Yamaha BF-1 El manual del propietario

Marca: Yamaha

Modelo: BF-1

Tipo: El manual del propietario

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Troubleshooting

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The “Precautions” section is located on pages 6 – 7. Please read this carefully

before using the BODiBEAT BF-1.

This manual may be revised and updated without prior notice. To download the

latest manual, visit our website at:

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How to Use the Manual

BF-1 Owner’s Manual

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Congratulations!

Thank you for purchasing the Yamaha BODiBEAT BF-1 Interactive Music Player.

If you’re a music lover who enjoys exercising along with music, you’ll ﬁnd that

the many functions and features of the BF-1 not only make exercising fun but

also make it much more effective. We recommend that you read this manual

carefully so that you can fully take advantage of the advanced and convenient

functions of the BF-1 and safely enjoy your exercise sessions with it.

How to Use the Manual

Included with the BF-1 are three operating manuals: Quick Guide, BF-1 Owner’s

Manual, and BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual. The BF-1 Owner’s Manual and

the BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual are included in the CD-ROM. Both can

also be viewed from the [Help] menu of the BODiBEAT Station.

Quick Guide

The Quick Guide is designed primarily for users who want to start exercising

with the BF-1 as quickly and easily as possible. It provides simple instructions

on setting up the BF-1 for ﬁrst-time use as well as basic operations.

BF-1 Owner’s Manual (this manual; PDF)

The Owner’s Manual provides complete, detailed information and instructions

for using the BF-1. Use the table of contents to locate features and functions

you want to use, and use the Menu Tree to locate information about items that

appear on the BF-1’s display.

BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual (PDF)

This is the manual for the included “BODiBEAT Station” software. Make sure to

read this manual when using BODiBEAT Station.

Using the PDF manual

➤ Click on one of the color tabs at the right of each page to go to the desired

section or chapter (including Troubleshooting, Menu Tree and Index).

➤ From the Contents box on the top page, click on the desired topic to

automatically jump to the corresponding page.

➤ If you want to ﬁnd information on a speciﬁc topic, function or feature, select

“Find” or “Search” from the Adobe Reader “Edit” menu and enter a key word

to locate the related information anywhere in the document.

➤ You can also click on desired items and topics you want to refer to in the

“Bookmarks” index to the left of the main display window, and jump to the

corresponding page. (Click the “Bookmarks” tab to open the index if it is not

displayed.)

The names and positions of menu items may vary according to the version of Adobe Reader being

used.

Included Accessories

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About the indications

DANGER / WARNING / CAUTION

These indicate important information you need and precautions you must take

to avoid problems and damage during use.

IMPORTANT

This indicates information and precautions that may be crucial regarding the

relevant operation.

This indicates helpful information and tips for getting the most out of your use of

the BF-1.

This indicates supplemental information.

This indicates that the instructions are continued on the next page.

SPECIAL NOTICES

• Copying of the commercially available musical data is strictly prohibited except for

your personal use.

• This owner’s manual is the exclusive copyrights of Yamaha Corporation.

• The illustrations and displays as shown in this owner’s manual are for instructional

purposes only, and may appear somewhat different from those on your device.

• Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft

Corporation in the United States

and other countries.

• The company names and product names in this owner’s manual are the trademarks

or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Included Accessories

Continue to

Armband

Earphones

(with pulse sensor) USB cable

Cable clip

Earphone

Pads

Quick Guide CD-ROM

User

Registration

Card

Safety

Information

Start-up Guide

Contents

BF-1 Owner’s Manual

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Exercising

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Settings

Music Player

Troubleshooting

Menu Tree

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Contents

How to Use the Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Included Accessories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

PRECAUTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Starting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Panel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Turning the Power On / Making Initial Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Control Hold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Turning the Power Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Putting on the BF-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Attaching the armband. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Putting on the earphones and pulse sensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Basic Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Moving the cursor highlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Selecting a menu item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Changing a setting or parameter value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

About the Display Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Exercising with the BF-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Walking/Jogging at Your Own Pace—Free Workout Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Exercising with Free Workout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Goal Setting and Music Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

After a Free Workout session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Fitness Modes—Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Exercising with the Fitness modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Exercising According to a Training Program—Training Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Exercising with preset programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Creating a new program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Editing the preset (or already created) Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Deleting a program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Operation During Exercise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Managing the Exercise Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Checking the Exercise Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Deleting Exercise Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using the BF-1 in Guest Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Connecting to a Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

About the BODiBEAT Station Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

How to Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Removing the device from the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Loading Music Data to the BF-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Updating the BF-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Contents

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Using the BF-1 as a Music Player—Music Playback Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Selecting Songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Playing the songs from an artist or album—Artist/Album. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Playing a single song—Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Playing the songs from a Playlist—Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Basic Operations in Music Playback Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Fast-forward and reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Adjusting the Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Exiting from the Play Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Returning to the Play Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Music Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Workout Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Play Mode—Repeat and Shuffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Bass Boost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Hardware Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Sensors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Date/Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

User Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Heart Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Weight/Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Birthday/Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Learning Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Initialize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Menu Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

BF-1 Preset Training Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

FYI

What is ‘Effective’ Aerobic Exercise? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

About heart rate reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

About the BODiBEAT songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

About Maximum Heart Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

PRECAUTIONS

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* Please keep this manual in a safe place for future reference.

DANGER

Make sure to always observe the basic precautions listed below to prevent the likelihood

of serious injury or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damage, ﬁre or

other hazards. These precautions include, but are not limited to, the following:

Do not open

• Do not disassemble the device or modify it in any way. This can result in the device

bursting, or even an explosion or ﬁre. If the device should appear to be malfunctioning,

discontinue use immediately and have it inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service

personnel.

Water related

• Do not drop the device into the water.

Fire related

• Do not throw the device into a ﬁre, or put burning items near the device.

Handling

• Do not use or expose the device to extreme heat (such as direct sunlight, near a heater

or in a car during the day) to prevent the possibility of explosion, ﬁre or bursting.

Charge the device and use it in temperature conditions between 0° to 40°C (32° to

104°F) and keep in an environment of between -10° to 45°C (14° to 113°F).

• Do not operate the device or use earphones while driving a car or riding a motorcycle

or a bicycle, since this could result in a serious accident.

•To avoid accidents while walking or jogging, keep the volume low enough to hear

outside trafﬁc sounds and avoid concentrating too closely on the display.

If you notice any abnormality

• If there is a sudden loss of sound during use of the device, or if any unusual smells or

smoke should appear to be caused by it, immediately turn off the power switch and

have the device inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service personnel.

WARNING

Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury

or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damages, ﬁre or other hazards.

These precautions include, but are not limited to, the following:

When exercising

• If you are not in good physical condition (chronic illness, during pregnancy, or other

abnormal conditions), consult your physician before beginning any exercise.

• If exercising causes you any pain or discomfort, immediately get rest and consult a

physician if necessary.

• Make sure that any ear jewelry or accessories you wear do not interfere with the pulse

sensor for accurate heart rate readings. Wearing earrings may cause inaccurate heart

rate detection, which can result in your workout being too strenuous or not strenuous

enough.

PRECAUTIONS

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING

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Handling

• Keep the device in a place out of the reach of small children.

• Never insert paper, metallic, or other objects into the device. If this happens, turn off the

power immediately, and then have the device inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service

personnel.

AC Power Adaptor (Optional)

• Only use the voltage speciﬁed as correct for the adaptor. The required voltage is

printed on the adaptor.

• Use the speciﬁed adaptor (PA-U010 or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha) only.

Using the wrong adaptor can result in damage to the device or overheating.

• Check the electric plug periodically and remove any dirt or dust which may have

accumulated on it.

CAUTION

Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of physical injury

to you or others, or damage to the device or other property. These precautions include,

but are not limited to, the following:

Handling

• Do not use or expose the device to excessive dust, or extreme cold. Doing so may

cause the device to malfunction.

• Do not rest your weight on, or place heavy objects on the device, and do not use

excessive force on the buttons, switches, connectors or earphone cable.

• Do not touch the connector with wet hands. If the device gets wet inside from the

connector, it may cause the device to malfunction.

•Take care not to tangle the earphone cable around your body or neighboring objects,

since this can cause injuries or accidents.

• Do not use the device or earphones for a long period of time at a high or uncomfortable

volume level, since this can cause permanent hearing loss. If you experience any

hearing loss or ringing in the ears, consult a physician.

• Some people may experience an abnormal sensation or discomfort on their skin. If this

should occur, stop using the device and consult a physician.

AC Power Adaptor (Optional)

• Unplug the AC power adaptor from the wall AC outlet when you are not using the

device for a long time, or during electrical storms.

• Do not try to exercise with the device while charging. Doing so may cause the device to

malfunction. Moreover, the USB cable may get tangled up with your body and result in

injury.

Maintenance

• When cleaning the device, use a soft, dry cloth. Do not use paint thinners, solvents,

cleaning ﬂuids, or chemical-impregnated wiping cloths.

This device contains a lithium-ion battery.

After usage, you may recycle the battery, but never attempt to remove it by yourself. Have the

device inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service personnel. If there is no Yamaha service personnel

in your area, dispose of it properly according to relevant environmental laws and disposal rules in

your area.

•Yamaha cannot be held responsible for damage caused by improper use or modiﬁcations

to the device.

•Yamaha cannot be held responsible for any health problems during exercise with the

device. Take full responsibility for your own health.

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Starting Up

This section provides the basic information you’ll need to set up

the BF-1 and start using it. Make sure that you carefully read

through all of the sections below before starting to use the

device.

Contents

Charging the Battery .......................................................................... 9

Panel Controls.................................................................................. 10

Tu r ning the Power On / Making Initial Settings................................. 12

Control Hold ..................................................................................... 15

Tu r ning the Power Off....................................................................... 16

Putting on the BF-1 .......................................................................... 17

Attaching the armband ............................................................ 17

Putting on the earphones and pulse sensor ............................ 19

Basic Operations.............................................................................. 22

Moving the cursor highlight...................................................... 22

Selecting a menu item ............................................................. 22

Changing a setting or parameter value.................................... 23

About the Display Icons ........................................................... 23

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Charging the Battery

You will need to charge the BF-1 before you use it for the ﬁrst time.

To charge the battery of the BF-1, simply connect it to a computer with the

included USB cable. Make sure the computer is on and running.

IMPORTANT

For further details on connecting with a computer, refer also to page 52.

You can also charge the battery using the optional PA-U010 AC adaptor and the

included USB cable.

The optional AC adaptor may not be available depending on your particular area. Please check

with your Yamaha dealer.

DANGER

Do not charge the battery in extremely cold or hot environments. You should charge it in

a temperature conditions of between 0° to 40°C (32° to 104°F). Recharging the battery

in high temperatures may result in ﬁre or an explosion.

CAUTION

Make sure to only use the USB cable included with the device. Use of any other cable

may damage the BF-1 or cause the unit to malfunction.

You can check the remaining battery power and charging status with the battery

icon at the top right of the display.

...... Battery is being charged.

...... Battery power is full. The device is ready for use.

...... Battery power is a little low.

...... Battery power will soon run out. Charge the battery.

...... Battery is empty. Immediately charge the battery.

Complete charging of the battery from no power to being fully charged takes about three hours.

BF-1

Computer

USB cable

BF-1

AC adaptor

USB cable

To electrical

outlet

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Panel Controls

1 ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons

These are used for navigating through menu items and parameters in the

display, and also for changing parameter values and settings. Pressing both at

the same time allows you to select or call up a highlighted item.

2 Display

This shows all indications for operation and use of the BF-1. If you haven’t used

any of the panel controls for a while, the display automatically turns off in order

to save battery power (page 69). When the display turns off, simply press any

key to turn it on again.

3 LED

While one of the exercise modes is active and the pulse sensor is properly

attached (page 20), this ﬂashes in time with your heart rate. If your heart rate is

fast (or the exercise intensity is too strenuous—i.e., the %HRR is more than

75%), the LED ﬂashes in red. When your exercise pace is optimal (%HRR is

between 55% and 75%), the LED ﬂashes in green. If your heart rate is slow (the

exercise intensity is low—i.e., the %HRR is lower than 55%, or you are not

exercising), the LED ﬂashes in blue. In all other situations, the LED is off.

For details of %HRR, refer to page 38.

4 [] (Standby/On) button

This is used to turn the power on and off. (Turning the power off is actually done

with the Hold Wizard operation; see page 16.)

