Hmmm. A friend of a friend owns a bowflex, and he had a guy there that said the same thing. This guy said his max bench was like 275 for 6 reps. So the bowflex owner hooked up 260 lbs-worth of those flex-rods and let the guy try it. He couldn't even do one rep, largely because he had to stabilize the weight as well as move it. All he could handle was 200 lbs of bowflex resistance, and the damn thing goes up to over 400lbs of that same resistance. My max bench with free weights was 306, and with a machine stack I did 350 (for six).
So I'm thinking this bowflex offers the high end resistance I'm looking for, and you can work every muscle in your body with it. I like the lat pulldowns, cable-rows, leg presses, and cable-curl exercises. These are exercises that a bench and some free weights can't offer.
As for the extra optimizers you mentioned, again, been there done that. The days of being a juicefreak are gone for me, and I've never taken a steroid in my life. The so-called natural ones still fuck with your system, don't kid yourself. They're expensive, and they're just not worth it for someone that merely wants some general overall fitness back in their life (like me)
But thanks for the link, I will check that out.
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