Would anyone who owns the bowflex adjustable dumbbells mind sharing their opinions about them? I’m thinking of either purchasing some for my home gym or buy an entire dumbbell set.

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OP - don’t have those but alternatively try kettlebells and resistance bands. You can get a solid workout between bands + calisthenics + kb

Thanks for the insight. I’ll look into it. I’m into traditional lifting with some occasional HIIT

Are you referring to the SelectTech 552's? My boyfriend has those, I can ask him to share his experience

Thank you for detailed insight. I think I’ll try them out and return if it’s not what I’m looking for

I use my brother’s whenever I visit and they do the job but I would buy a full set myself. It’s kind of annoying having to switch weights and I think the full set just looks better.

I use them for apple fitness HIIT and strength workouts and I enjoy them. They’re easy to change and don’t take up a ton of space.

They aren’t too wobbly, but they are on the bulkier side at heavier weights so any moves where you need to press/squeeze dumbbells together are challenging.

I didn’t consider how bulky they would be. Since I won’t be lifting too heavy, I think I’ll give them a try. Thank you for the insight!

I have them, I really like mine. It’s not annoying to change weights (takes a second) and of course super space efficient. I live in a ~900 sq ft apartment though. If I lived in a larger place with an actual gym room I’d probably just get a normal set of weights.

They’re fine, I only have them because they were on sale for $75 a piece. You may grow out of these fast which was one of my main issues. The other big issue for me was how consistently long they are. Bicep curls, shoulder and bench presses are awkward as my hands almost come to the outside of my shoulder width when benching with them. I’ve since upgraded to the iron master dumbbells for my curls and heavier push days. I still use the bowflex ones for quick warmups or side laterals, but they remain stationary for a majority of the time.

Powerblocks are apparently very well adorned by many people but I can’t get over the weird feeling of them and how they feel in hand. I’d recommend you try them. Iron masters are the most traditional feeling dumbbells in my opinion, very durable (drop test vids on YouTube), have expanded sets, but do take some time to adjust. Maybe about 45sec a piece.

I used to have selecttech but sold them. Got back in to at-home lifting and went with powerblock this time. I prefer them to bowflex. Biggest reasons are (1) they’re more compact - theyre not as long as bowflex as SM1 and SC1 pointed out, (2) easier/quicker to change weight, (3) simpler design - less “mechanics” to them, (4) perhaps the biggest differentiator, you can increment by 2.5 lbs per dumbbell, which is one of the big drawbacks to db vs bb lifting, (5) if you go with the expandable version, you can spread the investment out over time - last year i bought the base set to 50 lbs, this year i bought the stage 2 up to 70, ill eventually buy stage 3 which goes to 90

On the flipside, the only drawback i’ve found is the “block” design, which makes some db lifts awkward (such as sumo squats, or anything where you hold 1 db with both hands for the lift)

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