Other Bowflex Max trainer users?

I just wanted to say good for you! We bought a Max Trainer about 1.5 yrs ago and I still love it! Me and the Mr. mix in other types of training and exercise from martial arts, to P90X, to weights (toning and muscles not building). Some days I do both some one or the other. I try to mix up the MaxTrainer programs too, so as not get stuck in a rut and after a while you will find it easier to change the settings on the different programs quickly.

I hope you continue to like and use it, any exercise is great and you should be proud of that! As your endurance increase it will be even better!

For me it's been great because I am not inclined to run every day and biking near where I live is not worth the traffic hassle to be useful, add to that snow and ice and the MT seemed like a perfect answer. It really is something I actually look forward to and still am thrilled with the purchase.

I get bored easily and frequently cast Youtube to the TV, watching people fall down or dogs act silly passes the time.

I don't know if other people have experienced this, but I find myself preferring the higher resistance levels, the programs adjust it for differing intensity at various point during the workouts and I find once it goes below 13, I don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything even at 60-ish RPM's.

Good Luck!

I love my M5! Honestly the bluetooth function and the app that came with the thing is crap, but other than that I love it and use it daily. When I first got the thing last spring I could only do 2 minutes on it before I thought I was going to pass out, and that was on the lowest resistance. I even gave up late spring on it and started walking again because I could never get over 5 minutes. I'd use it occasionally last summer but started to feel like I might have wasted my money, it was just too hard. Then, I managed to injure my back a couple of times this summer. After that I needed low or no impact cardio so I dusted off the M5 and started back at it again. I made it longer and longer each day even if I had to leave it on the lowest resistance and barely move the pedals I stayed on the thing for 5, 10, 15, 20, and even 30 minutes. Then once I could do an hour on the thing at the lowest resistance this winter I started cranking up the resistance. After level 5 or so I had to back off and start doing 30 minutes at a time because my heart rate was getting too high. But I've stayed at that level and am now at level 10 for 30 minutes each morning. I still don't use the app, I use Endomondo and a good heart rate monitor strap and that's about a 500 calorie burn for me each morning.

Funny thing, is that I was always afraid of that yellow button that said "MAX" because I knew it was the HIIT program and I figured I could not do it. The other day I hit the button and was surprised to find that I not only could do the full 14 minute workout, but it was easy, and that was still on level 10. So now I'm still doing my 30 minute workout each morning and then when I have time at night I'm hopping on the thing for a quick 14 minute workout.

I'm with some of the other posters, the only way I'll ever get rid of my MAX trainer is if I buy another one. I'm hoping that they improve the app and the electronics in the new M7, because that's probably what I'll buy next time around (but that might be a couple years from now).

I'm impressed!! I can't do the interval. Well honestly I'm not sure I'm doing it right! I can't seem to understand what the fluctuating lights mean. Go this speed? Don't go this speed?? I can't wrap my head around it. I use the fat and calorie burn programs back to back instead. It's hard!!

I got mine in April but couldn't start using it until August (knee injury). There's a bit of a curve for me, starting out at over 300 pounds, just to get through a 14 minute program. Now I'm getting through 14 minutes every time, and I'm gradually adding some of the intervals in. I'm up to three intervals in a workout now. If I can't go farther with the intervals, I at least finish out the 14 minutes at a lower RPM. But every time I get on it I seem a little stronger, feel a little leaner. The scale and my belt are both reporting good results.

The app that comes with it is garbage. Such a shame. With a different approach to software, this thing could be amazing in terms of more intelligently driving your fitness. Don't put too much hope into the software. Having just ordered one of those next gen Apple Watches, I might skip the Bowflex app and just start a workout in the watch as a canned elliptical workout.

I do a few minutes of stretching both before and after. Often I'll follow with some light targeted strength building. But I'm mostly trying to get lean right now, not really after much muscle mass.

I'm new to the Bowflex, but I've got one, as well!