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PS900
Recumbent & Upright Bike
Owner’s Guide
800.426.6570 / www.truefitness.com
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Thank You For Selecting True In 1981 Frank Trulaske Today True also produces launched True Fitness award-winning exercise Technology with one goal bikes, ellipticals, and in mind – to make the TrueStretch, our patented finest fitness equipment on flexibility unit. the market. True Fitness is dedicated His team began by to always staying a step manufacturing premium, ahead of the competition handcrafted treadmills and supplying its valued “Our original with a focus on quality customers
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Review for Your Safety IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS When using this exercise machine, basic precautions should always be followed, which includes the following: Read and understand all instructions and warnings prior to use. Obtain a medical exam before beginning any exercise program. If at any time during exercise you feel faint, dizzy, or experience pain, stop and consult your physician. Obtain proper instruction prior to use. Inspect the bike for incorrect, worn, or loose components and
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Quick Start Guide The best way to learn to use the PS900 Bike is to keep pressing Just Get On keys to see what happens — explore it at your own pace. and Ride! Starting Up • Begin pedaling. • The display will wake up and prompt for your weight, workout selection, and workout time. • Enter your workout parameters and press , or immediately press for a quick start into a manual workout. The bike will retain your workout data for about 15 seconds after Pausing Your you stop pedal
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Table of Contents 1 - Riding Your 2 - The Display 3 - Manual and Bike Pre-Set Programs page 19 page7 page 15 4 - Heart Rate 5 - Designing an 6 - Care and Control Exercise Program Maintenance page 29 page 39 page 23 Appendix A Appendix B Maximum Heart Rate Specifications and Target Heart Rate page 45 page 41 6 PS900 Owner’s Guide
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Chapter One Riding Your Bike In This Chapter: Getting Comfortable Using Your Heart Rate to Exercise Using the Chest Strap Using Contact Heart Rate Getting the Best Results Possible Chapter 1: Riding Your Bike Chapter 2: The Display Chapter 3: Manual and Pre-Set Programs Chapter 4: Heart Rate Control Chapter 5: Designing an Exercise Program Chapter 6: Care and Maintenance 7
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Getting Comfortable CHAPTER ONE: RIDING YOUR BIKE The body weight setting does Setting Your Variations in human not affect the calorie expenditure Weight exercise efficiency are another calculation. Unlike treadmills or potential source of error, other weight-bearing exercises, calories burned during exercise with differences of plus or biking does not change with minus 10% common in the different body weights. population. Adjust the seat so that Seat Adjustment when your leg is fu
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Riding Efficiently and Comfortably CHAPTER ONE: RIDING YOUR BIKE Riders are most efficient if they place Foot the ball of their foot in the center of Position the pedal. Other riders are more comfortable if the arch of their foot is against the pedal. Riders are encouraged to be as efficient as possible, but use your own judgement in the comfort/efficiency tradeoff. Most riders will find a comfort/efficiency sweet spot at a Pedal pedal cadence around 80 rpm. More serious riders desiri
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Monitoring Your Heart Rate Using the Chest Strap CHAPTER ONE: RIDING YOUR BIKE CHAPTER ONE: RIDING YOUR BIKE The PS900 Bike has two ways of monitoring your heart rate: Monitoring Your Heart Rate ...By using a chest strap that transmits your heart rate to the bike via radio... ...or by using the metal contact heart rate pads on the handlebars. Upright HRC Pads Recumbent HRC Pads Although your bike functions fine without using the heart rate monitoring feature, this kind of monitoring giv
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Using the Chest Strap Monitor CHAPTER ONE: RIDING YOUR BIKE When you wear a Polar® or compatible transmitter strap, the bike Chest Strap will display your heart rate as a digital beats-per-minute (bpm) Heart Rate readout. Monitoring The transmitter strap should be worn directly against your skin, about one inch below the pectoral muscles/breast line (see picture below). Women should be careful to place the transmitter be- low their bra line. Examples of Heart Rates Found in Daily Lif