5 [MENU] button

Pressing this returns to the previous display menu. Holding it down for two

seconds returns to the Top Menu (the highest level menu).

RESET

Open

the ﬂap

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6 Earphone/ear clip connector

For connection to the special earphone/ear clip. (See page 17.)

7 [RESET] switch

This small switch (behind the ﬂap at the lower part of the device) lets you reboot

the BF-1 in case of some kind of operational trouble—for example, if the device

“freezes” or hangs up. Use a small, thin tool to press the switch, such as a

miniature screwdriver or a ballpoint pen.

CAUTION

When the [RESET] switch is pressed, noise may be produced because of the sudden

ﬂow of electricity. Before pressing the [RESET] switch, remove the earphones from

your ears.

8 USB connector

This is for connection to a computer (via USB) or to the optional AC adaptor.

(See page 9.)

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Tu r ning the Power On / Making Initial Settings

The ﬁrst time you turn on the power of your new BF-1, the device conveniently

and automatically guides you through several important settings. These include

the display language, correct time and date, as well as personal information

such as your birthday, weight, height and resting heart rate. You’ll need to make

these settings before you can effectively use the BF-1. Once you’ve entered this

data, the BF-1 becomes your own personal exercise device, customized with

your unique settings.

If the display turns off at any time while you’re making the initial settings, simply press any key to

turn it on again.

1 Press the [ ] (Standby/On) button to turn on the power.

If you are turning on the power for the ﬁrst time (or you have reset the device;

see page 76), the Language display will appear. This determines the

language for all messages and indications on the BF-1. Five languages are

available: English, Japanese, German, Spanish and French.

When you are turning on the power for the second time or after, the Top display (page 14) will

appear.

2 Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to select the desired language.

3 Simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the

selection.

The following display appears.

Throughout the rest of this manual, all operations and example displays are given in English.

4 Select “Set Up” then press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons

simultaneously to start making the initial settings.

The following displays will appear in succession. Follow the instructions in

each of the displays, making the necessary settings and entering the relevant

information.

If you want to use the device immediately without making any initial settings, select “Try” here.

This calls up the Guest mode. Refer to the Guest mode instructions (page 47).

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■ Date/Time

This lets you set the correct date and time for the BF-1, as well as the

preferred format for each.

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the setting then simultaneously

press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the change.

The cursor automatically moves to the next parameter. After you ﬁnish all the

settings, go on to the next display.

The set Time is entered at the moment you press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons when the cursor

is located at the AM/PM position.

■ Birthday/Sex

This lets you enter your birthday and gender. Your birthday in particular is

important, since it determines the physical age the BF-1 uses in its

calculations.

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the setting then simultaneously

press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the change.

The cursor automatically moves to the next parameter. After you ﬁnish all the

settings, go on to the next display.

■ Weight/Height

This setting lets you enter your personal weight and height. Measure the

two as accurately as possible, since these are used by the BF-1 in its

calculations.

The units of measurement used here when you make these settings are pounds and feet, but the

corresponding values in kilograms and meters are shown at the bottom of the display.

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the setting then simultaneously

press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the change.

The cursor automatically moves to the next parameter. After you ﬁnish setting

both parameters, go on to the next display.

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■ Heart Rate

This lets you register your resting heart rate and maximum heart rate. The

resting heart rate can be simply measured by placing your ﬁngers on your

wrist and counting the pulse during one minute, or by counting the pulse

over 15 seconds and multiplying by four. (Make sure you’re relaxed and

have not been exercising before taking your pulse.) After taking your

pulse, enter the resting heart rate value in this display. This setting can be

changed afterward if necessary by measuring pulse with the included

pulse sensor (page 71).

If you don’t know your maximum heart rate, it is unnecessary to enter it

here; it is automatically calculated from your age by default.

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the setting then simultaneously

press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to enter the change.

The cursor automatically moves to the next parameter. After you ﬁnish setting

both parameters, go on to the next display.

For details about resting heart rate and maximum heart rate, refer to pages 71 and 72.

Congratulations!

You’ve now made all necessary initial settings, and can now go on to using

your new BF-1.

The Top Menu of the BF-1 is automatically called up. Select one of the

modes from the Top Menu (referring to the appropriate section of this

manual), and start exercising!

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Control Hold

This feature lets you “freeze” the panel controls of the BF-1 so that you don’t

inadvertently change any settings while you’re exercising. While Control Hold is

active, the [MENU] button and the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons are inactive. Only

the [ ] (Standby/On) button can be used.

1 While the power is on, press the [ ] (Standby/On) button.

The “Hold Wizard” appears. This menu contains two items: Power off and

Hold.

If you want to cancel the operation, press the [MENU] button.

2 Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to select “Hold” then press both

buttons simultaneously to turn the Hold function on.

■ To turn Control Hold off:

1 While the power is on, press the [ ] (Standby/On) button.

The “Hold Wizard” appears. This menu contains two items: Power off and Hold

off.

2 Select “Hold off” then press both buttons simultaneously to turn

Hold off.

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Tu r ning the Power Off

You can turn the power of the BF-1 off in two different ways:

Press and release the [ ] (Standby/On) button. When the menu shown below

appears, Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to select “Power off.”

If you want to cancel the operation, press the [MENU] button.

Press and hold down the [ ] (Standby/On) button for roughly two seconds

until the display shown below appears.

If no song is played or no operation is performed within 30 minutes, the power is automatically

turned off.

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Attaching the armband

■ Attaching the BF-1 to the armband

1 Connect the earphone cable to the BF-1.

Be sure to push the earphone connector all the way in until the silicon packing

ﬁts to the surface.

CAUTION

• Do not unplug the earphone cable from the BF-1 while using it. If rain, sweat

or any other liquid gets inside the BF-1 through the earphone terminal, the

device could be damaged.

• When disconnecting the earphone cable, hold the connector directly and pull

it. Do not pull on the cable.

If the silicone packing comes off, be sure to install it again so that the protruding part on the

silicone packing ﬁts in the corresponding hole on the plug.

2 Attach the device to the armband.

IMPORTANT

• Make sure that the YAMAHA logo can be seen at the top of the arm band. This is the

proper orientation for ﬁtting to the armband.

• Insert the BF-1 fully until a click sound is heard.

Incorrect

Correct

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■ Attaching the armband to your arm

IMPORTANT

Make sure to wear the arm band only when the BF-1 is also inside. The band cannot

be adjusted if the armband is empty.

1 Loosen the armband and put your left arm into the armband.

2 Fasten the armband to your upper arm, just above your elbow.

IMPORTANT

• Adjust the armband into position so that you can easily

see the display.

• Do not wear the armband anywhere on your body other

than your upper arm (for example, your neck, wrist,

ankle, etc.). Doing so may cause the motion sensor to

not function properly.

• Make sure to wear the BF-1 above your elbow. The

sensor in the unit that measures vibration during your

exercise will not function properly if the device is worn

below the elbow.

• Do not fasten the armband too tight or too loose. If it’s too tight, it may cause

discomfort and even harm you; too loose, and the motion sensor may not function

properly, or the device may fall off your arm.

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■ Removing the BF-1 from the armband

Push the tab down and pull the device up and out.

■ Proper care of the armband

The armband requires little care, but if it gets dirty, wash it gently by hand

with water. Make sure to dry it completely before using again.

Putting on the earphones and pulse sensor

IMPORTANT

Make sure not to confuse the right (R) and left (L) earphones. The set cannot be worn

properly in reverse.

1 Hook the earphone cable over the top of your ear.

2 Insert the earphone into your ear.

For comfort and better ﬁt, you may want to apply the earphone pads to the earphones before

wearing them.

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3 Adjust the earphone angle as desired.

Do the same for both earphones and both ears.

IMPORTANT

The proper position is with the earphone tilted slightly against the ear. However, each

individual’s ears may differ somewhat, so you should adjust this for maximum comfort

and optimum listening.

4 Clip the pulse sensor onto your left ear lobe.

While one of the exercise modes is active, the lamp on the device will ﬂash in

time with your heart rate (page 10).

If your heart rate cannot be detected, try:

• Gently rubbing or massaging your ear to stimulate blood circulation.

• Changing the pulse sensor location.

• Adjusting the sensitivity of the pulse sensor (page 66).

5 Slide the cable tightener toward your head.

Doing this helps ﬁt the earphone set more snugly to your neck and head.

Adjust the tightener to the most comfortable position.

Pulse sensor

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■ Using the cable clip

If the cable is too long and gets in your way while you are exercising, bind

the excess cable with the convenient cable clip.

If desired, you can also attach the cable to your clothing using the cable

clip.

Cable clip

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Basic Operations

In this section, you’ll learn how to use the controls of the BF-1 for the basic

operations of the device. These include moving the cursor highlight, selecting

menu items, and changing settings and parameter values.

You should thoroughly read and understand this section, since the other

instructions in the manual assume you are familiar with the basic operations.

Moving the cursor highlight

Press the ▲ (Up) button to move the cursor highlight up in the menu or press

the ▼ (Down) button to move down.

If the menu contains 4 or more items, a scroll bar appears at the right of display.

Selecting a menu item

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to move the cursor highlight to the desired

item, then simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to actually select

or call up the item.

Moves cursor

highlight up

Moves cursor

highlight down

Press

The Free Workout menu is

selected from the Top Menu.

Press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons

simultaneously...

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Changing a setting or parameter value

1 When you call up a display that has settings or parameters you can

change, the ﬁrst available parameter will automatically be selected.

(The cursor highlight ﬂashes, indicating it can be changed.)

2 Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to change the selected setting or

value.

Press the appropriate button once to change the setting. For numeric values,

each press increments or decrements the value accordingly. To make large

changes to a number, hold down either button.

3 Press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons together to actually enter the

change and move to the next setting or parameter.

Continue in this way until all settings and parameters on the display have been

set.

If you want to return to the previous parameter and change the setting you’ve

made, press [MENU] button.

About the Display Icons

Shown at the top of the display are some icons which indicate the status of the

BF-1.

1 Shufﬂe (page 65)

2 or Repeat (page 65)

3 Play

Pause

Stop

4 Remaining battery power (page 9)

Weight value ﬂashes, indicating it can be changed.

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Exercising with the BF-1

The BF-1 is a unique music player designed speciﬁcally for

listening while exercising. It features a variety of sophisticated

functions that tailor the music to your exercising. The BF-1

monitors your heart beat and walking/jogging steps, and

automatically selects music of exactly the right tempo for your

exercise. It also gives you comprehensive, detailed training

programs that use the music and tempo to fully guide you

through an exercise session—like an expert coach or trainer.

The BF-1 has three basic Exercise modes: Free Workout, Walk/

Jog Fitness, and Training.

Contents

Walking/Jogging at Your Own Pace—Free Workout Mode............... 25

Exercising with Free Workout .................................................. 26

Goal Setting and Music Selection............................................ 27

After a Free Workout session................................................... 29

Fitness Modes—Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness ............................... 30

Exercising with the Fitness modes .......................................... 31

What is ‘Effective’ Aerobic Exercise?..................................... 33

Exercising According to a Training Program—Training Mode........... 35

Exercising with preset programs.............................................. 35

Creating a new program .......................................................... 37

About heart rate reserve ....................................................... 38

Editing the preset (or already created) Program...................... 39

Deleting a program .................................................................. 41

Operation During Exercise ............................................................... 42

Managing the Exercise Logs ............................................................ 45

Checking the Exercise Logs .................................................... 45

Deleting Exercise Logs ............................................................ 46

Using the BF-1 in Guest Mode......................................................... 47

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Mode

In the Free Workout mode, the BF-1 automatically matches the music to your

exercise pace, selecting songs that have almost the same tempo as your

jogging or walking speed. When you change pace, the music changes with

you. This lets you jog freely and set your own pace—and enjoy music that

perfectly ﬁts your pace.

If you want to constrain the length of your exercise session, you can use the

Goal Setting parameters to automatically stop music playback once you’ve

reached the desired target. You can set the target to be a speciﬁc time, a

speciﬁc distance, or the amount of calories you wish to burn off. (Only one of

the targets can be set and be in effect for a session.)

To call up the Free Workout mode:

Select “Free Workout” from the Top Menu.

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Exercising with Free Workout

The Free Workout mode is an easy, convenient way to exercise using the

versatile tempo changing features of the BF-1, since it automatically matches

the music to your exercise pace.

