Aerobic cycle exercising in a rehabilitation program with a wider choice of intensity.

When patients in rehabilitation programs use cycle ergometers for aerobic fitness training, the exercise intensity is often restricted to a small range of heart rate. In this study, a wider choice of intensities was left to the patients without giving up the potential to reduce cardiac risks factors. 24 patients in 3-wk.

Subjective and myographic responses in arm and leg cycle exercising.

A study was performed to explore possible psychological benefits of additional arm work during cycle exercising. For this, the subjective and physiological responses of 12 healthy young males were studied during arm and leg exercise on a cycle ergometer with movable arm levers (at 2 distances of the handgrips from the body) and during leg exercise with the grips fixed. After warming up, the subjects kept for 20 min.

Cycle exercising in time with music.

Different forms of exercise with a cycle ergometer in time with music were studied in comparison: exercise in time with a rhythm or with music at constant and movement-controlled music tempos, with simultaneous arm and leg work, and with leg work alone. For this pilot study an exercise cycle with arm levers movable forward and backward for additional arm work was equipped with a mechanically breakable flywheel. At a movement-controlled music tempo synthesizer music was synchronized with the movement rhythm by electrical pulses generated during each pedal rotation.