Yamaha BODIBEAT BF-11 User Manual

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BF-11 Owner’s Manual

The “Precautions” section is located on pages 6 – 7. Please read this carefully before using the BODiBEAT BF-11.

This manual may be revised and updated without prior notice. To download the latest manual, visit our website at:

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How to Use the Manual

Congratulations!

Thank you for purchasing the Yamaha BODiBEAT BF-11 Interactive Music Player. If you’re a music lover who enjoys exercising along with music, you’ll ﬁnd that the many functions and features of the BF-11 not only make exercising fun but also make it much more effective. We recommend that you read this manual carefully so that you can fully take advantage of the advanced and convenient functions of the BF-11 and safely enjoy your exercise sessions with it.

How to Use the Manual

Included with the BF-11 are four operating manuals: Operating the BODiBEAT/ Wearing the BODiBEAT, Quick Guide, BF-11 Owner’s Manual, and BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual. The BF-11 Owner’s Manual and the BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual are included in the CD-ROM.

Operating the BODiBEAT/Wearing the BODiBEAT

This sheet provides simple instructions on operating the BF-11 and shows how to properly put on the BF-11 for exercising.

Starting Up

Exercising

Computer

Music Player

Settings

Quick Guide

The Quick Guide includes important Precautions for using the BF-11 and also introduces the basic functions of the device.

BF-11 Owner’s Manual (this manual; PDF)

The Owner’s Manual provides complete, detailed information and instructions for using the BF-11. Use the table of contents to locate features and functions you want to use, and use the Menu Tree to locate information about items that appear on the BF-11’s display.

BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual (PDF)

This is the manual for the included “BODiBEAT Station” software. Make sure to read this manual when using BODiBEAT Station.

Using the PDF manual

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section or chapter (including Troubleshooting, Menu Tree and Index).

➤ From the Contents box on the top page, click on the desired topic to

automatically jump to the corresponding page.

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“Find” or “Search” from the Adobe Reader “Edit” menu and enter a key word to locate the related information anywhere in the document.

➤ You can also click on desired items and topics you want to refer to in the

“Bookmarks” index to the left of the main display window, and jump to the corresponding page. (Click the “Bookmarks” tab to open the index if it is not displayed.)

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The names and positions of menu items may vary according to the version of Adobe Reader being used.

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Included Accessories

About the indications

DANGER / WARNING / CAUTION

These indicate important information you need and precautions you must take to avoid problems and damage during use.

IMPORTANT

This indicates information and precautions that may be crucial regarding the relevant operation.

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This indicates helpful information and tips for getting the most out of your use of the BF-11.

This indicates supplemental information.

Continue to next page

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SPECIAL NOTICES

• Copying of the commercially available musical data is strictly prohibited except for your personal use.

• This owner’s manual is the exclusive copyrights of Yamaha Corporation.

• The illustrations and displays as shown in this owner’s manual are for instructional purposes only, and may appear somewhat different from those on your device.

• Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft and other countries.

Corporation in the United States

Music Player

Settings

• The company names and product names in this owner’s manual are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Included Accessories

Armband

User

Registration

Card

Cable clip

Earphones

(with pulse sensor) USB cable

Operating the BODiBEAT/

Wearing the BODiBEAT

Earphone

Pads

Quick Guide

CD-ROM

Troubleshooting

Menu Tree

Index

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Contents

How to Use the Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Included Accessories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

PRECAUTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Starting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Panel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Turning the Power On / Making Initial Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Control Hold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Turning the Power Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Putting on the BF-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Attaching the armband. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Putting on the earphones and pulse sensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Basic Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Selecting a menu item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Changing a setting or parameter value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Enter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

About the Display Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Exercising with the BF-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Walking/Jogging at Your Own Pace—Free Workout Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Exercising with Free Workout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Goal Setting and Music Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

After a Free Workout session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Fitness Modes—Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Exercising with the Fitness modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Exercising According to a Training Program—Training Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Exercising with preset programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Creating a new program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Editing the preset (or already created) Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Deleting a program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Operation During Exercise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Managing the Exercise Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Checking the Exercise Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Deleting Exercise Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Connecting to a Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

About the BODiBEAT Station Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

How to Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Removing the device from the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Loading Music Data to the BF-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Contents

Using the BF-11 as a Music Player—Music Playback Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Selecting Songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Playing the songs from an artist or album—Artist/Album. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Playing a single song—Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Playing the songs from a Playlist—Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Basic Operations in Music Playback Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Fast-forward and reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Stop and pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Exiting from the Play Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Returning to the Play Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Music Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Workout Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Play Mode—Repeat and Shuffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Bass Boost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Hardware Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Sensors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Date/Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

User Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Heart Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Weight/Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Birthday/Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Learning Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

Initialize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

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Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Menu Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80

BF-11 Preset Training Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

FYI

What is ‘Effective’ Aerobic Exercise? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

About heart rate reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

About the BODiBEAT songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

About Maximum Heart Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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PRECAUTIONS

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING

* Please keep this manual in a safe place for future reference.

DANGER

Make sure to always observe the basic precautions listed below to prevent the likelihood of serious injury or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damage, ﬁre or other hazards. These precautions include, but are not limited to, the following:

Do not open

• Do not disassemble the device or modify it in any way. This can result in the device bursting, or even an explosion or ﬁre. If the device should appear to be malfunctioning, discontinue use immediately and have it inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service personnel.

Water related

• Do not drop the device into the water.

Fire related

• Do not throw the device into a ﬁre, or put burning items near the device.

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Handling

• Do not use or expose the device to extreme heat (such as direct sunlight, near a heater or in a car during the day) to prevent the possibility of explosion, ﬁre or bursting. Charge the device and use it in temperature conditions between 0° to 35°C (32° to 95°F) and keep in an environment of between -10° to 45°C (14° to 113°F).

• Do not operate the device or use earphones while driving a car or riding a motorcycle or a bicycle, since this could result in a serious accident.

•To avoid accidents while walking or jogging, keep the volume low enough to hear outside trafﬁc sounds and avoid concentrating too closely on the display.

If you notice any abnormality

• If there is a sudden loss of sound during use of the device, or if any unusual smells or smoke should appear to be caused by it, immediately turn off the power switch and have the device inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service personnel.

WARNING

Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damages, ﬁre or other hazards. These precautions include, but are not limited to, the following:

When exercising

• If you are not in good physical condition (chronic illness, during pregnancy, or other abnormal conditions), consult your physician before beginning any exercise.

• If exercising causes you any pain or discomfort, immediately get rest and consult a physician if necessary.

• Make sure that any ear jewelry or accessories you wear do not interfere with the pulse sensor for accurate heart rate readings. Wearing earrings may cause inaccurate heart rate detection, which can result in your workout being too strenuous or not strenuous enough.

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PRECAUTIONS

Handling

• Keep the device in a place out of the reach of small children.

• Never insert paper, metallic, or other objects into the device. If this happens, turn off the power immediately, and then have the device inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service personnel.

USB AC Power Adaptor (Optional)

• Only use the voltage speciﬁed as correct for the adaptor. The required voltage is printed on the adaptor.

• Use the speciﬁed adaptor (PA-U010 or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha) only. Using the wrong adaptor can result in damage to the device or overheating.

• Check the electric plug periodically and remove any dirt or dust which may have accumulated on it.

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CAUTION

Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of physical injury to you or others, or damage to the device or other property. These precautions include, but are not limited to, the following:

Handling

• Do not use or expose the device to excessive dust, or extreme cold. Doing so may cause the device to malfunction.

• Do not rest your weight on, or place heavy objects on the device, and do not use excessive force on the buttons, switches, connectors or earphone cable.

• Do not touch the connector with wet hands. If the device gets wet inside from the connector, it may cause the device to malfunction.

•Take care not to tangle the earphone cable around your body or neighboring objects, since this can cause injuries or accidents.

• Do not use the device or earphones for a long period of time at a high or uncomfortable volume level, since this can cause permanent hearing loss. If you experience any hearing loss or ringing in the ears, consult a physician.

• Some people may experience an abnormal sensation or discomfort on their skin. If this should occur, stop using the device and consult a physician.

USB AC Power Adaptor (Optional)

• Unplug the USB AC power adaptor from the wall AC outlet when you are not using the device for a long time, or during electrical storms.

• Do not try to exercise with the device while charging. Doing so may cause the device to malfunction. Moreover, the USB cable may get tangled up with your body and result in injury.

Settings

Maintenance

• When cleaning the device, use a soft, dry cloth. Do not use paint thinners, solvents, cleaning ﬂuids, or chemical-impregnated wiping cloths.

•Yamaha cannot be held responsible for damage caused by improper use or modiﬁcations to the device.

•Yamaha cannot be held responsible for any health problems during exercise with the device. Take full responsibility for your own health.

This device contains a lithium-ion battery. After usage, you may recycle the battery, but never attempt to remove it by yourself. Have the device inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service personnel. If there is no Yamaha service personnel in your area, dispose of it properly according to relevant environmental laws and disposal rules in your area.

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Starting Up

This section provides the basic information you’ll need to set up the BF-11 and start using it. Make sure that you carefully read through all of the sections below before starting to use the device.

Contents

Charging the Battery .......................................................................... 9

Panel Controls.................................................................................. 10

Tu r ning the Power On / Making Initial Settings................................. 12

Control Hold ..................................................................................... 15

Tu r ning the Power Off....................................................................... 16

Putting on the BF-11 ........................................................................ 17

Music Player

Settings

Attaching the armband ............................................................ 17

Putting on the earphones and pulse sensor ............................ 19

Basic Operations.............................................................................. 22

Selecting a menu item ............................................................. 22

Changing a setting or parameter value.................................... 22

Enter ........................................................................................ 23

Back......................................................................................... 23

About the Display Icons ........................................................... 23

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Charging the Battery

You will need to charge the BF-11 before you use it for the ﬁrst time. To charge the battery of the BF-11, simply connect it to a computer with the included USB cable. Make sure the computer is on and running.

IMPORTANT

For further details on connecting with a computer, refer also to page 51.

BF-11

USB cable

You can also charge the battery using the optional PA-U010 USB AC power adaptor and the included USB cable.

The optional USB AC power adaptor may not be available depending on your particular area. Please check with your Yamaha dealer.

Computer

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BF-11

To electrical outlet

USB AC power adaptor

USB cable

DANGER

Do not charge the battery in extremely cold or hot environments. You should charge it in a temperature conditions of between 0° to 35°C (32° to 95°F). Recharging the battery in high temperatures may result in ﬁre or an explosion.

CAUTION

Make sure to only use the USB cable included with the device. Use of any other cable may damage the BF-11 or cause the unit to malfunction.

You can check the remaining battery power and charging status with the battery icon at the top right of the display.

...... Battery is being charged.

...... Battery power is full. The device is ready for use.

...... Battery power is a little low.

Troubleshooting

...... Battery power will soon run out. Charge the battery.

...... Battery is empty. Immediately charge the battery.

Complete charging of the battery from no power to being fully charged takes about three hours. When charging the battery from a laptop, we recommend connecting the power cord of the laptop to an AC outlet.

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Panel Controls

35 4

1 ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons

These are used for navigating through menu items and parameters in the display, and also for changing parameter values and settings. Pressing both at the same time allows you to select or call up a highlighted item.

Open the ﬂap

RESET

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2 Display

This shows all indications for operation and use of the BF-11. If you haven’t used any of the panel controls for a while, the display automatically turns off in order to save battery power (page 69). When the display turns off, simply press any key to turn it on again.

3 LED

While one of the exercise modes is active and the pulse sensor is properly attached (page 20), this ﬂashes in time with your heart rate. If your heart rate is fast (or the exercise intensity is too strenuous—i.e., the %HRR is more than 75%), the LED ﬂashes in red. When your exercise pace is optimal (%HRR is between 55% and 75%), the LED ﬂashes in green. If your heart rate is slow (the exercise intensity is low—i.e., the %HRR is lower than 55%, or you are not exercising), the LED ﬂashes in blue. In all other situations, the LED is off.

For details of %HRR, refer to page 38.

4 [] (Standby/On) button

This is used to turn the power on and off. (You can turn the power off in two different ways; see page 16.)

5 [MENU/BACK] button

Pressing this returns to the previous display menu. Holding it down for two seconds returns to the Top Menu (the highest level menu).

Troubleshooting

Menu Tree

The [MENU/BACK] button is slightly inclined so that you can easily press it with one of your right ﬁngers during exercising.

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Panel Controls

6 Earphone/ear clip connector

For connection to the special earphone/ear clip. (See page 17.)

7 [RESET] switch

This small switch (behind the ﬂap at the lower part of the device) lets you recover the BF-11 in case of some kind of operational trouble—for example, if the device “freezes” or hangs up. Use a small, thin tool to press the switch, such as a miniature screwdriver or a ballpoint pen.

CAUTION

When the [RESET] switch is pressed, noise may be produced because of the sudden ﬂow of electricity. Before pressing the [RESET] switch, remove the earphones from your ears.

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This is for connection to a computer (via USB) or to the optional USB AC power adaptor. (See page 9.)

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Tu r ning the Power On / Making Initial Settings

The ﬁrst time you turn on the power of your new BF-11, the device conveniently and automatically guides you through several important settings. These include the display language, correct time and date, as well as personal information such as your birthday, weight, height and resting heart rate. You’ll need to make these settings before you can effectively use the BF-11. Once you’ve entered this data, the BF-11 becomes your own personal exercise device, customized with your unique settings.

If the display turns off at any time while you’re making the initial settings, simply press any key to turn it on again.

Operation

1 Press the [ ] (Standby/On) button to turn on the power.

If you are turning on the power for the ﬁrst time (or you have reset the device; see page 76), the Language display will appear. This determines the language for all messages and indications on the BF-11. Five languages are available: English, Japanese, German, Spanish and French.

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When you are turning on the power for the second time or after, the Top display (page 14) will appear.

2 Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to select the desired language.

3 Simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the

selection.

The following displays will appear in succession. Follow the instructions in each of the displays, making the necessary settings and entering the relevant information.

Throughout the rest of this manual, all operations and example displays are given in English.

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■ Date/Time

This lets you set the correct date and time for the BF-11, as well as the preferred format for each.

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the setting then simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the change.