Keep in mind that it takes a few seconds to detect your pace and call up a song that matches your

pace.

If you ﬁnd that few songs matching your pace are called up, adjust the sensitivity of the step sensor

(page 67).

1 From the Free Workout menu, select “Start,” then start jogging or

walking.

You can set the goal setting (targets for your exercise) and/or select a speciﬁc

music playlist for the session. If you want to do so, select “Setting” here and

go to page 27 (Goal Setting and Music Selection).

Once you set the goal setting, it will be shown in the “Start” menu the next time

you use the device, enabling you to continue with the same exercise settings

as before.

IMPORTANT

If the pulse sensor is not attached properly or accidentally slips off, a “Measurement

Error!” message appears. Reattach the pulse sensor properly and select “Try again”

in the menu to continue your exercise session. If you select “Don’t measure HR” here,

the exercise session continues, but heart rate is not memorized in the exercise log

(page 29).

For playback of certain songs (and depending, of course, on the characteristics of those

songs), you may ﬁnd that the song tempo does not match your pace. If this is the case, you can

manually correct the tempo information with the BODiBEAT Station software. For details, refer to

the BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual.

2 While you’re jogging or walking, you can change the volume of the

music, select different songs, or lock the pace.

See “Operation During Exercise” on page 42.

3 Once the set target has been reached, music playback stops and

your session is ended.

A log showing detailed information on your session automatically appears.

(For more about the session log, see “After a Free Workout session” below.)

If your exercise is an open-ended session or you want to stop the exercise

before the speciﬁed target has been reached, you can also stop the session

manually by simultaneously holding both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons. This

ends the session and calls up the log display.

When the Learning Function (page 74) is set to on, a conﬁrmation message will appear before

the log display appears and prompts you to update the maximum heart rate and tempo.

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Goal Setting and Music Selection

The Goal Setting parameters let you set a certain time period for your session,

the distance to be covered, or the number of calories to be expended. The BF-

1 then automatically stops playback once the desired target has been reached.

The Goal Setting values feature several preset settings for convenience.

A “Custom” setting is also available for each, allowing you to freely set the

desired target.

After the Goal Setting is done, you can select the desired music (all songs or

speciﬁc Playlists) from the Goal Setting display above when some playlists exist

in the BF-1.

1 From the Free Workout menu, select “Setting.”

2 Select the desired setting: Time, Distance, Calories.

If you want a completely open-ended workout session, select “Unlimited” and

skip to step 4.

3 Simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to call up the

values for the selected setting, then set the target as desired.

Time

Available settings:

10, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90 (minutes), Custom

Distance

Available settings:

2, 5, 10 (miles), Half Marathon, Marathon, Custom

When the units of measurement is set to “Meters” in the Measurement parameter (page 69), the

available settings are:

3, 5, 10 (kilometers), Half Marathon, Marathon, Custom

Calories

Available settings:

100, 300, 500, 700, 1000 (K calories), Custom

The amount of expended calories is calculated according to the following formula:

Calories for walking (kcal) = 0.0005 x Speed (meter/min) x Weight (kg) x Time (min)

Calories for jogging (kcal) = 0.001 x Speed (meter/min) x Weight (kg) x Time (min)

(The basal metabolic rate for the exercise period is not included in this formula.)

To enter a custom setting, ﬁrst select “Custom” from the Time, Distance or

Calories menu. Then change the value with the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons and

enter it by simultaneously pressing both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

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4 From the appropriate Goal Setting menu, go to the Music Select

menu.

If you’ve selected the Unlimited setting (in step 2 above):

Simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

If you’ve selected the Time, Distance or Calories setting (in step 3 above):

Go to the setting display for the selected setting, and simultaneously press

both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

When the Music Priority parameter (page 61) is set to “BODiBEAT Songs,” the Music Select

display is not displayed and operation returns to the previous display.

5 From the Music Select menu, select the desired setting.

Available settings:

All Songs, Playlist(s)

Other Playlists will be shown here as you create them (using the included software) and load

them to the BF-1. By default, the BF-1 has no custom music Playlists. However, it automatically

creates two Playlists (Walk and Jog) when you ﬁrst load your own songs to the device. The BF-1

automatically sorts the songs you’ve loaded according to tempo and assigns them to the

appropriate Playlist.

Even if you’ve selected a speciﬁc Playlist or “All Songs” in step 2 here, playback may be a mix of

pre-loaded BODiBEAT songs and audio songs, or even only BODiBEAT songs. This would occur

when:

• No songs of the appropriate tempo exist in the speciﬁed Playlist or among all songs on the

device.

• The Music Priority parameter (page 61) has been set to “Mix,” which means that audio songs

and BODiBEAT songs are mixed in a 50/50 ratio. (The default setting of Music Priority is “User

Songs,” which means that only audio songs are played, unless no songs of the appropriate

tempo exist.)

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After a Free Workout session

Once your session is stopped (either automatically or manually), a log of the

session automatically appears. This log shows important information about the

session and your physical conditions. It also provides graphs showing the

changes of your speed and heart rate during the session.

Keep in mind that you can use the convenient software included with the BF-1

to more easily manage, view and even print the logs and graphs of all your

exercise sessions.

When the Free Workout session is stopped, the ﬁrst log display appears:

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to scroll through the display pages to view all

log entries and graphs. The graph displays in pages 3/4 and 4/4 in particular

give you easy-to-understand indication of how your pace and heart rate

changed over the time of the session.

Since the distance, pace, calories or heart rate values in the logs are estimated based on the

User Settings, they may differ from the actual values.

These log displays are the same as those in the Data menu of the Top Menu, and can be viewed

at any time from the Data menu (the logs of latest 99 workouts are saved in the device).

To exit from the Log display pages, press the [MENU] button to return to the

Free Workout display or hold the [MENU] button to return to the Top Menu.

Indicates the Total Time and Total Distance for

the session.

Indicates the Average Pace, Total Calories

expended and Maximum Heart Rate for the

session.

Shows in graph form the changes in your

pace over the duration of the session.

Shows in graph form the changes in your

heart rate over the duration of the session.

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Fitness Modes—Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness

The Fitness modes provide the most appropriate music playback for optimal

aerobic exercise. In that sense, they are similar to the Free Workout mode.

However, they go much further, monitoring your heart rate and providing

sophisticated ways of changing the music to give you a perfectly programmed,

optimal aerobic workout—that matches your physical condition and the

intensity of your exercise.

The built-in pulse sensor detects your heart rate as you exercise. Continuously

and in real time, the BF-1 calculates the optimal exercise pace for you, given

your physical condition—and then automatically changes the music to match

your pace and heart rate. If your exercise is too strenuous and your heart rate is

too high (higher than optimal), the BF-1 plays slower tempo music. Likewise, if

your exercise is too easy and relaxed to provide adequate exercise beneﬁts,

the BF-1 plays faster music. This ensures that you get the best possible

exercise—not too little, and not too much.

Each Fitness mode also features automatically programmed ‘warming up’ and

‘cooling down’ segments that effectively structure your exercise sessions and

help you avoid unnatural stress and fatigue.

Since the Fitness modes monitor your heart rate, you will need to properly

attach the pulse sensor. (For instructions, see page 20.) You will also need to

make sure other settings have been made, such as your actual age and resting

heart rate (page 71).

There are two Fitness modes: Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness. Essentially, they

function and operate exactly the same, except that Walk Fitness is speciﬁcally

programmed for walking, while Jog Fitness is designed for the more strenuous

and intense exercise you get while jogging. (However, slow tempo songs

matched for walking may sometimes be played if your heart rate goes higher

than optimal condition.)

To call up the Walk Fitness or Jog Fitness mode:

Select “Walk Fitness” or “Jog Fitness” from the Top Menu.

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The Fitness modes monitor your heart rate and take into account your maximum

heart rate and resting heart rate to automatically program an optimal workout for

you, changing the music to ﬁt your condition and the intensity of the exercise.

Before exercising, make sure that you’ve properly entered your birthday and

resting heart rate (page 71).

1 From the Top Menu, select the mode depending on the type of

exercise you’ll be doing: Walk Fitness (walking) or Jog Fitness

(jogging).

2 Make sure the pulse sensor is properly attached (page 20).

When it is properly attached, the LED will start ﬂashing in time with your heart

rate.

3 From the Walk Fitness or Jog Fitness menu, select “Start,” then

start your exercise with the tempo of the song that plays.

You can set the goal setting (targets for your exercise) and/or select a speciﬁc

music playlist for the session. If you want to do so, select “Setting” here and

go to page 27 (Goal Setting and Music Selection).

Once you set the goal setting, it will be shown in the “Start” menu the next time

you use the device, enabling you to continue with the same exercise settings

as before.

WARNING

In the Fitness modes, the device monitors your heart rate and provides a song at the

optimum tempo. However, if you ﬁnd it too strenuous to match your pace to the song,

do not force yourself to keep pace. Lower the pace accordingly (page 44) or stop the

exercise.

If the pulse sensor is not attached properly or accidentally slips off, a “Measurement Error!”

message appears. Reattach the pulse sensor properly and continue your exercise session.

When starting the exercise, a Warming Up segment of two minutes (for Walk Fitness) or three

minutes (Jog Fitness) is inserted. You can change the pace during Warming Up manually if it

seems too slow or too fast (page 44).

For audio song playback, the song tempo which is analyzed by the BODiBEAT Station software

may differ from the actual tempo depending on the song characteristics. In this case, you can

manually correct the tempo information with the BODiBEAT Station. For details, refer to the

BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual.

If you ﬁnd it difﬁcult to match your steps to the song tempo, turn the Tempo Guide function on

(page 62).

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4 While you’re jogging or walking, you can change the volume of the

music and select different songs. You can also lock the pace or

change it to a different tempo. (See “Operation During Exercise” on

page 42.)

At the start of the ‘warming up’ and ‘cooling down’ segments, “Warm Up” and

“Cool Down” appear respectively in the display and remain for about two

seconds, followed by the normal exercise displays.

5 Before the set target has been reached, the ‘cooling down’ segment

begins—a slower song plays back to help you slow down your

pace. After about three minutes passes and the cooling down

segment reaches its end, music playback stops and the session

ends.

A log showing detailed information on your session automatically appears.

You can also slow down and stop a session manually by simultaneously

holding both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons. This starts the cooling down

segment, ends the session and calls up the log display.

Holding the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons again during the cooling down ends the

session immediately and calls up the log display.

When the Learning Function (page 74) is set to on, a conﬁrmation message will appear before

the log display appears and prompts you to update the maximum heart rate and tempo.

The indications and operations for the session log displays in the Fitness

modes are the same as in the Free Workout mode. (See page 29.)

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What is ‘Effective’ Aerobic Exercise?

Aerobic exercise, such as walking and jogging, builds up your

cardiopulmonary functions and increases your stamina. Since

stamina is a good measure of physical age, regular and continuous

aerobic exercise can make your body more youthful.

Aerobic exercise is also very effective for losing weight. Oxygen brought into

body breaks down and burns off fat. Moreover, as your exercising builds muscle

mass and increases basal metabolism, your whole body and constitution loses

more and more fat.

To achieve the maximum beneﬁts of aerobic exercise, you should avoid merely

jogging in any haphazard fashion, but be careful to set appropriate exercise

intensity levels (i.e., the pace for walking/jogging) and exercise lengths.

Exercise intensity and heart rate

As you exercise, your heart rate rises. Since intense exercise increases your

heart rate more signiﬁcantly than light exercise, heart rate is a reliable indicator

for exercise intensity. To achieve the desired effect of your exercise, it is

important that you determine the target heart rate in advance and try to bring

your heart rate up to this target during exercise.

How can you determine the proper target heart rate? There are various methods

for calculating heart rate, but the BF-1 adopts a method using %HRR

(percentage of heart rate reserve). The %HRR ﬁgure assumes your resting heart

rate as 0% and your maximum heart rate (heart rate during your most intense

exercise) as 100%. For walking, a %HRR ﬁgure of 55 – 75% is optimal for aerobic

exercise. For jogging, 65 – 75% is optimal. For the speciﬁc formula used to

calculate your optimum target heart rate, see page 38.

The BF-1 calculates your heart rate according to the blood ﬂow at your ear lobe detected by the

included pulse sensor.

Using the Fitness modes, you can maintain the optimal heart rate during exercise

without the need to be continually conscious of your heart rate, simply by

entering your resting heart rate and maximum heart rate ﬁgures in advance.

