Patent ID: 8029415

Claim:
An exercise system that simulates a real world exercise route, the exercise system comprising: an exercise device comprising a movable element that is movable during performance of exercise by a user and at least one actuator that controls one or more operating parameters of the exercise device, the exercise device being receptive to exercise programming, the exercise device uses the exercise programming to substantially simulate one or more aspects of the real world exercise route, the exercise programming including one or more control signals representative of changes to be made to the one or more operating parameters to substantially simulate topographical characteristics of the real world exercise route and display programming including images of the real world exercise route, the changes to the one or more operating parameters corresponding to the one or more aspects of the real world exercise route; a remote communication system that communicates with a user of the exercise device to enable the user to select a starting point and an ending point for the real world exercise route, wherein the remote communication system uses data relating to the one or more aspects of the real world exercise route to generate the exercise programming, the data being stored external to the remote communication system by at least one third party; and a network that facilitates communication of the exercise programming from the remote communication system to the exercise device.