Life Fitness Basic Workouts Console FPO - Manual (Page 20)

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How To Use: Basic Workouts Console
How to Use the Workouts
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3 Hill Workout (Experienced – Fit)
Access: This workout can be started by using the navigation keys
to scroll to the Hill workout profile and pressing Enter.
Description: The Life Fitness patented hill workout is an interval
training workout. Intervals are periods of intense aerobic exercise.
The workout profile window displays the levels of the intervals,
which together have the appearance of hills and valleys.
Resistance and incline adjustments are used to simulate the
hills/valleys and speed is controlled by the user.
The hill workout has two main phases that are in between the
warm-up and cool-down.
1 Plateau: Increases the intensity slightly and keeps
it steady, to bring the heart rate to the low end of the
target zone.
2 Interval Training: Is a series of increasingly
steeper hills, alternating with valleys, or periods of
recovery. The heart rate should rise to the high end of the
target zone during this segment.
Goal: The computerized interval training workout has been
scientifically demonstrated to promote greater cardio-respiratory
improvement than steady-pace training. The goal of this workout is to
improve cardiovascular endurance and break through fitness plateaus.
HILL WORKOUT