When your heart rate dips below the optimal level, faster songs are played to

naturally prompt you to increase your pace; likewise, when your heart rate

exceeds the optimal level, slower songs are played to prompt you to decrease

your pace. Thanks to this feature, you simply match your walking/jogging pace to

the tempo of the music, and your optimal heart rate is maintained (refer to the

graph below). You can also easily check whether your heart rate is optimal or not

from the LED. When it is optimal (%HRR is 55 – 75%), it ﬂashes in green. When

lower than optimal, it ﬂashes in blue. When higher than optimal, it ﬂashes in red.

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Exercise length

For best results, one exercise session should be at least ﬁfteen minutes. Twenty

minutes or more is recommended, because as long as you exercise, the

proportion of fat-burning increases and remains high. When you are walking,

more time is required for this than when jogging—roughly 30 – 40 minutes—

because your heart rate increases more slowly than when jogging.

Warming up and cooling down

Warming up and cooling down is necessary not only for effective exercise but

also for protection from injury and proper recovery from fatigue. Generally,

bending and stretching, as well as minimum-stress exercises are good for

warming up and cooling down. The Fitness modes of the BF-1 actually include

warming up and cooling down segments to guide you naturally into lighter

exercising. At the beginning of the exercise and at the end of the exercise, slower

songs are automatically played back. Simply match your pace to the music

playing, and you can warm up and cool down appropriately.

For safe exercise

Pay careful attention to the environment around you to avoid accidents.

• Exercise in locations of light or minimal trafﬁc, such as a park or a jogging path.

• Exercise in broad daylight if possible. Exercising at dusk or after the sun goes

down—or worse yet, at night—you may not be able to properly see dangerous

obstacles, and other people or drivers may not be able to see you.

• When jogging, pay more attention to your environment than when walking. The

faster you are moving, the greater the danger.

Supervised by: Senshi Fukashiro, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

(Sport Sciences and Sport Biomechanics)

75%

55%

%HRR

Warming up Cooling down

Exercise length

Heart rate

When your heart rate dips below the

optimal level, faster songs are played

When your heart rate exceeds the

optimal level, slower songs are played

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Exercising According to a Training Program—Training

Mode

In the Training mode, you can create more detailed structured exercise

sessions and make custom programs to ﬁt your individual exercise needs.

Preset Training programs are also available for certain exercise situations or

goals. You can use these as a starting point. (You may want to inspect these

programs within the included software, to more easily view the contents and the

targets over the programmed exercise).

Each program in the Training mode contains several segments, each lasting for

a speciﬁc amount of time or for a speciﬁc distance. Each segment also has a

different target. This can be a certain intensity of exercise (as measured by

heart rate reserve), a speciﬁc music tempo, a speciﬁc heart rate, or a speciﬁc

pace (as measured by minutes: seconds per mile). Simply put, a Training

program divides an exercise session into multiple parts, each programmed

exactly to suit your exercise needs or ﬁt a speciﬁc athletic training application.

You can create your own Training programs, and the included software gives

you the tools to most easily and intuitively do this. Creating your own custom

Training programs gives you enormous ﬂexibility and control over your exercise

sessions. When used correctly, it’s almost like having a professional athletic

coach by your side, telling you not only when to speed up and when to slow

down, but exactly how much you should speed up or slow down—all the while

playing your favorite music to keep you on program.

To call up the Training mode:

Select “Training” from the Top Menu.

Exercising with preset programs

The BF-1 comes with specially programmed preset Training programs built into

the unit. These are designed for a variety of speciﬁc exercise situations or goals.

The BF-1 also lets you create your own Training programs (see page 37), and you can use the

preset programs here as starting points or templates in making your own (see page 39).

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1 Select the desired program from the Training menu.

A list of programs is provided on page 81. You can also view the programmed

content of the presets within the included software, making it easier to see and

understand the segments and the intervals/targets for the exercise.

2 Make sure the pulse sensor is properly attached (page 20).

When it is properly attached, the LED will start ﬂashing in time with your heart

rate.

3 From the menu, select “Start,” then start running or walking with

the tempo of the song that plays.

As you exercise, the program number and the segment number is shown at

the top of the display. A song of the appropriate tempo is automatically

selected from all songs currently on the BF-1.

If you want to specify a certain Playlist for song selection, select “View/Edit” here, and then

select “OK” at the bottom. The Select Music display appears.

WARNING

In the Training mode, the device plays back songs that follow the pace of the program,

and naturally you should try to match this pace. However, if you ﬁnd the pace too

strenuous, do not force yourself to keep pace. Lower the pace accordingly (page 44) or

stop the exercise.

If the pulse sensor is not attached properly or accidentally slips off, a “Measurement Error!”

message appears. Reattach the ear sensor properly and continue your exercise session.

If you ﬁnd it difﬁcult to match your steps to the song tempo, turn the Tempo Guide function on

(page 62).

For audio song playback, the song tempo which is analyzed by the BODiBEAT Station software

may differ from the actual tempo depending on the song characteristics. In this case, you can

manually correct the tempo information with the BODiBEAT Station. For details, refer to the

BODiBEAT Station Owner’s Manual.

4 While you’re running or walking, you can change the volume of the

music and select different songs.

You can also lock the pace or change it to a different tempo. (See “Operation

During Exercise” on page 42.)

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5 Once the program has reached the end, music playback stops and

your session is ended.

A log showing detailed information on your session automatically appears.

If you want to stop the exercise before the program reaches the end, you can

also stop the session manually by simultaneously holding both the ▲/▼ (Up/

Down) buttons. This ends the session and calls up the log display.

When the Learning Function (page 74) is set to on, a conﬁrmation message will appear before

the log display appears and prompts you to update the maximum heart rate and tempo.

The indications and operations for the session log displays in the Training

mode are the same as in the Free Workout mode. (See page 29.)

Creating a new program

You can create your own Training program from scratch, entering the desired

Interval and Target for each segment in your custom exercise program.

Up to 99 programs can be saved in the BF-1. One program can contain up to 99 intervals.

1 Select “New” from the Training menu.

2 Set the units you want to use for Interval and Target in the segment.

For example, if you want to jog for 3 minutes in a segment and you want to jog

at a pace of one mile every 5-1/2 minutes, select “Time” in the Interval

parameter and “Pace” in the Target parameter.

Available settings:

Interval

Time

Distance

Target

Pace (minutes: seconds per mile)

Tempo (bpm)

HR (Heart Rate; bpm)

%HRR (percentage of heart rate reserve; %)

This represents the intensity of your exercise.

The pace is determined based on the jog stride setting (page 73). If the tempo of the song

playing back while exercising is too fast or too slow, change the stride setting.

If you set the measurement unit of length as “Meters,” the pace is represented by “minutes:

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About heart rate reserve

Heart rate reserve (HRR) is a term used to describe the difference

between a person’s resting heart rate (HR

rest

) and maximum heart rate

(HR

max

). The formula is:

HRR = HR

max

– HR

rest

The BF-1 actually measures and calculates the percentage of heart rate

reserve (%HRR) and uses this as a measurement of exercise intensity.

By using %HRR as the exercise intensity, the optimal heart rate (HR) in

exercising is calculated. The formula is:

HR = HRR x %HRR + HR

rest

For example, if your HR

max

is 180 bpm, HR

rest

is 60 bpm and target

%HRR is 70%, the HR is calculated as:

HR = (180 – 60) x 0.7 + 60 = 144

After the Interval and Target setting is ﬁnished, the following display appears.

3 Set the desired values for Interval and Target, and then

simultaneously press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to actually enter

them for the segment.

The segment is entered and operation returns to the previous display.

4 Select “Add Segment” to enter the next segment.

5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 above as needed to create all the desired

segments for your program.

6 After you’ve created all the segments for the program, select “OK”

in the display.

The Select Music display appears (when some Playlists exist).

When there are no Playlists or the Music Priority parameter (page 61) is set to “BODiBEAT

Songs,” the Music Select display is not displayed. Skip to step 8.

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7 Select the desired Playlist. (Refer to step 5 on page 28.)

Doing this automatically returns to the initial display.

8 Select “Start” to start exercising with the newly created program.

For further details and important information when using in the Training mode,

see page 36.

Editing the preset (or already created) Program

This operation is convenient for using an existing program as a template for

making a new program. Simply select a program that is similar to the one you

wish to create, and then change the settings of the existing program as

necessary to create the new program.

1 Select the desired program to be edited from the Training menu.

The following display appears.

2 If you want to edit this program and overwrite it, select “View/Edit,”

and then go on to step 3. If you want to save the original program

and make a new one, select “Copy.”

When you select “Copy” here, a “Copied to Program XX” message brieﬂy

appears, followed by the display in step 1 above. Select “View/Edit” from this

display and continue with the steps below to edit the copied program.

The lowest unused program number will be automatically selected as the copy destination.

All segments in the program are shown in the display.

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3 Select the segment you wish to edit.

If you want to edit a segment, select the desired segment here and go on to

the Edit/Insert instruction in step 5 below.

If you want to insert a new segment, select the location to which it will be

inserted and go on to the Edit/Insert instruction in step 5 below. (For example,

if you want to insert a new segment between segments 2 and 3, select

segment 3.)

If you want to delete a segment, select the desired segment here and go on to

the Delete instruction in step 5 below.

If you want to add a new segment after the last segment, select “Add

segment” and go on to step 6.

4 From the following display, select the desired operation: Edit,

Insert, or Delete.

Edit/Insert

When you select “Edit” or “Insert” here, the Edit segment display appears.

Delete

If you’ve selected “Delete” here, the display prompts you for conﬁrmation.

Select “Yes” to delete the selected segment, or select “No” to cancel. The Edit

display (in step 3 above) appears. Continue editing as desired, or go on to

step 8 to save the program.

5 Set the desired values for Interval and Target, and then

simultaneously press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to actually enter

them for the segment.

The segment is entered and operation returns to the previous display.

6 Repeat steps 3 – 5 above as needed to create all the desired

segments for the program.

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7 After you’ve created all the segments for the program, select “OK”

in the display.

The Select Music display appears (when some Playlists exist).

When there are no Playlists or the Music Priority parameter (page 61) is set to “BODiBEAT

Songs,” the Music Select display is not displayed. Skip to step 8.

8 Select the desired Playlist. (Refer to step 5 on page 28.)

Doing this automatically returns to the initial display.

9 Select “Start” to start exercising with the newly created program.

For further details and important information when using in the Training mode,

see page 36.

Deleting a program

If you want to create a new program but the memory of the BF-1 is full and no

more programs can be saved (an error message indicating this appears), you

will need to delete one or more programs. This operation lets you delete an

existing program to make room for the new program.

1 Select the desired program to be deleted from the Training menu.

The following display appears.

2 Select “Delete.”

The display prompts you for conﬁrmation.

3 Select “Yes” to delete the selected program, or select “No” to

cancel.

When you select “Yes,” a “Delete Program XX” message brieﬂy appears,

followed by the Training menu.

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At any time during your exercise session (in Free Workout, Fitness Walk, Fitness

Jog or Training modes), you can change various settings.

■ Pausing the exercise

This function lets you temporarily pause the operation of the BF-1 (for

example, if you need to brieﬂy stop your exercise session). Music

playback is stopped and your heart rate and steps are not monitored while

pause is active.

Press (but do not hold) the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons simultaneously. This

pauses the music and exercise session. Press them again to restart the

music and exercise.

■ Changing music playback volume

Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to call up the Volume display and change

the volume while the music is playing.

After two seconds, the Volume display automatically closes and returns to

the previous display. You can also close the Volume display manually

(before the two seconds are up) by pressing the [MENU] button.

■ Changing songs

This lets you select other songs having roughly the same tempo as the

song currently playing or jump back to the beginning of the current song.

1 Press the [MENU] button once to call up the Select Song display.

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2 Press the ▼ (Down) button to select the next song as desired.

Pressing the ▲ (Up) button returns to the top (beginning) of the

current song.

Pressing the ▼ (Down) button skips to the next or previous song (in the current

Playlist or among all songs) that has roughly the same tempo as the currently

active exercise tempo. Songs that do not match the current tempo will be

skipped over.

To better understand this, consider the example song Playlist below:

If your exercise pace is about 140 bpm in this situation, a song having a

tempo of about 140 bpm will be played back. When Song 1 is played back, for

example, you can skip to Song 3 or Song 4 by using the ▼ (Down) button.