The cursor automatically moves to the next parameter. After you ﬁnish all the settings, go on to the next display.

The set Time is entered at the moment you press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons when the cursor is located at the AM/PM position.

■ Birthday/Sex

This lets you enter your birthday and gender. Your birthday in particular is important, since it determines the physical age the BF-11 uses in its calculations.

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Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the setting then simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the change.

The cursor automatically moves to the next parameter. After you ﬁnish all the settings, go on to the next display.

■ Weight/Height

This setting lets you enter your personal weight and height. Measure the two as accurately as possible, since these are used by the BF-11 in its calculations.

The units of measurement used here when you make these settings are pounds and feet, but the corresponding values in kilograms and meters are shown at the bottom of the display.

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the setting then simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the change.

The cursor automatically moves to the next parameter. After you ﬁnish setting both parameters, go on to the next display.

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■ Heart Rate

This lets you register your resting heart rate and maximum heart rate. The resting heart rate can be simply measured by placing your ﬁngers on your wrist and counting the pulse during one minute, or by counting the pulse over 15 seconds and multiplying by four. (Make sure you’re relaxed and have not been exercising before taking your pulse.) After taking your pulse, enter the resting heart rate value in this display. This setting can be changed afterward if necessary by measuring pulse with the included pulse sensor (page 71). If you don’t know your maximum heart rate, it is unnecessary to enter it here; it is automatically calculated from your age by default.

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the setting then simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the change.

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The cursor automatically moves to the next parameter. After you ﬁnish setting both parameters, go on to the next display.

For details about resting heart rate and maximum heart rate, refer to pages 71 and 72.

Congratulations!

You’ve now made all necessary initial settings, and can now go on to using your new BF-11.

The Top Menu of the BF-11 is automatically called up. Select one of the modes from the Top Menu (referring to the appropriate section of this manual), and start exercising!

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Control Hold

This feature lets you “freeze” the panel controls of the BF-11 so that you don’t inadvertently change any settings while you’re exercising. While Control Hold is active, the [MENU/BACK] button and the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons are inactive. Only the [ ] (Standby/On) button can be used.

Operation

1 While the power is on, press the [ ] (Standby/On) button.

The “Hold Wizard” appears. This menu contains two items: Power off and Hold.

If you want to cancel the operation, press the [MENU/BACK] button.

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2 Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to select “Hold” then press both

buttons simultaneously to turn the Hold function on.

■ To turn Control Hold off:

1 While Hold is active, press the [ ] (Standby/On) button.

The “Hold Wizard” appears. This menu contains two items: Power off and Hold off.

2 Select “Hold off” then press both buttons simultaneously to turn

Hold off.

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Tu r ning the Power Off

You can turn the power of the BF-11 off in two different ways:

Press and release the [ ] (Standby/On) button. When the menu shown below appears, Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to select “Power off.”

If you want to cancel the operation, press the [MENU/BACK] button.

Press and hold down the [ ] (Standby/On) button for roughly two seconds until the display shown below appears.

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If no song is played and no operation is performed within 30 minutes, the power is automatically turned off.

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Attaching the armband

■ Attaching the BF-11 to the armband

1 Connect the earphone cable to the BF-11.

Be sure to push the earphone connector all the way in until the silicon packing ﬁts to the surface.

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CAUTION

• Do not unplug the earphone cable from the BF-11 while using it. If rain, sweat or any other liquid gets inside the BF-11 through the earphone terminal, the device could be damaged.

• When disconnecting the earphone cable, hold the connector directly and pull it. Do not pull on the cable.

If the silicone packing comes off, be sure to install it again so that the protruding part on the silicone packing ﬁts in the corresponding hole on the plug.

2 Attach the device to the armband.

IMPORTANT

• Make sure that the YAMAHA logo can be seen at the top of the arm band. This is the proper orientation for ﬁtting to the armband.

• Insert the BF-11 fully until a click sound is heard.

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■ Attaching the armband to your arm

IMPORTANT

Make sure to wear the arm band only when the BF-11 is also inside. The band cannot be adjusted if the armband is empty.

1 Loosen the armband and put your left arm into the armband.

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2 Fasten the armband to your upper arm, just above your elbow.

IMPORTANT

• Adjust the armband into position so that you can easily see the display.

• Do not wear the armband anywhere on your body other than your upper arm (for example, your neck, wrist, ankle, etc.). Doing so may cause the motion sensor to not function properly.

• Make sure to wear the BF-11 above your elbow. The sensor in the unit that measures vibration during your exercise will not function properly if the device is worn below the elbow.

• Do not fasten the armband too tight or too loose. If it’s too tight, it may cause discomfort and even harm you; too loose, and the motion sensor may not function properly, or the device may fall off your arm.

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■ Removing the BF-11 from the armband

Push the tab down and pull the device up and out.

■ Proper care of the armband

The armband requires little care, but if it gets dirty, wash it gently by hand with water. Make sure to dry it completely before using again.

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IMPORTANT

Make sure not to confuse the right (R) and left (L) earphones. The set cannot be worn properly in reverse.

1 Hook the earphone cable over the top of your ear.

2 Insert the earphone into your ear.

For comfort and better ﬁt, you may want to apply the earphone pads to the earphones before wearing them.

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3 Adjust the earphone angle as desired.

Do the same for both earphones and both ears.

IMPORTANT

The proper position is with the earphone tilted slightly against the ear. However, each individual’s ears may differ somewhat, so you should adjust this for maximum comfort and optimum listening.

If you want to use your own earphones, use the optional jack adaptor.

4 Clip the pulse sensor onto your ear lobe.

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Pulse sensor

While one of the exercise modes is active, the lamp on the device will ﬂash in time with your heart rate (page 10).

If your heart rate cannot be detected, try:

• Gently rubbing or massaging your ear to stimulate blood circulation.

• Changing the pulse sensor location.

• Adjusting the sensitivity of the pulse sensor (page 66).

5 Slide the cable tightener toward your head.

Doing this helps ﬁt the earphone set more snugly to your neck and head. Adjust the tightener to the most comfortable position.

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■ Using the cable clip

If the cable is too long and gets in your way while you are exercising, bind the excess cable with the convenient cable clip.

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If desired, you can also attach the cable to your clothing using the cable clip.

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Basic Operations

In this section, you’ll learn how to use the controls of the BF-11 for the basic operations of the device. These include moving the cursor highlight, selecting menu items, and changing settings and parameter values.

You should thoroughly read and understand this section, since the other instructions in the manual assume you are familiar with the basic operations.

Selecting a menu item

Press the ▲ (Up) button to move the cursor highlight up in the menu or press the ▼ (Down) button to move down.

Press

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highlight down

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Press

If the menu contains 4 or more items, a scroll bar appears at the right of display.

Changing a setting or parameter value

1 When you call up a display that has settings or parameters you can

change, the available parameter will automatically be selected. (The cursor highlight ﬂashes, indicating it can be changed.)

2 Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the selected setting or

value.

Press the appropriate button once to change the setting. For numeric values, each press increments or decrements the value accordingly. To make large changes to a number, hold down either button.

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Enter

Press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons together to actually call up the menu or enter the setting.

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Back

If you want to return to the previous display or return to the previous parameter and change the setting you’ve made, press the [MENU/BACK] button.

About the Display Icons

Shown at the top of the display are some icons which indicate the status of the BF-11.

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1 Shufﬂe (page 65)

2 or Repeat (page 65)

3 Play

Pause

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Stop

4 Remaining battery power (page 9)

Refer to page 42 for information about operation during exercise, and page 57 for operation in Music Playback mode.

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The BF-11 is a unique music player designed speciﬁcally for listening while exercising. It features a variety of sophisticated functions that tailor the music to your exercising. The BF-11 monitors your heart beat and walking/jogging steps, and automatically selects music of exactly the right tempo for your exercise. It also gives you comprehensive, detailed training programs that use the music and tempo to fully guide you through an exercise session—like an expert coach or trainer.

The BF-11 has three basic Exercise modes: Free Workout, Walk/Jog Fitness, and Training.

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Walking/Jogging at Your Own Pace—Free Workout Mode............... 25

Exercising with Free Workout .................................................. 26

Goal Setting and Music Selection............................................ 27

After a Free Workout session................................................... 29

Fitness Modes—Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness ............................... 30

Exercising with the Fitness modes .......................................... 31

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Exercising According to a Training Program—Training Mode........... 35

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Operation During Exercise ............................................................... 42

Managing the Exercise Logs............................................................ 46

What is ‘Effective’ Aerobic Exercise?..................................... 33

Exercising with preset programs.............................................. 35

Creating a new program .......................................................... 37

About heart rate reserve ....................................................... 38

Editing the preset (or already created) Program...................... 39

Deleting a program .................................................................. 41

Checking the Exercise Logs .................................................... 46

Deleting Exercise Logs ............................................................ 47

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Walking/Jogging at Your Own Pace—Free Workout Mode

In the Free Workout mode, the BF-11 automatically matches the music to your exercise pace, selecting songs that have almost the same tempo as your jogging or walking speed. When you change pace, the music changes with you. This lets you jog freely and set your own pace—and enjoy music that perfectly ﬁts your pace.

If you want to constrain the length of your exercise session, you can use the Goal Setting parameters to automatically stop music playback once you’ve reached the desired target. You can set the target to be a speciﬁc time, a speciﬁc distance, or the amount of calories you wish to burn off. (Only one of the targets can be set and be in effect for a session.)

To call up the Free Workout mode:

Select “Free Workout” from the Top Menu.

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Exercising with Free Workout

The Free Workout mode is an easy, convenient way to exercise using the versatile tempo changing features of the BF-11, since it automatically matches the music to your exercise pace.

Keep in mind that it takes a few seconds to detect your pace and call up a song that matches your pace.

If you ﬁnd that songs change frequently or few songs matching your pace are called up, adjust the sensitivity of the step sensor and/or the pace censor (page 67).

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1 From the Free Workout menu, select “Start,” then start jogging or

walking.

You can set the goal setting (targets for your exercise) and/or select a speciﬁc music playlist for the session. If you want to do so, select “Setting” here and go to page 27 (Goal Setting and Music Selection). Once you set the goal setting, it will be shown in the “Start” menu the next time you use the device, enabling you to continue with the same exercise settings as before.

If the pulse sensor is not attached properly or if your heart rate cannot be detected (that is, when the LED is off), heart rate is not memorized in the exercise log (page 29). Reattach the pulse sensor properly and make sure that your pulse is being measured.

For playback of certain songs (and depending, of course, on the characteristics of those songs), you may ﬁnd that the song tempo does not match your pace. If this is the case, you can manually correct the tempo information with the BODiBEAT Station software. For details, refer to the BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual.

2 While you’re jogging or walking, you can change the volume of the

music, select different songs, or lock the pace.

See “Operation During Exercise” on page 42.

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3 Press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons simultaneously after pressing

the [MENU/BACK] button once.

A log showing detailed information on your session automatically appears. (For more about the session log, see “After a Free Workout session” on

page 29.)

You can also stop the session by holding both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons together. If a goal is set in advance, once the set target has been reached, music playback stops automatically and the log display appears.

When the Learning Function (page 74) is set to on, a conﬁrmation message will appear before the log display appears and prompts you to update the maximum heart rate and tempo.

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Goal Setting and Music Selection

The Goal Setting parameters let you set a certain time period for your session, the distance to be covered, or the number of calories to be expended. The BF11 then automatically stops playback once the desired target has been reached.

The Goal Setting values feature several preset settings for convenience. A “Custom” setting is also available for each, allowing you to freely set the desired target.

After the Goal Setting is done, you can select the desired music (all songs or speciﬁc Playlists) from the Goal Setting display above when some playlists exist in the BF-11.

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1 From the Free Workout menu, select “Setting.”

2 Select the desired setting: Time, Distance, Calories.

If you want a completely open-ended workout session, select “Unlimited” and skip to step 4.

3 Simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to call up the

values for the selected setting, then set the target as desired.

Time

Available settings:

10, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90 (minutes), Custom

Distance

Available settings:

2, 5, 10 (miles), Half Marathon, Marathon, Custom

Settings

When the units of measurement is set to “Meters” in the Measurement parameter (page 69), the available settings are: 3, 5, 10 (kilometers), Half Marathon, Marathon, Custom

Calories

Available settings:

100, 300, 500, 700, 1000 (K calories), Custom

The amount of expended calories is calculated according to the following formula: Calories for walking (kcal) = 0.0005 x Speed (meter/min) x Weight (kg) x Time (min) Calories for jogging (kcal) = 0.001 x Speed (meter/min) x Weight (kg) x Time (min) (The basal metabolic rate for the exercise period is not included in this formula.)

To enter a custom setting, ﬁrst select “Custom” from the Time, Distance or Calories menu. Then change the value with the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons and enter it by simultaneously pressing both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

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4 From the appropriate Goal Setting menu, go to the Music Select

menu.

If you’ve selected the Unlimited setting (in step 2 above): Simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

If you’ve selected the Time, Distance or Calories setting (in step 3 above): Go to the setting display for the selected setting, and simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

When the Music Priority parameter (page 61) is set to “BODiBEAT Songs,” the Music Select display is not displayed and operation returns to the previous display.

5 From the Music Select menu, select the desired setting.

Available settings:

All Songs, Playlist(s)

Other Playlists will be shown here as you create them (using the included software) and load them to the BF-11. By default, the BF-11 has no custom music Playlists. However, it automatically creates two Playlists (Walk and Jog) when you ﬁrst load your own songs to the device. The BF-11 automatically sorts the songs you’ve loaded according to tempo and assigns them to the appropriate Playlist.

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Even if you’ve selected a speciﬁc Playlist or “All Songs” in step 2 here, playback may be a mix of pre-loaded BODiBEAT songs and audio songs, or even only BODiBEAT songs. This would occur when:

• No songs of the appropriate tempo exist in the speciﬁed Playlist or among all songs on the device.

• The Music Priority parameter (page 61) has been set to “Mix,” which means that audio songs and BODiBEAT songs are mixed in a 50/50 ratio. (The default setting of Music Priority is “User Songs,” which means that only audio songs are played, unless no songs of the appropriate tempo exist.)

