Life Fitness R9i Recumbent LifeCycle Exercise Bike

by Life Fitness

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

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The R9i recumbent Lifecycle® exercise bike is the home version of Life Fitness' popular health club model, an innovative bike that delivers superb performance and the most natural, efficient recumbent riding position. It merges high-quality ergonomics, biomechanics, and comfort with a variety of workout programs including HeartSync™ heart rate controlled workouts, Interval Training, Sport Training, customized workout programs and heart rate monitoring via Lifepulse™ contacts and an included Polar® wireless HRM chest strap. The recumbent seat with contoured, high back pad is the same as Life Fitness' health club model, and it features front and side-mounted handlebars.

This innovative bike delivers the most natural, efficient recumbent riding position for hours of rigorous in-home workouts.

This self-powered bike can be placed in any room, and it does not require cords or outlets. The bike also features an oversized, dual accessory tray and built-in reading rack. It includes 19 pre-programmed and seven personalized workouts, and the five HeartSync workouts adjust resistance to keep you at your target heart rate, ensuring a safe, effective workout.

If the advanced programs are the brains of Lifecycle exercise bikes, then the Poly V belt-drive and self-powered alternator systems are the brawn. The alternator system offer 20 smooth, quick-changing resistance levels, and it provides super-quiet riding enabling you to watch TV or listen to music easily. Underneath the sleek, impact resistant exterior is a robotically welded steel frame that is so well built, it comes with a lifetime warranty.

The R9i upright exercise bike console.

Boredom is never an option with Life Fitness exercise bikes, with a wide variety of challenging workout programs built into the easy-to-use console. Save time by storing up to seven pre-programmed My Workouts™, and replay them at any time. You can even rename them for different days of the week. Based on your workout's specific time, resistance and heart rate level, a customized cool-down program helps to ensure your heart rate properly returns to a normal level at the end of a workout. You can also conveniently change programs without restarting or losing your current workout information. This treadmill comes with the following programs to choose from:

• 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.

About the Warranty
This Life Fitness product is intended for home use only. Your warranty will be void if this product is used in a commercial setting.

About Life Fitness
What started as one man's pursuit to improve his own physical condition, eventually turned into a global fitness revolution. That man was Keene P. Dimick, the mastermind behind the legendary Lifecycle exercise bike. The story of Life Fitness began when two young entrepreneurs, Ray Wilson and Augie Nieto, saw the promise of Dr. Dimick’s invention. Even though it was slightly ahead of its time, they believed the Lifecycle exercise bike could help generations of athletes, trainers, exercisers, and people everywhere live happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.

Wilson and Nieto bought the rights to the Lifecycle bike from Dr. Dimick, perfected it, and sold it out of a motor home to health clubs across America. Despite the overwhelming odds and initial unpopularity of the Lifecycle exercise bike, the two passion-filled pioneers turned a two-man operation and a seemingly impossible vision into a prosperous reality. Along the way, they shaped the future of Life Fitness as well as the fitness industry, bringing cardiovascular training into the mainstream and helping ignite the health club boom.

Today, Life Fitness is the global leader in designing and manufacturing a full line of reliable, high quality fitness equipment for commercial and consumer use. It is the number one brand of fitness equipment in health clubs worldwide.

Product Details

Assembly Manual [PDF]

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Operation Manual [PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 201 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B0010XK7Q8
• Item model number: R9-0100-02
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #455,557 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best bike I've ever used!!, February 26, 2009

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This review is from: Life Fitness R9i Recumbent LifeCycle Exercise Bike (Sports)

[...]. The LifeCycles at my local gym were what I really wanted but, I thought they only sold commercial products, and I didnt want to pony up thousands of dollars for a bike. Well I found out that I actually had a local dealer that sold bikes based on the commercial equipment that I was used to. They have 3 different styles for Recumbant; the R1 -Scaled down model, R3 -Scaled down but decent model w/analog display, and R9i -Digital Display, top of the line. This is basically the commercial model but built for residential use, Tons of workout programs, Lifetime Warranty on frame, 3 years on movable parts. The seat is comfortable, I spend over an hour on it for most workouts and never have discomfort, there are also 30+ settings for the seat-to-peddle length.

I bought this because I wanted the luxery of exercising whenever I wanted, and not having to drive to the gym to get my cardio in. If your not familiar with this bike, find a local dealer, and check it out. [...].