Posted by admin | Posted in Home Health | Posted on 20-10-2011
- Tower 200 Body by Jake Strength Training Equipment
- Door-based home gym for working upper and lower body
- Slides onto any home, office, or dorm door within seconds
- Multi-tension power cords provide 200 pounds of explosive resistance
- Supports more than 200 exercises in all; durable steel frame
- Designed to provide big results within 30 days; limited lifetime warranty
Product Description
Tower 200 gets you in great shape like 5 time Mixed Martial Arts Champion Randy “The Natural” Couture:
* 11 Minutes “No Excuses”
* 200 lbs. Total Resistance
* Over 200 Exercises
* Limited Lifetime WarrantyAmazon.com Product Description
Got a door? Then you got a gym. The Body by Jake Tower 200 slides onto any door within seconds, giving you 200 pounds of explosive resistance to help you get bigger and stronger within 30 days. The Tower 200 is equipped with a pair of multi-tension power cords, which help you work your arms, chest, shoulders, back, abs, and legs. The cords support more than 200 exercises in all, including all the basics and a host of specialized, muscle-isolating routines. Users who are ready to get really crazy can try the “mother of all workouts”–Randy Couture’s MMA-inspired 11-minute body shredding routine, which includes such moves as the Warrior, the Demon, and the Freak. Best of all, the Tower 200 is tough yet non-obtrusive, with a durable steel frame that’s designed so it won’t mess up your door. Built to fit on any door in the house, office, or dorm, the Tower 200 carries a limited lifetime warranty.
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Sale Price: $149.99
Total Costumer Reviews:(14)
This product seems to be great for toning so far. It has the ability to work almost every area too.
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I got exactly what I was expecting from this item, aside from one thing which I will detail later. I made sure to read the reviews beforehand, especially about the need for a thicker door to properly fit the tower 200 on, so I knew there would be some fiddling around with spacers (or in my case, folded pieces of cardboard). The item works exactly as described, comes with a workout handbook with “200″ different workouts (mentioned in another review to have lots of doubles, and variations in stance counted as individual workouts), an 11 minute workout guide, and the DVD. The DVD is an excellent addition, as the pictures will not always show what the form of the movement should be.
Now for the unexpected part. The 25lb cables were fine, but the 40 and 35 lb cables had one defective cable each. The defective 35 lb cable was of less resistance than the 25 lb cable, and the defective 40 lb cable felt around the same as the working 35 lb cable. Now for the reason I still gave them 5 stars. I emailed customer service inquiring about this problem and they told me they would ship out new cables to me at no cost, and that I wasn’t required to send in the old, defective ones or fill out any paperwork. No questions asked. Customer service doesn’t get any better than this.
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As a personal trainer, I travel to many homes and businesses to train my clients. It is important to have equipment that is multi-functional, durable, lightweight and most importantly effective. This piece of equipment most certainly achieves all of these criteria. I have searched for quite some time for a device such as this and I am absolutely ecstatic to have finally found it!
The Tower 200 is capable of providing an effective total body workout. The cable-like system is excellent at working the muscles in a manner that cannot be achieved by other types of strength training equipment, such as hand-held weights. As long as you maintain tension on the band, your muscles will be engaged throughout the entire exercise, thus, not allowing for “rest” as the muscle naturally shifts to enable a full range of motion. In contrast, free weights have a broken chain of movement as you go through the exercise, which prevents working the group of muscles to their fullest capacity.
Additionally, the price on this piece is excellent, especially considering what you are getting. It even comes with a great booklet of exercises that are effective for the novice to the advanced exerciser. In detail, it describes the exercise from start to finish, along with color photos.
I really like that it not only comes with stirrup handles that clip to the high and low pulley, but also the ankle straps so that you can work your quads, hamstrings and glutes. The band stretches far enough to accommodate any type of leg exercise that you choose.
The Tower 200 is also a great way to work your core muscles. The number of exercises you can do on this thing are seemingly endless! I just love it! It would be nice if there were a middle handle, but it’s really minor in relation to all the great exercises that you can do even without it.
The fact that it’s portable and easy to stow away make this my very favorite piece of equipment that I own – and I own A LOT of pieces. I highly recommend this product. It is well worth the money!
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I love my Tower 200, I have owned it for 6 weeks now. I use it as a part of my Power 90 strength and resistance routine, in addition to my adjustable dumbbell set and my 15 & 20 lb kettle bell. I especially love the 11 minute routine, which after I use, I follow up with a few compound and isolation moves.
It has a sturdy design, it is well manufactured, I have yet to experience any of the issue, that I am seeing posted on numerous websites and it holding up to my 6 feet 5 inch 260lb frame. I also have the extra hand/ankle grips, the straight bar and the 2 pairs of 40 lbs power cords.
The results that I am seeing since owning it are drastic compared to using other resistance bands I own. Maybe it is mental, but my gains are starting to turn heads, it keeps me coming back for more. I will use it in the a.m. and in the p.m.
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I have had the Tower 200 for about a month now, using it approx. 3-4 times a week and see a huge improvement in overall strength and muscle tone. I would agree with other posts, in that the number of overall exercises you can do is a little exaggerated. My guess is they came up with 200 to match the maximum total resistance number of 200 as well as the name of the product, the Tower 200. Nevertheless, I have only been following the 11 minute workout exercises for the most part and if you’re not sweating and need a breather by step 8 or 9 then you’re not using the product properly or are in better shape than anyone I know.
Tip 1: If the 25 lb. band is too light for you on a particular exercise, but the 35 lb. band is a bit too much, try stepping a little further from the doorway for that particular exercise. As with any banded system, the resistance increases the more you stretch it. This is something I really like about this type of product because bands effectively give you multiple resistances on the same cord, depending on your stance and distance from the door.
Tip 2: Don’t shortcut the exercises in the 11 minute workout. They are designed to work multiple muscle groups at once and give you the best workout in the shortest amount of time. For example, the lunge to decline press works not only the chest, but the shoulders, legs and abs at the same time. Not following through with the entire motion of each exercise is not going to give you the results you want, as like I said before, most of the resistance is encountered at the end of the motion. I am getting the same or better results with this product than with my $3000 Bowflex Revolution, and for a small fraction of the price. $200 is not a lot of money to shell out for a product of this caliber. It looks like you should be able to buy something like this for well under $200, but like everything else in life, you get what you pay for. This is a well designed and solidly constructed system and look forward to the next 3 or 4 months to see what it can really do for me.
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