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After a Free Workout session

Once your session is stopped (either automatically or manually), a log of the session automatically appears. This log shows important information about the session and your physical conditions. It also provides graphs showing the changes of your speed and heart rate during the session.

Keep in mind that you can use the convenient software included with the BF-11 to more easily manage, view and even print the logs and graphs of all your exercise sessions.

When the Free Workout session is stopped, the ﬁrst log display appears:

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to scroll through the display pages to view all log entries and graphs. The graph displays in pages 3/4 and 4/4 in particular give you easy-to-understand indication of how your pace and heart rate changed over the distance of the session.

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Indicates the Total Time and Total Distance for the session.

Indicates the Average Pace, Total Calories expended and Maximum Heart Rate for the session.

Shows in graph form the changes in your pace over the duration of the session.

Shows in graph form the changes in your heart rate over the duration of the session.

Since the distance, pace, calories or heart rate values in the logs are estimated based on the User Settings, they may differ from the actual values.

These log displays are the same as those in the Data menu of the Top Menu, and can be viewed at any time from the Data menu (the logs of latest 99 workouts are saved in the device).

To exit from the Log display pages, press the [MENU/BACK] button to return to the Free Workout display or hold the [MENU/BACK] button to return to the Top Menu.

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Fitness Modes—Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness

The Fitness modes provide the most appropriate music playback for optimal aerobic exercise. In that sense, they are similar to the Free Workout mode. However, they go much further, monitoring your heart rate and providing sophisticated ways of changing the music to give you a perfectly programmed, optimal aerobic workout—that matches your physical condition and the intensity of your exercise.

The built-in pulse sensor detects your heart rate as you exercise. Continuously and in real time, the BF-11 calculates the optimal exercise pace for you, given your physical condition—and then automatically changes the music to match your pace and heart rate. If your exercise is too strenuous and your heart rate is too high (higher than optimal), the BF-11 plays slower tempo music. Likewise, if your exercise is too easy and relaxed to provide adequate exercise beneﬁts, the BF-11 plays faster music. This ensures that you get the best possible exercise—not too little, and not too much.

Each Fitness mode also features automatically programmed ‘warming up’ and ‘cooling down’ segments that effectively structure your exercise sessions and help you avoid unnatural stress and fatigue.

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Since the Fitness modes monitor your heart rate, you will need to properly attach the pulse sensor. (For instructions, see page 20.) You will also need to make sure other settings have been made, such as your actual age and resting heart rate (page 71).

There are two Fitness modes: Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness. Essentially, they function and operate exactly the same, except that Walk Fitness is speciﬁcally programmed for walking, while Jog Fitness is designed for the more strenuous and intense exercise you get while jogging. (However, slow tempo songs matched for walking may sometimes be played if your heart rate goes higher than optimal condition.)

To call up the Walk Fitness or Jog Fitness mode:

Select “Walk Fitness” or “Jog Fitness” from the Top Menu.

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Exercising with the Fitness modes

The Fitness modes monitor your heart rate and take into account your maximum heart rate and resting heart rate to automatically program an optimal workout for you, changing the music to ﬁt your condition and the intensity of the exercise. Before exercising, make sure that you’ve properly entered your birthday and resting heart rate (page 71).

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1 From the Top Menu, select the mode depending on the type of

exercise you’ll be doing: Walk Fitness (walking) or Jog Fitness (jogging).

2 Make sure the pulse sensor is properly attached (page 20).

When it is properly attached, the LED will start ﬂashing in time with your heart rate.

3 From the Walk Fitness or Jog Fitness menu, select “Start,” then

start your exercise with the tempo of the song that plays.

WARNING

In the Fitness modes, the device monitors your heart rate and provides a song at the optimum tempo. However, if you ﬁnd it too strenuous to match your pace to the song, do not force yourself to keep pace. Lower the pace accordingly (page 44) or stop the exercise.

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If the pulse sensor is not attached properly or accidentally slips off, a “Measurement Error!” message appears. Reattach the pulse sensor properly and continue your exercise session.

When starting the exercise, a Warming Up segment of two minutes (for Walk Fitness) or three minutes (Jog Fitness) is inserted. You can change the pace during Warming Up manually if it seems too slow or too fast (page 44).

For audio song playback, the song tempo which is analyzed by the BODiBEAT Station software may differ from the actual tempo depending on the song characteristics. In this case, you can manually correct the tempo information with the BODiBEAT Station. For details, refer to the BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual.

When the Tempo Guide function (page 62) is set to on, the guide sounds if your walking/jogging pace deviates from the tempo of a song.

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4 While you’re jogging or walking, you can change the volume of the

music and select different songs. You can also lock the pace or change it to a different tempo. (See “Operation During Exercise” on

page 42.)

At the start of the ‘warming up’ and ‘cooling down’ segments, “Warm Up” and “Cool Down” appear respectively in the display and remain for about two seconds, followed by the normal exercise displays.

5 When you press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons simultaneously after

pressing the [MENU/BACK] button once, the ‘cooling down’ segment begins—a slower song plays back to help you slow down your pace. After about three minutes passes and the cooling down segment reaches its end, music playback stops and the session ends.

A log showing detailed information on your session automatically appears.

You can also start cooling down by holding both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons together. Pressing both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons again after pressing the [MENU/ BACK] button during the cooling down ends the session immediately and calls up the log display. If a goal is set in advance, before the set target has been reached, the cooling down segment begins automatically. After about three minutes passes and the cooling down segment reaches its end, music playback stops and the log display appears.

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When the Learning Function (page 74) is set to on, a conﬁrmation message will appear before the log display appears and prompts you to update the maximum heart rate and tempo.

The indications and operations for the session log displays in the Fitness modes are the same as in the Free Workout mode. (See page 29.)

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FYI

What is ‘Effective’ Aerobic Exercise?

Aerobic exercise, such as walking and jogging, builds up your cardiopulmonary functions and increases your stamina. Since stamina is a good measure of physical age, regular and continuous aerobic exercise can make your body more youthful.

Aerobic exercise is also very effective for losing weight. Oxygen brought into body breaks down and burns off fat. Moreover, as your exercising builds muscle mass and increases basal metabolism, your whole body and constitution loses more and more fat.

To achieve the maximum beneﬁts of aerobic exercise, you should avoid merely jogging in any haphazard fashion, but be careful to set appropriate exercise intensity levels (i.e., the pace for walking/jogging) and exercise lengths.

Exercise intensity and heart rate

As you exercise, your heart rate rises. Since intense exercise increases your heart rate more signiﬁcantly than light exercise, heart rate is a reliable indicator for exercise intensity. To achieve the desired effect of your exercise, it is important that you determine the target heart rate in advance and try to bring your heart rate up to this target during exercise.

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How can you determine the proper target heart rate? There are various methods for calculating heart rate, but the BF-11 adopts a method using %HRR (percentage of heart rate reserve). The %HRR ﬁgure assumes your resting heart rate as 0% and your maximum heart rate (heart rate during your most intense exercise) as 100%. For walking, a %HRR ﬁgure of 55 – 75% is optimal for aerobic exercise. For jogging, 65 – 75% is optimal. For the speciﬁc formula used to calculate your optimum target heart rate, see page 38.

The BF-11 calculates your heart rate according to the blood ﬂow at your ear lobe detected by the included pulse sensor.

Using the Fitness modes, you can maintain the optimal heart rate during exercise without the need to be continually conscious of your heart rate, simply by entering your resting heart rate and maximum heart rate ﬁgures in advance. When your heart rate dips below the optimal level, faster songs are played to naturally prompt you to increase your pace; likewise, when your heart rate exceeds the optimal level, slower songs are played to prompt you to decrease your pace. Thanks to this feature, you simply match your walking/jogging pace to the tempo of the music, and your optimal heart rate is maintained (refer to the graph below). You can also easily check whether your heart rate is optimal or not from the LED. When it is optimal (%HRR is 55 – 75%), it ﬂashes in green. When lower than optimal, it ﬂashes in blue. When higher than optimal, it ﬂashes in red.

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Fitness Modes—Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness

%HRR

75%

55%

Warming up Cooling down

When your heart rate exceeds the optimal level, slower songs are played

Heart rate

When your heart rate dips below the optimal level, faster songs are played

Exercise length

For best results, one exercise session should be at least ﬁfteen minutes. Twenty minutes or more is recommended, because as long as you exercise, the proportion of fat-burning increases and remains high. When you are walking, more time is required for this than when jogging—roughly 30 – 40 minutes— because your heart rate increases more slowly than when jogging.

Warming up and cooling down

Warming up and cooling down is necessary not only for effective exercise but also for protection from injury and proper recovery from fatigue. Generally, bending and stretching, as well as minimum-stress exercises are good for warming up and cooling down. The Fitness modes of the BF-11 actually include warming up and cooling down segments to guide you naturally into lighter exercising. At the beginning of the exercise and at the end of the exercise, slower songs are automatically played back. Simply match your pace to the music playing, and you can warm up and cool down appropriately.

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For safe exercise

Pay careful attention to the environment around you to avoid accidents.

• Exercise in locations of light or minimal trafﬁc, such as a park or a jogging path.

• Exercise in broad daylight if possible. Exercising at dusk or after the sun goes down—or worse yet, at night—you may not be able to properly see dangerous obstacles, and other people or drivers may not be able to see you.

• When jogging, pay more attention to your environment than when walking. The faster you are moving, the greater the danger.

Supervised by: Senshi Fukashiro, Professor, University of Tokyo

(Sport Sciences and Sport Biomechanics)

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Exercising According to a Training Program—Training Mode

In the Training mode, you can create more detailed structured exercise sessions and make custom programs to ﬁt your individual exercise needs. Preset Training programs are also available for certain exercise situations or goals. You can use these as a starting point. (You may want to inspect these programs within the included software, to more easily view the contents and the targets over the programmed exercise).

Each program in the Training mode contains several segments, each lasting for a speciﬁc amount of time or for a speciﬁc distance. Each segment also has a different target. This can be a certain intensity of exercise (as measured by heart rate reserve), a speciﬁc music tempo, a speciﬁc heart rate, or a speciﬁc pace (as measured by minutes: seconds per mile). Simply put, a Training program divides an exercise session into multiple parts, each programmed exactly to suit your exercise needs or ﬁt a speciﬁc athletic training application.

You can create your own Training programs, and the included software gives you the tools to most easily and intuitively do this. Creating your own custom Training programs gives you enormous ﬂexibility and control over your exercise sessions. When used correctly, it’s almost like having a professional athletic coach by your side, telling you not only when to speed up and when to slow down, but exactly how much you should speed up or slow down—all the while playing your favorite music to keep you on program.

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To call up the Training mode:

Select “Training” from the Top Menu.

Exercising with preset programs

The BF-11 comes with specially programmed preset Training programs built into the unit. These are designed for a variety of speciﬁc exercise situations or goals.

The BF-11 also lets you create your own Training programs (see page 37), and you can use the preset programs here as starting points or templates in making your own (see page 39).

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Operation

1 Select the desired program from the Training menu.

A list of programs is provided on page 81. You can also view the programmed content of the presets within the included software, making it easier to see and understand the segments and the intervals/targets for the exercise.

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2 Make sure the pulse sensor is properly attached (page 20).

When it is properly attached, the LED will start ﬂashing in time with your heart rate.

3 From the menu, select “Start,” then start running or walking with

the tempo of the song that plays.

As you exercise, the program number and the segment number is shown at the top of the display. A song of the appropriate tempo is automatically selected from all songs currently on the BF-11.

If you want to specify a certain Playlist for song selection, select “View/Edit” here, and then select “OK” at the bottom. The Select Music display appears.

WARNING

In the Training mode, the device plays back songs that follow the pace of the program, and naturally you should try to match this pace. However, if you ﬁnd the pace too strenuous, do not force yourself to keep pace. Lower the pace accordingly (page 44) or stop the exercise.

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If the pulse sensor is not attached properly or if your heart rate cannot be detected (that is, when the LED is off), heart rate is not memorized in the exercise log (page 29). Also, a “Measurement Error!” message appears in the training program with the target of “HR” or “%HRR” (page 37). Reattach the pulse sensor properly and make sure your pulse is being measured.

When the Tempo Guide function (page 62) is set to on, the guide sounds if your walking/jogging pace deviates from the tempo of a song.

4 While you’re running or walking, you can change the volume of the

music and select different songs.

You can also lock the pace or change it to a different tempo. (See “Operation During Exercise” on page 42.)

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5 Once the program has reached the end, music playback stops and

your session is ended.

A log showing detailed information on your session automatically appears. If you want to stop the exercise before the program reaches the end, you can stop the session manually by pressing the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons simultaneously after pressing the [MENU/BACK] button, or by simultaneously holding both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

When the Learning Function (page 74) is set to on, a conﬁrmation message will appear before the log display appears and prompts you to update the maximum heart rate and tempo.

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The indications and operations for the session log displays in the Training mode are the same as in the Free Workout mode. (See page 29.)

Creating a new program

You can create your own Training program from scratch, entering the desired Interval and Target for each segment in your custom exercise program.

Up to 99 programs can be saved in the BF-11. One program can contain up to 99 intervals.

Operation

1 Select “New” from the Training menu.

2 Set the units you want to use for Interval and Target in the segment.

For example, if you want to jog for 3 minutes in a segment and you want to jog at a pace of one mile every 5-1/2 minutes, select “Time” in the Interval parameter and “Pace” in the Target parameter.

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Interval

Available settings:

Time, Distance

Targ et

Available settings:

Pace (minutes: seconds per mile), Tempo (bpm), HR (Heart Rate; bpm), %HRR (percentage of heart rate reserve; %)

The pace is determined based on the jog stride setting (page 73). If the tempo of the song playing back while exercising is too fast or too slow, change the stride setting.

If you set the measurement unit of length as “Meters,” the pace is represented by “minutes: seconds per kilometer.”

