Life Span TR1200i User manual

TR1200i
Folding Treadmill
Owner’s Manual

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Congratulations on Purchasing Your LifeSpan Treadmill!
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 UL and EN957 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 treadmill.
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 Tips
Safety Key
About Your Treadmill
Specications
Unique Features
Console Overview
Heart Rate Monitoring
Programs
Warranty / Registration
Grounding
Assembling Your Treadmill
Exploded View & Hardware
Assembly Instructions
Console Basics
Readout Display
Operating Keyboard
Using Programs
Saving Your Results
Maintenance and Tips
Personal Settings
Folding and Unfolding
Moving
Belt Tensioning
Belt Adjustment
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 x4.
• Never operate this treadmill if it has been damaged or partially
submersed in water.
• To reduce the risk of electric shock, unplug the treadmill from the wall
outlet when not in use, before performing any maintenance, or before
moving the treadmill.
• Do not use outdoors or in areas of high humidity or extreme
temperature changes.
• Do not lean against or climb on the treadmill.
• 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.
• Do not leave your treadmill running while not in use.
Children and Pets
• Keep children from playing on your treadmill at all times.
• When in use children and pets should be kept at least 10 feet (3m) away.
• This treadmill 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.
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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
treadmill.
• Wear shoes with high traction rubber soles. Do not wear shoes with
heals, leather soles, cleats or spikes.
• In case of emergency, grab onto the side handrails and place your feet
on the side rails located on each side of the running belt.
• Do not walk or run backwards on the treadmill, always face forward.
• Allow the running belt to fully stop prior to getting o the treadmill.
• Keep the treadmill on a solid surface, with the side rails and front of the
treadmill a minimum of 2 feet (0.6m) from any walls or furniture. Make
sure that the area behind the treadmill remains completely clear during
use. A minimum of 7 feet (2m) of clearance is required for safety reasons.
Safety First
2 Feet (.6 m)
7 Feet (2.0 m) 2 Feet (.6 m)
2 Feet (.6 m)
Safety Clearance

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Safety Key
The safety key is required to operate this treadmill. With the safety key
installed the treadmill is operational. With the safety key pulled, power is
turned o to the motor making the treadmill inoperable.
CAUTION: For your safety always attach safety key clip to an
article of clothing prior to use. The safety key clip needs to be
securely attached to clothing parallel to or above the height of
the safety key.
WARNING: Heart rate monitoring systems may be
inaccurate. Over exercising may result in serious injury or
death. If you feel faint stop exercising immediately.
NOTE: Read all instructions and save for future reference.
Safety First
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Insert safety key
Securely attach safety
key clip in case of a fall

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About Your Treadmill
Specications
TR12000i
Console Readouts Date and Time, Workout Time, Calories, Step Count,
Distance, Heart Rate, Speed, Incline
Display Multi-Color LCD
Program Matrix 15 Rows by 20 Columns
Programs Manual, Preset (17), User Set-up (2), Heart Rate
Control (2)
Audio Audio Center with in / out jacks and integrated
speakers
Heart Rate Grip Pulse with Receiver (chest strap not included)
Mechanics and Performance
Speed Range 0.5 - 11 (0.8 - 18kph)
Incline Levels 0 - 15
Running Belt Size 20” x 56” (50.3cm x 142.2cm)
Roller Size 2.5” (64mm) tapered
Deck .75” (18mm) Phenolic Deck with
6 Bumper Suspension
Drive Motor 2.5 HP Continuous Duty DC Motor
Lift Motor 800lb (362kg) Max Lift Rating
Maximum User Weight 300lb (136kg)
Dimensions 71” L x 34”W x 54” H
(180.3cm L x 86.4cm W x 137.2cm H)

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About Your Treadmill
Intelli-Guard™
Walk condently knowing your safety is assured with Intelli-Guard™.
Step away from your treadmill for more than twenty seconds and your
treadmill’s belt will automatically glide to a smooth stop.
Intelli-Step™
Never miss a stride with Intelli-Step™. Your steps are automatically
calculated with meticulous precision, displaying immediate feedback
and historical trends via your Club account.
Club Membership
Every treadmill 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
Saves your exercise results for upload into your free Club account.
Energy Ecient
After ten minutes of no activity the console will go into energy saving
mode. At this time all lights, except a dimly lit LED at the START button,
will turn o.
Unique Features
As a leader in the tness industry, LifeSpan has developed a number of
unique features in our treadmills making them more engaging, safer and
easier to use. Learn more about how to use these features in Saving Your
Results and Personal Settings sections of this Owner’s Manual.

