True Fitness PS500, PS300, PS700, PS100 User Manual

PS Series

Treadmill Owner's Guide

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In 1981, Frank Trulaske launched

TRUE Fitness Technology, Inc. and began manufacturing hand-crafted treadmills.

His team’s obsession with quality has propelled TRUE to the top of the fitness industry and has created one of America’s oldest, largest and most

“Our original goal was

to build the world’s

best fitness equipment,

and today we believe

we’re doing it!”

-Frank Trulaske

While TRUE has expanded its line of products, intensive quality control standards guarantee excellence in every phase of production. This results in the finest products available in the marketplace.

TRUE is rapidly becoming the choice for workouts among beginners, rehab patients and top

athletes world-wide. respected fitness equipment manufacturers.

Over the years, TRUE has designed, developed, patented and fabricated many new cutting-edge innovations for their products. Such advancements include groundbreaking new features, state-of-theart manufacturing components and technological breakthroughs.

Today TRUE Fitness offers a full line of premium elliptical trainers, treadmills, upright and recumbent bikes, and flexibility equipment. TRUE is proud to deliver the best!

Review for Your Safety

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

When using this exercise machine, basic precautions should always be followed, including 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 treadmill for incorrect, worn, or loose components and do not use until corrected, replaced, or tightened prior to use.

Do not wear loose or dangling clothing while using the treadmill.

Care should be used when mounting or dismounting the treadmill.

Read, understand, and test the emergency stop procedures before use.

Disconnect all power before servicing the treadmill.

Do not operate electrically powered treadmills in damp or wet locations.

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Review for Your Safety

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

Do not exceed maximum user weight of 350 lbs.

Keep the top side of the moving surface clean and dry.

Keep children and animals away.

All exercise equipment is potentially hazardous. If attention is not paid to the conditions of equipment, death or serious injury could occur.

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Quick Start Guide

Before Your

Workout

During Your

Workout

Quick Start into a manual workout by pressing , or set up a different workout by pressing a workout key and adjusting the setting as necessary.

You can keep fine-tuning your workout setup by repeatedly pressing when you press

Adjust speed

Quick Speed or Quick Incline key.

Change workouts during your workout by pressing a program key.

Pause your workout by pressing

to go to the next setting. Your workout starts only

or incline at any time by using the dedicated speed

and incline keys on the lower keypad, or by pressing a

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Table of Contents

Front Section

Safety instructions,

Quick Start Guide,

Model Differences

and Starting and

Stopping the

Treadmill Safely.

page 1

3 - User Programs

How to record and

run User Programs.

page 23

6 -

Care and

Maintenance

1 - Basic

Operation

page 9

4 - TV/Video

Systems

page 27

2 - Heart

Rate Control

Workouts

page 19

5 - Designing an

Exercise Program

page 31

page 39

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M an ual

Calorie Burn er

Hill I

nter vals

Speed I

nter vals (2)

Speed R amp-Up

Glu

te Bu ster

Leg Shaper

Car dio Challenge

User P rograms

HRC Cru ise Con trol

Model Diﬀerences

Your new treadmill is part of the True Performance Series treadmills. Since this owner’s guide covers all five Performance models, you might notice descriptions of features that are different from your treadmill. The main differences are in the consoles.

PS100/300

• Black-on-blue LCD data display

• Dedicated workout and speed and incline keys.

PS500/700

• LED data displays.

• 7-inch video screen for TV and DVD viewing.

• Audio speakers.

• Music player input for speaker listening.

Model Differences

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Starting And Stopping the Treadmill Safely

Starting And

Stopping

Your

Treadmill

Safely

Place your feet on the straddle covers.

Attach the safety lanyard to your waistband.

Place the safety key on the key holder.

Set up your workout and press

Stop the treadmill by reducing speed to 2 mph, then press

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chapter one

Basic Operation

In This Chapter:

Heart Rate Monitoring

Special Workouts

Classic Pre-Set Workouts

Chapter 1: Basic Operation

Chapter 2: Heart Rate Control Workouts Chapter 3: User Workouts Chapter 4: Audio and Video Systems Chapter 5: Designing an Exercise Program Chapter 6: Care and Maintenance

Using the Keyboard

CHAPTER ONE: BASIC OPERATION

Selecting Workouts: Press any of the workout keys and press to begin your workout using the default settings.

