Patent ID: 7722503

Claim:
A method of performing an exercise regimen, comprising the steps of: a. defining an exercise schedule for a user, wherein said exercise schedule includes exercises on at least two different machines, each of said at least two different machines has at least one modifiable exercise parameter associated therewith, and, said exercise schedule includes a predetermined parameter value for at least one of said modifiable parameters associated with each of said exercise machines; b. storing said exercise schedule on a non-volatile computer-readable medium; c. selecting one of said at least two exercise machines; d. within said selected machine (d1) reading at least a portion of said stored exercise schedule from said non-volatile medium, thereby reading at least one of said predetermined values of said modifiable parameters associated with said selected exercise machine, (d2) automatically setting at least one of said selected machine modifiable exercise parameters to a value at least approximately equal to one of said read predetermined values, and, (d3) (i) requiring the user to exercise on said selected machine according to at least one of said modifiable exercise parameter values set in step (d2); (ii) obtaining an estimate of the user's performance on said selected machine, (iii) writing a value representative of said estimate of the user's performance to said non-volatile medium; and, e. performing steps (c) through (d) at least twice, each on a different of said at least two exercise machines thereby, causing the user to perform said exercise regimen and storing the values representative of said estimates of the user's performance for each of said at least two exercise machines.