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About Your Treadmill
Safety Key
Built-in Speakers
Readout Display
Console Overview

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About Your Treadmill
Audio In
Audio Out
USB Port
Media Holder
Operating Keyboard

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About Your Treadmill
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tting 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 TR1200i has an integrated heart rate receiver 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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Advanced Programs
Remember, if you simply get on your treadmill and go at the same pace, for
the same amount of time everyday your body will only improve to the level
of the workouts you are pushing yourself to do. To help get the most out of
your time spent exercising, LifeSpan treadmills include a full range of workout
programs. All programs are available in either “Speed” or “Incline”mode with
3 levels of intensity that you select during program set-up. When the “Speed”
mode is selected, the belt speed will vary during your workout while the
incline level stays constant. In “Incline” mode the speed remains constant
while the incline is adjusted by the program. In either mode you have full
control of the setting that is not being controlled by the program.
To complement these preset programs you also can use either of the 2 types
of heart rate training programs or design your own program. Refer to your
LifeSpan Club account for a full workout calendar using these programs.
The TR12000i treadmill adds a three-minute warm up and cool down to the
preset programs. It starts at 3 mph (for warm up) or 2.5 mph (for cool down),
but you have full control over the speed. To skip warm up, press Start. To skip
cool down, press Stop. The distance, steps, time, and calories you accumulate
in warm up and cool down are not counted in your workout totals.
Preset Programs
P1 Long Slow Distance
(40 minutes default)
Long Slow Distance is a great
workout for anyone! Beginners can ease into their exercise program and
should include a Long Slow Distance workout each week to maximize overall
cardiovascular endurance development. Long Slow Distance workouts
are also great for experienced exercisers on days following a harder, higher
intensity workout.
P2 Short Interval
(20 minute default)
Short Intervals are ideal for
beginning exercisers that want to start gaining the benets of interval
workouts but aren’t quite ready for a longer-intensity interval workout. Short
intervals are also ideal for experienced exercisers to develop their speed and
anaerobic tness. Remember, it’s important to vary exercise intensity and
duration to maximize overall tness development so be sure to include some
interval workouts at least once a week.
About Your Treadmill

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About Your Treadmill
P3 Moderate Interval
(30 minute default)
As you begin to exercise on a
regular basis and feel your tness improving you will be ready to begin
doing “Moderate Intensity Interval” workouts. Remember in this workout you
alternate between an easy recovery interval and a higher intensity interval.
You should feel comfortable to push yourself as you are never too far away
from an easier recovery interval. This workout will improve your overall
aerobic endurance while also maximizing anaerobic tness development.
P4 Long Interval
(40 minute default)
Long Interval workouts are great
to maximize calorie burn and improve anaerobic tness. As in the Moderate
Interval workouts, remember you have a recovery period after each higher
intensity interval so you can comfortably push yourself to exercise at a
progressively higher level.
P5 Negative Interval 1
(30 minute default)
The Negative Interval-1 workout
provides the benets of a Steady
Pace workout but pushes you to slowly obtain a progressively higher steady
state exercise intensity and then allows you to slowly decrease the exercise
intensity. As your tness level improves, you can slowly push yourself to a
higher peak in overall exercise intensity.
P6 Negative Interval 2
(30 minute default)
The Negative Interval-2 workout
has been designed to provide your body with a workout that begins with
a slight increase in exercise intensity and ends with a progressive decrease
in intensity. A workout with an increase and decrease in intensity will most
ideally develop your overall aerobic cardiovascular endurance. A workout
that decreases in intensity is also ideal for maximizing calorie burn, but most
ideally when done for a longer duration, such as 40 or 50 minutes.

