5. TRAINING AND OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
Training instruction
All recommendations in this manual apply only to healthy persons and are not intended
for cardiovascular patients!
All instructions are intended as a rough guide for a training program. Your physician can
provide information tailored to your special, personal needs.
Thank you and good luck!
Phases of training
Each training session should consist of 3 training phases:
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"Warm up",
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"Training" and
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"Cool down".
During warm up, your body temperature and oxygen feed should be increased slowly.
This is possible by doing gymnastic exercises and/or stretches for 5 to 10 minutes.
The warm-up phase should be followed by the actual workout ("training phase"). In order
to support the cardiovascular system after the training phase and to prevent muscle pain
or strains, each "training phase" should be concluded with a "cool-down phase".
Cool down, 5 to 10 minutes long, should consist of stretching and steady exercises for
at least 30 seconds and/or light gymnastic exercises.
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