By exercising your whole body you will also help improve your posture and alignment and help your entire body function more efficiently. Combined with other healthy activities such as eating a well balanced diet and getting the proper rest, you and others should start noticing impressive results in weeks.
The Xtreme 2 SE utilizes Bowflex’s original Power Rods, which 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 (can be upgraded to 410 pounds). They’re precisely manufactured from a high-tech composite material under the highest quality control measures, then sheathed and tested 4 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. This refurbished model of the Bowflex Xtreme 2 SE is backed by a full 6-month warranty.
Delivery
Designed to strong, small, and fully-featured, this home gym is well constructed. It ships in five boxes and requires some assembly. There are detailed directions and every piece fits together exactly like it should. Assembly should only take between 3 and 4 hours.
Workout
Bowflex ships a home workout DVD with each of their gym systems. The most basic is a three day per week full body workout. It only takes 25 – 30 minutes to complete. The machine is quiet so even in a cramped household you can work out with a spouse or children asleep in the next room. The workouts center on isolation exercises for every muscle group in your body and will deliver solid, if not amazing results.
Changing the resistance is easy, though unhooking the leg extension attachment is a bit cumbersome. The resistance bands are effective and truly feel like the dumbbells they are supposed to simulate.
Specifications
- Number of exercises: 70+
- Weight resistance: 210 pounds (can be upgraded to 410 pounds)
- Leg attachment: Included
- Lat tower attachment: Included
- Aerobic rowing: No
- Squat station: Included
- Preacher curl attachment: No
- Ab crunch accessory: Shoulder harness only
- Adjustable main pulley system: Included (4-position adjustable pulleys)
- No-change cable pulley system: Included
- Dimensions: 83 x 58 x 49 inches (HxLxW)
- Workout area: 8′ x 6′ 5″
- Maximum user weight: 300 pounds
Manufacturer’s Warranty
This model of the Bowflex Revolution XP Home Gym has been refurbished to factory standards and is backed by a full 6-month warranty.
Exercises
The Bowflex Xtreme 2 SE home gym allows you to perform over 70 gym-quality exercises including:
Arm Exercises
- Triceps Pushdown w/ Hand Grips
- Triceps Hammer Pushdown
- Triceps Pushdown w/ Lat Pulldown Bar
- Single Arm Pushdown
- Triceps Extension
- Cross Triceps Extension
- Hammer Triceps Extension
- “Rope” Pushdowns
- Seated Biceps Curl
- Standing Biceps Curl
- Concentration Biceps Curl
- Hammer Biceps Curl
- Barbell Biceps Curl
- Reverse Barbell Biceps Curl
- Seated Hammer Biceps Curl
- Reverse Curl
- Triceps Kickback
- Hammer Triceps Kickback
- Arm Opposition Push-pull
- Upper Body Opposition Push-pull
- Wrist Extension
- Wrist Curl
- Resisted Dip
Shoulder Exercises
- Crossover Rear Delt Rows
- Crossover High Rear Delt Rows
- Reverse Fly
- Crossover Reverse Fly
- Seated Shoulder Press
- Front Shoulder Raise
- Shoulder Extension
- Shoulder Shrug
- Scapular Protraction
- Scapular Depression
- Lateral Shoulder Raise
- Seated Forearm Lateral Shoulder Raise
- Shoulder Rotator Cuff (internal)
- Shoulder Rotator Cuff (external)
- Crossover Seated Rear Delt Rows
- Scapular Retraction
Leg Exercises
- Leg Extension
- Squat
- Calf Raise
- Single Leg Calf Raise
- Standing Hip Extension (knee bent)
- Standing Hip Extension (knee extended)
- Standing Hip Abduction
- Standing Hip Adduction
- Leg Kickback
- Hip Flexion
- Dead Lift
- Stiff Leg Dead Lift
Back Exercises
- Standing Low Back Extension
- Bent Rear Delt Row
- Crossover Bent Rear Delt Row
- Seated Wide Lat Pulldowns
- Narrow Pulldowns w/ Lat Pulldown Bar
- Narrow Pulldowns w/ Hand Grips
- Reverse Grip Pulldowns
- Crossover Wide Pulldowns
- Crossover Narrow Pulldowns
- Pulldowns
- Stiff Arm Pulldowns
- Standing Shoulder Pullover w/ Hand Grips
- Crossover Seated Lat Rows
- Seated Lat Rows
- Reverse Grip Pulldown with Lat Bar
Abdominal Exercises
- Seated (resisted) Abdominal Crunch
- Seated (resisted) Oblique Abdominal Crunch
- Trunk Rotation
Chest Exercises
- Bench Press
- Chest Fly
- Decline Bench Press
- Incline Bench Press
- Decline Chest Fly
- Incline Chest Fly
