Bowflex Blaze Review: Transform Your Home Workouts

In this Bowflex Blaze review, I will help you to decide if the Bowflex Blaze is the right home gym for you. As with all the machines made by Bowflex, the Blaze is a great way to build up your strength and fitness. 

The Bowflex Blaze allows you to take part in a huge range of exercises in a small space so that you can have a full body workout and work on all your different muscle groups from the comfort of your own home.

Bowflex Blaze is one of the most affordable Bowflex Home gyms, but is it right for you? Have any corners been cut to keep the price low? Keep reading to find out

Bowflex Blaze Review – At a Glance

• 60 plus exercises for a full-body workout
• 210 pounds of resistance as standard, upgradable to 310 pounds or 410 pounds
• Bowflex provides 7 free workout regimens
• Sliding seat rail allows you to perform aerobic rowing and leg presses
• Lat bar and squat bar included

The Bowflex Power Rod Resistance System

Bowflex home gyms use bows at the back of the machine to provide resistance. The system is unique to machines made by Bowflex and is how the company first got its name (they have now expanded to a huge range of fitness products). 

It is the bows that create resistance and help you to strengthen your muscles.

The Bowflex system works just like a bow and arrow. When you first pull, it is fairly easy, but as the tension increases the resistance builds and the further you go, the harder it gets.

This design creates a smooth and fluid movement which puts less strain on joints and tendons. This, in turn, reduces the chance of your home exercise causing any connective tissue injury. 

The power rods themselves do not move (other than to flex). To provide resistance to the range of exercises, you have to connect a different series of cables to the power rods. By using the pulleys you are able to perform dozens of different upper body, lower body, and core exercises.

As the resistance is greatest when the bow is fully flexed, it means that you do not get constant strain throughout the pull in the same way that you would with a dumbbell or free weights system. 

One of the benefits of the Bowflex power rod system is that it is much safer to use when you are on your own. The lack of heavy weights means that there is no need to have a spotter with you, and this makes it ideal for use at home. 

As there are no weights,  it is easier to move the machine around. This means you can put it away in the corner when you aren’t using it. When it is time to exercise you can easily pull it out to where you workout. This makes it an ideal home gym for anyone in a small house or apartment.

What is the Bowflex Blaze home gym?

The Bowflex Blaze is a compact home gym that allows you to perform a huge range of exercises on one piece of kit.

The Bowflex Blaze allows you to perform over 60 exercises and comes with plenty of workout content, including a book of exercises and a DVD. 

One of the distinctive features of the Bowflex Blaze is that it comes with a fold-down bench, and this sets it apart from most of the other gyms made by Bowflex. It means that the Blaze is a good choice for anyone keen to perform supine movements, bench presses, or cardio rowing exercises.

The rods on the Bowflex Blaze provide up to 210 pounds of inertia-free and smooth resistance. This is enough for most but if you are keen to push yourself, you can upgrade to 310 lbs or even 410 lbs by buying extra rods.

How many exercises can you do with Bowflex Blaze?

The Bowflex Blaze offers 60 different exercise options and a fold-down bench. This is plenty of variety and will suit anyone that is just getting into working out or the seasoned gym-goer who is looking to maintain their fitness from the comfort of their own home or garage. 

As we said, there are 60 different exercises that you can do on the Blaze. We love that the sliding seat rail allows you to perform aerobic rowing and leg presses. Some other exercises that you can do to work up a sweat include:  

• Legs: Leg extension, curl, and kickback 
• Arms: Bicep curls and tricep pushdown
• Shoulders: Press, delt raise, shrugs 
• Chest: Flat, incline, and decline press
• Back: Lat pulldown, row, lower back extension 
• Core: Ab crunch, trunk rotation, and oblique crunch 

It is worth noting that the Blaze comes with a Lat bar and a squat bar included. 

The Blaze has a maximum user weight of up to 300 pounds.

What are the Bowflex Blaze dimensions?

The Bowflex Blazedimensions are 90 x 38 x 83 inches (length, width, height). One of the key factors when buying a big piece of kit like this is to be sure that you have the space to keep it and use it effectively.

The horizontal bench makes the Blaze a bit longer than some other home gyms. Don’t forget that you will need some space around your machine for you to stand and exercise and for the bows to flex out. 

Bowflex Blaze Home Gym Review – The Verdict

I hope that you have enjoyed reading this Bowflex Blaze review. The Bowflex Blaze is a great all-round home gym machine that is perfect for beginners looking to start exercising at home.

It is also a machine that will grow with you, as your strength improves you can upgrade the Blaze with extra power rods to increase the resistance level.

One of the best things about the Blaze is the horizontal bench. If you have read my other Bowflex Blaze home gym reviews where I have compared it with other Bowflex home gyms, you will know that this is the only one that offers the horizontal bench.

This allows you to do lots of exercises parallel to the floor, like a bench press lying on your back and it also doubles as a rowing machine allowing you to add some cardio workout to your exercise routines. 

All in all, it’s a great choice for a home gym.

When you think of all the exercises you can do on the Blaze, I think it’s pretty good value. It’s definitely better than paying a gym subscription for somewhere you never go and the convenience of exercising at home should mean that you do it more and get fitter and stronger quicker.