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About heart rate reserve

FYI

Heart rate reserve (HRR) is a term used to describe the difference between a person’s resting heart rate (HR (HR

HRR = HR

). The formula is:

max

– HR

max

rest

) and maximum heart rate

rest

The BF-11 actually measures and calculates the percentage of heart rate reserve (%HRR) and uses this as a measurement of exercise intensity. By using %HRR as the exercise intensity, the optimal heart rate (HR) in exercising is calculated. The formula is:

HR = HRR x %HRR + HR

For example, if your HR

rest

is 180 bpm, HR

max

is 60 bpm and target

rest

%HRR is 70%, the HR is calculated as: HR = (180 – 60) x 0.7 + 60 = 144

After the Interval and Target setting is ﬁnished, the following display appears.

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Interval

When you select “Tempo” for the Target, “T” is appended to the value. When you select “HR” for the Target, “H” is appended to the value. (For example, “01.0mi-T170bpm” stands for “one mile at a tempo of 170 bpm.”)

Target

3 Set the desired values for Interval and Target, and then

simultaneously press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to actually enter them for the segment.

The segment is entered and operation returns to the previous display.

4 Select “Add Segment” to enter the next segment.

5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 above as needed to create all the desired

segments for your program.

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6 After you’ve created all the segments for the program, select “OK”

in the display.

The Select Music display appears.

When there are no Playlists or the Music Priority parameter (page 61) is set to “BODiBEAT Songs,” the Music Select display is not displayed. Skip to step 8.

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7 Select the desired Playlist. (Refer to step 5 on page 28.)

After selecting the Playlist, the following display appears.

8 Select “Start” to start exercising with the newly created program.

For further details and important information when using in the Training mode, see page 36.

Editing the preset (or already created) Program

This operation is convenient for using an existing program as a template for making a new program. Simply select a program that is similar to the one you wish to create, and then change the settings of the existing program as necessary to create the new program.

Operation

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1 Select the desired program to be edited from the Training menu.

The following display appears.

2 If you want to edit this program and overwrite it, select “View/Edit,”

and then go on to step 3. If you want to save the original program and make a new one, select “Copy.”

When you select “Copy” here, a “Copied to Program XX” message brieﬂy appears, followed by the display in step 1 above. Select “View/Edit” from this display and continue with the steps below to edit the copied program.

The lowest unused program number will be automatically selected as the copy destination.

All segments in the program are shown in the display.

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3 Select the segment you wish to edit.

If you want to edit a segment, select the desired segment here and go on to the Edit/Insert instruction in step 5 below.

If you want to insert a new segment, select the location to which it will be inserted and go on to the Edit/Insert instruction in step 5 below. (For example, if you want to insert a new segment between segments 2 and 3, select segment 3.)

If you want to delete a segment, select the desired segment here and go on to the Delete instruction in step 5 below.

If you want to add a new segment after the last segment, select “Add segment” and go on to step 6.

4 From the following display, select the desired operation: Edit,

Insert, or Delete.

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Edit/Insert

When you select “Edit” or “Insert” here, the Edit segment display appears.

Delete

If you’ve selected “Delete” here, the display prompts you for conﬁrmation. Select “Yes” to delete the selected segment, or select “No” to cancel. The Edit display (in step 3 above) appears. Continue editing as desired, or go on to step 7 to save the program.

5 Set the desired values for Interval and Target, and then

simultaneously press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to actually enter them for the segment.

The segment is entered and operation returns to the previous display.

6 Repeat steps 3 – 5 above as needed to create all the desired

segments for the program.

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7 After you’ve created all the segments for the program, select “OK”

in the display.

The Select Music display appears (when some Playlists exist).

When there are no Playlists or the Music Priority parameter (page 61) is set to “BODiBEAT Songs,” the Music Select display is not displayed. Skip to step 9.

8 Select the desired Playlist. (Refer to step 5 on page 28.)

Doing this automatically returns to the initial display.

9 Select “Start” to start exercising with the newly created program.

For further details and important information when using in the Training mode, see page 36.

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Deleting a program

If you want to create a new program but the memory of the BF-11 is full and no more programs can be saved (an error message indicating this appears), you will need to delete one or more programs. This operation lets you delete an existing program to make room for the new program.

Operation

1 Select the desired program to be deleted from the Training menu.

The following display appears.

2 Select “Delete.”

The display prompts you for conﬁrmation.

3 Select “Yes” to delete the selected program, or select “No” to

cancel.

When you select “Yes,” a “Delete Program XX” message brieﬂy appears, followed by the Training menu.

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Operation During Exercise

At any time during your exercise session (in Free Workout, Walk Fitness, Jog Fitness or Training modes), you can change various settings.

■ Pausing the exercise

This function lets you temporarily pause the operation of the BF-11 (for example, if you need to brieﬂy stop your exercise session). Music playback is stopped and your heart rate and pace are not monitored while pause is active.

Operation

Press (but do not hold) the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons simultaneously. This pauses the music and exercise session. Press them again to restart the music and exercise.

■ Stopping the exercise

Operation

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1 Press the [MENU/BACK] button once to call up the Select Song

display.

2 Simultaneously press both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to stop the

exercise and call up the log display.

You can also stop the exercise session by holding both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons together.

In the Fitness modes, the “cooling down” segment starts about three minutes before the session is stopped (page 32).

■ Changing music playback volume

Operation

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to call up the Volume display and change the volume while the music is playing.

After two seconds, the Volume display automatically closes and returns to the previous display. You can also close the Volume display manually (before the two seconds are up) by pressing the [MENU/BACK] button.

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■ Changing songs

This lets you select other songs having roughly the same tempo as the song currently playing or jump back to the beginning of the current song.

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1 Press the [MENU/BACK] button once to call up the Select Song

display.

2 Press the ▼ (Down) button to select the next song as desired.

Pressing the ▲ (Up) button returns to the top (beginning) of the current song.

Pressing the ▼ (Down) button skips to the next or previous song (in the current Playlist or among all songs) that has roughly the same tempo as the currently active exercise tempo. Songs that do not match the current tempo will be skipped over. To better understand this, consider the example song Playlist below:

Song 1 140 bpm

Song 2 120 bpm

Song 3 142 bpm

Song 4 138 bpm

Song 5 150 bpm

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If your exercise pace is about 140 bpm in this situation, a song having a tempo of about 140 bpm will be played back. When Song 1 is played back, for example, you can skip to Song 3 or Song 4 by using the ▼ (Down) button. Songs 2 and 5 cannot be selected in this way, since they differ too greatly from the current tempo.

After ten seconds, the Select Song display automatically closes and returns to the previous display. You can also close the Select Song display manually (before the ten seconds are up) by pressing the [MENU/BACK] button three times. (Pressing it once calls up the Pace display. Pressing it twice calls up the Change Disp. display. Pressing it again calls up the normal display.)

When the Learning Function (page 74) is on, the skip/top count is memorized. When you skip a song, the BF-11 memorizes this action, assuming that the song is one that you don’t like, and accordingly lowers the playback priority of the song. If you rewind (go back to the top of) the song, the song is memorized as a favorite and according raises the playback priority.

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■ Locking the pace

This function lets you maintain the current tempo indeﬁnitely. Your physical conditions in exercising (pace, heart rate, etc.) have no effect on the music tempo while the tempo is locked.

While playback is paused, the pace lock function is not available.

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1 Press the [MENU/BACK] button twice to call up the Pace display.

2 Simultaneously press both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to lock the

tempo.

To unlock the tempo and return to normal operation, repeat steps 1 and 2 above.

■ Changing the pace

In the Fitness and Training modes, this function lets you change the song to a faster or slower song as desired during your exercise. Keep in mind that this new pace is not locked. After a while, song playback changes automatically based on changes in your heart rate or the training program.

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While playback is paused, the pace change function is not available.

Operation

1 Press the [MENU/BACK] button twice to call up the Pace display.

2 Press the ▲ (Up) button to raise the tempo, or press the ▼ (Down)

button to lower it.

When the Learning Function (page 74) is on, if you change your pace manually, the memorized starting pace, maximum pace and maximum heart rate will be changed. If this occurs, a conﬁrmation message will appear when the workout reaches its end, prompting you to memorize the changed pace/maximum heart rate. Select “Yes” to memorize.

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Operation During Exercise

■ Changing the Main display during exercise

This setting determines which parameter is indicated in the display during your exercise session in Free Workout mode or Fitness modes.

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The display cannot be changed in the Training modes.

Operation

1 Press the [MENU/BACK] button three times to call up the Change

Disp. display.

2 Press the ▲ (Up) or ▼ (Down) button to select the display.

Available settings:

Time, Distance, Pace, Calories, Heart Rate, Song

Refer to page 68 for detailed main display information.

When you are not exercising, select the Main Disp_Workout menu from the Display menu to set the main display (page 68).

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3 Simultaneously press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to set the display

as the main display.

When you do nothing in the Change Disp. display, after ten seconds, the display will automatically return to the normal display.

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Managing the Exercise Logs

Each time you exercise with the BF-11, a new exercise log is automatically generated, creating a record of important information about your exercise session and your physical conditions. This information includes the date and time of your session, the distance covered, the average pace of your walking/ jogging, the amount of calories you expended, and your maximum heart rate (the highest recorded pulse during the session). The logs also provide two different graphs: one showing the changes in your pace during the session, the other showing changes in your heart rate during the same time.

Since your exercise logs are automatically stored to internal memory (up to 99 sessions), you can call up these logs and check your past exercise sessions. This feature also lets you view cumulative data—for example, how much total distance you walked or ran in a speciﬁc week, or how many calories you expended during a speciﬁc month.

The BF-11 has memory space for up to 99 exercise session logs. When you exceed this number, the earliest ones will automatically be deleted to make room for the new logs. By using the included software to transfer your data to computer, you can store all your exercise logs and not need to worry about the 99-log limit.

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From the Top Menu, select “Data.”

Checking the Exercise Logs

Operation

1 From the Data menu, select the desired category: Workouts, Days,

Weeks or Months.

When selecting Workouts, you can view individual exercise session logs. When selecting Days, you can view the cumulative data for a day. When selecting Weeks or Months, you can view the cumulative data for a week or month, respectively.

2 From the Workouts display, select the desired session. From the

other displays, select the desired time frame (day, week, month).

3 Select “View.”

The log display appears. Refer to page 47.

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■ Log Displays

When you select a speciﬁc workout session, day, week or month above, the exercise log displays will be called up. The contents of the displays differ depending on the category/time frame. Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to scroll through the display pages.

For Workouts:

See page 29.

For Days, Weeks or Months:

Indicates the selected day,

Total time of all exercise

sessions during the period

Total calories expended

week or month

Total distance covered

Average pace for all exercise sessions during the period

Maximum heart rate (highest recorded pulse during all sessions)

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Exercise log displays 3 and 4 are not available here.

Since the distance, pace, calories or heart rate values in the logs are estimated based on the User Settings, they may differ from the actual values.

Deleting Exercise Logs

Operation

1 From the Data menu, select the desired category: Workouts, Days,

Weeks or Months.

When selecting Workouts, you can delete individual exercise session logs. When selecting Days, Weeks or Months, you can delete all logs of a speciﬁc day, a week or a month at once.

2 From the Workouts display, select the desired session. From the

other displays, select the desired time frame (day, week, month).

3 Select “Delete.”

The display prompts you for conﬁrmation.

4 Select “Yes” to delete the selected log, or select “No” to cancel.

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Connecting to a Computer

Connecting with a computer allows you to easily and intuitively manage the exercise logs, training programs, and music data, and lets you take full advantage of all the modes and functions on the BF-11 conveniently and efﬁciently from your computer. This is especially true in the Music mode, where the songs you want to listen to must be loaded from the computer beforehand. The loaded songs can also be listened to in other modes. Managing data and loading songs from computer requires the included software.

Contents

About the BODiBEAT Station Software............................................ 49

Music Player

Settings

System Requirements ............................................................. 50

Installation................................................................................ 50

How to Connect................................................................................ 51

Removing the device from the computer ................................. 51

Loading Music Data to the BF-11..................................................... 52

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About the BODiBEAT Station Software

The included BODiBEAT Station provides exceptionally convenient and easy tools for managing the songs you want to use on the BF-11, and provides easyto-understand visual graphs of your exercise logs. It also provides convenient means for creating playlists of your favorite songs and for loading them to the device, so that you can enjoy walking or jogging while listening to your favorite music. In addition, creating training programs and registering your personal data by using the software is much easier and faster than doing it on the device itself.

Managing Exercise Logs

•View as a graph

•View as a list

Creating a Personal Training Program

• Enter the target pace, heart rate, etc.

Synchronizing

Synchronizing the device

and software

Managing Song Data

• Analyze the tempo and song features automatically

• Playing back a song

•Creating Playlists

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Registering personal information

• Birthday, Sex

• Height, Weight

• Stride, Heart Rate

For instructions on how to use the software, refer to the BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual installed together with the program.

IMPORTANT

Before installing the software, please read carefully the End User License Agreement included in the CD-ROM.

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About the BODiBEAT Station Software

System Requirements

Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later, 32-bit editions of Windows® Vista, or Windows® 7

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Computer 1 GHz or higher; Intel® Pentium®/Celeron® processor

Available Memory

Hard Disk 200 MB or more free space

Display 1024 x 768 or more

Sound

The system requirements above may differ slightly depending on the particular computer.

Windows XP: 128 MB or more (256 MB or more is recommended) Windows Vista/7: 512 MB or more (1 GB or more is recommended)

Windows-compliant Audio Interface or Sound Card (Windows Media computer.)

Player version 9 or higher must be installed to the

Installation

Operation

1 Insert the supplied CD-ROM into your computer’s CD/DVD drive.

The initial menu appears on the screen.

If the initial menu does not appear, select the CD/DVD drive from My Computer, then doubleclick “Setup.exe” and go on to step 3.

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2 Click “Install BODiBEAT Station” from the initial menu.

The installation starts.

3 Execute the installation by following the onscreen instructions.

CAUTION

When you ﬁrst connect the BF-11 to the computer in which the BODiBEAT Station is installed, the preset Training programs on the BF-11 will be overwritten by the programs on the BODiBEAT Station. If you have edited the preset programs on the BF-11, your changes will be lost. To avoid this, copy the program you have edited to another program (page 39).

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How to Connect

Double-click the paperclip icon on the left to open the attached file.

How to Connect

Connect the device to a working computer with the included USB cable. (Recharging of the battery automatically starts.) When connected, the BF-11 automatically switches to PC mode and any key operations on the unit are disabled.

