Life Span E2i User manual

E2i / E3i Elliptical Cross Trainers
Owner’s Manual

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Congratulations on Purchasing Your LifeSpan Elliptical!
At LifeSpan we take pride in the quality, safety, and reliability of our products
as well as the professionalism of our sales support and customer service teams.
Making it our number one priority that you have an exceptional experience using
our products.
In support of this quality focus we pre-assemble parts on the manufacturing line
whenever possible to reduce the number of steps and complexity of customer
assembly, independently certify our products to comply with the latest industry
Safety Standards, and use state of the art production processes and quality
components.
Then we back LifeSpan products with excellent warranties and a responsive
customer service department making it simple and easy to get assistance should
the need arise.
This attention to quality, our high standard for customer service and focus on
innovation has earned LifeSpan numerous awards and consistent praise from
independent review groups, industry authorities and you the consumer.
Thanks for choosing LifeSpan.
Please thoroughly read this manual before you assemble or operate your elliptical.
Neither LifeSpan nor its representatives can accept responsibility for any damages or injury incurred as a
result of information presented in this manual except under the terms of the product warranty.
Welcome

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Contents
Welcome
Safety First
Safety First
About Your Elliptical
Specications
Unique Features
Console Overview
Heart Rate Monitoring
Programs
Warranty / Registration
Grounding
Assembling Your Elliptical
Exploded View & Hardware
Assembly Instructions
Console Basics
Readout Display
Operating Keyboard
Date / Time / Quickstart
Using Programs
Preset Programs
Custom User
Using Heart Rate Control Programs
Saving Your Results
LifeSpan Club
Bluetooth / USB Plus
Maintenance and Tips
Personal Settings
General Maintenance
Moving
Troubleshooting
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When using exercise equipment, basic precautions should always be followed,
including:
• Never drop or insert any object into any opening. If an object falls into an
opening, turn the power o and unplug the power cord from the outlet.
Remove the object or call customer service at 877.654.3837 option 4.
• Never operate this elliptical if it has been damaged or partially
submersed in water.
• To reduce the risk of electric shock, unplug the elliptical from the wall
outlet when not in use, before performing any maintenance, or before
moving the elliptical.
• Do not use outdoors or in areas of high humidity or extreme temperature
changes.
• Do not operate where aerosol spray products are being used or where
oxygen is being administered.
• Never place the power cord under carpeting or place any object on top
of the cord, this may pinch or damage the cord causing re damage or
personal injury.
• Use this exercise product for its intended use as described in this Owner’s
Manual. Do not use attachments that are not recommended by LifeSpan.
• Keep hands away from all moving parts
• Keep your elliptical on a solid, level surface. Do not operate elliptical
on deeply padded, plush or shag carpeting. Damage to carpeting may
occur.
Children and Pets
• When in use children and pets should be kept at least 10 feet (3m) away.
• This elliptical can be used by children ages 12 years and above and
persons with reduced physical, sensory or lack of experience and
knowledge if they have been given supervision or instruction concerning
use of the appliance in a safe way and understand the hazards involved.
• Cleaning and user maintenance shall not be made by children without
supervision.
• Keep children away from the elliptical. There are many pinch points and
other caution areas that can cause harm and injury.
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Safety Tips While in Use
• Always consult a physician before beginning an exercise program.
• If you experience chest pains, nausea, dizziness or shortness of
breath, stop exercising immediately and consult your physician before
continuing. Do not wear clothing or jewelry that might catch on any
part of the elliptical.
• Wear shoes with high traction rubber soles. Do not wear shoes with
heals, leather soles, cleats or spikes.
• Use caution while participating in other activities while using your
elliptical such as watching television or reading. These distractions may
cause you to lose balance which may result in injury.
• Heart Rate monitoring systems may be inaccurate. Various factors,
including the user’s movement may aect the accuracy of the heart
rate readings. The pulse sensors are intended only as exercise aids in
determining heart rate trend.
• Over exercising may result in serious injury or death. If you feel faint
stop exercising immediately.
Safety First
Note: Read all instructions and save for future reference.

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About Your Elliptical
Specications
Mechanical and Drive System
Flywheel E2i - 29 lb (13 kg)
E3i - 34 lb (15 kg)
Resistance System Frictionless Magnetic Resistance
Resistance Levels 20
Incline Ramp Levels 20
Stride Length 20” ( 50.8 cm )
Roller Wheels E2i - Single Roller Wheel Per Pedal
E3i - Dual Roller Wheels Per Pedal
Transport 2 Front Wheels
Maximum User
Weight
E2i: 350 lb (159 kg)
E3i: 375 lb (170 kg)
Console Features
Readouts E2i/E3i: Time, Speed, Calories, Heart Rate, Watts,
Stride(step) Count, Ramp and Resistance Level,
Date and Clock, and Core Balance
E3i Only: Average Watts, Stride Count Per Minute
(CPM), Calorie Burn Rate Per Hour, Distance
Programs 2 Heart Rate, 2 User Setup and 17 preset programs
Display 6” Blue Backlit LCD (E2i)
7.5” Blue Backlit LCD (E3i)
Heart Rate Contact Heart Rate Sensors / Chest Strap
Compatible
Quickset™ 4 Buttons for Ramp and Resistance Control
Advanced Audio Audio-in Port and Dual Speakers
USB Plus Charges Mobile Devices and Saves Exercise Results
Accessory Support Water Bottle Holder
Tablet Holder / Reading Rack

