Life Fitness Smart Series Owner's Manual page 29

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1. Manual Workout (Beginner – Just Starting)
Access: This workout can be started by pressing the MANUAL workout
button.
Description: The MANUAL workout is a simple workout that has no
pre-defined intensity levels. The MANUAL workout starts the user at
level 1 resistance level and at 0.5 MPH. The user is in complete control
of level or speed settings.
Goal: This workout was designed for users that do not have much
experience working out on a product and like to have control of the
level and speed/incline settings.
2. Random Workout (Experienced – Fit)
Access: This workout can be started by pressing the RANDOM workout
button.
Description: In this workout, the console creates a terrain of
different hills and valleys. Over 1 million different patterns are
possible. RANDOM uses resistance or incline adjustments to create
hills/valleys. Speed is controlled by the user.
Goal: This workout was designed to provide the end-user with
unlimited workout variety. The goal of this workout is to prevent
workout boredom and improve motivation.
3. Hill Workout (Experienced – Fit)
This workout can be started by pressing the HILL workout button.
Description: The Life Fitness patented HILL workout is an interval
training workout. Intervals are periods of intense aerobic exercise.
The workout profile window displays the levels of the intervals, which
together have the appearance of hills and valleys. Resistance adjust-
ments are used to simulate the hills/valleys, speed is controlled by the
user.
The HILL workout has two main phases in between the warm-up and
cooldown.
Plateau: Increases the intensity slightly and keeps it steady, to
bring the heart rate to the low end of the target zone.
Interval Training: Is a series of increasingly steeper hills, alternating with valleys, or periods of recovery. The
heart rate should rise to the high end of the target zone during this segment.
Goal: The computerized interval training workout has been scientifically demonstrated to promote greater cardio-res-
piratory improvement than steady-pace training. The goal of this workout is to improve cardiovascular endurance and
break through fitness plateaus.
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