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And in all honesty, if you're too lazy to go to the gym and change, anything you get will most likely end up collecting dust after a few months.
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An olympic free weight set, bench, and curl bar. You can do almost any exercise with this setup.
I read above that you don't want to wind up dead and have someone find you three days later when you don't have a spot.
Tell me on what exercises is it absolutely critical for you to use a spotter? The answer is none. The exercise that most use spotters on is bench press but thats because their egos are simply too large. There's safety pins that you can put the bar on should you get stuck, you can leave the clips off the end of the bar so you can dump the weight if it were to get stuck on your chest you just lean the weight to one side, or you do the intelligent thing and work your way up slowly and know your limits. If you go too hard it diminishes your results and can actually cause regression so there's no sense in going heavy to the point where you're going to need someone else's help.
Every other exercise can be done without a spot as well. Add in a curl bar also known as an "e-z bar" and you can do bicep exercises, tricep exercises, chest exercises, forearm exercises, ab exercises, etc., etc.
All this can be had, especially when found on ebay for a good deal or just on sale at a sports store for MUCH MUCH less than the bow flex and free weights are proven to be the most effective out of any exercises. Free weights force your body to recruit multiple muscle groups to stabilize the weight as well as your primary and secondary muscle movers which is ideal.
Sports Authority has an olympic weight set on sale for $100 or $110. Pick up a weight bench for another $100 used and your set, especially if you get a bench that has multiple positions so you can do incline and decline presses as well as a dip station on the back of the bench.
I say this to you while I own both machines and free weights. Free weights are the best overall workout that can be had.
Also if you have room for a bowflex, you have room for an olympic weight set, weight tree to hang the weights on if you want to get fancy, and an olympic bench. Plain and simple.
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if you dont lift until you cannot do another rep of that weight your lifting you're not getting the maximum benefits. So that means every time he finishes a good bench set he dumps the weight. that sucks to have to deal with.