Precor EFX 5.25 Manual Do Utilizador

Determine your level of fitness: beginner, intermediate, 
or advanced.

Determine your immediate goal: endurance training, 
cardio-conditioning, or weight loss.

If you are a beginner, start a cardio-conditioning program 
to slowly adjust your body to a comfortable level of 
exercise. Over a recommended 8-week period, you will 
increase your endurance and strength while improving 
flexibility. 

For all fitness levels, plan to exercise at a comfortable 
pace for 20 to 30 minutes a day. To monitor your heart 
rate, use the touch-sensitive grips. Supplement your plans 
with fitness workouts from the Precor web site 
(www.precor.com). 

Note: Touch heart rate performance may vary based on a 
user’s physiology, fitness level, age, and other factors. You 
may experience an erratic readout if your hands are dry, 
dirty, or oily, or if the skin on your palms is especially thick. 
Wearing hand lotion can also cause an erratic readout. In 
addition, make sure that the sensors are clean to ensure 
proper contact can be maintained.

To use the touch heart rate feature, place the palm of your 
hands directly on the metal heart rate sensors on the 
equipment’s handlebars. To ensure a more accurate heart 
rate readout, make sure you follow these tips:
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Both hands must grip the sensors for your heart rate to 
register.

It takes a number of consecutive heart beats 
(15-20 seconds) for your heart rate to register.

When gripping the sensors, do not grip tightly. Keep a 
loose, cupping hold. Holding the grips tightly can 
affect the reading.

As you work out, your perspiration will help transmit 
your heart rate signal. If you have difficulty using the 
handheld grips to determine your heart rate, try the 
sensors again later in the workout to see if you can 
obtain a heart rate signal.

If the touch heart rate feature does not work for you, 
Precor recommends that you use a chest transmitter 
strap.

Wearing a chest strap transmitter during your workout 
provides steady heart rate information. For the equipment 
to detect your heart rate, you must grip the touch heart 
rate sensors or wear a chest strap transmitter while 
exercising. In the presence of both touch and wireless 
data, the touch data takes precedence and will display.

To receive an accurate reading, the strap needs to 

be in direct contact with the skin on the lower sternum 
(just below the bust line for women).

To use a chest strap:

1. Carefully dampen the back of the strap with tap water.

2. Adjust the strap and fasten it around your chest. The 

strap should feel snug, not restrictive.

3. Make sure that the chest strap is right side up, lies 

horizontally across, and is centered in the middle of 
your chest. 

4. Test the chest strap placement by checking the heart 

rate function on the equipment. If a heart rate is 
registering, your chest strap placement is correct. If 
the equipment does not register a heart rate, readjust 
the strap and recheck the heart rate function.

Precor Incorporated

20031 142nd Avenue NE

P.O. Box 7202

Woodinville, WA USA 98072-4002

5.2x HR INFO 300090-141

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Precor Incorporated

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