Cardiointeractive & Heart Rate Control

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True Target Heart Rate Control: How It Works

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INTRODUCTION

You are now the owner of the most sophisticated Heart Rate Control treadmill available. The TRUE HRC is unique and patented. It accommodates users in rehabilitation to world class athletes, and all those in between. The TRUE HRC treadmill allows you to do a completely hands free heart rate controlled workout using speed, grade or both. The user determines all the key parameters of the HRC workout, including speed, grade, time, and target heart rate.

By training at a specific target heart rate, you can exercise at a more efficient cardiovascular level.

The TRUE HRC system is unique because you can enter the key parameters of your workout, target heart rate, maximum speed, maximum grade, and time, prior to beginning your HRC workout. As you approach your target heart rate, the treadmill software takes over and changes speed and/or grade to keep you near your target heart rate. This gives you a completely Òhands freeÓ workout.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Before selecting a target heart rate control workout, it is important to use the treadmill for several workouts in the manual mode while monitoring your heart rate. You can monitor your heart rate during workouts by wearing the heart rate transmitter included with your treadmill. Your heart rate will automatically appear in

the lower right hand window, and the heart shaped light will blink to indicate a signal is being received.

After you have spent some time learning how your heart reacts to different levels of speed and grade, you will have a better understanding of how to select the maximum speed and maximum grade required to reach your target heart rate.

CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN TO DETERMINE YOUR TARGET HEART RATE.

WORKOUT GUIDELINES

1.Target Heart Rate Training

Preset your target heart rate, maximum speed, maximum grade, and time of workout. These are time-based workouts. The distance traveled will vary depending on speed.

2.Interval Heart Rate Training

Interval heart rate training takes your workout to an even higher level. Interval training allows you to program periods of rest between periods of work. For each workout, you enter target heart rate, maximum speed, maximum grade, duration of workout, and duration of work and rest intervals. These are time-based workouts. The distance traveled will depend on your speed.

3.Cruise Control

Manual workout with heart rate transmitter. When you reach desired heart rate, press cruise control key and itÕs hands-free.

4.Manual Workout:

This is a completely user controlled workout. You control the speed and the grade throughout your workout. Your heart rate may be monitored during this workout, but it is not heart rate controlled.

5.Programs:

There are 4 preprogrammed workouts:

¥Hill Intervals

¥Weight Loss workout

¥Cardiovascular workout

¥Speed Interval workout

Each workout has 9 levels of intensity. The treadmill controls both the speed and grade. These are not heart rate controlled, but will monitor heart rate.

Duration of programs are 15:00 to 99:00 minutes.

6.To Increase Workload in Heart Rate Control: To raise your heart rate in the HRC mode, speed will always increase until maximum speed is attained, followed by grade (if grade is used in the workout).

7.To Decrease Workload in Heart Rate Control: To lower heart rate in the HRC mode, grade will always decrease until zero grade is reached, followed by speed (if grade is used in the workout).

8.Speed Change:

Each change in speed is in .1 MPH increments.

9.Grade Change:

Each change in grade is in .5% grade increments.

This unique, simple, and safe system is easy to use and understand.

The user first sets their personal maximums for both speed and grade. This allows the user to customize and create a variety of workouts. By setting personal maximums for speed and grade, the user is provided safe workouts that fit their capabilities. Once this data is entered, along with target heart rate and workout time, the user is ready to start their Heart Rate Control workout.

The initial stage of the Heart Rate Control workout is the warm-up stage and allows the user the flexibility to adjust their speed or grade at anytime. The warm-up stage is not predetermined by the amount of time input prior to workout, and the user may take as much time as they wish to approach their target heart rate. The warm-up stage ends when the userÕs heart rate is ten beats below the pre-set target heart rate.

At this point, the user enters the Heart Rate Control stage, and the treadmill takes control of both the speed and grade (hands free).

The treadmill software gradually increases the userÕs heart rate to within 10 beats of the target heart rate.

In the situation where workload needs to be increased in order to elevate the heart rate, the speed will be increased first in 1/10 mph increments.

If needed, the speed will continue to increase up to the pre-set maximum. If the user still requires additional workload to raise the heart rate, the grade will be raised in .5% increments up to the maximum pre-set grade (unless zero grade was entered).

Conversely, whenever the workload needs to be reduced in order to lower the heart rate, the grade is always reduced first. The grade will be reduced to zero (if required), before speed is reduced.

EXAMPLES OF HOW HRC CAN WORK FOR YOU:

Example #1:

A user who physically cannot walk over

2.5mph can safely use heart rate control by entering maximum speed of

2.5in a Heart Rate Control workout.

Example #2:

A runner can run up to a maximum speed of 10 mph, without hills, by entering a maximum speed of 10 mph and a maximum grade of 0%.

Example #3:

A walker enters a maximum speed of

4.0mph and a maximum grade of 6%. The walker is limited to a maximum speed of 4.0 mph and grade will be used if required to elevate the heart rate up to a maximum of 6%.