Bowflex Xceed Plus Home Gym with Gym Style Ab Attachment

This is a great product. As others do, I suggest you get the 410 lb. upgrade, especially if you are stronger and/or have worked out in the past. The rating on the rods is most definitely not accurate. This doesn't have anything to do with the quality of workout you can perform on this machine, however. Last but not least...I was getting frustrated with the lat tower getting caught on the left and right arm pulleys. The directions tell you to put the arms on backwards (just check the pictures not in the installation manual)! Put them on with the knobs on the pulleys facing the rods and you will be much happier and won't have to redo it like I did.

This Bowflex is wonderful. My husband and daughter put it together in about an hour with no problem. It works just great. We love it.

Awesome machine and program. Despite all the critical things I've heard about it, this thing WORKS! Used a lot of different equipment and programs over the years, and the one key to all of them is, you have to do it! Started following the leanness program, yes including the 1500 cal/day eating plan, and lost 12 pounds in two weeks and fifteen pounds in three weeks. Following it pretty closely, doiung some substitions but following the guidelines for the meals, using some south beach snack bars... love it! Improved strenght, vitality, down a full pant size (was wearing 40's, down to a 38...), yada yada. This program woirks! People keep complaining about the cables... it's less cumbersome than switching weights, that's for sure! Only reason I didn't give five stars is the ab machine, works great but only hooks on one side so I don't get encough resistance. Oh well... I do SLOW situps instead. Other issue woudl be the rating of the resistance... that can't really be 310 pounds. SO, renumber the rods already and give a more accurate reading... but I don't actually care how much weight I'm pushing anyway. Not buying a #300 press sweatshirt any time soon LOL I'm kinda too old for that... all in all, I'm totally satisfied. great product, great price... best deal for fitness!

We've had a Bowflex Xceed for 6 months and my wife and I do every other day workouts. A lot of machine on a small footprint. The key to using the Xceed is to take the manual, figure out the basic exercises you want by muscle groups, then translate that into an exercise sequence on the machine so you make the fewest equipment changes between exercises. That way you focus on the exercises and not switching cables and handles. We have 9 basic exercises we do every time starting at the top part of the machine (pull downs) then mid (bench press, trunk rotation, abd. crunch--using hand grips, crossover rows)and finally the lower cables (biceps curl, standing lower back extension, leg extension.) The Ab attachment took too much time to setup and use during our workouts. We use the bench press cable setup to do simple crunches. We've seen steady improvement in our strength, energy and fitness. It was a great purchase for us.

Awesome product. Good for keeping your body in shape. I love it. I don't have to waste money on gas or membership fees to keep my body in ahape anymore!!!