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Bowflex SelectTech 1090 Adjustable Dumbbell (Pair)

Bowflex SelectTech 1090 Adjustable Dumbbell (Single)
When Bowflex released the SelectTech 552 in the late 2000’s, they were a total hit and flew off the shelves. Their innovative dial adjustment system was the first of its kind, and drastically reduced the time it took change weights. No longer did you have to take dumbbells apart and add or remove the weight plates yourself. With the simple twist of a dial, you could adjust a dumbbell anywhere from 5-52.5 lbs in a matter of two or three seconds.

You can easily see why the popularity soared and eventually led the SelectTech 552 to become the best-selling adjustable dumbbells of all time. However, there was one small issue.

The weight range of the SelectTech 552 maxed out at 52.5 lbs, and you couldn’t add any more weight because of Bowflex’s fixed bracket design. Stronger, more advanced weightlifters couldn’t get much benefit out of the 552 model because they needed more weight than the SelectTech 552 could offer.

One year later, Bowflex released the SelectTech 1090 model. Same dumbbell, much more weight. Now, all of the same incredible features of the 552 model were available with a weight range of 10-90 lbs, so even the strongest weightlifters could take advantage of the Bowflex’s innovative new adjustable dumbbells.

Weight Range
The Bowflex SelectTech 1090 was built with the stronger athlete in mind so it offers a very wide weight range to work with, starting at 10 lbs and going all the way up to 90 lbs per dumbbell! The weight is adjustable in 5 lb increments, which gives you 17 different weight settings to choose from. The only minor difference of the 1090’s adjustability compared to the SelectTech 552 is that it cannot adjust in 2.5 lb increments, but that’s really not an issue. Since the 552 only adjusts in 2.5 lb increments for the first 25 lbs, they’re exactly the same once you get past the 25 lb mark. There are some other high-weight-range adjustable dumbbells that offer 2.5 increments at any point in the weight range, but I’ve found that once you’re lifting on the heavier side (50 lbs or more), you don’t really use the 2.5 increments at all. I haven’t had a single problem moving in 5 lb increments with the SelectTech 1090.

Adjustability
Just like the SelectTech 552, my absolute favorite feature about the SelectTech 1090 is Bowflex’s dial-a-weight adjustment system. With the twist of a dial, you can change the weight from 10 lbs to 90 lbs with no other work required. Let me briefly explain how it works. Bowflex has a dial-and-bracket system built into the handle of each dumbbell. The dial is used to change weight settings, whereas the brackets inside the handle are what actually physically attach the weight plates to the bar for you. So let’s pretend you want to select a 50 lb weight setting. Twist the dial at each end of the dumbbell to 50 lbs. The brackets will essentially “grab” the weight plates it needs to make 50 lbs and lock them onto the handle. Then pull the dumbbell out of its cradle and you’re ready to rock. Done with your set and want to move up to 60 lbs now? Slide the dumbbell back into its cradle, twist the dials to 60 lbs, and then pull the dumbbell back out. Now there will be 60 lbs of weight plates attached. It’s really that simple.

Quality and Durability
In my experience, the Bowflex SelectTech 1090’s have worked pretty well, but not quite as great as the 552’s did when I tested those out (I tell you exactly what I mean in the Anything Bad? section further down on this page). For those who don’t know, the SelectTech 552 is the highest-rated adjustable dumbbells set on the market, so naturally I expected the same from the 1090. The 1090 is made with high-strength metals in order to provide a secure lock on the weight plates when the bracket system is in use, and the weight plates are coated in a thick plastic liner to help it take a little roughing up. But the plastic lining was put in place to provide more than just durability; it’s also done that way to allow the weight plates to move smoothly next to each other because of how the dumbbell has to slide in and out of the cradle when changing weight settings (which helps a lot, by the way).

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