True Fitness CS8 - Manual (Page 16)

CS 8.0 Owner’s Guide
Contact Heart Rate Use
CHAPTER TWO: RIDING YOUR BIKE
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Contact
Heart Rate
(CHR)
The contact heart rate system lets you monitor your heart rate
without wearing a strap.
Gently grasp the contact heart
rate pads as shown below.
When the system detects your
hands, the heart rate LED
will flash in time with your
heart beat. During this time,
the system is analyzing and
locking in your heart rate.
Within about 10 seconds,
your digital heart rate in beats
per minute (bpm) should be
displayed.
A Note on CHR Accuracy
CHR monitoring may be a bit
less accurate than a chest strap,
since the heart rate signals are
much stronger at the chest.
The CS 8.0 Bike uses the most
advanced CHR system avail-
able. It converts your heart rate
waveform to a digital signal,
then analyzes the digitized
waveform to pick out the
electrocardiogram shape and
thus the heart rate.
About 5% of the population
cannot be picked up by any CHR
system. This is because their
heart is positioned in a more
up-and-down manner in their
chest, as opposed to leaning over
to one side.