Songs 2 and 5 cannot be selected in this way, since they differ too greatly from

the current tempo.

After ten seconds, the Select Song display automatically closes and returns to

the previous display. You can also close the Select Song display manually

(before the ten seconds are up) by pressing the [MENU] button twice.

(Pressing it once calls up the Pace display. Pressing it again calls up the

normal display.)

When the Learning Function (page 74) is on, the skip/top count is memorized. When you skip a

song, the BF-1 memorizes this action, assuming that the song is one that you don’t like, and

accordingly lowers the playback priority of the song. If you rewind (go back to the top of) the

song, the song is memorized as a favorite and according raises the playback priority.

■ Locking the pace

This function lets you maintain the current tempo (or one of your selection)

indeﬁnitely. Your physical conditions in exercising (pace, heart rate, etc.)

have no effect on the music tempo while the tempo is locked.

While playback is paused, the pace lock function is not available.

1 Press the [MENU] button twice to call up the Pace display.

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Song 1 140 bpm

Song 2 120 bpm

Song 3 142 bpm

Song 4 138 bpm

Song 5 150 bpm

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2 Simultaneously press both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to lock the

tempo.

To unlock the tempo and return to normal operation, repeat steps 1 and 2

above.

■ Changing the pace

In the Fitness and Training modes, this function lets you change the song

to a faster or slower song as desired during your exercise. Keep in mind

that this new pace is not locked. After a while, song playback changes

automatically based on changes in your heart rate or the training program.

While playback is paused, the pace change function is not available.

1 Press the [MENU] button twice to call up the Pace display.

2 Press the ▲ (Up) button to raise the tempo, or press the ▼ (Down)

button to lower it.

When the Learning Function (page 74) is on, if you change your pace manually, the memorized

starting pace, maximum pace and maximum heart rate will be changed. If this occurs, a

conﬁrmation message will appear when the workout reaches its end, prompting you to

memorize the changed pace/maximum heart rate. Select “Yes” to memorize.

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Managing the Exercise Logs

Each time you exercise with the BF-1, a new exercise log is automatically

generated, creating a record of important information about your exercise

session and your physical conditions. This information includes the date and

time of your session, the distance covered, the average pace of your walking/

jogging, the amount of calories you expended, and your maximum heart rate

(the highest recorded pulse during the session). The logs also provide two

different graphs: one showing the changes in your pace during the session, the

other showing changes in your heart rate during the same time.

Since your exercise logs are automatically stored to internal memory (up to 99

sessions), you can call up these logs and check your past exercise sessions.

This feature also lets you view cumulative data—for example, how much total

distance you walked or ran in a speciﬁc week, or how many calories you

expended during a speciﬁc month.

The BF-1 has memory space for up to 99 exercise session logs. When you exceed this number, the

earliest ones will automatically be deleted to make room for the new logs. By using the included

software to transfer your data to computer, you can store all your exercise logs and not need to

worry about the 30-log limit.

From the Top Menu, select “Data.”

Checking the Exercise Logs

1 From the Data menu, select the desired category: Workouts, Days,

Weeks or Months.

When selecting Workouts, you can view individual exercise session logs.

When selecting Days, you can view the cumulative data for a day if you’ve

exercised more than once on that day. When selecting Weeks or Months, you

can view the cumulative data for a week or month, respectively.

2 From the Workouts display, select the desired session. From the

other displays, select the desired time frame (day, week, month).

3 Select “View.”

The log display appears. Refer to page 46.

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■ Log Displays

When you select a speciﬁc workout session, day, week or month above,

the exercise log displays will be called up. The contents of the displays

differ depending on the category/time frame. Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down)

buttons to scroll through the display pages.

For Workouts:

See page 29.

For Days, Weeks or Months:

Exercise log displays 3 and 4 are not available here.

Since the distance, pace, calories or heart rate values in the logs are estimated based on the User

Settings, they may differ from the actual values.

Deleting Exercise Logs

1 From the Data menu, select the desired category: Workouts, Days,

Weeks or Months.

When selecting Workouts, you can delete individual exercise session logs.

When selecting Days, Weeks or Months, you can delete all logs of a speciﬁc

day, a week or a month at once.

2 From the Workouts display, select the desired session. From the

other displays, select the desired time frame (day, week, month).

3 Select “Delete.”

The display prompts you for conﬁrmation.

4 Select “Yes” to delete the selected log, or select “No” to cancel.

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Total distance covered

Total time of all exercise

sessions during the period

Indicates the selected day,

week or month

Total calories expended

Maximum heart rate (highest

recorded pulse during all

sessions)

Average pace for all exercise

sessions during the period

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Using the BF-1 in Guest Mode

The BF-1 also features a convenient Guest mode that allows your friends and

exercise partners to use your BF-1—without disturbing your special settings.

This lets them take the unit on a “test run,” freely use the Free Workout and

Fitness modes and even generate detailed logs of their exercise sessions—

without saving the logs or changing any of your own personal settings.

IMPORTANT

Make sure to have the guest user to read the precautions (pages 6 – 7) before using

the BF-1.

1 From the Top Menu, select “Guest.”

In the Guest mode, “•” is shown at the beginning of the display title.

You can exit from the Guest mode (if you’ve entered it inadvertently) by pressing and holding

the [MENU] button for about two seconds.

2 Select the desired exercise mode from: Free Workout, Walk Fitness

or Jog Fitness.

The Free Workout mode automatically matches the music to your exercise

pace, selecting songs having the same tempo as your jogging or walking

speed. (For more details on Free Workout, see page 25.)

The Walk Fitness and Jog Fitness are more sophisticated modes that monitor

your heart rate using the pulse sensor and change the music automatically to

give you the best possible aerobic workout. (For more details on the Fitness

modes, see page 30; for details on using the pulse sensor, see page 20.)

3 If you want an open-ended session where you walk or jog as long

as you want, skip to step 4. If you want to walk or jog for a speciﬁc

length of time, distance or calories, select “Setting.”

You can set the exercise target according to Time, Distance or Calories. Refer

to step 3 on page 27.

In the Guest mode, the distance, calories and exercise intensity (song tempo) are calculated

based on the default values below.

• Birthday: January 1, 1970

• Resting Heart Rate: 60 bpm

• Weight: 120.0 lb (54.5 kg)

• Height: 5.5 ft (1.68 m)

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4 Select “Start” and then simultaneously press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down)

buttons to start your exercise session.

During your exercise, you can change the volume of the music, select different

songs, lock the pace or change it to a different tempo. See “Operation During

Exercise” on page 42.

WARNING

When using the Fitness Mode, depending on your physical condition you may feel the

tempo is too slow or too fast. If so, you can change the tempo manually (page 44).

Particularly, if you ﬁnd it too strenuous to match your pace to the song, do not force

yourself to keep pace. Lower the pace or stop the exercise.

5 The exercise session is ended after the speciﬁed time, and a log

showing detailed information on your session is automatically

called up.

If your exercise is an open-ended session or you want to stop the exercise

before the speciﬁed time has been reached, you can also stop the session

manually by simultaneously holding both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

For more information on the exercise logs, see page 29.

When using the Fitness mode, the cool down segment will be inserted before stop the session.

Holding both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons during the cooling down ends the session

immediately and calls up the log display.

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Connecting to a Computer

Connecting with a computer allows you to easily and intuitively

manage the exercise logs, training programs, and music data,

and lets you take full advantage of all the modes and functions

on the BF-1 conveniently and efﬁciently from your computer.

This is especially true in the Music mode, where the songs you

want to listen to must be loaded from the computer beforehand.

The loaded songs can also be listened to in other modes.

Managing data and loading songs from computer requires the

included software.

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About the BODiBEAT Station Software ............................................ 50

System Requirements ............................................................. 51

Installation................................................................................ 51

How to Connect................................................................................ 52

Removing the device from the computer ................................. 52

Loading Music Data to the BF-1....................................................... 53

Updating the BF-1 ............................................................................ 53

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About the BODiBEAT Station Software

The included BODiBEAT Station provides exceptionally convenient and easy

tools for managing the songs you want to use on the BF-1, and provides easy-

to-understand visual graphs of your exercise logs. It also provides convenient

means for creating playlists of your favorite songs and for loading them to the

device, so that you can enjoy walking or jogging while listening to your favorite

music. In addition, creating training programs and registering your personal

data by using the software is much easier and faster than doing it on the device

itself.

For instructions on how to use the software, refer to the BODiBEAT Station

Owner’s Manual installed together with the program.

IMPORTANT

Before installing the software, please read carefully the End User License Agreement

included in the CD-ROM. By installing it, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of

the license agreement.

Synchronizing

Synchronizing the device

and software

Managing Exercise Logs

•View as a graph

•View as a list

Managing Song Data

• Analyze the tempo and song features

automatically

• Playing back a song

•Creating Playlists

Creating a Personal Training Program

• Enter the target pace, heart rate, etc.

Registering personal information

• Birthday, Sex

• Height, Weight

• Stride, Heart Rate

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System Requirements

Installation

1 Insert the supplied CD-ROM into your computer’s CD/DVD drive.

The initial menu appears on the screen.

If the initial menu does not appear, select the CD/DVD drive from My Computer, then double-

click “Setup.exe” and go on to step 3.

2 Click “Install BODiBEAT Station” from the initial menu.

The installation starts. After the message “Please plug in your BODiBEAT

device” appears, connect the BF-1 to the computer with the supplied USB

cable.

3 Execute the installation by following the onscreen instructions.

CAUTION

When you ﬁrst connect the BF-1 to the computer in which the BODiBEAT Station is installed, the

preset Training programs on the BF-1 will be overwritten by the programs on the BODiBEAT

Station. If you have edited the preset programs on the BF-1, your changes will be lost. To avoid

this, copy the program you have edited to another program (page 39).

Windows

XP Professional SP2/XP Home Edition SP2 or Vista*

(*Only compatible with 32-bit Ultimate/Business/Home Premium/Home Basic/Enterprise

versions.)

Computer 1 GHz or higher; Intel

Pentium

/Celeron

processor

Available Memory

Windows XP: 128 MB or more (256 MB or more is recommended)

Windows Vista: 512 MB or more (1 GB or more is recommended)

Hard Disk 200 MB or more free space

Display 1024 x 768 or more

Sound

Windows-compliant Audio Interface or Sound Card

(Windows Media

Player version 9 or higher must be installed to the

computer.)

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How to Connect

Connect the device to a working computer with the included USB cable.

(Recharging of the battery automatically starts.) When connected, the BF-1

automatically switches to PC mode and any key operations on the unit are

disabled.

DANGER

Do not connect to a computer in extremely hot environments. You should charge it in a

temperature conditions of between 0° to 40°C (32° to 104°F). Recharging the battery in high

temperatures may result in ﬁre or an explosion.

CAUTION

• Do not connect the BF-1 to the computer when the computer is in the power-saving mode

(such as suspended, sleep, standby) and do not turn the computer to the power-saving mode

when the BF-1 is connected. Doing so risks freezing the BF-1 and losing data, or depleting the

power of the BF-1.

• Always use the included USB cable. Using an improper cable may cause damage to the USB

terminal.

•Never disconnect the USB cable while data is being transferred. Doing so may cause loss of

data or damage to the device.

• When connecting with a computer to which BODiBEAT Station is installed, a message “Do you

want to associate with this computer?” may appear. If you select “Yes” here, data on the BF-1

(logs, training programs and songs) will be cleared.

Removing the device from the computer

You can remove the device from the computer safely with the following

procedure.

1 Double-click “Safely Remove Hardware” icon on the Windows task

bar.

The “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog appears.

2 Conﬁrm that the “Display device component” is checkmarked,

select “Yamaha BODiBEAT USB Device,” then click [Stop].

The “Stop a Hardware device” dialog appears.

3 Click [OK].

4 Disconnect the USB cable from the computer.

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Loading Music Data to the BF-1

By loading your favorite songs to the BF-1, you can listen to them when you

exercise or play them back in the Music Playback mode.

First, to load songs, you will need to use the included software. Second, import

the desired songs to the software from the computer’s hard disk, then create

playlists on the software if necessary. Finally, transfer the songs/playlists from

the computer to the device.

1 Install the included software to the computer

2 Import the songs to the software

3 Transfer the songs to the device

For details about the procedure, refer to the owner’s manual of the software.