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DANGER

Do not connect to a computer in extremely hot environments. You should charge it in a temperature conditions of between 0° to 35°C (32° to 95°F). Recharging the battery in high temperatures may result in ﬁre or an explosion.

CAUTION

• Do not connect the BF-11 to the computer when the computer is in the power-saving mode (such as suspended, sleep, standby) and do not turn the computer to the power-saving mode when the BF-11 is connected. Doing so risks freezing the BF-11 and losing data, or depleting the power of the BF-11.

• Always use the included USB cable. Using an improper cable may cause damage to the USB terminal.

•Never disconnect the USB cable while data is being transferred. Doing so may cause loss of data or damage to the device.

• When connecting with a computer to which BODiBEAT Station is installed, a message “Do you want to associate with this computer?” may appear. If you select “Yes” here, data on the BF-11 (logs, training programs and songs) will be cleared.

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Removing the device from the computer

If you are using Windows 7, refer to the attached ﬁle for the procedure.

Operation

1 Double-click “Safely Remove Hardware” icon on the Windows task

bar.

The “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog appears.

2 Conﬁrm that the “Display device component” is checkmarked,

select “Yamaha BODiBEAT USB Device,” then click [Stop].

The “Stop a Hardware device” dialog appears.

3 Click [OK].

4 Disconnect the USB cable from the computer.

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Loading Music Data to the BF-11

By loading your favorite songs to the BF-11, you can listen to them when you exercise or play them back in the Music Playback mode. First, to load songs, you will need to use the included BODiBEAT Station software. Second, import the desired songs to the software from the computer’s hard disk, then create playlists on the software if necessary. Finally, transfer the songs/playlists from the computer to the device.

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1 Activate the BODiBEAT Station 2 Import the songs to the BODiBEAT Station

Drag the ﬁle(s) or folder(s) into the BODiBEAT Station window.

3 Transfer the songs to the BF-11

Connect the BF-11 to the computer. This synchronizes the device and the computer, and transfers the song data on the computer to the device.

For details about the procedure, refer to the owner’s manual of the software.

The BODiBEAT Station cannot directly import the song data from a music CD. You will need to import songs from the CD to your computer in advance, using a CD ripping software, such as Windows Media Player.

The data transfer will take a long time (up to one-quarter of the song length) since the song’s tempo characteristics are thoroughly checked and analyzed automatically in real time. The transfer time may differ depending on your particular computer.

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Using the BF-11 as a Music Player

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—Music Playback Mode

In this mode, the BF-11 performs as a simple music player. You can select one of the songs you’ve loaded from computer and play it back. The Music Playback mode features three basic operations that let you:

➤ Select a speciﬁc artist or album, and automatically play the songs of

that artist or album. (See “Artist/Album” on page 54.)

➤ Select and play back a single song. (See “Songs” on page 55.) ➤ Select a custom Playlist, and automatically play the songs assigned to

that Playlist. (See “Playlists” on page 56.)

There are other playback options available. You can have all songs in a playlist automatically play back at random or have them repeat indeﬁnitely (either a single song or all songs in a playlist). See Play Mode Settings on page 65.

Music Player

Settings

Contents

Selecting Songs ............................................................................... 54

Playing the songs from an artist or album—Artist/Album ........ 54

Playing a single song—Songs ................................................. 55

Playing the songs from a Playlist—Playlists ............................ 56

Basic Operations in Music Playback Mode ...................................... 57

Fast-forward and reverse ......................................................... 57

Stop and pause........................................................................ 58

Adjusting the Volume ............................................................... 58

Exiting from the Play Info Display ............................................ 59

Returning to the Play Info Display............................................ 59

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Selecting Songs

Playing the songs from an artist or album—Artist/Album

With this operation, you can select a speciﬁc artist or album, and automatically play the songs of that artist or album. Note that you must ﬁrst have some songs downloaded to the BF-11 and organized according to artist or album before you can use this. The BODiBEAT Station software has convenient tools to help you download songs (even entire albums) and organize them as you wish. (Refer to

page 52.)

If the artist name and/or album name is not entered, the item appears blank in the display.

Operation

1 Select “Music Playback” from the Top Menu.

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If you need to return to the Top Menu from any other mode/menu, press and hold down the [MENU/BACK] button.

2 From the Music Playback menu, call up the Artist/Album menu.

3 Select the desired item from the list that appears.

The ﬁrst song of the selected artist or album starts playing automatically. During playback, the song title and artist are shown, along with the elapsed time of playback.

Play Info display

Elapsed time

Song title

Artist

Album title

You can have all songs in an album automatically play back at random or have them repeat indeﬁnitely (either a single song or all songs in an album). See Play Mode Settings on page 65.

After the last song of the album is played, playback is automatically stopped. If you want to stop playback manually before the album reaches the end, press and hold down both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons. To temporarily pause playback, simply press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons together (but do not hold them). Press them again to resume playback.

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Selecting Songs

Playing a single song—Songs

Here you can select and play any one song that is downloaded and stored to your BF-11.

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Operation

1 Select “Music Playback” from the Top Menu.

If you need to return to the Top Menu from any other mode/menu, press and hold down the [MENU/BACK] button.

2 From the Music Playback menu, call up the Songs menu.

3 Select the desired song from the list that appears.

The selected song starts playing.

During playback, the song title and artist are shown, along with the elapsed time of playback.

Play Info display

Elapsed time

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Song title

Artist

Album title

You can have all songs automatically play back at random or have them repeat indeﬁnitely (either a single song or all songs). See Play Mode Settings on page 65.

4 If you want to stop playback of the song, press and hold down both

▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

To temporarily pause playback, simply press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons together (but do not hold them). Press them again to resume playback.

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Selecting Songs

Playing the songs from a Playlist—Playlists

With this operation, you can select a speciﬁc Playlist, and automatically play the songs assigned to that Playlist. Note that you must ﬁrst have some songs downloaded to the BF-11 and organized according to Playlists before you can use this. The BODiBEAT Station software has convenient tools to help you download songs and organize them into custom Playlists as desired. (Refer to

page 52.)

Operation

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1 Select “Music Playback” from the Top Menu.

If you need to return to the Top Menu from any other mode/menu, press and hold down the [MENU/BACK] button.

2 From the Music Playback menu, call up the Playlists menu.

3 Select the desired item from the list that appears.

The ﬁrst song of the selected Playlist starts playing automatically. During playback, the song title and artist are shown, along with the elapsed time of playback.

Play Info display

Elapsed time

Song title

Artist

Album title

Music Player

Settings

You can have all songs in a playlist automatically play back at random or have them repeat indeﬁnitely (either a single song or all songs in a playlist). See Play Mode Settings on page 65.

After the last song of the playlist is played, playback is automatically stopped. If you want to stop playback manually before the playlist reaches the end, press and hold down both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons. To temporarily pause playback, simply press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons together (but do not hold them). Press them again to resume playback.

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Basic Operations in Music Playback Mode

Fast-forward and reverse

These controls can be used while the Play Info display is shown. You can also jump back to the beginning of the current song or skip to the next one.

Operation

1 From the Play Info display, press the [MENU/BACK] button while

the song is playing.

The SELECT SONG display appears.

If the Play Info display is not shown here and you want to call it up again, follow the instructions shown on page 59.

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2 To fast-forward, press and hold down the ▼ (Down) button.

When the end of the song is reached, it goes to the next song and continues fast-forwarding. Song playback starts when you release the ▼ (Down) button.

To reverse, press and hold down the ▲ (Up) button.

When the top of the song is reached, the previous song is selected and rewinding continues. Song playback starts when you release the ▲ (Up) button.

To go to the beginning of the next song, press the ▼ (Down) button.

To go back to the beginning of the current song, press the ▲ (Up) button.

When you fast-forward, reverse or do nothing in the SELECT SONG display, after ten seconds, the Play Info display will automatically called up. You can also close the SELECT SONG display manually (before 10 seconds are up) by pressing the [MENU/BACK] button. When you change the song or return to beginning of the song, the song title is displayed for ﬁve seconds, after which the Play Info display is called up. You can change the songs in order by pressing the ▲ (Up) or ▼ (Down) button during this ﬁve seconds.

If you try to skip playback of the last song while it is playing, song playback will be stopped.

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Basic Operations in Music Playback Mode

Stop and pause

These controls can be used while the Play Info display is shown.

Operation

To stop, press the [MENU/BACK] button, then hold down the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons simultaneously.

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You can also stop the music by holding down the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons simultaneously from the Play Info display.

To pause, from the Play Info display, press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons simultaneously.

Adjusting the Volume

While the song is playing, you can change the volume.

Operation

1 From the Play Info display, press one of the ▲/▼ (Up/Down)

buttons.

The Volume display appears.

Volume amount (0 – 32)

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Volume slider

2 Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to set the volume as desired.

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Basic Operations in Music Playback Mode

Exiting from the Play Info Display

You can exit from the Play Info display and return to the Top Menu, without stopping song playback. If you want to change any music settings such as Repeat or Shufﬂe, or you want to reselect the song to be played, you can do it from the Top Menu.

Operation

While a song is playing, press and hold down the [MENU/BACK] button.

The Top Menu is called up.

When you exit from the Play Info display, you can stop song playback or restart playback by simultaneously holding the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons. You’ll need to call up the Play Info display again if you want to change the playback volume, fast-forward, rewind or switch the song. Refer to “Returning to the Play Info Display” below.

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Returning to the Play Info Display

After exiting from the Play Info display, if you haven’t used any of panel controls for ten seconds, the Play Info display will automatically be called up again. You can also call it up manually by the following procedure.

Operation

1 Select “Music Playback” from the Top Menu.

2 Select “Now Playing.”

The Play Info display appears.

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Settings

This group of controls and parameters let you customize the BF11 for your own preferences and physical condition. The Settings are divided into three main groups: Music, Hardware and User, with a separate Initialize function for instantly restoring the default settings of the device. Also included is an Information menu, which lets you check the version of your BF-11.

Contents

Music Settings.................................................................................. 61

Workout Music ......................................................................... 61

FYI

About the BODiBEAT songs.................................................. 62

Play Mode—Repeat and Shufﬂe ............................................. 65

Bass Boost............................................................................... 65

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Hardware Settings............................................................................ 66

Sensors.................................................................................... 66

Display ..................................................................................... 68

Date/Time ................................................................................ 70

User Settings.................................................................................... 71

Heart Rate ............................................................................... 71

FYI

About Maximum Heart Rate.................................................. 72

Stride ....................................................................................... 73

Weight/Height .......................................................................... 73

Birthday/Sex ............................................................................ 74

Learning Function .................................................................... 74

Information ....................................................................................... 76

Initialize ............................................................................................ 76

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Music Settings

The Music Settings let you set:

➤ Various exercise and workout music controls, such as Tempo Guide, Song

Connection, Playback Time for songs, and others. (See “Workout Music” below.)

➤ The playback mode for the BF-11 (Repeat and Shufﬂe). (See “Play Mode” on

page 65.)

➤ The tonal qualities of the sound. (See “Bass Boost” on page 65.)

From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ Music Settings

Workout Music

This mode provides a variety of settings related to how you want to use the BF11 in your exercising and workouts.

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Operation

From the Music Settings menu, select the Workout Music menu.

In the Workout Music menu, the following items are shown: Music Priority, Tempo Guide, Half Tempo, Song Transition, Playback Time and Normalize Volume.

Music Priority (below) Tempo Guide (page 62) Half Tempo (page 63) Song Transition (page 63) Playback Time (page 64) Normalize Volume (page 64)

■ Music Priority

This lets you set how the BF-11 selects between normal audio songs and the special “BODiBEAT” songs, which have been pre-loaded to the device. These BODiBEAT songs have been built into the BF-11 to make sure that songs of all tempos between 50 – 250 bpm are properly included, even if you haven’t loaded audio songs of all tempos to the device.

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Operation

From the Workout Music menu, select the Music Priority parameter.

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Available settings:

User Songs

Only user-supplied songs are played, unless no songs of the appropriate tempo exist, in which case a BODiBEAT song of the tempo is played. This is the default setting.

Mix

Audio songs and BODiBEAT songs are mixed in a 50/50 ratio.

BODiBEAT Songs

Only the pre-loaded BODiBEAT songs are played. (Audio songs are not selected.)

About the BODiBEAT songs

FYI

The BF-11 contains many short phrases of speciﬁc song parts—for example, rhythm parts, melody parts, bass parts, and so on. The builtin BODiBEAT Mixer chooses some of these randomly and mixes them, giving you literally hundreds of thousands of songs suitable for your exercise sessions.

■ Tempo Guide

This lets you turn on the sound of the Tempo Guide. (Tempo Guide is a sound that clicks for each beat, to help you “feel” the tempo of the song.) When you turn the Tempo Guide function on, the sound will come on only when your pace deviates from the basic tempo of the song. A sub menu in this setting lets you select the type of sound used for the Tempo Guide.

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Tempo Guide is only available in the Fitness or Training modes.

Operation

1 From the Workout Music menu, select the Tempo Guide parameter.

Available settings:

Off

Tempo Guide is off.

Tempo Guide is enabled, and sounds only when your walking/jogging pace deviates from the tempo of a song.

When you select “On” here, the Guide Sound menu will appear.

If Tempo Guide is set to “Off,” pressing both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons returns to the Workout Music menu (Guide Sound menu will not appear).

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Music Settings

2 Select the desired setting using the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

Every time the cursor position is moved, the highlighted setting can be heard.

Available settings:

Guide Sound A, Guide Sound B, Guide Sound C

■ Half Tempo

This allows you to broaden the tempo criteria for songs to include songs that are at half the current tempo. For example, if the current pace is 160 bpm, you can set Half Tempo to On, and songs at 80 bpm will be included along with songs at 160 bpm. In other words, songs that are exactly twice as slow as the current pace will play back. Since the pace is mathematically half, you can continue jogging/walking at the current pace and still stay in time with the music. This lets you program relaxing, slow-paced music for your exercising, and yet maintain a fast-paced exercise.

When Half Tempo is set to Off, only music at the selected tempo will play back.

Half Tempo is available only for the audio songs and only when using the Free Workout mode.

