How a Bowflex Tread Climber Works

Its name indicates its origins. Similar in some ways to a treadmill, the Bowflex Treadclimber allows you to walk as you normally would, except it adds a natural step-like motion to your movement. The Treadclimber combines both the treadmill and the stair stepper. You get the benefits that you would get from both machines from just the Bowflex. 

How does a Bowflex Treadclimber work to help you lose weight and strengthen your muscles?  A treadmill has a flat, single walking surface that may incline to increase the intensity of the workout. The Bowflex, on the other hand, has two platforms that raise and lower independent of one another.  When you step down with one foot, the opposite foot goes up, and it feels much like climbing a gradual hill.

If you've ever climbed on a stair stepper, you know that it's like climbing straight up a ladder. Thankfully, the Bowflex exercise equipment does not make you feel that way. A Bowflex is actually closer to an elliptical machine than a stepper. On an elliptical machine, you have to lock your feet into straps on the pedals, and the movement isn't quite natural.

However a Treadclimber benefits you by allowing freedom of movement of your feet.  As you're walking on the Bowflex, your feet are free to lift up off the platform just like you do when you're walking on a standard treadmill or when walking normally. You experience a much more natural range of motion.

You can increase the intensity of your workout on a Bowflex by changing the resistance.  The resistance of the Bowflex Treadclimber isn't changed as easily or conveniently as you can change it on a treadmill.

Before getting on the machine, you turn the knob on the console to select your resistance level.  The drawback is that you have to get off the machine if you want to adjust the resistance during your workout.

The equipment gives you a low impact, cardiovascular exercise that helps you burn calories and strengthen muscles all at the same time.  You'll increase your heart rate and get great results in thirty minutes a day, three times a week.

The Bowflex burns an average of 321 calories in a thirty-minute period, as compared to 240 calories burned on a treadmill, and 191 calories on a stepper.  This really speeds up the accumulation of 3500 calories needed to burn off a pound of fat. The movement of the Bowflex strengthens the core muscles in your body, too.

A Bowflex Treadclimber offers the same health benefits of the most popular work out equipment: the treadmill, stepper, and elliptical machine, yet offers a unique and natural movement that burns more calories and strengthens muscles.  It leads your body to health with its resistance cardiovascular workout.