The Bodylastic System is being touted as the fifty dollar alternative to Bowflex, and provides all the benefits of a home gym in a portable package. Its revolutionary design allows an individual to exercise all major muscle groups, providing a complete, full body workout.

Bodylastics employs the same theory of resistance to build muscle strength as the weight lifting systems located in an exercise facility. The difference lies in the equipment. Rather than bulky and expensive weights, the Bodylastic system utilizes sets of lightweight elastic tubing. This tubing is color coded for the user, with each color providing a different level of resistance by virtue of its thickness. This provides the same benefits as the weights that would be attached to a large piece of equipment in a gym, but much more conveniently. Individual tubes are available from five pounds to twenty five pounds of resistance, but may be combined to emulate weights of thirty pounds or greater.

The Bodylastics home gym system introduces two never before seen variations on the elastic resistance theory. The quick clip system allows the user to conveniently clip multiple bands onto a set of handles or ankle straps, much the same way a set of keys attaches to a lanyard. This is much less difficult than trying to add or remove weights from a traditional weight lifting machine. The quick clip system also provides unlimited fitness potential, as any number of tubes can be attached at a given time. A yellow tube allows for five to six pounds of resistance, a green seven and a half to eight and a half pounds, a red ten and a half to twelve pounds, a blue fifteen to eighteen pounds, and a black twenty two to twenty five pounds. These can be attached in any quantity, allowing a greater variation in weight than is available in any other home gym system.

The Bodylastic system also introduces the use of a door anchor to their exercise regime. The door anchor can be attached to any closing door by placing the foam anchor over or under a door, then closing it. The tubes then connect the anchor and the handle or ankle straps using the quick clip system. This gives the user the ability to perform a multitude of exercises that would ordinarily require a plethora of different equipment, but with the use of one convenient tool.

Aside from the fitness value, the attraction of the Bodylastics system can be found in its size, portability and cost. A home gym system can cost thousands of dollars and come with hundreds of pieces of heavy, bulky, cumbersome equipment, which the purchaser then must assemble. Bodylastics users have two choices when selecting their Bodylastics home gym. The basic package includes one each of the yellow, red, green and blue tubes, and the Max Tension set includes the black tube as well. Both come with a door anchor, two foam colored handles, two ankle strap, a user manual and a convenient traveling case, all for the price of a dinner for four.