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Operation

From the Workout Music menu, select the Half Tempo parameter.

Available settings:

Off, On

■ Song Transition

Song playback on the BF-11 is basically continuous. One song follows another virtually without pause in order that your exercise continues undisturbed. The Song Transition function lets you determine how the BF11 connects consecutive songs with a special connective phrase.

The Song Transition setting is in effect just before the audio song is played. (Before a BODiBEAT song is played, no connective phrase is added.)

Operation

From the Workout Music menu, select the Song Transition parameter.

Available settings:

Tr ansition 1

A connective phrase is added between successive songs, with the previous song fading out (only when the previous song is an audio song), followed by the connective phrase and then playback of the next song.

Tr ansition 2

A connective phrase is added between successive songs, to smoothly sequence between them.

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Music Settings

■ Playback Time

This determines the maximum song playback time, or how long each song plays before the next song starts.

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Playback Time is available only for the user songs and only when using the Exercising modes.

Operation

From the Workout Music menu, select the Playback Time parameter.

Available settings:

Maximum, 1 min., 2 min., 3 min., 4 min., 5 min.

■ Normalize Volume

This evens out the volume of all songs in the BF-11, preventing extreme changes in volume from one song to the next and keeping the selected songs at relatively the same level.

If you have already normalized the levels of the song or songs on the computer with some other audio application, make sure to set the Normalize Volume setting to off.

Operation

From the Workout Music menu, select the Normalize Volume parameter.

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Available settings:

Off, On

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Music Settings

Play Mode—Repeat and Shufﬂe

This mode lets you set how the BF-11 plays back songs—at random or in order, and whether a song or songs will be repeated. Repeat and Shufﬂe playback can be used together as well.

If you select a song from the Artist/Album menu (page 54) or Playlists menu (page 56), the repeat and/or shufﬂe setting is in effect only for the selected album/playlist.

Operation

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1 From the Music Settings menu, select the Play Mode menu.

2 Select the desired setting for Repeat and/or Shufﬂe using the ▲/▼

(Up/Down) buttons.

■ Repeat

When this is set to All, all of the songs will be played back in order and then repeated indeﬁnitely. The Repeat All icon ( ) is also shown at the top of the display. When this is set to Song, the selected song will be repeated indeﬁnitely. The Repeat One icon ( ) is also shown at the top of the display.

Available settings:

Off, All, Song

■ Shufﬂe

When this is set to On, all songs will be played back at random. The Shufﬂe icon ( ) is also shown at the top of the display.

Available settings:

Off, On

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When Repeat is set to All and Shufﬂe is set to On, all songs will be played back in random order and then repeated indeﬁnitely.

Bass Boost

This is an additional equalizer control which produces rich, deep bass tones for a more powerful overall sound, and helps compensate for outside noises that may be interfering with the music.

When you change the Bass Boost setting while a song is playing in the Music Playback mode, the highlighted setting will take effect for the currently played song and you can hear each Bass Boost setting as you select it.

Operation

From the Music Settings menu, select the Bass Boost parameter.

Available settings:

Off, Low, Mid, High

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Hardware Settings

The Hardware Settings let you set:

➤ The sensitivity of the sensors of the BF-11. (See “Sensors” below.) ➤ Various display-related controls. (See “Display” on page 68.) ➤ The correct date and time. (See “Date/Time” on page 70.)

From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ Hardware Settings.

Sensors

The Sensors settings let you tailor the response and sensitivity of the sensors of the BF-11. It lets you adjust the device to the strength of your pulse, the speed of your walking/jogging stride and changes in your walking/jogging pace.

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Operation

From the Hardware Settings menu, select the Sensors menu.

In the Sensors menu, the following items are shown: Pulse Sensor, Step Sensor and Pace Sensor.

Pulse Sensor (below) Step Sensor (page 67) Pace Sensor (page 67)

■ Pulse Sensor

This lets you adjust how sensitive the BF-11 sensor is to your pulse. For example, if your pulse is weak or the BF-11 doesn’t seem to respond properly to your pulse, adjusting the setting here can improve the response.

Also refer to Troubleshooting on page 77 when you feel the BF-11 doesn’t respond properly to your pulse.

Operation

From the Sensors menu, select the Pulse Sensor parameter.

Available settings:

High Sensitivity, Normal Sensitivity, Low Sensitivity

“Normal” is the default setting and should be ﬁne for most people and situations. If the BF-11 doesn’t seem to be responding properly, try changing the setting. Select “High” if your pulse is weak, or “Low” if your pulse is strong.

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■ Step Sensor

This lets you adjust how sensitive the BF-11 sensor is to your pace. Normally, the BF-11 detects the exercise pace (tempo) when it recognizes your steps continuing at the same tempo within a certain range.

Operation

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From the Sensors menu, select the Step Sensor parameter.

Available settings:

High Sensitivity, Normal Sensitivity, Low Sensitivity

“Normal” is the default setting and should be ﬁne for most people and situations. If the BF-11 doesn’t seem to be responding properly, try changing the setting. Selecting “High” makes the detecting time of the exercise pace shorter. In the Free Workout mode, it takes less time to start playback of a song which matches to your exercise pace. Selecting “Low” makes the detecting time of the exercise pace longer. It takes more time to start playback of a song which matches to your exercise pace.

■ Pace Sensor

This allows you to tailor the response of the BF-11 to changes in your walking/jogging speed. In the Free Workout mode, the BF-11 recognizes that you intend to change the pace when you speed up or slow down the pace greater than a certain range.

The setting here only applies to the Free Workout mode.

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Operation

From the Sensors menu, select the Pace Sensor parameter.

Available settings:

High Sensitivity, Normal Sensitivity, Low Sensitivity

“Normal” is the default setting and should be ﬁne for most people and situations. If the BF-11 doesn’t seem respond properly to changes in your walking/jogging speed, try changing the setting. Select “High” if the BF-11 doesn’t respond enough when you intend to increase or decrease the pace, or select “Low” if the BF-11 is responding too much when you don’t intend to change the pace.

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Display

The Display settings let you make various overall display-related settings for the BF-11, including the system of measurements used, language, and contrast control.

Operation

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From the Hardware Settings menu, select the Display menu.

In the Display menu, the following items are shown: Main Display, Measurement, Language, Display Time and Contrast.

Main Display (below) Measurement (page 69) Language (page 69) Display Time (page 69) Contrast (page 70)

■ Main Display

This setting determines which parameter is indicated in the display during your exercise session in Free Workout mode or Fitness modes.

This lets you keep track of the indication most important to you—for example, the elapsed time of your exercise, the distance you’ve covered, the amount of calories expended, your current heart rate, or even the name of the song currently playing.

The setting here does not apply to the Training mode.

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Operation

From the Display menu, select the Main Disp_Workout menu.

Available settings:

Time, Distance, Pace, Calories, Heart Rate, Song

Time

Calories Heart Rate Song

Pace %HRR Song tempo

The display can be changed during exercise (page 45).

PaceDistanceTime

Exercise tempoStepsPace

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■ Measurement

This lets you set the system of measurement for weight and length. Indications can be given in traditional units (pounds, miles/feet) or metric.

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Operation

1 From the Display menu, select the Measurement menu.

2 Select the desired category (Weight or Length) using the ▲/▼ (Up/

Down) buttons.

Weight

Available settings:

Pounds, Kilograms

Length

Available settings:

Miles/Feet, Meters

■ Language

This determines the language for all messages and indications on the BF-

11. Five languages are available: English, Japanese, German, Spanish and French.

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From the Display menu, select the Language menu.

Available settings:

English, (Japanese), Deutsch (German), Español (Spanish), Français (French)

■ Display Time

This determines how long the display will remain on after the last operation or button press. The default time is 30 seconds, but you can shorten or lengthen it depending on how long you want messages and indications to show.

Operation

From the Display menu, select the Display Time menu.

Available settings:

5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 180 seconds

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■ Contrast

This lets you adjust the contrast of the display for optimum viewing. Please note that high Contrast settings will shorten the battery life.

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Operation

1 From the Display menu, select the Contrast menu.

2 Adjust the Contrast value as desired. The higher the value, the

greater the contrast.

Available range:

1 – 5

Date/Time

This lets you set the correct date and time for the BF-11, as well as the preferred format for each. To maintain the correct time, check the Date/ Time setting frequently.

Operation

1 From the Hardware Settings menu, select the Date/Time menu.

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2 From the Date/Time menu, set the correct date and time.

Date Time

Date Format

The set Time is entered at the moment you press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons when the cursor is located at the AM/PM position.

Time Format

3 Select the desired formats for Date and Time.

Date Format

Available settings:

Day/Month/Year (D/M/Y), Month/Day/Year (M/D/Y), Year/Month/Day (Y/M/D)

Time Format

Available settings:

12-hour, 24-hour

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User Settings

The User Settings contain a variety of settings for use with the Training, Fitness and Free Workout features of the BF-11. These allow you to:

➤ Check your heart rate (pulse) and register your resting and maximum heart

rates. (See “Heart Rate” below.)

➤ Specify the length of your walking and jogging stride. (See “Stride” on

page 73.)

➤ Specify your weight and height. (See “Weight/Height” on page 73.) ➤ Specify your age and gender. (See “Birthday/Sex” on page 74.) ➤ Enable the Learning function of the BF-11. (See “Learning Function” on

page 74.)

From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ User Settings.

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Heart Rate

These parameters let you check your heart rate (pulse) and register your resting and maximum heart rates. Make sure the two readings are as accurate as possible. These maximum and resting heart rates are used in the Fitness and Training modes to tailor the music and pace to your true physical condition.

■ Checking your resting heart rate and registering it

It is important for exercise and training purposes that you accurately measure your resting heart rate. The best time to measure it is in the morning, after a good night’s sleep, and before you get out of bed. The heart beats about 50 to 70 times a minute when we’re at rest and it’s generally lower in physically ﬁt people. As you exercise and train with the BF-11, you may want to regularly check your resting heart rate and change it when necessary.

Operation

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Heart Rate settings.

2 Make sure the pulse sensor is securely attached to your ear lobe

(see page 20).

Also, make sure you are truly resting, relaxed, and not following some strenuous activity.

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3 Select “Check Heart Rate” in the Heart Rate settings menu.

Once your heart rate is measured, it is shown in the display.

The level indicator is shown at the bottom of the display. This indicates the detected level of your pulse over a range of 0 – 100. The higher value means your heart rate is correctly and strongly detected. If it seems that your pulse is not detected properly, try rubbing your ear robe to stimulate blood circulation or changing the pulse sensor location.

4 To register the value as your Resting Heart Rate, ﬁrst call up the

“Register as Resting HR” display by simultaneously pressing both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

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5 Select “Yes” to register the new value or “No” to cancel.

■ Changing the Heart Rate values

You can also change the Resting Heart Rate setting, by entering it manually instead of measuring it. The Maximum Heart Rate setting can be changed here as well.

About Maximum Heart Rate

FYI

The Maximum Heart Rate is calculated from your age (220 – age) by default. However, as you exercise with the BF-11 in Fitness modes or Training mode, the BF-11 monitors your pace and heart rate during exercise and calculates your maximum heart rate. If the value differs from your Maximum Heart Rate setting, you can update the setting with the new value. For your information, your physical age based on the maximum heart rate will be displayed together with the maximum heart rate. When an exercise session is ﬁnished, a conﬁrmation prompt appears asking whether you want to update the Maximum Heart Rate setting or not (only when the Learning Function is on; page 74).

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User Settings

Operation

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Heart Rate settings.

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2 Select “Change Heart Rate” in the Heart Rate settings menu. 3 Enter the desired values for Resting Heart Rate and Maximum Heart

Rate.

If you try to set a Resting Heart Rate value that is higher than the Maximum Heart Rate value, the two values will automatically be set to the same number.

Stride

This setting lets you enter your personal stride length. Measure your stride as accurately as you can for both walking and jogging and specify the two values here. These are used for calculating the distance and pace you walk or jog in a session (distance = steps x strides, pace = time / distance). When you specify your height, the stride length is automatically calculated (“height x 0.8” for jogging, “height x 0.5” for walking), so that you would normally not have to change this setting.

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1 From the User Settings menu, select the Stride settings.

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2 After measuring your actual walking and jogging strides, enter the

appropriate value for each activity.

The units of measurement used here depend on the settings made in the Measurement parameter (page 69).

Weight/Height

This setting lets you enter your personal weight and height. Measure the two as accurately as possible. The weight setting is used to calculate the number of calories you expend or burn during your exercise. The expended calorie value shown when your exercise is ﬁnished is calculated based on the weight input here. The height setting is used to calculate the distance you walked or jogged. The distance value shown when your exercise is ﬁnished is calculated based on the height input here.

Operation

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Weight/Height settings.

2 After measuring your actual weight and height, enter the

appropriate value for each.

The units of measurement used here depend on the settings made in the Measurement parameter (page 69).

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Birthday/Sex

This setting lets you enter your age and sex. Your gender has no bearing on the functions of the BF-11, but your age is used for calculating the default maximum heart rate (according to the formula 220 – your age) which is automatically displayed in the Heart Rate setting menu.

Operation

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Birthday/Sex settings.

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2 Enter the appropriate information for each.

The date format used for the Birthday setting depends on the setting made in the Date/Time settings (page 70).

Learning Function

The BF-11 memorizes the skip/top count and analyzes the playback priority for each song. It also memorizes your manual pace change and calculates your optimal pace and maximum heart rate in the Fitness modes and Training mode. These features are together called the Learning function. When you change songs while exercising, the BF-11 memorizes the skip/top count—in other words, the number of times you skip over certain songs or go back to the top of certain songs—and determines the playback priority of the song. If a song has a high skip count (meaning you often skip it and go on to another song), it is given a lower playback priority. If a song has a high top count (meaning you often rewind back to the top of the song), it is given a higher playback priority. When you change the pace manually while exercising, the BF-11 memorizes the pace changes and your heart rate and calculates your optimal starting pace, fastest pace and maximum heart rate. If the calculated maximum heart rate differs from the maximum heart rate setting you set before, you can manually register the new value to the BF-11. If you change your pace manually or change songs while exercising, a conﬁrmation message will appear when the workout reaches its end to prompt you to memorize the changed information. Select “Yes” to memorize.