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About Your Elliptical
Intelli-Key™
Console operation is simplied with sequential button illumination
prompting you through program selection and setup.
Core Balance
Load Sensors built into the pedals identify the amount of weight and
power coming from each leg to help you focus on equally balancing
your weight distribution and eort level applied to each leg.
Club Membership
Every elliptical comes with a full membership in the Club, LifeSpan’s
award-winning health and tness software. Keep track of all your
activity and information in one secure location.
USB Plus
Dual-purpose USB port charges most of your mobile devices* and saves
your exercise results for upload into your free Club account.
Bluetooth
Optional Bluetooth adapter allows for wireless data sync with the
LifeSpan Active Trac™ and Train & Trac™ apps to get the most out of
your workout and capture your exercise results.
* Does not charge iPad 1, iPad 2, and iPad 3.
Unique Features
As a leader in the tness industry, LifeSpan has developed a number of
unique features that make our products more engaging and easier to use.
You can learn more about how to use these features throughout this Owner’s
Manual.

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Built-in Speakers
Readout Display
Preset Programs (E3i)
Media Holder
USB Plus
Bluetooth Pairing (optional feature)
Alternate Readouts (E3i)
Power Button
Operating Keyboard
Quickset™ Ramp Controls
Incline Ramp Level
Audio Input
Resistance Level
Quickset™ Resistance Controls
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Console Overview

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About Your Elliptical
Heart Rate Monitoring
Seeing your heart rate
while exercising will
help you understand the
intensity of your exercise
and corresponding heart
rate training zone, and
predict health benets
found through repeated
bouts of exercise. Refer to
the information below to
understand your heart rate
training zones:
Zone 5 — Performance Redline Zone: 90% - 100% of your Max HR
The performance zone involves extreme eort, requiring the heart to beat
at or near maximum capacity. Training bouts include intense incline or
sprinting, beneting speed, power, and anaerobic performance competency.
Zone 4 — Threshold Zone: 80% - 90% of your Max HR
The threshold zone involves intense jogging or sub-maximal sprinting,
typically unsustainable for long periods of time. Benets include highly-
elevated calorie burn, speed and power performance enhancement,
improved lactate removal capabilities, and enriched heart health.
Zone 3 — Aerobic Zone: 70% - 80% of your Max HR
The aerobic zone is ideal for cardiovascular training. Workouts in this zone
are more intense, involving moderate jogging. Long-term benets are
improved heart health and cardiovascular performance, reductions in blood
pressure and cholesterol, and increased calorie burn.
Zone 2 — Temperate Zone: 60% - 70% of your Max HR
The temperate zone consists of moderate-intensity exercise, typically as fast
walking to slow jogging. Speaking is more dicult and breathing is elevated.
Benets are similar to those of the healthy heart rate zone, though caloric
expenditure is higher.
Zone 1 — Healthy Heart Zone: 50% - 60% of your Max HR
The healthy heart zone involves safe, low-intensity activity, like medium-
to-brisk walking. Full conversations can be held, despite a gentle increase
in respiration. Benets include reduced risk of heart and vascular disease,
moderated blood pressure and cholesterol, and improved insulin sensitivity.

