Cateye MSC-2Dx user manual Setting Heart Rate Target Zones

Heart Rate Target Zone

The unit records the time you stayed in your tar- geted heart rate zones. This data can be manually

Heart Rate 0	20	40	60	80	100	120	140	160	180	200
bpm

reviewed or downloaded later to a PC.

Four target heart rate zones can be set. (Zone.1~Zone.4). The audible alarm tells you when your heart rate is outside of the specified zone.

Zone.1

40 - 80 bpm

Zone.2

70 - 110 bpm

Zone.3

110 - 140 bpm

Zone.4

140 - 180 bpm

Zone.1

Zone.2

Target training zone Zone.3

Audible alarm setting

Zone.4

MXS display

The chart shows an example of how zone 3 (target heart rate 110-140) is set with the audible alarm. The alarm will not sound when you are within the target zone of 110-140 bpm.

NOTE !: Heart rate target zones are completely independent of each other. They can overlap or do not have to touch another zone.

NOTE !: Alarm will not sound till you have first entered the zone.

SET/AT

SET/AT

H.R. target zones readout screen

Upper heart rate limit

Lower heart rate limit

Time in heart rate zone

H.R. target zones setting screen

Setting Heart Rate Target Zones

Set each zone using the following procedure.

1.	Navigate the lower display to Maximum Speed MXS.
2.	Push SET/AT button.
	The unit enters the readout screen of target zone.
3.	Push SET/AT button again.
	The unit enters the target zone set up screen.
	The lower limit of zone 1 flashes in the middle display.
4.	Set the desired lower heart rate limit.

Upper heart rate limit

Lower heart rate limit

Zone number

MODE

•	Push MODE button to increase the value.
•	Push LAP button to decease the value.
5. Push SET/AT button, and the lower heart rate limit is set. Then the upper heart rate
limit flashes in the upper display.
Push S/S button to set (or reset) the alarm sound for this zone. (See page 17,

SET/AT

SET/AT

Increase the number

LAP

Decrease the number

To upper heart rate limit setting

Zone 2 ~ Zone 4 setting in same way

	"Setting Heart Rate Alarm Sound".)
6.	Set the desired upper heart rate limit.
7.	Push SET/AT button to set zone 1.
	The screen enters zone 2 set up screen.
8.	Repeat steps 4 - 7 for all zones.
9.	After completing zone 4, push SET/AT button.
	Target zone setting is completed. The screen returns to the maximum speed MXS
	function.

NOTE !: Once you enter the H.R. target zone set up screen, you must navigate all the way from zone 1-zone 4. There is no short cut out of this set up.

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