Bowflex revolution 3x's as hard ?

[rational16]

My Bro just bought a Bowflex revolution home gym with resistance weight like training. The thing I am noticing is it is ALOT harder to push weight on this machine then with free weights. ON chest at the gym easily doing 90 pound dumbells, but when I put the bowflex machine to 65/75 pounds a side and try to bench it its almost impossible and i can get like 5 reps max. I still get sore and the burn but it feels too hard. This is a used machine, but my questions was is this normal with resistance like machines? are they suppose to be that much harder?

Thanks

 

[DreDay187]

The resistance on machines is much different than free weights. I would not spend my time working out on one.

 

[casperthefriendly]

My opinion is that a machine like that is better than nothing on the days you can't make it to the gym. There are some decent machines out there, but nothing will ever replace free weights.