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The playback priority is memorized for each exercise segment: warm up, during exercise, and cool down.

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Operation

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Learning Function setting.

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2 Select the desired setting.

Available settings:

Off: Changing pace and skip/top count are not reﬂected in the BF-11 settings.

On: Manual changes to your pace while exercising will be reﬂected in calculations of

your pace (starting pace and fastest pace) and maximum heart rate setting. Skip/top count will also be reﬂected in the playback priority.

Reset: The memorized pace, maximum heart rate and playback priority are reset to default.

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Information

You can check the version of your BF-11.

Operation

From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ Information.

The model name and the version information are displayed.

Initialize

This operation restores the factory default settings of the BF-11. Keep in mind that it automatically replaces any settings you’ve made yourself with the original settings that were on the device when you purchased it. It clears all data from the BF-11—including your exercise logs, user songs and any personal information—and performs a complete factory reset. Be careful not to use this function unless you are sure you want to erase your custom settings and data.

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Do not confuse this operation with pressing the [RESET] switch (page 11). Pressing the [RESET] switch only recovers the BF-11 (for example, to turn the device on again if normal operation “freezes”) and leaves your exercise logs, songs and all other data intact.

CAUTION

Before initializing, transfer any important data (exercise log and/or training program) to the BODiBEAT Station software.

Operation

1 From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ Initialize.

A prompt message appears in the display.

2 Select “Yes” to execute the Initialize operation, or select “No” to

cancel.

When the initialization is complete, the BF-11 will be restarted.

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Troubleshooting

■ Something seems to be wrong; some malfunction seems to

have occurred.

When one of the following problems occur, immediately turn off the power and have the device inspected by Yamaha service personnel.

• The device is chipped, cracked or deformed.

• It gives off extreme heat.

• It emits unusual smells or smoke.

• The power cannot be turned on, even though the battery is fully charged.

• Battery power is depleted immediately, despite having just fully charged the device.

■ Buttons do not respond./Display cannot be turned on or

cannot be changed.

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•A system error has occurred. Press the [RESET] switch and turn on again (page 11).

■ Power does not turn on.

•A system error has occurred. Press the [RESET] switch and turn on again (page 11).

• Battery power is low. Charge the battery.

■ When turning the power on, a “Memory full” message appears

and the BF-11 cannot be started up.

• There is no memory space in the device for booting up. Connect the BF-11 to the computer and delete unnecessary ﬁles.

• The song data may not be loaded correctly. Make sure to use the included BODiBEAT Station software to load songs to the BF-11 (page 52).

■ Display suddenly turns off.

• Change the Display Time setting (page 69).

■ The earphones easily drop off from ears.

• The earphones may not be put in your ears correctly. Make sure not to reverse the right and left earphones, and attach them correctly (page 19).

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• The cable tightener may be loose. Slide the cable tightener toward your head (page 20).

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■ The sound is not heard from the earphones, or is only heard

from one ear.

• Make sure that the earphone connector is ﬁrmly connected to the device (page 17).

• Make sure that the volume is not set to minimum (pages 42 and 58).

■ The LED doesn’t ﬂash even if I attach the pulse sensor.

• The LED ﬂashes only during an exercise session in the Free Workout, Walk Fitness, Jog Fitness or Training modes, or when the Checking HR display is shown (page 72). In all other situations, the LED is off.

■ My heart rate cannot be detected.

• Make sure to ﬁrmly connect the earphone connector to the device.

• Gently rub or massage your ear to stimulate blood circulation.

•Try changing the pulse sensor location.

• Adjust the sensitivity of the pulse sensor (page 66).

• Wipe the lens of the pulse sensor with a soft and dry cloth. If dirt, oil or sweat adheres to the lens of the pulse sensor, your pulse may not be detected properly.

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■ The song doesn’t change even when I speed up or slow down

the pace.

• Adjust the Pace Sensor and/or Step Sensor settings (page 67).

■ The songs change frequently even when I maintain a steady

exercise pace.

• Fasten the armband to your arm more tightly to prevent the motion sensor from malfunctioning.

• Adjust the Pace Sensor and/or Step Sensor settings (page 67).

■ A click sound continues to sound during exercise

• When the Tempo Guide function (page 62) is set to on, a click guide sounds at the song tempo if your walking/jogging pace deviates from the tempo. To stop the click, turn the Tempo Guide function off.

■ The device becomes hot during charging.

• Some heat during charging is normal. However, if the device becomes extremely hot, some malfunction may have occurred. Have the device inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service personnel.

■ Power cannot be turned off while charging the battery with the

USB AC power adaptor.

• This is normal. The BF-11 is always on during battery charging, for power control purposes, when connected with the optional USB AC power adaptor.

■ It takes a certain amount of time to start up and/or shut down.

• This is normal and indicates that the device is analyzing the music data and/ or exercise log data. (Depending on the data size, this may take a few minutes.)

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■ One song (or a few songs) is repeatedly played while

exercising.

• There are few songs which match in tempo to your exercise pace in the BF-

11. Make sure to load more songs of the appropriate tempo from your computer or set the Music Priority setting to “Mix” or “BODiBEAT Songs” (page 61).

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■ Only the BODiBEAT songs are played back and songs I've

loaded from my computer are not played back.

• Set the Music Priority setting to “User Songs” or “Mix” (page 61). Even if you’ve selected “User Songs” or “Mix”, playback may be limited to BODiBEAT songs when there are no songs which match the tempo of your exercise pace. Make sure to load songs of the appropriate tempo from your computer.

■ After connecting with the computer, some information is

changed (Training Programs, User Settings, etc.)

• Depending on the synchronize setting of BODiBEAT Station, the data on the BODiBEAT Station will automatically transferred to the BF-11 and the information on the BF-11 will be replaced when you connect the BF-11 to the computer. For more information, refer to the BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual.

■ In the Training mode, I set the appropriate target as “Pace” but

the played song’s tempo seems to be different from the set pace.

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• The pace is determined based on the jog stride setting. If the stride setting differs from your actual stride, the tempo of the song playing back while exercising may be too fast or too slow. Change the stride setting (page 73).

■ The distance of the exercise logs seems to be wrong.

• The distance you walk or jog is calculated based on your stride setting (page 73). Entering the exact value for your walking/jogging stride may bring the calculated distance closer to the actual value.

■ The time of the exercise logs seem to be wrong.

• The clock of the BF-11 may go wrong or stop if you don’t use the BF-11 for a long period or you don’t adjust the time for a long period. To avoid this situation, check the Date/Time setting frequently (page 70).

■ A “Memory Full” message appears during creating/editing the

training program and a new program/segment cannot be created.

• The number of programs/segments that can be saved to the BF-11 is limited (refer to page 37). If a “Memory Full” message appears, save all programs within the BODiBEAT Station software to your computer and delete them from the BF-11. Then, load only the ones you need from the computer to the device just before exercising.

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Top Menu

Free Workout (page 25) Walk Fitness (page 30) Jog Fitness (page 30) Training (page 35) Music Playback (page 53)

Data (page 42)

Settings (page 60)

Artist/Album (page 54) Songs (page 55) Playlists (page 56) Now Playing (page 59)

Workouts (page 29) Days (page 47) Weeks (page 47) Months (page 47)

Music Settings (page 61)

Workout Music (page 61)

Music Priority (page 61) Tempo Guide (page 62) Half Tempo (page 63) Song Transition (page 63) Playback Time (page 64) Normalize Volume (page 64)

Play Mode (page 65)

Repeat (page 65) Shufﬂe (page 65)

Bass Boost (page 65)

Hardware Settings (page 66)

Sensors (page 66)

Pulse Sensor (page 66) Step Sensor (page 67) Pace Sensor (page 67)

Display (page 68)

Main Disp_Workout (page 68) Measurement (page 69) Language (page 69) Display Time (page 69) Contrast (page 70)

Date/Time (page 70)

User Settings (page 71)

Heart Rate (page 71)

Check Heart Rate (page 71)

Change Heart Rate (page 72) Stride (page 73) Weight/Height (page 73) Birthday/Sex (page 74) Learning Function (page 74)

Information (page 76) Initialize (page 76)

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BF-11 Preset Training Programs

The warming up and cooling down segments are not included in each Preset Training Program. Before exercising or after exercising, make sure to properly do warming up and cooling down exercises by yourself.

As for Preset Training Programs 01 – 06, the target pace is determined based on the jog stride setting (page 73). If the tempo of the song playing back while exercising is too fast or too slow, change the stride setting.

01: Short Interval 1

This program helps you build up speed. (For beginners) Total: 3 km

Interval

(km)

1 0.4 4:50

2 0.2 7:30

3 0.4 4:50

4 0.2 7:30

5 0.4 4:50

6 0.2 7:30

7 0.4 4:50

8 0.2 7:30

9 0.4 4:50

10 0.2 7:30

Target

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Pace (min : sec/km)

7:30

4:50

0.0

1.0 2.0 3.0

Distance (km)

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02: Short Interval 2

This program helps you build up speed. (For intermediate users) Total: 6 km

Interval

(km)

1 0.4 4:10 16 0.2 6:15

2 0.2 6:15 17 0.4 4:10

3 0.4 4:10 18 0.2 6:15

4 0.2 6:15 19 0.4 4:10

5 0.4 4:10 20 0.2 6:15

6 0.2 6:15

7 0.4 4:10

8 0.2 6:15

9 0.4 4:10

10 0.2 6:15

11 0.4 4:10

12 0.2 6:15

13 0.4 4:10

14 0.2 6:15

15 0.4 4:10

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Interval

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Pace (min : sec/km)

6:15

4:10

0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0

Target

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03: Short Interval 3

This program helps you build up speed. (For advanced users) Total: 6 km

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1 0.4 3:20 16 0.2 5:40

2 0.2 5:40 17 0.4 3:20

3 0.4 3:20 18 0.2 5:40

4 0.2 5:40 19 0.4 3:20

5 0.4 3:20 20 0.2 5:40

6 0.2 5:40

7 0.4 3:20

8 0.2 5:40

9 0.4 3:20

10 0.2 5:40

11 0.4 3:20

12 0.2 5:40

13 0.4 3:20

14 0.2 5:40

15 0.4 3:20

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Pace

min : sec/km

5:40

3:20

0.0

Interval

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1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0

Target

(/km)

Distance (km)

04: Long Interval 1

This program helps you build up stamina for high-speed running. (For beginners) Total: 4.2 km

Interval

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1 1.0 5:40

2 0.4 7:30

3 1.0 5:40

4 0.4 7:30

5 1.0 5:40

6 0.4 7:30

Target

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Pace (min : sec/km)

7:30

5:40

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05: Long Interval 2

This program helps you build up stamina for high-speed running. (For intermediate users) Total: 7 km

Interval

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1 0.4 4:50

2 0.2 7:30

3 0.4 4:50

4 0.2 7:30

5 0.4 4:50

6 0.2 7:30

7 0.4 4:50

8 0.2 7:30

9 0.4 4:50

10 0.2 7:30

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Pace (min : sec/km)

7:30

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06: Long Interval 3

This program helps you build up stamina for high-speed running. (For advanced users) Total: 7 km

Interval

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1 0.4

2 0.2

3 0.4

4 0.2

5 0.4

6 0.2

7 0.4

8 0.2

9 0.4

10 0.2

Target

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4:10 6:15 4:10 6:15 4:10 6:15 4:10 6:15 4:10 6:15

Pace (min : sec/km)

6:15

4:10

0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0

Distance (km)

07: Tempo

This program helps you build up stamina for racing. Total: 8 km

Interval

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1 8.0 80

Target

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08: Buildup

This program helps you practice for racing. Total: 6 km

Interval

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1 2.0 80

2 2.0 85

3 2.0 90

Target

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%HRR (%)

0.0

09: LSD (Long Slow Distance)

This program helps you build up basic stamina. Total: 120 min.

Interval

(min : sec)

1 30:00 60

2 30:00 60

3 30:00 60

4 30:00 60

Target

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%HRR (%)

06030:00 60:00 90:00 120:00

1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0

Distance (km)

1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0

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Specifications

Speciﬁcations

Model BF-11

Size 75.5 x 39.7 x 23.8 mm (2.97 x 1.56 x 0.94 inches)

Weight Main body 60 g (2.12 oz)

Earphones/ Pulse sensor

Output power 6.5 mW x 2 (33 Ω)

Frequency response 20 to 20,000 Hz

Playtime Approximately 9 hours (typical use)

Battery Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery

Charging method (power source) USB (computer* or optional USB AC power adaptor)

Full-charge time Approximately 3 hours

Operating temperature range 0° – 50°C (32° – 122°F)

21 g (0.74 oz)

Depending on use preferences and surrounding environment.

* OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later, 32-bit editions of

Windows

Except when charging: 0° – 35°C (32° – 95°F)

Vista, or Windows® 7

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Display 1.0 inch 128 x 64 OLED

LED 3-color LED (red, green, blue)

Case Plastic

Pulse sensor (Measuring range) 30 – 250 bpm

Exercise modes Free Workout, Walk Fitness, Jog Fitness, Training

Time range for Goal setting 1 – 599 minutes

Distance range for Goal setting 0.1 – 99.9 km (0 – 62.1 mi)

Calorie range for Goal setting 10 – 9999 kcal

Tr aining programs Maximum 99

Tr aining intervals Maximum 99 (for one program)

Interval range Time: 0:10 – 59:59

Distance: 0.1 – 99.9 km (0.1 – 62.1 mi)

Exercise logs Maximum 99

Storage media Flash ROM

Capacity 1 GB

Supported audio formats MP3 (32 to 320 kbps, variable bit rate)

WMA (32 to 192 kbps, variable bit rate) AAC (8 to 320 kbps, variable bit rate) WAV

Some ﬁle formats above may not be supported depending on the particular ﬁles.

Auxiliary jacks Earphones/Pulse sensor: proprietary 8-pin, USB 2.0

(Hi-speed)

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Specifications

Included accessories Armband, Earphones (with pulse sensor), USB cable,

Cable clip, Earphone pads, CD-ROM, Operating the BODiBEAT/Wearing the BODiBEAT, Quick Guide, User Registration Card

Optional accessories

* Speciﬁcations and descriptions in this owner’s manual are for information purposes only. Yamaha Corp.

reserves the right to change or modify products or speciﬁcations at any time without prior notice. Since speciﬁcations, equipment or options may not be the same in every locale, please check with your Yamaha dealer.