The BODiBEAT Station cannot directly import the song data from a music CD. You will need to

import songs from the CD to your computer in advance, using a CD ripping software, such as

Windows Media Player.

The data transfer will take a long time (up to one-quarter of the song length) since the song’s tempo

characteristics are thoroughly checked and analyzed automatically in real time. The transfer time

may differ depending on your particular computer.

Updating the BF-1

You can update the BF-1 to the latest version by downloading the appropriate

updater ﬁle from our website and installing it. For up-to-date information or

speciﬁc updating instructions, refer to the website below.

http://www.bodibeat.com

You can also easily access the website from the [Help] menu of the included software.

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—Music Playback Mode

In this mode, the BF-1 performs as a simple music player. You

can select one of the songs you’ve loaded from computer and

play it back. The Music Playback mode features three basic

operations that let you:

➤ Select a speciﬁc artist or album, and automatically play the songs of

that artist or album. (See “Artist/Album” on page 55.)

➤ Select and play back a single song. (See “Songs” on page 56.)

➤ Select a custom Playlist, and automatically play the songs assigned to

that Playlist. (See “Playlists” on page 57.)

There are other playback options available. You can have all songs in a playlist automatically play

back at random or have them repeat indeﬁnitely (either a single song or all songs in a playlist). See

Play Mode Settings on page 65.

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Selecting Songs ............................................................................... 55

Playing the songs from an artist or album—Artist/Album ........ 55

Playing a single song—Songs ................................................. 56

Playing the songs from a Playlist—Playlists ............................ 57

Basic Operations in Music Playback Mode ...................................... 58

Fast-forward and reverse ......................................................... 58

Adjusting the Volume ............................................................... 59

Exiting from the Play Info Display ............................................ 59

Returning to the Play Info Display............................................ 59

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Playing the songs from an artist or album—Artist/Album

With this operation, you can select a speciﬁc artist or album, and automatically

play the songs of that artist or album. Note that you must ﬁrst have some songs

downloaded to the BF-1 and organized according to artist or album before you

can use this. The BODiBEAT Station software has convenient tools to help you

download songs (even entire albums) and organize them as you wish. (Refer to

page 53.)

If the artist name and/or album name is not entered, the item appears blank in the display.

1 Select “Music Playback” from the Top Menu.

If you need to return to the Top Menu from any other mode/menu, press and

hold down the [MENU] button.

2 From the Music Playback menu, call up the Artist/Album menu.

3 Select the desired item from the list that appears.

The ﬁrst song of the selected artist or album starts playing automatically.

During playback, the song title and artist are shown, along with the elapsed

time of playback.

Play Info display

You can have all songs in an album automatically play back at random or have them repeat

indeﬁnitely (either a single song or all songs in an album). See Play Mode Settings on page 65.

After the last song of the album is played, playback is automatically stopped.

If you want to stop playback manually before the album reaches the end,

press and hold down both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

To temporarily pause playback, simply press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons

together (but do not hold them). Press them again to resume playback.

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Playing a single song—Songs

Here you can select and play any one song that is downloaded and stored to

your BF-1.

1 Select “Music Playback” from the Top Menu.

If you need to return to the Top Menu from any other mode/menu, press and

hold down the [MENU] button.

2 From the Music Playback menu, call up the Songs menu.

3 Select the desired song from the list that appears.

The selected song starts playing.

During playback, the song title and artist are shown, along with the elapsed

time of playback.

Play Info display

You can have all songs automatically play back at random or have them repeat indeﬁnitely

(either a single song or all songs). See Play Mode Settings on page 65.

4 If you want to stop playback of the song, press and hold down both

▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

To temporarily pause playback, simply press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons

together (but do not hold them). Press them again to resume playback.

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Song title

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Elapsed time

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Playing the songs from a Playlist—Playlists

With this operation, you can select a speciﬁc Playlist, and automatically play the

songs assigned to that Playlist. Note that you must ﬁrst have some songs

downloaded to the BF-1 and organized according to Playlists before you can

use this. The BODiBEAT Station software has convenient tools to help you

download songs and organize them into custom Playlists as desired. (Refer to

page 53.)

1 Select “Music Playback” from the Top Menu.

If you need to return to the Top Menu from any other mode/menu, press and

hold down the [MENU] button.

2 From the Music Playback menu, call up the Playlists menu.

3 Select the desired item from the list that appears.

The ﬁrst song of the selected Playlist starts playing automatically.

During playback, the song title and artist are shown, along with the elapsed

time of playback.

Play Info display

You can have all songs in a playlist automatically play back at random or have them repeat

indeﬁnitely (either a single song or all songs in a playlist). See Play Mode Settings on page 65.

After the last song of the playlist is played, playback is automatically stopped.

If you want to stop playback manually before the playlist reaches the end,

press and hold down both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

To temporarily pause playback, simply press the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons

together (but do not hold them). Press them again to resume playback.

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Fast-forward and reverse

These controls can be used while the Play Info display is shown. You can also

jump back to the beginning of the current song or skip to the next one.

1 From the Play Info display, press the [MENU] button while the song

is playing.

The SELECT SONG display appears.

If the Play Info display is not shown here and you want to call it up again, follow the instructions

shown on page 59.

2 To fast-forward, press and hold down the ▼ (Down) button.

When the end of the song is reached, it goes to the next song and continues

fast-forwarding. Song playback starts when you release the ▼ (Down) button.

To reverse, press and hold down the ▲ (Up) button.

When the top of the song is reached, the previous song is selected and

rewinding continues. Song playback starts when you release the ▲ (Up)

button.

To go to the beginning of the next song, press the ▼ (Down) button.

To go back to the beginning of the current song, press the ▲ (Up)

button.

When you fast-forward, reverse or do nothing in the SELECT SONG display,

after ten seconds, the Play Info display will automatically called up. You can

also close the SELECT SONG display manually (before 10 seconds are up) by

pressing the [MENU] button.

When you change the song or return to beginning of the song, the song title is

displayed for ﬁve seconds, after which the Play Info display is called up. You

can change the songs in order by pressing the ▲ (Up) or ▼ (Down) button

during this ﬁve seconds.

If you try to skip playback of the last song while it is playing, song playback will be stopped.

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Adjusting the Volume

While the song is playing, you can change the volume.

1 From the Play Info display, press one of the ▲/▼ (Up/Down)

buttons.

The Volume display appears.

2 Use the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons to set the volume as desired.

After two seconds, the Volume display automatically closes and returns to the

previous display. You can also close the Volume display manually (before the

two seconds are up) by pressing the [MENU] button.

Exiting from the Play Info Display

You can exit from the Play Info display and return to the Top Menu, without

stopping song playback. If you want to change any music settings such as

Repeat or Shufﬂe, or you want to reselect the song to be played, you can do it

from the Top Menu.

While a song is playing, press and hold down the [MENU] button.

The Top Menu is called up.

When you exit from the Play Info display, you can stop song playback or restart playback by

simultaneously holding the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons. You’ll need to call up the Play Info display

again if you want to change the playback volume, fast-forward, rewind or switch the song. Refer

to “Returning to the Play Info Display” below.

Returning to the Play Info Display

After exiting from the Play Info display, if you haven’t used any of panel controls

for ten seconds, the Play Info display will automatically be called up again. You

can also call it up manually by the following procedure.

1 Select “Music Playback” from the Top Menu.

2 Select “Now Playing.”

The Play Info display appears.

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Settings

This group of controls and parameters let you customize the BF-

1 for your own preferences and physical condition. The Settings

are divided into three main groups: Music, Hardware and User,

with a separate Initialize function for instantly restoring the

default settings of the device. Also included is an Information

menu, which lets you check the version of your BF-1.

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Music Settings.................................................................................. 61

Workout Music ......................................................................... 61

About the BODiBEAT songs.................................................. 62

Play Mode—Repeat and Shufﬂe ............................................. 65

Bass Boost............................................................................... 65

Hardware Settings............................................................................ 66

Sensors.................................................................................... 66

Display ..................................................................................... 68

Date/Time ................................................................................ 70

User Settings.................................................................................... 71

Heart Rate ............................................................................... 71

About Maximum Heart Rate.................................................. 72

Stride ....................................................................................... 73

Weight/Height .......................................................................... 73

Birthday/Sex ............................................................................ 74

Learning Function.................................................................... 74

Information ....................................................................................... 76

Initialize ............................................................................................ 76

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The Music Settings let you set:

➤ Various exercise and workout music controls, such as Tempo Guide, Song

Connection, Playback Time for songs, and others. (See “Workout Music”

below.)

➤ The playback mode for the BF-1 (Repeat and Shufﬂe). (See “Play Mode” on

page 65.)

➤ The tonal qualities of the sound. (See “Bass Boost” on page 65.)

From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ Music Settings

Workout Music

This mode provides a variety of settings related to how you want to use the BF-1

in your exercising and workouts.

From the Music Settings menu, select the Workout Music menu.

In the Workout Music menu, the following items are shown: Music Priority,

Tempo Guide, Half Tempo, Song Transition, Playback Time and Normalize

Volume.

■ Music Priority

This lets you set how the BF-1 selects between normal audio songs and

the special “BODiBEAT” songs, which have been pre-loaded to the

device. These BODiBEAT songs have been built into the BF-1 to make

sure that songs of all tempos between 50 – 250 bpm are properly

included, even if you haven’t loaded audio songs of all tempos to the

device.

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Tempo Guide (page 62)

Half Tempo (page 63)

Song Transition (page 63)

Playback Time (page 64)

Normalize Volume (page 64)

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From the Workout Music menu, select the Music Priority parameter.

Available settings:

User Songs

Only user-supplied songs are played, unless no songs of the appropriate tempo exist,

in which case a BODiBEAT song of the tempo is played. This is the default setting.

Mix

Audio songs and BODiBEAT songs are mixed in a 50/50 ratio.

BODiBEAT Songs

Only the pre-loaded BODiBEAT songs are played. (Audio songs are not selected.)

About the BODiBEAT songs

The BF-1 contains many short phrases of speciﬁc song parts—for

example, rhythm parts, melody parts, bass parts, and so on. Some of

these are randomly and automatically chosen and mixed, giving you

literally hundreds of thousands of songs suitable for your exercise

sessions.

■ Tempo Guide

This lets you turn on the sound of the Tempo Guide. (Tempo Guide is a

sound that clicks for each beat, to help you “feel” the tempo of the song.)

When you turn the Tempo Guide function on, the sound will come on only

when your pace deviates from the basic tempo of the song. A sub menu in

this setting lets you select the type of sound used for the Tempo Guide.

Tempo Guide is only available in the Fitness or Training modes.

1 From the Workout Music menu, select the Tempo Guide parameter.

Available settings:

Off

Tempo Guide is off.

Tempo Guide is enabled, and sounds only when your walking/jogging pace deviates

from the tempo of a song.

When you select “On” here, the Guide Sound menu will appear.

If Tempo Guide is set to “Off,” pressing both the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons returns to the Workout

Music menu (Guide Sound menu will not appear).

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2 Select the desired setting using the ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

Every time the cursor position is moved, the highlighted setting can be heard.

Available settings:

Guide Sound A, Guide Sound B, Guide Sound C

■ Half Tempo

This allows you to broaden the tempo criteria for songs to include songs

that are at half the current tempo. For example, if the current pace is 160

bpm, you can set Half Tempo to On, and songs at 80 bpm will be included

along with songs at 160 bpm. In other words, songs that are exactly twice

as slow as the current pace will play back. Since the pace is mathemati-

cally half, you can continue jogging/walking at the current pace and still

stay in time with the music. This lets you program relaxing, slow-paced

music for your exercising, and yet maintain a fast-paced exercise.

When Half Tempo is set to Off, only music at the selected tempo will play

back.

Half Tempo is available only for the audio songs and only when using the Free Workout mode.

From the Workout Music menu, select the Half Tempo parameter.

Available settings:

Off, On

■ Song Transition

Song playback on the BF-1 is basically continuous. One song follows

another virtually without pause in order that your exercise continues

undisturbed. The Song Transition function lets you determine how the BF-1

connects consecutive songs with a special connective phrase.

The Song Transition setting is in effect just before the audio song is played. (Before a BODiBEAT

song is played, no connective phrase is added.)

From the Workout Music menu, select the Song Transition

parameter.

