Description excerpt from Wikipedia!

When properly performed, strength training can provide significant functional benefits and improvement in overall health and well-being, including increased bone, muscle, tendon and ligament strength and toughness, improved joint function, reduced potential for injury, increased bone density, a temporary increase in metabolism, improved cardiac function, and elevated HDL (good) cholesterol.

Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental increases of weight, elastic tension or other resistance, and uses a variety of exercises and types of equipment to target specific muscle groups.

People who are new to strength training should be careful for the first 6-8 weeks as it's easy to get injured, and what's more important, almost any workout at all the first few weeks will get great results, so a newbie doesn't need to take unnecessary risks.

I would also recommend complex exercises that involve a number of muscle groups at once and also hit stablizing muscles,

After 3-4 months of continuous workouts the body has adapted. The good news is that now a person can experiment with various forms of extra intensity as the bones and various connective tissue are ready for more stress. The bad news is that the body has adapted, and unless you do up intensity you will only make small progress in strength and/or muscle building in the next year, and literally no progress after about 15-16 months.

Bowflex
20 Minute Better Body Workout & Chest Fly
2 sets of 15 reps each
120# Leg Extension
120# Bench Press
080# Chest Fly
120# Crossover Rear Deltoid Rows
120# Biceps Curl
120# Standing Low Back Extension
120# Seated Lat Rows
120# Triceps Pushdown
150# Seated Abdominal Crunch

Since I am weight training and not strength training, I am going to stop posting on this thread and open a new one.

I have been working out with my Bowflex machine for over twenty months now and have not increased the weights in quite awhile. Since I can not call what I am doing strength training and I can not delete this thread, I will no longer be keeping this thread active!