Cybex International 710T, LT-14464-4 Rev H manual P2 Weight Loss Program

Cybex 710T Treadmill Owner’s Manual

The 710T is designed to help you set goals and measure your progress. The key is to evaluate your fitness level “L”, and to re-evaluate it periodically at different stages of your training. Most importantly, the fitness test tells you precisely which “L” level is commensurate with your ability. As long as you know your “L” level, you'll be able to fine-tune your workouts for optimum results.

P2 — Weight Loss Program

The P2 Weight Loss Program is a forty-five-minute walking workout designed specifically to help you lose weight. In this program, weight loss is based on the length of time you exercise. Exercising at a lower intensity allows you to handle a longer duration and distance workout and thus burn more calories. With other lifestyle factors remaining the same (such as diet), simply adding the P2 workout to your schedule should result in weight loss because of the increase in calories burned.

You could alternate this program with any of the other 710T programs to combine weight reduction and fitness training.

Weight Loss Program Profile — The P2 program consists of an initial six-minute warm-up of relatively mild increases in speed and incline. This is followed by five seven-minute segments (thirty-five minutes total), during which speed remains constant and the % grade changes to simulate hill profiles.

At the end of each five-minute segment, the % grade automatically increases to the maximum

%grade for that “L” level. For example, if the current grade is 6% and the maximum is 8%, the 710T increases to 8% grade for two minutes and then return to 6% grade for another five- minute segment. The speed remains constant during the entire period. This is equivalent to walking at a constant speed on a series of five rolling hills. It is these hills that help you burn extra calories and more fat by providing a “metabolic spike” as your workload increases during the periods of maximum incline.

A four-minute segment at the end of the program serves as a cool-down period as the treadmill slows down and the incline returns to 0% grade.

Choose a level that reflects your fitness level as determined in the P1 Fitness Test program.

Program Results — The P2 Weight Loss Program is designed to keep your metabolism high for the primary portion of the forty-five-minute workout. For 77% of the time (thirty-five out of the forty-five minutes), you are working out at a level averaging 85% of your maximum P1 performance workload.

If you are just starting your fitness walking program, this workout may be too much for you. In that case, you can cut your P2 workouts short at any point until you feel comfortable

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