Using Custom Workouts

4.4CUSTOM WORKOUTS

Using the console, fitness club managers and other authorized personnel can create up to six custom workouts for the Life Fitness Summit Trainer. Options include custom interval heart rate and hill workouts.

Interval heart rate: The trainer can design a workout that sets a different target heart rate* for each inter- val and adjusts the resistance to the user's heart rate.

Hill: The trainer can create a custom hill workout that sets a different intensity level for each interval.

Once CUSTOM workouts are created, users can access them through the Custom Workout button. Each cus- tom workout is identified by a numeral, from 1 to 6. To select these workouts, press the PERSONAL TRAINER key. When prompted by the MESSAGE CENTER, press the number corresponding to the desired workout using the NUMERIC keypad. Then press ENTER and begin the workout.

CREATING A PERSONAL TRAINER WORKOUT

When the console is activated, hold down the COOLDOWN button and press the PERSONAL TRAINER button simultaneously.

Using the ARROW keys, scroll to, and select, the “PERSONAL TRAINER WORKOUT ENTRY” option and press ENTER. (If the alternate option, “ERASE PERSONAL TRAINER WORKOUTS”, is selected, the com- puter deletes setup information for all PERSONAL TRAINER workouts and the MESSAGE CENTER dis- plays "PERSONAL TRAINER WORKOUTS ERASED". Then the MESSAGE CENTER displays "PERSON-

AL TRAINER WORKOUT ENTRY").

Select a number, from 1 to 6, to identify the new workout. Use the NUMERIC keypad or the ARROW keys. Then press ENTER.

If a PERSONAL TRAINER workout already has been created for that number, the MESSAGE CENTER dis- plays a prompt to either modify the workout or proceed to another number. Pressing the CLEAR key overwrites the previously created workout, making it possible to create a new workout for that number. Pressing ENTER bypasses the number and proceeds to another number.

If a PERSONAL TRAINER workout has not been created for a selected number, the MESSAGE CENTER displays the prompt, "BEGIN PERSONAL TRAINER WORKOUT CREATION".

The MESSAGE CENTER displays a prompt to enter a duration time for the entire workout. Using the NUMERIC keypad, enter a duration and press ENTER.

The MESSAGE CENTER displays a prompt to select the workout type. Options are “TARGET HEART RATE PERCENTAGE” or “LEVEL”. The latter type is for custom hill workouts. Use the ARROW keys to toggle between the options, and press ENTER to select one of them.

The MESSAGE CENTER displays a prompt to select a target heart rate or an intensity level for the first inter- val, depending on the type of workout chosen in an earlier step. Use the ARROW keys or the NUMERIC key- pad. A PERSONAL TRAINER workout consists of 30 intervals, so the length of each interval is equal to the workout duration value divided by 30. After entering the value, press ENTER. Repeat this set of steps for each of the following 29 intervals. To keep the preceding value for the current interval, simply press ENTER. At the end of this setup, the MESSAGE CENTER displays “PERSONAL TRAINER WORKOUT COMPLETED”. The new PERSONAL TRAINER workout is ready to use.

Press the ENTER key to set up another workout. OR

Press the CLEAR key. The MESSAGE CENTER will display “SELECT WORKOUT OR PRESS QUICK START”.

*Target Heart Rate (THR) is a percentage of the theoretical maximum. For example, a 40-year-old user's THR for the CARDIO workout is 144. This workout targets 80 percent of the maximum, so the equation would be (220-40)*.80=144.