Life Fitness R9i Recumbent LifeCycle Exercise Bike
The R9i recumbent Lifecycle exercise bike is the home version of Life Fitness’ popular health club model
Product Features
- Club-style, self-powered exercise bike for in-home workouts with natural, efficient recumbent riding position
- 19 pre-programmed and seven personalized workouts, and the five HeartSync workouts
- Recumbent seat with contoured, high back pad; front and side-mounted handlebars
- Lifepulse digital contact heart rate monitoring system on side handlebars and included Polar wireless chest strap
- 400-pound maximum user weight; lifetime warranty on frame
How it works
Product Description
- Manual: Gives you complete freedom to choose your own speed and resistance levels.
- Hill: Challenges you with intervals of multiple hills and valleys with each hill becoming progressively more difficult.
- Random: Includes many different motivating combinations of hills and valleys.
- EZ Incline/Resistance: Slowly and progressively increases incline so you are less aware of the building demands.
- Sport Training: Simulates outdoor training with a rigorous workout that features hundreds of different hills and valleys with a wide range of high and low levels of resistance.
- Around the World: The terrain resembles various regions around the globe.
- Cascades: A two-peak workout in which The intensity levels gradually increase and decrease.
- Foothills: Features rolling hills at a low intensity level
- Kilimanjaro: Intensity levels gradually increase toward one ultimate peak, and then gradually fall.
- Speed Training: Intensity levels quickly alternate between high and low levels to stimulate a typical speed workout.
- Interval Training: Intensity levels rise and fall. The higher levels gradually increase, peak, and then decrease.
It also includes the following HeartSync workouts:
- Fat Burn: A great workout for beginners or for those days when you need a lighter workout. It automatically adjusts resistance to maintain your heart rate at 65 percent of your theoretical maximum.
- Cardio: Maximizes caloric burn and boosts your energy level. It automatically adjusts resistance to maintain your heart rate at 80 percent of your theoretical maximum.
- Heart Rate Hill: An interval workout made up of three hills with each hill becoming progressively more difficult based on your heart rate goals. The first hill is 70 percent of your maximum heart rate (HRMax) and becomes progressively tougher (75 percent HRMax on the second and 80 percent HRMax on the third). The valley is always defined as 65 percent HRMax. It’s similar to training for sports activities such as hockey, basketball, and soccer.
- Heart Rate Interval: Climb a series of alternating hills (80 percent HRMax) and valleys (65 percent HRMax). The number of times you climb each hill depends on your fitness level. It’s similar to training for endurance activities such as triathlons and running.
- Extreme Heart Rate: Quickly raises and lowers resistance to get your heart rate up to 85 percent HRMax and down to 65 percent HRMax as quickly as possible. It’s similar to training for sports activities such as tennis, racquetball, football, and sprinting.
Specifications:
- Resistance levels: 20
- Resistance system: Self-contained alternator
- Seat adjustments: 34 positions
- Frame: 2″ x 4″ robotically-welded steel frame
- Pedals: Wide Ride self-leveling pedals with straps
- Electronic readouts: Level, Time, Speed (mph/kmh), Distance, Heart Rate, Target Heart Rate, Calories, Watts, METs
- Display type: Red LEDs
- Workout profile display: 7 x 15 segments
- Workout feedback display: 16-character message center
- Dimensions: 54 x 26 x 51 inches (LxWxH)
- Unit weight: 134 pounds
- Maximum user weight: 400 pounds
Manufacturer’s Warranty
Frame - lifetime, parts - three years, labor - one year. The warranty is valid only within the United States.