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Contact Heart Rate CHAPTER ONE: RIDING YOUR BIKE The contact heart rate system lets you monitor your heart rate Contact without wearing a strap. Heart Rate (CHR) Gently grasp the contact heart rate pads as shown below. When the system detects your hands, a red heart will appear in the Heart Rate field of the data display and will flash in time with your heart beat. During this time, the system is analyzing and locking in your heart rate. Within about 15 seconds, your digital heart rate in
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For Best Results CHAPTER ONE: RIDING YOUR BIKE 1. Exercise with smooth body motions. Avoid excessive body For Best motion, especially in your arms and upper body. Results 2. Breathe smoothly and regularly, and avoid talking. (Talking will cause unrepresentative heart rate spikes of 5 to 10 bpm.) 3. Grip the pads lightly, not tightly. 4. Make sure your hands are clean, free of both dirt and hand lotions. When using a Heart Rate Control (HRC) workout, it is best to use chest s
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Chapter Two The Display In This Chapter: Your Display The Upper Panel The Lower Panel Chapter 1: Riding Your Bike Chapter 2: The Display Chapter 3: Manual and Pre-Set Programs Chapter 4: Heart Rate Control Chapter 5: Designing an Exercise Program Chapter 6: Care and Maintenance 15
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Your Display CHAPTER TWO: THE DISPLAY The bike display has two jobs: to let you control the bike opera- Your Display tion, and to give you feedback about your workout. The controls are simple and designed to be foolproof; it’s hard to press a “wrong” key. You can monitor eight different kinds of physiological data, and your workout progress is tracked graphically with the center matrix display 16 PS900 Owner’s Guide
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The Upper Panel CHAPTER TWO: THE DISPLAY 17 PS900 Owner’s Guide Watts: The amount of mechanical power the bike is receiving from Time: The amount of your exercise. This is not the same time remaining in your as the amount of power your body workout. If you press is using, since the average person is , this becomes only about 20% efficient at generat- Heart Rate: elapsed time: how long ing mechanical power. * Distance: An In beats you’ve been working out estimate of how per minute MET
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Numeric: Used for data entry in workout setup. During a workout, used Pre-set Programs: Selects to change workload desired program profile. by entering a numeric value and pressing . Random: Generates a different program profile each time Enter: Accepts the current Clear: Zeros- Workload: Adjusts work- data entry. Start: Starts out current load up and down. Keys a workout data entry. repeat if held down. The Lower Panel CHAPTER TWO: THE DISPLAY 18 PS900 Owner’s Guide
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Chapter Three Manual and Pre-Set Programs In This Chapter: How These Modes Work Program Profiles How Your Bike Controls Your Workout Chapter 1: Riding Your Bike Chapter 2: The Display Chapter 3: Manual and Pre-Set Programs Chapter 4: Heart Rate Control Chapter 5: Designing an Exercise Program Chapter 6: Care and Maintenance 19
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How These Modes Work CHAPTER THREE: MANUAL AND PRE-SET PROGRAMS Manual control mode changes workload in 10-watt increments. Manual The workload stays the same at any pedal cadence (called Mode constant power control) unless you drop below 55 rpm. Below 55 rpm, workload is reduced along with pedal cadence, to prevent the sensation of the pedals “locking up.” Three different preset programs are available: Pre-Set Programs • C-V Workout, with the workload gradually rising until you reach t
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Program Profiles CHAPTER THREE: MANUAL AND PRE-SET PROGRAMS Program Profiles C-V Workout Weight Loss Hill Interval 21 PS900 Owner’s Guide
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How Your Bike Controls Your Workout CHAPTER THREE: MANUAL AND PRE-SET PROGRAMS The PS900 Bike closely controls how How the For comfort reasons, if hard you’re working, so that you get PS900 Bike your pedaling speed goes just the workout you’re looking for. Controls below 55 rpm, the PS900 It does this by keeping track of both Your Bike reduces the how fast you’re pedaling and how Exercise resistance on the pedals, hard you’re pressing on the pedals. so they won’t feel like they At