Before pressing , you may adjust other settings like Workout Time and Body Weight, pressing Press workouts require settings adjustments.

Adjusting Settings: Use the keys to adjust numeric settings. Press

Primary Controls: During your workout, press treadbelt and pause your workout. Press workout. Press and hold

Change Data Display: During your workout, press the data displayed.

Safety Lanyard: This magnetized cord must be in place on the treadmill balance bar location, and should be attached to your clothing. The treadmill will not operate if the lanyard is not attached.

at any time to begin your workout. Note that HRC

to accept each settings adjustment.

to clear your workout.

after adjusting each setting.

to stop the

to resume your

to change

Using the Keyboard

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Manual & Operation Guide

CHAPTER ONE: BASIC OPERATION

Manual Operation Details

Press Quick Start: Start the treadbelt at 0.5 mph at the default workout time of 30 minutes.

OR...

Setting Time or Distance Targets

. Now either enter a workout time and press ,

or press

You can keep adjusting your workout setup by repeatedly pressing

. Your workout starts only when you press .

to be prompted for a target distance.

: Enter your weight and press

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Heart Rate Monitoring

CHAPTER ONE: BASIC OPERATION

This treadmill can monitor your heart rate using either the chest strap provided with the treadmill or the metal grips on the hand rails (called contact heart rate, or CHR pads). A chest strap transmits your heart rate to the treadmill via radio, and the CHR pads connect to a special computer circuit to extract your heart rate.

Although this treadmill functions fine without using the heart rate monitoring feature, this kind of monitoring gives you valuable feedback on your effort level. Chest strap monitoring also allows you to use Heart Rate Control, the most advanced exercise control system available.

When you wear a Polar treadmill will display your heart rate as a digital beats-per-minute (bpm) readout.

® or compatible transmitter strap, the

Monitoring Your Heart Rate

Chest Strap Heart Rate Monitoring

The transmitter strap should be worn directly against your skin, about one inch below the pectoral muscles/breast line (see picture). Women should be careful to place the transmitter below their bra line.

Some moisture is necessary between the strap and your skin. Sweat from your exercise works best, but ordinary tap water may be used prior to your workout if desired.

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Contact Heart Rate

CHAPTER ONE: BASIC OPERATION

Contact

Heart Rate

(CHR)

For Best

CHR Results

The contact heart rate (CHR) system lets you monitor your heart rate without wearing a strap.

Gently grasp the contact heart rate pads.

When the system detects your hands, the Heart Rate label will start flashing 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 beats per minute (bpm) should be displayed.

Important: The CHR System should only be used at speeds of 4 mph or lower. Above this speed the CHR accuracy is unavoidably unreliable due to large muscle movements.

1. Exercise with smooth body motions.

2. Breathe smoothly and regularly, and avoid talking. (Talking will cause unrepresentative heart rate spikes of 5 to 10 bpm.)

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.

About 5% of the population

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 workout, it is best to use chest strap monitoring. These workouts work best with the extra accuracy gained from a chest-contact heart rate monitoring system.

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.

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Special Workouts

CHAPTER ONE: BASIC OPERATION

Each workout has a four-minute warm up and a two-minute cool down. Speed or incline changes stay in effect until the next change requested by the program. Changing the default workout time adds or removes segments; it does not stretch or compress the workout profile.

Change workout levels during your workout by pressing the workout key you are using, adjusting the numeric level, then pressing workout by pressing the Program Profile key repeatedly and pressing

In a walking workout, all speeds are under 4 mph. Increasing levels increases speed from 2 to 4 mph and incline from 4% to 10%; speed and incline stay constant in the work section. Speed or incline changes in the work section are permanent.

. Change to a new pre-set workout during your

at your desired workout.

Pre-Set Workouts

Walking: Calorie Burn

Changes in Incline

Walking intervals with incline alternate between hills and nearly flat in two-minute segments. Speed changes are permanent; incline changes affect the current two-minute segment only.

Changes in Incline

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Walking: Hill Intervals

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