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Bowflex Max Trainer M7 Is It REALLY WORTH The Investment?
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Apr 8, 2025
Bowflex Max Trainer M7 Review – Is It Worth It? Better Alternatives! Vibe Plate Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsXsxh3DdGU&t=51s Power Plate Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft2GUfZ7tqo Bellicon Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEZA4eZ1sUg&t=5s Get Xero Shoes: http://Xeroshoes.com/go/davidbenjamin Get discounts on 20+ Wellness BRands http://HealthyWildFree.com/shop In this review, we break down the Bowflex M7 Max Trainer—its features, pros, cons, and whether it’s worth the investment. While the M7 offers a solid workout, is it really the best option for low-impact cardio, weight loss, and endurance training? 🚀 Better Alternatives to the Bowflex M7: Instead of the M7, consider a vibration plate** like the Vibe Plate or Power Plate for enhanced circulation, recovery, and full-body toning. If you prefer dynamic movement, a Bellicon rebounder trampoline is an excellent choice for improving lymphatic drainage, joint health, and cardio fitness while being easy on the knees! 🔥 Timestamps: ⏳ 00:00 – Intro ⏳ 00:45 – Bowflex M7 Overview ⏳ 02:15 – Pros & Cons of the Bowflex M7 ⏳ 04:30 – Who Is the Bowflex M7 Best For? ⏳ 06:10 – Why a Vibration Plate Might Be Better ⏳ 07:45 – Benefits of a Bellicon Rebounder ⏳ 09:30 – Best Picks for Home Fitness
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what's up ladies and gentlemen this is
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David Benjamin from WellStar reviews and
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healthy wild tree today I'm reviewing
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the Boflex Max trainer this is their M7
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model and no it's not a BMW it is a
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Boflex now uh the cool thing about this
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model that I like in the front here when
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you are moving your feet on this unit uh
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you'll see that this sort of cranks
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around in a circle here and what happens
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is that as you do that the fan at the
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bottom blows air out uh so when you hear
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that fan and that air go louder uh it
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sort of challenges your intensity to
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take it to the next level so I'm going
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to show you uh kind of when you jump on
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the unit like this you have different
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handle options so you have handles here
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at the end you have handles here in the
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middle you have handles off top and then
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you have very high angles and then you
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have handles in the center and then you
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have handles right here so I'll show
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another angle for that but basically uh
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you know the real benefit of this
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machine the real benefit of this device
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is that you're working your legs and
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your glutes so you're kind of in this
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stepping running motion uh where you
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work your glutes and your your uh
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hamstrings and your quads um I don't
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really feel it in my calvs that much I
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feel it more on my quads and hamstrings
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and glutes and then obviously you're
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going to you know work your ads to some
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degree as well uh so let me take you
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around and show you another
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angle okay so with the Boflex M7 when
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you stand on it as long as it's plugged
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in and you start kind of moving like
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this you'll see that the screen lights
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up here now when the screen lights up
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you have different options so um first
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things first I should show you these
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handles are all sort of regular handles
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these are the ones that measure your
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pulse and and heart rate uh but then on
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the unit itself you have a program
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button here and when you push that
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button you'll see it changes to Sprint
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recover and it changes time intervals uh
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calorie Burning uh steady Pace calorie
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burn up and down fat burning and
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basically these programs right here will
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show you sort of the intensity so it
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gets intense it goes up and then it
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comes down and then it goes up down up
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down and then you know you can kind of
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see uh with the stairs it's sort of a
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cyclical thing as well uh you can do a
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manual mode uh you can really kind of
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program it how you want you can do a
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fitness test and see kind of where you
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stand so on the chart here you have uh
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fat burn is the first component or
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quadrant and then as you go higher it
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goes to endurance up here and then over
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here this is the performance territory
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so if I were to start moving on this
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you'll see it start to increase and if I
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go higher
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intensity gets the
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performance you can see it hits
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performance and you know the time starts
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going as well and you can kind of see
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your uh RPMs if you will this the nice
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thing about this dial here is is I just
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think it of like RPMs I mean it really
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is the
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rotations uh I believe it actually is
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rotations for a minute here so you get
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to see okay I'm going you know 10 20 30
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whatever uh you're not going to be in
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really performance or endurance for too
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long now uh you're going to be mostly in
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fat burn which is fine uh right here you
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can change your burn rate target your
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resistance level higher or lower uh you
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can start and stop your time
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you can enter details uh you can change
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the volume here you can have different
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users on the device so if you have up to
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four people using it they can have their
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preset settings right here you can put a
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cup so it's a cup holder and then the
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fan is down there so uh you know what I
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like about this unit is that it does oh
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yeah and then there's a couple buttons
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up here the same as here so burn and
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resistance up here as well so if you're
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up here you can actually just do that uh
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with your thumb
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which is kind of convenient uh I don't
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find myself using this a lot because
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well to be honest with you it's quite
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far away uh I like these are okay and I
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like these on the outside a little bit
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more width personally but um you know
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the screen it is nice uh it definitely
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gives you a good burn here uh I wouldn't
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recommend going Barefoot you want to get
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shoes in and these right here are going
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to lock your feet in and they're
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slightly loose um I would recommend
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Barefoot minimalist shoes there's a
