Bowflex Redux

[the_gneech]

Reading the details of the recall in the link that rigelkitty provided, I see that the problem is that on machines with the lat tower attachment, the bench can "unexpectedly collapse" in the incline position ... so it's not the lat tower itself that's the problem, but rather how the bench props against it.

The company has received "at least 70" reports of injury since 1995; while that could easily mean 71 or 100,000, I'm guessing that this is a relatively rare occurrence. I'm not real worried about it; probably what I'll do is just go back to freeweights for the bench press and resisted crunch (which are the exercises in the basic set that use the bench in the incline position) until the repair kit arrives.

-The Gneech

Comments

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Please do not crunch The Gneech.

Four out of Five Doctors say that crunching The Gneech is a bad thing.

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[bauske.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a snack food of some sorts.

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[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Only if your name is "Laurie" :D

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[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

[WAKKO WARNER]

G'nite, everybody!

[/WAKKO WARNER]

-TG

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[laurie-robey.livejournal.com]

*Looks innocent like Dot*

[richardf8]

I'm glad you're getting the repair kit. Those 70 were probably subjecting it to unusual circumstances, but still something giving under a load is bad, and you wouldn't want to be that something.