Patent ID: 7549947

Claim:
An exercise system comprising: a mobile unit including at least one mobile exercise monitoring sensor coupled to mobile exercise equipment for monitoring a mobile exercise activity performed by a user on said mobile exercise equipment, said mobile unit at least temporarily storing, in memory, mobile exercise activity data sensed by said at least one mobile exercise monitoring sensor, said mobile unit communicating said mobile exercise activity data to a mobile system for communication over a wide area network; a fixed local unit including at least one local exercise monitoring sensor coupled to fixed local exercise equipment for monitoring a local exercise activity performed by a user on said fixed local exercise equipment, said fixed local unit at least temporarily storing, in memory, local exercise activity data sensed by said at least one local exercise monitoring sensor, said fixed local unit communicating said local exercise activity data to a local server for communication over said wide area network; and a remote server coupled to said wide area network for receiving via said wide area network said mobile exercise activity data and said local exercise activity data, said remote server selectively storing said mobile and local exercise activity data in a computer-readable media, wherein said remote server processes said mobile and local exercise activity data by comparing said mobile and local exercise activity data and scaling said mobile and local exercise activity data based on differences between said mobile exercise equipment and said fixed local exercise equipment.