Available settings:

Transition 1

A connective phrase is added between successive songs, to smoothly sequence

between them.

Transition 2

A connective phrase is added between successive songs, with the previous song

fading out (only when the previous song is an audio song), followed by the connective

phrase and then playback of the next song.

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■ Playback Time

This determines the maximum song playback time, or how long each song

plays before the next song starts.

Playback Time is not available when using Music Playback Mode.

From the Workout Music menu, select the Playback Time parameter.

Available settings:

Maximum, 1 min., 2 min., 3 min., 4 min., 5 min.

■ Normalize Volume

This evens out the volume of all songs in the BF-1, preventing extreme

changes in volume from one song to the next and keeping the selected

songs at relatively the same level.

If you have already normalized the levels of the song or songs on the computer with some other

audio application, make sure to set the Normalize Volume setting to off.

From the Workout Music menu, select the Normalize Volume

parameter.

Available settings:

Off, On

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Play Mode—Repeat and Shufﬂe

This mode lets you set how the BF-1 plays back songs—at random or in order,

and whether a song or songs will be repeated. Repeat and Shufﬂe playback

can be used together as well.

If you select a song from the Artist/Album menu (page 55) or Playlists menu (page 57), the repeat

and/or shufﬂe setting is in effect only for the selected album/playlist.

1 From the Music Settings menu, select the Play Mode menu.

2 Select the desired setting for Repeat and/or Shufﬂe using the ▲/▼

(Up/Down) buttons.

■ Repeat

When this is set to All, all of the songs will be played back in order and

then repeated indeﬁnitely. The Repeat All icon ( ) is also shown at the

top of the display. When this is set to Song, the selected song will be

repeated indeﬁnitely. The Repeat One icon ( ) is also shown at the top

of the display.

Available settings:

Off, All, Song

■ Shufﬂe

When this is set to On, all songs will be played back at random. The

Shufﬂe icon ( ) is also shown at the top of the display.

Available settings:

Off, On

When Repeat is set to All and Shufﬂe is set to On, all songs will be played

back in random order and then repeated indeﬁnitely.

Bass Boost

This is an additional equalizer control which produces rich, deep bass tones for

a more powerful overall sound, and helps compensate for outside noises that

may be interfering with the music.

When you change the Bass Boost setting while a song is playing in the Music Playback mode, the

highlighted setting will take effect for the currently played song and you can hear each Bass Boost

setting as you select it.

From the Music Settings menu, select the Bass Boost parameter.

Available settings:

Off, Low, Mid, High

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The Hardware Settings let you set:

➤ The sensitivity of the sensors of the BF-1. (See “Sensors” below.)

➤ Various display-related controls. (See “Display” on page 68.)

➤ The correct date and time. (See “Date/Time” on page 70.)

From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ Hardware Settings.

Sensors

The Sensors settings let you tailor the response and sensitivity of the sensors of

the BF-1. It lets you adjust the device to the strength of your pulse, the speed of

your jogging stride and changes in your jogging pace.

From the Hardware Settings menu, select the Sensors menu.

In the Sensors menu, the following items are shown: Pulse Sensor, Step

Sensor and Pace Sensor.

■ Pulse Sensor

This lets you adjust how sensitive the BF-1 sensor is to your pulse. For

example, if your pulse is weak or the BF-1 doesn’t seem to respond

properly to your pulse, adjusting the setting here can improve the

response.

Also refer to Troubleshooting on page 77 when you feel the BF-1 doesn’t respond properly to your

pulse.

From the Sensors menu, select the Pulse Sensor parameter.

Available settings:

High Sensitivity, Normal Sensitivity, Low Sensitivity

“Normal” is the default setting and should be ﬁne for most people and

situations. If the BF-1 doesn’t seem to be responding properly, try changing

the setting. Select “High” if your pulse is weak, or “Low” if your pulse is strong.

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Step Sensor (page 67)

Pace Sensor (page 67)

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■ Step Sensor

This lets you adjust how sensitive the BF-1 sensor is to your pace.

Normally, the BF-1 detects the exercise pace (tempo) when it recognizes

your steps continuing at the same tempo within a certain range. If you ﬁnd

that the exercise pace of the BF-1 slips out of sync with your walking/

jogging stride, adjusting the setting here can improve the pace

recognition.

From the Sensors menu, select the Step Sensor parameter.

Available settings:

High Sensitivity, Normal Sensitivity, Low Sensitivity

“Normal” is the default setting and should be ﬁne for most people and

situations. If the BF-1 doesn’t seem to be responding properly, try changing

the setting. Select “High” if your stride is reliably constant and it is easy for you

to match the pace. Select “Low” if your stride varies too much within the pace.

The “Low” setting allows you to deviate from the pace slightly, yet have the BF-

1 ignore those deviations and stay at the same pace.

■ Pace Sensor

This allows you to tailor the response of the BF-1 to changes in your

walking/jogging speed. In the Free Workout mode, the BF-1 recognizes

that you intend to change the pace when you speed up or slow down the

pace greater than a certain range. Changing this setting lets you adjust

how sensitive the BF-1 is in responding to your pace changes.

The setting here only applies to the Free Workout mode.

From the Sensors menu, select the Pace Sensor parameter.

Available settings:

High Sensitivity, Normal Sensitivity, Low Sensitivity

“Normal” is the default setting and should be ﬁne for most people and

situations. If the BF-1 doesn’t seem respond properly to changes in your

walking/jogging speed, try changing the setting. Select “High” if the BF-1

doesn’t respond enough when you intend to increase or decrease the pace, or

select “Low” if the BF-1 is responding too much when you don’t intend to

change the pace.

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Display

The Display settings let you make various overall display-related settings for the

BF-1, including the system of measurements used, language, and contrast

control.

From the Hardware Settings menu, select the Display menu.

In the Display menu, the following items are shown: Main Display,

Measurement, Language, Display Time and Contrast.

■ Main Display

This setting determines which parameter is indicated in the display during

your exercise session in Free Workout mode or Fitness modes.

This lets you keep track of the indication most important to you—for

example, the elapsed time of your exercise, the distance you’ve covered,

the amount of calories expended, your current heart rate, or even the

name of the song currently playing.

The setting here does not apply to the Training mode.

From the Display menu, select the Main Disp_Workout menu.

Available settings:

Time, Distance, Calories, Heart Rate, Song

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Main Display (below)

Measurement (page 69)

Language (page 69)

Display Time (page 69)

Contrast (page 70)

Time Distance Calories

Heart Rate Song

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■ Measurement

This lets you set the system of measurement for weight and length.

Indications can be given in traditional units (pounds, miles/feet) or metric.

1 From the Display menu, select the Measurement menu.

2 Select the desired category (Weight or Length) using the ▲/▼ (Up/

Down) buttons.

Weight

Available settings:

Pounds, Kilograms

Length

Available settings:

Miles/Feet, Meters

■ Language

This determines the language for all messages and indications on the BF-

1. Five languages are available: English, Japanese, German, Spanish and

French.

From the Display menu, select the Language menu.

Available settings:

English, (Japanese), Deutsch (German), Español (Spanish), Français (French)

■ Display Time

This determines how long the display will remain on after the last operation

or button press. The default time is 30 seconds, but you can shorten or

lengthen it depending on how long you want messages and indications to

show.

From the Display menu, select the Display Time menu.

Available settings:

5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 180 seconds

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■ Contrast

This lets you adjust the contrast of the display for optimum viewing. Please

note that high Contrast settings will shorten the battery life.

1 From the Display menu, select the Contrast menu.

2 Adjust the Contrast value as desired. The higher the value, the

greater the contrast.

Available range:

1 – 5

Date/Time

This lets you set the correct date and time for the BF-1, as well as the

preferred format for each. To maintain the correct time, check the Date/

Time setting frequently.

1 From the Hardware Settings menu, select the Date/Time menu.

2 From the Date/Time menu, set the correct date and time.

The set Time is entered at the moment you press both ▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons when the cursor

is located at the AM/PM position.

3 Select the desired formats for Date and Time.

Date Format

Available settings:

Day/Month/Year (D/M/Y), Month/Day/Year (M/D/Y), Year/Month/Day (Y/M/D)

Time Format

Available settings:

12-hour, 24-hour

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User Settings

The User Settings contain a variety of settings for use with the Training, Fitness

and Free Workout features of the BF-1. These allow you to:

➤ Check your heart rate (pulse) and register your resting and maximum heart

rates. (See “Heart Rate” below.)

➤ Specify the length of your walking and jogging stride. (See “Stride” on

page 73.)

➤ Specify your weight and height. (See “Weight/Height” on page 73.)

➤ Specify your age and gender. (See “Birthday/Sex” on page 74.)

➤ Enable the Learning function of the BF-1. (See “Learning Function” on

page 74.)

From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ User Settings.

Heart Rate

These parameters let you check your heart rate (pulse) and register your resting

and maximum heart rates. Make sure the two readings are as accurate as

possible. These maximum and resting heart rates are used in the Fitness and

Training modes to tailor the music and pace to your true physical condition.

■ Checking your resting heart rate and registering it

It is important for exercise and training purposes that you accurately

measure your resting heart rate. The best time to measure it is in the

morning, after a good night’s sleep, and before you get out of bed. The

heart beats about 50 to 70 times a minute when we’re at rest and it’s

generally lower in physically ﬁt people. As you exercise and train with the

BF-1, you may want to regularly check your resting heart rate and change

it when necessary.

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Heart Rate settings.

2 Make sure the pulse sensor is securely attached to your ear lobe

(see page 20).

Also, make sure you are truly resting, relaxed, and not following some strenuous

activity.

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3 Select “Check Heart Rate” in the Heart Rate settings menu.

Once your heart rate is measured, it is shown in the display.

The level indicator is shown at the bottom of the display. This indicates the

detected level of your pulse over a range of 0 – 100. The higher value means

your heart rate is correctly and strongly detected. If it seems that your pulse is

not detected properly, try rubbing your ear robe to stimulate blood circulation

or changing the pulse sensor location.

4 To register the value as your Resting Heart Rate, ﬁrst call up the

“Register as Resting HR” display by simultaneously pressing both

▲/▼ (Up/Down) buttons.

5 Select “Yes” to register the new value or “No” to cancel.

■ Changing the Heart Rate values

You can also change the Resting Heart Rate setting, by entering it

manually instead of measuring it. The Maximum Heart Rate setting can be

changed here as well.

About Maximum Heart Rate

The Maximum Heart Rate is calculated from your age (220 – age) by

default. However, as you exercise with the BF-1 in Fitness modes or

Training mode, the BF-1 monitors your pace and heart rate during

exercise and calculates your maximum heart rate. If the value differs

from your Maximum Heart Rate setting, you can update the setting with

the new value. For your information, your physical age based on the

maximum heart rate will be displayed together with the maximum heart

rate. When an exercise session is ﬁnished, a conﬁrmation prompt

appears asking whether you want to update the Maximum Heart Rate

setting or not (only when the Learning Function is on; page 74).

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1 From the User Settings menu, select the Heart Rate settings.

2 Select “Change Heart Rate” in the Heart Rate settings menu.

3 Enter the desired values for Resting Heart Rate and Maximum Heart

Rate.

If you try to set a Resting Heart Rate value that is higher than the Maximum Heart Rate value,

the two values will automatically be set to the same number.

Stride

This setting lets you enter your personal stride length. Measure your stride as

accurately as you can for both walking and jogging and specify the two values

here. These are used for calculating the distance and pace you walk or jog in a

session (distance = steps x strides, pace = time / distance). When you specify

your height, the stride length is automatically calculated (“height x 0.8” for

jogging, “height x 0.5” for walking), so that you would normally not have to

change this setting.

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Stride settings.

2 After measuring your actual walking and jogging strides, enter the

appropriate value for each activity.

The units of measurement used here depend on the settings made in the Measurement

parameter (page 69).

Weight/Height

This setting lets you enter your personal weight and height. Measure the two as

accurately as possible. The weight setting is used to calculate the number of

calories you expend or burn during your exercise. The expended calorie value

shown when your exercise is ﬁnished is calculated based on the weight input

here. The height setting is used to calculate the distance you walked or jogged.

The distance value shown when your exercise is ﬁnished is calculated based

on the height input here.

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Weight/Height settings.

2 After measuring your actual weight and height, enter the

appropriate value for each.

The units of measurement used here depend on the settings made in the Measurement

parameter (page 69).

