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TRAINING INSTRUCTIONS
All recommendations in this manual apply only to healthy persons and are not intended
for cardiovascular patients!
All instructions are intended as a rough guide for a training program. Your physician can
provide information tailored to your special, personal needs. The following pages will
explain exactly how to handle your new exercise unit and contain basic information on
fitness training. In order to achieve your training goals, it is imperative that you inform
yourself on how to design a training program in general and exactly how to use this unit
with the aid of this user manual. To this end, please carefully read and adhere to all the
points listed here.
Thank you and good luck!
DESIGNING A FITNESS TRAINING PROGRAM
Please consider the following factors when determining how extensive your training
should be in order to achieve noticeable improvements of your physical condition and
health:
INTENSITY
The level of physical strain during training must exceed normal strain without making
you breathless and/or exhausted.
Your heart rate can serve as a suitable point of reference for effective training. Your
heart rate should be around 70% to 85% of your maximum heart rate during training.
(See the heart rate table in the appendix for information on measurement and
calculation.)
During the first week of training, your heart rate should not exceed 70% of your
maximum heart rate. In the following weeks and months, you should raise heart rate to
85% of your maximum heart rate. The better the user's condition, the more greatly the
training level will have to be raised. This can be achieved by lengthening your training
sessions and/or increasing the level of difficulty. Should you wish to manually check
your heart rate against the measurement provided by the treadmill training computer,
you can proceed as follows::
• Check your pulse manually (hold the pads of two fingers to your wrist and count the
number of pulse beats in a minute).
• Check your pulse using a suitable calibrated heart rate monitor (available at medical
supply shops).
ATTENTION!
The heart rate monitor can be inaccurate. Excess strain can lead to injury and death.
Cease training immediately if you feel week.
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