PS50 Recumbent Bike Owner’s Guide 15
The Upper Panel

Chapter Two: The Display

Time: The amount of
time remaining in your
workout. If you press
, this becomes
elapsed time: how long
you’ve been working out
so far.*
Work Level:
The selected
workout level.
Distance: An
estimate of how
far you would have
traveled on an out-
door road bike.*
Watts: The amount of mechanical
power the bike is receiving from
your exercise. This is not the same
as the amount of power your body
is using, since the average person is
only about 20% efficient at generat-
ing mechanical power. *
RPM: Your pedal
cadence. *
METs: Your
METsrate.*
Heart Rate:
In beats
per minute
(bpm).*
Calories: An esti-
mate of your calories
burned. This doesn’t
include your basal
metabolic rate, which
is about 72 calo-
ries per hour for a
150-pound person.*
*Pressing the “Change Display” key switches the readout from
the top values to the bottom values and will light up the LEDs of
the values now being displayed. If you press and hold the “Change
Display”keyforonesecond,thedisplaywillenter“ScanMode”and
switch between the two sets of values.