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COOLING DOWN AFTER A WORKOUT
Cooling down is an important aspect of your workout because it helps reduce
muscle stiffness and soreness by transporting excess lactic acid out of the work-
ing muscles. Cooling down for at least 3 minutes helps provide a smooth transi-
tion that allows your heart rate to return to its normal (non-exercising) state. The
EFX automatically initiates a 5-minute cool-down period once you complete a
course that has a specified time duration. A prompt appears, indicating that you
are in cool down.
During your cool down, the workout statistics continue to appear. The
TIME
dis-
play shows the accumulated time which includes warm-up and cool-down peri-
ods. When you complete the 5-minute cool down, a
Workout Summary
appears.
See the information below.
Important
: To activate a cool-down period, a course must “end.” The course ends
when the workout
Time
(entered during the Setup prompts) expires. If no workout
Time
entry occurred, then (from a software perspective) no time limit exists, so a
cool-down period is not appended to the course. (However, club time limits still apply
whether or not a workout
Time
was entered.)
PAUSE, COOL DOWN AND EXIT FEATURES
Pausing, cooling down, and exiting are integral parts of your workout and can be
accessed any time during a course. The EFX goes through several prerequisites
before actually exiting a course. The following tables explain the various situations.
In a course,
This is what happens...,
you complete it
Enter Cool Down. At the start of the cool-down period, the resis-
tance is reduced by 20%. You can adjust the setting using the
numeric or
Resistance
▼▲
keys. The display features remain,
so you can review your workout statistics.
Note
: A Cool-down period is appended to those courses
that have a finite duration. If you do not enter a
Workout
Time
during the Setup prompts, or the club has set “no limit”
as the default duration, then a cool-down period does not
occur when you reach the end of a course.
In a course,
This is what happens...,
you press Reset
Enter the
Workout Summary
mode. The workout statistics
remain displayed for two minutes. You can scan through the
workout statistics by pressing the
Change
key. Note that
the TIME display shows the accumulated workout time in-
cluding warm-up and cool down periods.
no pedaling
is detected.
Enter Pause mode. The display features remain, so you can
review your workout statistics, and
Time
stops accruing. Note
that the Pause mode has a time limit and the club has the
option to determine the setting. If you enter Pause mode, it
is of limited duration.
(
1 second or more
)