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P7 Fartlek
(30 minute default)
Varying your exercise intensity
with a constantly changing interval
workout that starts out at an easy pace and then increases to a moderate or
higher intensity pace will add variety into your workouts, make workouts go
by faster and provide great tness benets. Constantly varying intensities
in a workout have been found in brain research to have great benets on
improving overall brain tness.
P8 Uphill Climb
(30 minute default)
Gradually increase the intensity
of your exercise with this fun
Uphill Climb workout. The goal of the Uphill Climb is to stimulate your body
to improve overall cardiovascular tness while maximizing muscle cell
development in working muscles. You will maximize calorie burn during the
peak levels while allowing your body to exercise longer and still benet from
the higher intensity as you slow down and return to your starting level.
P9 Pyramid Climb
(30 minute default)
Gradual increases in intensity is
ideal to stimulate your body to
improve overall cardiovascular tness, while also maximizing muscle cell
development in working muscles. You will maximize overall calorie burn
during the peak intensity levels while allowing your body to exercise for a
longer duration and still benet from the higher intensity as you gradually
slowdown.
P10 Plateau Climb
(40 minute default)
A Plateau Climb workout will
provide you with all the benets of
other steady state workouts, but push you to maintain a higher steady state
exercise level. As you improve your overall health and tness you can slowly
push to a higher overall intensity for longer periods of time.
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About Your Treadmill
P11 Ladder
(30 minute default)
One of the greatest benets
of exercise are the direct
benets exercise has on the heart and cardiovascular system. The Heart
Health Ladder has been specically designed to provide your heart and
cardiovascular system with a series of progressively harder exercise
intensity’s that will improve your overall aerobic endurance, while also
stimulating anaerobic endurance. Remember that it may be challenging for
a few minutes, but each progression has been carefully designed to provide
recovery intervals so you can push to improve your cardiovascular tness.
P12 Uphill Interval
(20 minute default)
Uphill Interval workouts are unique
in that they provide your body with the benets of an interval workout,
with the added benets of gradually increasing the overall intensity. In this
workout you should begin at a level that is comfortable and then increase
the intensity during each maximum interval, pushing to a slightly higher
intensity each time. You will get maximum overall calorie burn during of the
higher intensity intervals, while at the same time working on improving your
overall anaerobic tness.
P13 Steady Pace
(40 minute default)
Improve your tness while also
simulating your body to burn more fat with this workout. Steady Pace
workouts are great for helping you establish an improved overall endurance
base. Most “Steady Pace”workouts focus on maintaining one set workload
throughout the entire workout. Your goal is to be sure you are exercising
within a low moderate intensity to a high moderate intensity during the
workout.

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About Your Treadmill
P14 Long Slow Distance 2
(40 minute default)
Compared to the Long Slow
Distance 1 program, this workout expedites the rate of increasing exertion,
allowing for more workout time to be spent at higher levels of intensity.
P15 Cardio Run
(20 minute default)
Cardio Run is a steady pace
workout but at a higher intensity than “Long Slow Distance”. Cardio Run
is a more advanced workout, designed to motivate you to achieve a more
challenging steady pace and maintain that pace for the full duration of the
workout. Cardio Run is a great workout if you are training for a special event.
P16 Short Interval 2
(20 minute default)
Short interval workouts have been
found in research studies to be
ideal for those striving to lose weight and improve cardiovascular tness.
Varying exercise intensity from a moderately slow level to a high intensity for
a set period of time and repeating that progression for a complete workout
will maximize the number of calories burned. The short interval recovery
periods allows the body to more successfully exercise at a higher intensity
than might otherwise be comfortable for a complete workout duration.
P17 Uphill Walk
(30 minute default)
The uphill walk gradually increases
the intensity of your exercise
peaking at a high intensity. The goal of the uphill workout is to stimulate
your body to improve overall cardiovascular tness, while also maximizing
muscle cell development. The Uphill Walk has been designed to start slow
and gradually increase to a peak intensity then with a quick decrease back
to a recovery level. You will maximize calorie burn during the peak intensity
levels while allowing your body to exercise for longer periods.