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Hand Pulse Sensors
To use, grasp the sensors with a comfortable
grip, with the palms of your hands placed
over the sensors. If the sensors are having
diculty picking up your heart rate, use aloe
or a moisturizer on your hands or further
warm up as you exercise to increase the
moisture in your hands. Dry hands do not
transfer your pulse as eectively as moist
hands.
Chest Strap
The E2i and E3i elliptical models have integrated heart rate receivers built
into the console. To purchase a heart rate chest strap go to
www.LifeSpanFitness.com.
The chest strap should be worn as shown.
When using a chest strap you may need to
warm up rst to increase the moisture in
your skin. If this doesn’t work use aloe or
another moisturizer where the sensors on
the chest strap are making contact with
your skin.
Note: The heart rate monitoring system will vary due to your age,
method of use, physiology and other factors. LifeSpan cannot
guarantee the accuracy of the heart rate readings.
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Preset Programs
Preset programs automatically change the resistance or ramp level during a
workout according to a preset pattern called a prole. This provides a better
workout, since it uses a wider range of muscles and dierent intensities, a
well-known benet in the cross-training and interval-training world.
Each preset program can be set to change resistance level only, ramp level
only, or both. Each has a suggested duration, but this can be adjusted to
anywhere from 10 to 99 minutes. Two overall levels may be selected, which
raises or lowers the program prole.
Changing the ramp level changes which muscles are used. Adjust the ramp
level to your personal preferences, or to target dierent muscles.
Long Slow Distance
(40 minutes default)
This prole has small changes,
allowing for a more consistent style of eort, maximizing the duration of
your workout.
Short Interval
(20 minute default)
This has the widest variation of
resistance level and ramp level, and has the shortest default duration.
Moderate Interval
(30 minute default)
Smaller resistance and ramp
changes than Short Interval, but greater overall duration, resulting in a
longer workout.
Long Interval
(40 minute default)
The smallest resistance and ramp
alterations of any of the interval workouts, allowing a longer overall duration.
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Negative Interval 1
(30 minute default)
A good choice for someone new to
interval training. Resistance and ramp levels decrease in the second half of
the workout.
Negative Interval 2
(30 minute default)
A slightly higher-intensity version
of Negative Interval 2.
Fartlek
(30 minute default)
A Fartlek is a Swedish workout that
inspires improved levels of tness
through unpredictable changes in programming. This prole purposefully
has no predictable pattern to its prole.
Uphill Climb
(30 minute default)
A gradual increase, then
corresponding decrease, of
resistance and ramp level.
Pyramid Climb
(30 minute default)
Similar to Uphill Climb but with
less frequent changes.
Plateau Climb
(40 minute default)
A higher-intensity version of Long
Slow Distance, with a steady level
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Ladder
(30 minute default)
A form of interval training with
longer, increasingly-intense
intervals. Each unique, altering level is designed to mimic a higher rung on a
ladder. This is the most dicult of the preset programs.
Uphill Interval
(20 minute default)
Similar to Short Interval, but with
more pronounced changes in
intensity.
Steady Pace
(40 minute default)
Similar to Long Slow Distance, but with a lower intensity, steady prole. This
is the easiest of the preset programs.
Long Slow Distance 2
(40 minute default)
Similar to Long Slow Distance, but
reaches maximum intensity more rapidly.
Cardio Run
(20 minute default)
A short, continuous workout with
consistently high intensity.
Short Interval 2
(20 minute default)
Similar to Short Interval, but with a
more rapid buildup to the initial interval.
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Uphill Walk
(30 minute default)
Gradually increases intensity
throughout the entire workout.
Custom User Programs
There are two user programs that provide you with the ability to build
custom program proles for your specic workout requirements. In Custom
User Programs you set the workout time and then for each of the 20 program
segments you set the resistance level and ramp level. This program is
dierent than our preset programs in that both resistance level and ramp
level can be controlled simultaneously. As such, the program matrix display
readout will show both resistance level and ramp level at the same time with
the ramp on the left portion of the matrix and the resistance level on the
right portion of the matrix.
Heart Rate Control Programs
Constant Heart Rate
The Constant Heart Rate is a steady state program that lets you select a
single heart rate to maintain throughout your workout. The elliptical will
adjust the resistance level every 10 seconds during the workout to maintain
your heart rate close to the target you’ve selected.
Interval Heart Rate
The Interval Heart Rate is designed to help you increase aerobic endurance
and improve heart rate recovery. This program lets you select a LOW or
recovery target heart rate and a High target. After the 3 minute warm-up the
console will adjust the resistance level every 10 seconds to maintain your
LOW target for 2 minutes. Then the console will adjust the resistance level to
raise your heart rate to the high target selected and once again keep it at this
level for 2 minutes. The process will repeat until the end of the workout. It is
recommended that you set the workout time to 30 minutes or higher to use
this program eectively.
Note: Remember that the console needs to receive your heart
rate through the grip pulse or a heart rate chest strap during the
course of the workout.

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Warranty
This LifeSpan elliptical comes with the following limited warranty valid in North
America and the United Kingdom. If you are outside of these areas contact your
local distributor for warranty information or visit www.LifeSpanFitness.com.
LifeSpan warrants that the equipment it manufactures is free from defects in
materials and workmanship under normal use and services. The periods above
are based on the date of purchase. During these periods, LifeSpan will repair
or replace any defective part. Free labor is included on all parts that are not
normally assembled or replaced by the customer within the labor period.
If within the time frames specied above, any part fails to operate properly,
login to our website at www.LifeSpanFitness.com, click on“Customer Service”
and complete the form to request assistance or call 877.654.3837 option 4 for a
Customer Service Agent (please note that certain kinds of service should only
be performed by a qualied service technician).
LifeSpan reserves the right to make changes and improvements to our products
without incurring any obligations to similarly alter any product purchased.
In order to insure our product warranty and to ensure the safe and ecient
operation of your LifeSpan product, only authorized parts can be used. The
warranty is void if any parts other than those provided by LifeSpan are used.
Exclusions and Limitations:
• This warranty does not apply to any defects caused by negligence, misuse,
improper assembly, or maintenance, accident, or “act of God.”
• This warranty does not apply to discoloration of paints or plastics.
• LifeSpan shall not be responsible for incidental or consequential damages.
• This warranty is non-transferable form the original owner.
Registration
Should you need to process a warranty claim make sure you retain your
purchase receipt to verify the date of purchase and register your LifeSpan
product online. To complete the registration go to www.LifeSpanFitness.com
and select “Product Registration”.
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Warranty Item
Elliptical Frame
Parts
Labor
E2i
Lifetime
3 Years
1 Year
E3i
Lifetime
5 Years
2 Years