Product Comparison: PowerBlock Elite Set vs Bowflex SelectTech 1090
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- Very stable, easy to adjust weights, and the flat ends make it easy to rest on your thighs and then kick up into position.
- One really neat thing is that the PowerBlocks are actually shorter than the hex dumbbells at the same weight.
- The shorter length allows the weights to come closer together at the top of the contraction without clanging together.
- Mechinsim seems very safe, compact in terms of length, quick adjustable in increments of 10, expandable.
- The weight doesn't feel balanced when your using light weight, like 5 pounds, or if you only have one of the fine adjustment bars in.
- I like how effortlessly I can switch between the weights.
- Looks great in the gym and the range of weight is excellent.
- It cover the range of weights I wanted.
- These are excellent and convenient pieces of equipment that will allow you to lift fairly heavy and they barely take up any space.
- The weights are all C-shapes, so when you lay back the opening facing you. They can't fall on you.
- The rubber-coated handle in the middle is very easy to grip, and the bars at the top are padded.
- Control and stability on the up and down movements is excellent. The plate sections do not wobble or rattle.
- There is a sticker on it which is color-coded so that when you move the pin, you can see what weight are selecting, since the nesting weights are also color coded.
- Enclosed handle may limit their use in some excercises but it still decent dumbbells.
- I would feel better if the adjustment pin was metal instead of plastic.
- Durable molding around metal plates provides for a smooth lift-off and quieter workouts...no clanging metal plates!
- It's incredibly simple to change weights by a quick turn of the dial!
- The plastic base they come with is pretty durable, and I just set them on my basement floor and don't have any problems with it.
- You have the option of utilizing the off weight selection, thus making one side of the dumbbell slightly heavier then the other .
- This dumbbell does not feel as durable as the normal dumbbells.