PA-U010 USB AC power adaptor, JA-BF1 Jack adaptor

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Symbols

%HRR ................................................ 33, 37

[I/O] (Standby/On) button ........................ 10

▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons .......................... 10

Numerics

12-hour ..................................................... 70

24-hour ..................................................... 70

Add Segment ........................................... 38

Armband .................................................. 17

Artist/Album .............................................. 54

Bass Boost ............................................... 65

Battery ........................................................ 9

Birthday/Sex ............................................. 74

BODiBEAT Songs .................................... 62

BODiBEAT Station ................................... 49

Buildup ..................................................... 83

Cable clip ................................................. 21

Cable tightener ........................................ 20

Calories .................................................... 27

CD-ROM ................................................... 49

Changing ................................................. 45

Computer ................................................. 48

Contrast ................................................... 70

Control Hold ............................................. 15

Cooling down ........................................... 34

Copy ........................................................ 39

Cursor ...................................................... 22

Date Format ............................................. 70

Date/Time ................................................. 70

Days ......................................................... 46

Delete ................................................. 40, 41

Display ..................................................... 10

Display Icons ........................................... 23

Display settings .................................. 45, 68

Display Time ............................................ 69

Distance ................................................... 27

Earphone connector ................................ 17

Earphones ................................................ 19

Edit ........................................................... 40

Exercise intensity .....................................33

Exercise Logs ..................................... 29, 46

Fast-forward ............................................. 57

Fitness Modes .......................................... 30

Free Workout ............................................ 25

Goal Setting .............................................. 27

Guide Sound ............................................63

Half Marathon ...........................................27

Half Tempo ...............................................63

Hardware Settings .................................... 66

Heart Rate ................................................71

Hold .......................................................... 15

Information ............................................... 76

Initial Settings ........................................... 12

Initialize .................................................... 76

Insert ........................................................ 40

Installation ................................................ 50

Interval ...................................................... 37

Jog Fitness ............................................... 30

Kilograms ................................................. 69

Language ........................................... 12, 69

Learning Function ....................................74

LED ........................................................... 10

Loading Music Data ................................. 52

Lock .......................................................... 44

Log ........................................................... 29

Log displays .............................................47

Long Interval ............................................82

LSD (Long Slow Distance) .......................83

Main Display ....................................... 45, 68

Marathon .................................................. 27

Maximum Heart Rate ................................ 72

Measurement ........................................... 69

Measurement Error ................................... 31

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Index

Menu Tree ................................................ 80

[MENU/BACK] button .............................. 10

Meters ...................................................... 69

Miles/Feet ................................................. 69

Mix ........................................................... 62

Months ..................................................... 46

Music Playback Mode .............................. 53

Music Priority ............................................ 61

Music Select ............................................ 28

Music Settings ......................................... 61

New .......................................................... 37

Normalize Volume .................................... 64

Now Playing ............................................. 59

Optimal aerobic exercise ......................... 30

Pace display ............................................ 44

Pace Sensor ............................................. 67

Pause ................................................. 42, 58

PC mode .................................................. 51

Percentage of heart rate reserve ....... 33, 37

Play Info display ................................. 54, 59

Play Mode ................................................ 65

Playback Time ......................................... 64

Playlists .............................................. 28, 56

Pounds ..................................................... 69

Power Off ................................................. 16

Power On ................................................. 12

Preset Training Programs .................. 35, 81

Pulse Sensor ...................................... 19, 66

Repeat ..................................................... 65

Repeat All ................................................ 65

Repeat One .............................................. 65

[RESET] switch ......................................... 11

Resting heart rate .................................... 71

Reverse .................................................... 57

Songs ....................................................... 55

Specifications ........................................... 84

[Standby/On] button ................................. 10

Step Sensor ..............................................67

Stop .................................................... 42, 58

Stride ........................................................ 73

System Requirements ..............................50

Target ....................................................... 37

Tempo ...................................................... 83

Tempo Guide ...........................................62

Time .......................................................... 27

Time Format .............................................70

Top ........................................................... 43

Top Menu ...........................................14, 59

Training Mode ..........................................35

Training program ...................................... 35

Troubleshooting ....................................... 77

Unlimited .................................................. 27

USB cable ................................................51

USB connector ......................................... 11

User Settings ............................................71

User Songs ............................................... 62

View/Edit ................................................... 39

Volume ............................................... 42, 58

Walk Fitness .............................................30

Warming up ..............................................34

Weeks ....................................................... 46

Weight/Height ........................................... 73

Workout Music .......................................... 61

Workouts .................................................. 46

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Segment ................................................... 38

Select Song display ................................. 43

Sensors .................................................... 66

Settings .................................................... 60

Short Interval ............................................ 81

Shuffle ...................................................... 65

Skip .................................................... 43, 57

Skip/top count .......................................... 74

Song Transition ........................................ 63

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CANADA

Yamaha Canada Music Ltd.

135 Milner Avenue, Scarborough, Ontario, M1S 3R1, Canada Tel: 416-298-1311

U.S.A.

Yamaha Electronics Corporation, USA

6600 Orangethorpe Ave., Buena Park, Calif. 90620, U.S.A. Tel: 714-522-9105

CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA

MEXICO

Yamaha de México S.A. de C.V.

Calz. Javier Rojo Gómez #1149, Col. Guadalupe del Moral C.P. 09300, México, D.F., México Tel: 55-5804-0600

BRAZIL

Yamaha Musical do Brasil Ltda.

Rua Joaquim Floriano, 913 - 4' andar, Itaim Bibi, CEP 04534-013 Sao Paulo, SP. BRAZIL Tel: 011-3704-1377

ARGENTINA

Yamaha Music Latin America, S.A. Sucursal de Argentina

Olga Cossettini 1553, Piso 4 Norte Madero Este-C1107CEK Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel: 011-4119-7000

PAN AMA AND OTHER LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES/ CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES

Yamaha Music Latin America, S.A.

Torre Banco General, Piso 7, Urbanización Marbella,

Calle 47 y Aquilino de la Guardia, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá Tel: +507-269-5311

EUROPE

THE UNITED KINGDOM/IRELAND

Yamaha Music U.K. Ltd.

Sherbourne Drive, Tilbrook, Milton Keynes, MK7 8BL, England Tel: 01908-366700

GERMANY

Yamaha Music Europe GmbH

Siemensstraße 22-34, 25462 Rellingen, Germany Tel: 04101-3030

SWITZERLAND/LIECHTENSTEIN

Yamaha Music Europe GmbH Branch Switzerland in Zürich

Seefeldstrasse 94, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland Tel: 01-383 3990

AUSTRIA

Yamaha Music Europe GmbH Branch Austria

Schleiergasse 20, A-1100 Wien, Austria Tel: 01-60203900

CZECH REPUBLIC/SLOVAKIA/ HUNGARY/SLOVENIA

Yamaha Music Europe GmbH Branch Austria

Schleiergasse 20, A-1100 Wien, Austria Tel: 01-602039025

POLAND/LITHUANIA/LATVIA/ESTONIA

Yamaha Music Europe GmbH Branch Sp.z o.o. Oddzial w Polsce

ul. 17 Stycznia 56, PL-02-146 Warszawa, Poland Tel: 022-868-07-57

THE NETHERLANDS/ BELGIUM/LUXEMBOURG

Yamaha Music Europe Branch Benelux

Clarissenhof 5-b, 4133 AB Vianen, The Netherlands Tel: 0347-358 040

FRANCE

Yamaha Musique France

BP 70-77312 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France Tel: 01-64-61-4000

ITALY

Yamaha Musica Italia S.P.A.

Viale Italia 88, 20020 Lainate (Milano), Italy Tel: 02-935-771

SPAIN/PORTUGAL

Yamaha Música Ibérica, S.A.

Ctra. de la Coruna km. 17, 200, 28230 Las Rozas (Madrid), Spain Tel: 91-639-8888

GREECE

Philippos Nakas S.A. The Music House

147 Skiathou Street, 112-55 Athens, Greece Tel: 01-228 2160

SWEDEN

Yamaha Scandinavia AB

J. A. Wettergrens Gata 1, Box 30053 S-400 43 Göteborg, Sweden Tel: 031 89 34 00

DENMARK

YS Copenhagen Liaison Ofﬁce

Generatorvej 6A, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark Tel: 44 92 49 00

FINLAND

F-Musiikki Oy

Kluuvikatu 6, P.O. Box 260, SF-00101 Helsinki, Finland Tel: 09 618511

NORWAY

Norsk ﬁlial av Yamaha Scandinavia AB

Grini Næringspark 1, N-1345 Østerås, Norway Tel: 67 16 77 70

ICELAND

Skifan HF

Skeifan 17 P.O. Box 8120, IS-128 Reykjavik, Iceland Tel: 525 5000

RUSSIA

Yamaha Music (Russia)

Ofﬁce 4015, entrance 2, 21/5 Kuznetskii Most street, Moscow, 107996, Russia Tel: 495 626 0660

OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Yamaha Music Europe GmbH

Siemensstraße 22-34, 25462 Rellingen, Germany Tel: +49-4101-3030

AFRICA

Yamaha Corporation, Asia-Paciﬁc Music Marketing Group

Nakazawa-cho 10-1, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan 430-8650 Tel: +81-53-460-2312

MIDDLE EAST

TURKEY/CYPRUS

Yamaha Music Europe GmbH

Siemensstraße 22-34, 25462 Rellingen, Germany Tel: 04101-3030

OTHER COUNTRIES

Yamaha Music Gulf FZE

LOB 16-513, P.O.Box 17328, Jubel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Tel: +971-4-881-5868

ASIA

THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Yamaha Music & Electronics (China) Co.,Ltd.

2F, Yunhedasha, 1818 Xinzha-lu, Jingan-qu, Shanghai, China Tel: 021-6247-2211

HONG KONG

Tom Lee Music Co., Ltd.

11/F., Silvercord Tower 1, 30 Canton Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: 2737-7688

INDIA

Yamaha Music India Pvt. Ltd.

5F Ambience Corporate Tower Ambience Mall Complex Ambience Island, NH-8, Gurgaon-122001, Haryana, India

Tel: 0124-466-5551

INDONESIA

PT. Yamaha Music Indonesia (Distributor) PT. Nusantik

Gedung Yamaha Music Center, Jalan Jend. Gatot Subroto Kav. 4, Jakarta 12930, Indonesia Tel: 21-520-2577

KOREA

Yamaha Music Korea Ltd.

8F, 9F, Dongsung Bldg. 158-9 Samsung-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea Tel: 080-004-0022

MALAYSIA

Yamaha Music Malaysia, Sdn., Bhd.

Lot 8, Jalan Perbandaran, 47301 Kelana Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Tel: 3-78030900

PHILIPPINES

Yupangco Music Corporation

339 Gil J. Puyat Avenue, P.O. Box 885 MCPO, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines Tel: 819-7551

SINGAPORE

Yamaha Music Asia Pte., Ltd.

#03-11 A-Z Building 140 Paya Lebor Road, Singapore 409015 Tel: 747-4374

TAIWAN

Yamaha KHS Music Co., Ltd.

3F, #6, Sec.2, Nan Jing E. Rd. Taipei. Taiwan 104, R.O.C. Tel: 02-2511-8688

THAILAND

Siam Music Yamaha Co., Ltd.

4, 6, 15 and 16 891/1 Rama 1 Road, Wangmai, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel: 02-215-2626

ﬂoor, Siam Motors Building,

OTHER ASIAN COUNTRIES

Yamaha Corporation, Asia-Paciﬁc Music Marketing Group

Nakazawa-cho 10-1, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan 430-8650 Tel: +81-53-460-2317

OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA

Yamaha Music Australia Pty. Ltd.

Level 1, 99 Queensbridge Street, Southbank, Victoria 3006, Australia Tel: 3-9693-5111

NEW ZEALAND

Music Works LTD

P.O.BOX 6246 Wellesley, Auckland 4680, New Zealand Tel: 9-634-0099

COUNTRIES AND TRUST TERRITORIES IN PACIFIC OCEAN

Yamaha Corporation, Asia-Paciﬁc Music Marketing Group

Nakazawa-cho 10-1, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan 430-8650 Tel: +81-53-460-2312

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HEAD OFFICE Yamaha Corporation, Pro Audio & Digital Musical Instrument Division

Nakazawa-cho 10-1, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan 430-8650 Tel: +81-53-460-3273

Yamaha BODIBEAT BF-11 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

How to Use the Manual

Included Accessories

Contents

PRECAUTIONS

Starting Up

Charging the Battery

Panel Controls

Turning the Power On / Making Initial Settings

Control Hold

Turning the Power Off

Putting on the BF-11

Attaching the armband

Putting on the earphones and pulse sensor

Basic Operations

Selecting a menu item

Changing a setting or parameter value

Enter

Back

About the Display Icons

Exercising with the BF-11

Exercising with Free Workout

Goal Setting and Music Selection

After a Free Workout session

Exercising with the Fitness modes

What is ‘Effective’ Aerobic Exercise?

Exercising with preset programs

Creating a new program

Editing the preset (or already created) Program

Deleting a program

Operation During Exercise

Managing the Exercise Logs

Checking the Exercise Logs

Deleting Exercise Logs

Connecting to a Computer

About the BODiBEAT Station Software

System Requirements

Installation

How to Connect

Removing the device from the computer

Loading Music Data to the BF-11

Selecting Songs

Basic Operations in Music Playback Mode

Fast-forward and reverse

Stop and pause

Adjusting the Volume

Exiting from the Play Info Display

Returning to the Play Info Display

Settings

Music Settings

Workout Music

Bass Boost

Hardware Settings

Sensors

Display

Date/Time

User Settings

Heart Rate

Stride

Weight/Height

Birthday/Sex

Learning Function

Information

Initialize

Troubleshooting

Appendix

Menu Tree

BF-11 Preset Training Programs

Specifications

Index