The Bowflex Treadclimber: Moving On Up To The Big Time

Because the Bowflex Treadclimber provides both cardiovascular exercise and resistance training, it is a better choice over a standard treadmill.  A standard treadmill gets you up and walking and that's good. It benefits your heart.

Treadmills have a single platform that can be raised and lowered like a hill.  But the Bowflex features independently operated foot platforms that encourage more natural walking and stepping motion for maximum comfort during your work out.

You can increase resistance of the Bowflex for the leg muscles. And working the leg muscles strongly for a prolonged period increases overall cardiovascular tone.  For those of use who are feeling achy, the low impact workout protects your knees and joints.  But you still get a quality workout.

You can expect results in a short time.  Many users found that they lost inches and fit into smaller clothing, even before they started losing large amounts of weight.  

As you start walking on the Bowflex, the individual foot platforms move with you, in a comfortable walking motion combined with an upward stepping motion.  The traditional treadmill meets the motion of a stair stepper. This gives you the resistance workout of an elliptical machine.  Most Bowflex users find the movement to be more natural than that of the elliptical machine or treadmill. This means you can work out more often, for longer periods.

The Bowflex Treadclimber features an ergonomically-placed hand bar to help you balance yourself while walking.  Unlike George Jetson, you'll not find yourself at the mercy of the machine.

If you can walk and chew gum, you'll be able to use the console area where you can place a water bottle, view the LCD screen to see your progress, or prop up a magazine. Be aware that it takes phenomenal eye-foot coordination to  be able to actually read that magazine while you're moving along. Following the example of commercial gyms, you could actually watch the soaps or look out a window instead.

Instead of just running faster and faster uphill on a treadmill, the Bowflex Treadclimber allows you to adjust up to twelve settings that allow you to adjust the intensity of the machine.  As your fitness level improves, you change the resistance on the Bowflex to keep challenging yourself.  This increases muscle strength in addition to helping you lose weight.

Like many treadmills, the treadclimber also features an easy to read control panel.  On similar machines, your speed, how long you've worked out and the distance you've gone is displayed.  The Treadclimber displays the distance in mileage as well as in number of floors that would have been climbed if you had been walking up stairs rather than working out on the Bowflex.  Your calories per hour and total number of calories are calculated for you.

A Bowflex isjust a better piece of exercise equipment than the standard treadmill.  You work more muscles, get the time in to strength your heart and you protect your joints from damage.