Cooling Down After Your Workout - Precor 9.33 Owner's Manual

Quick Steps to Working Out
9 Continue your workout.
Hold onto the handrail. Note that the
keypad is very sensitive, a light touch
is all you need for a change to occur.
10 End your workout.
Important: Always incorporate a cool-
down period into your workout. To cool
down when you have selected an
INFINITE course time, press the red
Stop button to end the course, and
then select the MANL (Manual) course
to cool down.
Review your workout statistics
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12 Remove the Security clip.
13 Turn OFF the treadmill.
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9. Use the Incline
your workout. Note that certain courses have preprogrammed speed and incline
changes. Refer to M9.33 Courses on page 33.
Note: To pause during your workout before finishing the selected course, press the
red Stop button. The displays on the console freeze. When returning to the course,
(Pause)
you are prompted for the password. Refer to page 19.
10. You can end your workout in one of two ways:
• pressing the red Stop button, or
• entering the automatic five minute cool-down period that is appended to
several of the courses: Refer to M9.33 Courses .
Note: Use
your cool-down period.
When you complete the automatic cool-down period, the running belt stops and
a Workout Summary banner appears. Workout statistics TIME, DISTANCE, and
CALORIES are added to your cumulative User I.D. totals and all other statistics
are reset to zero. (Note that the TIME display shows the accumulated workout
time including warm-up and cool-down periods.)
11. You are given ten minutes to review your workout statistics before the display
automatically resets to the Precor banner. You can also press Reset during that
time to return to the Precor banner.
12. When the running belt stops, hold onto a handrail and place your feet on the
right and left staging platforms, remove the security clip from your clothing, and
step off the treadmill.
13. Turn OFF the treadmill to help prevent unauthorized use.

Cooling Down After Your Workout

Cooling down is an important aspect of your workout because it helps reduce muscle
stiffness and soreness by transporting excess lactic acid out of the working muscles.
Cooling down for at least three minutes helps provide a smooth transition that allows
your heart rate to return to its normal (non-exercising) state.
When you enter cool down, a message notifies you that you have reached the end of
the course and the cool-down period is about to begin. The running belt slows by about
20 percent and the incline returns to 0 percent. The Manual course profile appears in
the display. You can change the speed and incline by pressing the respective
keys. When you complete the five minute, cool down, a Workout Summary appears.
See the information beginning on page 24.
Important: The automatic five-minute cool down does not occur if the selected TIME for
the course is INFINITE. In any other course, the automatic five-minute cool down is
activated when you complete the course. If you exit a course prior to its completion, then
the cool down program is not implemented.
To prematurely end the five minute cool-down period, press the red Stop button and
then Reset. Refer to the table on the next page. Your workout statistics are added to
the cumulative totals while the running belt slows to a gradual stop. The Workout
Summary display appears so you can review your cumulative totals.
and Speed keys to change the incline and speed during
or keys to decrease or increase the Speed and Incline during
or