How to Unlock Bowflex Weights

Bowflex is a home fitness gym that uses tension on flexible bars to create resistance as you workout. Owning a Bowflex home gym relieves you from dealing with bulky weights and takes up a third of the space. The weighted tension bars on the Bowflex home gym are locked and unlocked by using snap clips to secure the loop at the end of the tension bars. You can quickly change the weight resistance by removing the clip from one tension bar and clipping it on another.

Instructions

    • 1

      Pick up the cable and hook that attach to the pulley system and hold in your hand. Grab your desired tension bar with the other hand.

    • 2

      Guide the tension bar and the snap clip on the end of the cable towards each other.

    • 3

      Use your thumb to push in the flexible bar on the clip and insert the loop of the tension bar onto the clip. Release your thumb from the flexible bar on the clip to close the clip, ensuring the loop does not fall out.

    • 4

      Remove your hands slowly from the tension bar and the cable to allow the tension to hold the bars in place. You can add more tension bars to the clip on the cable by adding the tension bar closest to you first and then add the heavier tension bars behind it.