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Birthday/Sex

This setting lets you enter your age and sex. Your gender has no bearing on the

functions of the BF-1, but your age is used for calculating the default maximum

heart rate (according to the formula 220 – your age) which is automatically

displayed in the Heart Rate setting menu.

1 From the User Settings menu, select the Birthday/Sex settings.

2 Enter the appropriate information for each.

The date format used for the Birthday setting depends on the setting made in the Date/Time

settings (page 70).

Learning Function

The BF-1 memorizes the skip/top count and analyzes the playback priority for

each song. It also memorizes your manual pace change and calculates your

optimal pace and maximum heart rate in the Fitness modes and Training mode.

These features are together called the Learning function.

When you change songs while exercising, the BF-1 memorizes the skip/top

count—in other words, the number of times you skip over certain songs or go

back to the top of certain songs—and determines the playback priority of the

song. If a song has a high skip count (meaning you often skip it and go on to

another song), it is given a lower playback priority. If a song has a high top

count (meaning you often rewind back to the top of the song), it is given a

higher playback priority.

When you change the pace manually while exercising, the BF-1 memorizes the

pace changes and your heart rate and calculates your optimal starting pace,

fastest pace and maximum heart rate. If the calculated maximum heart rate

differs from the maximum heart rate setting you set before, you can manually

If you change your pace manually or change songs while exercising, a

conﬁrmation message will appear when the workout reaches its end to prompt

you to memorize the changed information. Select “Yes” to memorize.

The playback priority is memorized for each exercise segment: warm up, during exercise, and cool

down.

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1 From the User Settings menu, select the Learning Function setting.

2 Select the desired setting.

Available settings:

Off: Changing pace and skip/top count are not reﬂected in the BF-1 settings.

On: Manual changes to your pace while exercising will be reﬂected in calculations of

your pace (starting pace and fastest pace) and maximum heart rate setting. Skip/top

count will also be reﬂected in the playback priority.

Reset: The memorized pace, maximum heart rate and playback priority are reset to

default.

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Information

You can check the version of your BF-1. If your version is not current, you can

download the latest version from the website and update the device (page 53).

From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ Information.

The version information is displayed.

Initialize

This operation restores the factory default settings of the BF-1. Keep in mind

that it automatically replaces any settings you’ve made yourself with the original

settings that were on the device when you purchased it. It clears all data from

the BF-1—including your exercise logs, user songs and any personal

information—and performs a complete factory reset. Be careful not to use this

function unless you are sure you want to erase your custom settings and data.

Do not confuse this operation with pressing the [RESET] switch (page 11).

Pressing the [RESET] switch only reboots the BF-1 (for example, to turn the

device on again if normal operation “freezes”) and leaves your exercise logs,

songs and all other data intact.

CAUTION

Before initializing, transfer any important data (exercise log and/or training program) to

the BODiBEAT Station software.

1 From the Top Menu, select Settings ➞ Initialize.

A prompt message appears in the display.

2 Select “Yes” to execute the Initialize operation, or select “No” to

cancel.

When the initialization is complete, the BF-1 will be restarted.

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Troubleshooting

■ Something seems to be wrong; some malfunction seems to

have occurred.

When one of the following problems occur, immediately turn off the

power and have the device inspected by Yamaha service personnel.

• The device is chipped, cracked or deformed.

• It produces a rattling sound when shaken.

• It gives off extreme heat.

• It emits unusual smells or smoke.

• The power cannot be turned on, even though the battery is fully charged.

• Battery power is depleted immediately, despite having just fully charged the

device.

■ Buttons do not respond./Display cannot be turned on or

cannot be changed.

•A system error has occurred. Press the [RESET] switch and turn on again

(page 11).

■ Power does not turn on.

•A system error has occurred. Press the [RESET] switch and turn on again

(page 11).

• Battery power is low. Charge the battery.

■ When turning the power on, a “Memory full” message appears

and the BF-1 cannot be started up.

• There is no memory space in the device for booting up. Connect the BF-1 to

the computer and delete unnecessary ﬁles.

■ Display suddenly turns off.

• Change the Display Time setting (page 69).

■ The earphones easily drop off.

• The earphones may not be put in your ears correctly. Make sure not to

reverse the right and left earphones, and attach them correctly (page 19).

• The cable tightener may be loose. Slide the cable tightener toward your

head (page 20).

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■ The sound is not heard from the earphones, or is only heard

from one ear.

• Make sure that the earphone connector is ﬁrmly connected to the device

(page 17).

• Make sure that the volume is not set to minimum (pages 42 and 59).

■ The LED doesn’t ﬂash even if I attach the pulse sensor.

• The LED ﬂashes only during an exercise session in the Free Workout, Walk

Fitness, Jog Fitness or Training modes, or when the Checking HR display is

shown (page 72). In all other situations, the LED is off.

■ My heart rate cannot be detected.

• Make sure to ﬁrmly connect the earphone cable to the device.

• Gently rub or massage your ear to stimulate blood circulation.

•Try changing the pulse sensor location.

• Adjust the sensitivity or the pulse sensor (page 66).

• Wipe the lens of the pulse sensor with a soft and dry cloth. If dirt, oil or sweat

adheres to the lens of the pulse sensor, your pulse may not be detected

properly.

■ Song doesn’t change even when I speed up or slow down the

pace.

• Adjust the Pace Sensor and/or Step Sensor settings (page 66).

■ The device becomes hot during charging.

• Some heat during charging is normal. However, if the device becomes

extremely hot, some malfunction may have occurred. Have the device

inspected by qualiﬁed Yamaha service personnel.

■ Power cannot be turned off while charging the battery with the

AC power adaptor.

• This is normal. The BF-1 is always on during battery charging, for power

control purposes, when connected with the optional AC power adaptor.

■ It takes a certain amount of time to start up and/or shut down.

• This is normal and indicates that the device is analyzing the music data and/

or exercise log data. (Depending on the data size, this may take a few

minutes.)

■ One song (or a few songs) is repeatedly played while

exercising.

• There are few songs which match in tempo to your exercise pace in the BF-

1. Make sure to load more songs of the appropriate tempo from your

computer or set the Music Priority setting to “Mix” or “BODiBEAT Songs”

(page 61).

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■ After connecting with the computer, some information is

changed (Training Programs, User Settings, etc.)

• Depending on the synchronize setting of BODiBEAT Station, the data on the

BODiBEAT Station will automatically transferred to the BF-1 and the

information on the BF-1 will be replaced when you connect the BF-1 to the

computer. For more information, refer to the BODiBEAT Station Owner’s

Manual.

■ In the Training mode, I set the appropriate target as “Pace” but

the played song’s tempo seems to be different from the set

pace.

• The pace is determined based on the jog stride setting. If the stride setting

differs from your actual stride, the tempo of the song playing back while

exercising may be too fast or too slow. Change the stride setting (page 73).

■ The distance of the exercise logs seems to be wrong.

• The distance you walk or jog is calculated based on your stride setting

(page 73). Entering the exact value for your walking/jogging stride may

bring the calculated distance closer to the actual value.

■ The time of the exercise logs seem to be wrong.

• The clock of the BF-1 may go wrong or stop if you don’t use the BF-1 for a

long period or you don’t adjust the time for a long period. To avoid this

situation, check the Date/Time setting frequently (page 70).

■ A “Memory Full” message appears during creating/editing the

training program and a new program/segment cannot be

created.

• The number of programs/segments that can be saved to the BF-1 is limited

(refer to page 37). If a “Memory Full” message appears, save all programs

within the BODiBEAT Station software to your computer and delete them

from the BF-1. Then, load only the ones you need from the computer to the

device just before exercising.

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Top Menu

Free Workout (page 25)

Walk Fitness (page 30)

Jog Fitness (page 30)

Training (page 35)

Music Playback (page 54)

Artist/Album (page 55)

Songs (page 56)

Playlists (page 57)

Now Playing (page 59)

Data (page 42)

Workouts (page 29)

Days (page 46)

Weeks (page 46)

Months (page 46)

Settings (page 60)

Music Settings (page 61)

Workout Music (page 61)

Music Priority (page 61)

Tempo Guide (page 62)

Half Tempo (page 63)

Song Transition (page 63)

Playback Time (page 64)

Normalize Volume (page 64)

Play Mode (page 65)

Repeat (page 65)

Shufﬂe (page 65)

Bass Boost (page 65)

Hardware Settings (page 66)

Sensors (page 66)

Pulse Sensor (page 66)

Step Sensor (page 67)

Pace Sensor (page 67)

Display (page 68)

Main Disp_Workout (page 68)

Measurement (page 69)

Language (page 69)

Display Time (page 69)

Contrast (page 70)

Date/Time (page 70)

User Settings (page 71)

Heart Rate (page 71)

Check Heart Rate (page 71)

Change Heart Rate (page 72)

Stride (page 73)

Weight/Height (page 73)

Birthday/Sex (page 74)

Learning Function (page 74)

Information (page 76)

Initialize (page 76)

Guest (page 47)

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The warming up and cooling down segments are not included in each Preset Training Program.

Before exercising or after exercising, make sure to properly do warming up and cooling down

exercises by yourself.

As for Preset Training Programs 01 – 06, the target pace is determined based on the jog stride

setting (page 73). If the tempo of the song playing back while exercising is too fast or too slow,

change the stride setting.

01: Short Interval 1

This program helps you build up speed. (For beginners)

Total: 3 km

02: Short Interval 2

This program helps you build up speed. (For intermediate users)

Total: 6 km

Interval

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Target

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1 0.4 4:50

2 0.2 7:30

3 0.4 4:50

4 0.2 7:30

5 0.4 4:50

6 0.2 7:30

7 0.4 4:50

8 0.2 7:30

9 0.4 4:50

10 0.2 7:30

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Target

(/km)

Interval

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Target

(/km)

1 0.4 4:10 16 0.2 6:15

2 0.2 6:15 17 0.4 4:10

3 0.4 4:10 18 0.2 6:15

4 0.2 6:15 19 0.4 4:10

5 0.4 4:10 20 0.2 6:15

6 0.2 6:15

7 0.4 4:10

8 0.2 6:15

9 0.4 4:10

10 0.2 6:15

11 0.4 4:10

12 0.2 6:15

13 0.4 4:10

14 0.2 6:15

15 0.4 4:10

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7:30

0.0

1.0 2.0 3.0

Distance (km)

Pace (min : sec/km)

4:10

6:15

0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0

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03: Short Interval 3

This program helps you build up speed. (For advanced users)

Total: 6 km

04: Long Interval 1

This program helps you build up stamina for high-speed running. (For beginners)

Total: 4.2 km

05: Long Interval 2

This program helps you build up stamina for high-speed running. (For intermediate users)

Total: 7 km

Interval

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Target

(/km)

Interval

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Target

(/km)

1 0.4 3:20 16 0.2 5:40

2 0.2 5:40 17 0.4 3:20

3 0.4 3:20 18 0.2 5:40

4 0.2 5:40 19 0.4 3:20

5 0.4 3:20 20 0.2 5:40

6 0.2 5:40

7 0.4 3:20

8 0.2 5:40

9 0.4 3:20

10 0.2 5:40

11 0.4 3:20

12 0.2 5:40

13 0.4 3:20

14 0.2 5:40

15 0.4 3:20

Interval

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Target

(/km)

1 1.0 5:40

2 0.4 7:30

3 1.0 5:40

4 0.4 7:30

5 1.0 5:40

6 0.4 7:30

Interval

(km)

Target

(/km)

1 0.4 4:50

2 0.2 7:30

3 0.4 4:50

4 0.2 7:30

5 0.4 4:50

6 0.2 7:30

7 0.4 4:50

8 0.2 7:30

9 0.4 4:50

10 0.2 7:30

3:20

5:40

0.0

1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0

Distance (km)

Pace

(

min : sec/km

)

5:40

7:30

0.0

1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0

Distance (km)

Pace (min : sec/km)

4:50

7:30

0.0

1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0

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06: Long Interval 3

This program helps you build up stamina for high-speed running. (For advanced users)

Total: 7 km

07: Tempo

This program helps you build up stamina for racing.

Total: 8 km

08: Buildup

This program helps you practice for racing.

Total: 6 km

09: LSD (Long Slow Distance)

This program helps you build up basic stamina.

Total: 120 min.

Interval

(km)

Target

(/km)

1 0.4