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brand called zero that's x e o shoes
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I'll link them up below that's what I'd
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recommend because you want to be
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mimicking barefoot in order to get the
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not only the best workout but also for
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your posture to be in the best position
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possible so uh that when you're building
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muscle and you're building endurance
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your body is actually conditioning in
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the appropriate manner so that you're
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building functional strength you don't
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want to add form to dysfunction as my uh
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good friend Blake Bowman Blake Bowman
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says he's a posture correction coach you
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don't want to strengthen parts of your
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body that are already out of balance
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because then it creates more imbalance
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so having good Barefoot Minimalist Shoes
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like zero shoes is smart uh and then you
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know what's really nice about it is the
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programs I think the best feature is
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like for example you can see here Sprint
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recover uh Sprint recover different time
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calorie burning steady Pace uh you know
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all these different settings fat burn so
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on and so forth I personally uh would
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not recommend sort of some of the
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endurance programs I would recommend a
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Sprint recover uh high-intensity low
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intensity programming the reason for
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that is it's better for your
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cardiovascular health in the long run um
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you don't want to stress your heart and
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your lungs and by doing high intensity
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and low intensity you're actually
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building and increasing your lung and
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heart capacity whereas if you do study
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uh you know if you're if you're doing
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steady not study if you're doing steady
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uh you know a steady Pace uh you're
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actually stretching your heart and your
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lungs and that's not as beneficial as
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you'd think but um you know to be honest
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with you I like this unit I'll now I'll
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share get the pros and the cons so the
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pros are I like the programming I like
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you can you know that you can actually
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do everything right here uh it's very
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quick easy digital sort of uh digital SL
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analog screen if you will and um it's
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it's actually like comfortable in terms
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of you know the like the the flow of it
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like getting in the Rhythm and and
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moving like this it it does work well
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and you really feel it in your quads
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your hamstrings and your glutes um and
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that's nice I really like that so it is
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a it is a really good leg burn however I
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will say I actually had a challenge
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filming this video and I'll show you why
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this machine this
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unit
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is pretty big I mean if I stretch my
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foot out here here to over here I'm
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pretty stretched out and just for a
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frame of reference this right next to it
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is a you know like a Smith machine it's
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like a multi-functional muscle strength
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building and conditioning machine
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and this only goes out a little bit
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further and the width of it I mean it's
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almost as wide as this massive machine I
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mean not quite but it takes up a lot of
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space which is kind of a downside and
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then when you're kind of cranking and
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moving on these things um you got to
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have more space for that as well so you
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know you you got to kind of watch for
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that so I would say that's really the
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big downside is it takes up a lot of
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space um but you know it does give you a
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great leg burn and it does give you uh
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you know a really good uh burn which is
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really nice um like I said wear shoes uh
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you know set your users up program
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yourself as a user to do your consistent
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routine so you're plugged in um and like
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I said wear Barefoot minimal is shoes
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and you're Off to the Races that's my
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that's my recommendation uh it is a nice
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unit I will say um you know kind of
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looking at other options however I would
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say that if you're deciding between this
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and something else this is probably not
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what I would go with in the future I
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would go with a vibration plate or a
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mini trampoline rebounder um the reason
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for that is because a mini trampoline
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rebounder you get more benefits in some
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ways like you benefit your lymphatic
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health and then a vibration plate like
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this is like little over a grand you can
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get a nice vibration plate for one to
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two grand and a rebound for a about a
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grand or 9 800 900 bucks and I'll link
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those up below the brands I recommend
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but uh with a vibration plate you can
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like this is only working your quads
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your hamstrings and your glutes and with
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a vibration play you can work all of
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your lower leg muscles including your HS
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uh glutes quads all of that but then
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Additionally you can also work your
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calves and you can also do push-ups on a
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vibration plate you can do a variety of
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things on a vibration plate and get a
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lot more time efficiency for your
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workout because with this you're kind of
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Trapped in the you know leg you know
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burning mode which is great it's good
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cardio however with a vibration plate I
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can do upper body lower body and that
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extra ex ra vibration the extra
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reverberation from the vibration plate
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is giving my body um more workouts so
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it's causing the muscles to fire faster
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in a shorter period of time so you know
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if you're deciding between a bow flex
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and something else I would seriously
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consider and look at a um a vibration
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