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Training Instruction GB
8. Training Instructions
For Your Safety:
■ Before beginning your program of exercise, consult your
doctor to ensure that you are fit enough to use the equipment.
Base your program of exercise on the advice given by your
doctor. Incorrect or excessive exercise may damage your
health.
This device has particularly been designed and developed for
leisure time sportsmen. It is excellently suited for cardiovascular
training.
The training methodically has to be organised on the principles
of stamina training. This will predominantly cause changes and
adaptations of the cardiovascular system. This includes the
reduction of the resting pulse frequency and of the load pulse.
This gives the heart more time for filling the ventricles and for
the blood circulation of the cardiac musculature (through the
coronary vessels . Moreover, depth of breathing and the volume
of air that can be breathed in (vital capacity) are increased. Further
positive changes take place in the metabolic system. In order
to achieve these positive changes, the training has to be planned
according to certain guidelines.
Planning and control of your training
The basis for your training planning is your current physical fitness
condition. Your family doctor can diagnose your personal fitness
by means of an exercise tolerance test, which will constitute the
basis for your training planning. If you have not undergone an
exercise tolerance test, high training exertion and/or over-
straining must be avoided in all cases. The following rule should
be considered in your planning: stamina training is controlled
via the scope of exertion as well as via the level / intensity of
exertion.
Regarding exertion intensity
The intensity of exertion should preferably be checked in your
fitness training via your heart’s pulse rate. The maximum heart
rate per minute of > 220 minus age must not be exceeded. The
optimum training pulse is determined by age and training target.
Training target: fat burning/weight reduction
The optimum pulse frequency is calculated using the empirical
formula (220 – age) x 0.65.
Advice: fat burning for energy supply only gains significance
after a minimum training period of 30 minutes.
Training target cardio-vascular fitness:
The optimum pulse frequency is calculated using the empirical
formula (220 – age) x 0.75.
The intensity is predetermined in your training by means of the
braking levels, ranging from 1-16. As a beginner, you should
avoid too high braking level settings for your training, as this
will quickly lead to exceeding the recommended pulse rate
range. Start by using a low braking level setting and then
approach your optimum training pulse step by step. Do not forget
to regularly check during your fitness training whether you still
range within the intensity area according to the above stated
recommendations.
Sports physicians consider the following load factors to be
positive for fitness:
Beginners should not start with training units of 30 to 60
minutes.
A beginner training could be organised as follows during the
first four weeks:
In order to have a personal training documentation, you can
enter the training values achieved in the performance table.
Prior to and after every training unit gymnastic exercises lasting
approx. 5 minutes serve the warming up and/or cooling down.
There should be a day without training between two training
units, if you later on prefer to train three times a week for 20
- 30 minutes each. Otherwise nothing can be said against a
daily training.
Frequency Duration
daily 10 min
2-3 times weekly 20-30 min
1-2 times weekly 30-60 min
Frequency Length of exercise blocks
three times a week 2 minutes training
1 minute break for gymnastics
2 minutes training
1 minute break for gymnastics
2 minutes training
three times a week 3 minutes training
1 minute break for gymnastics
3 minutes training
1 minute break for gymnastics
2 minutes training
three times a week 4 minutes training
1 minute break for gymnastics
3 minutes training
1 minute break for gymnastics
3 minutes training
three times a week 5 minutes training
1 minute break for gymnastics
4 minutes training
1 minute break for gymnastics
4 minutes training
4th week
3rd week
2nd week
1st week