Patent ID: 7060006

Claim:
A computer system for enabling interaction between one or more users with one or more trainers, the computer system comprising: (a) a user module adapted to control one or more operating parameter of an exercise device, the user module being adapted to receive packetized programming including at least one control signal; (b) a trainer module remote from and communicating with the user module so that a trainer at said trainer module may visually and audibly communicate with a user at the user module, the trainer module being capable of generating the packetized programming representative of changes to be made to the one or more operating parameters of the exercise device; (c) a communication module in communication with the user module and the trainer module, the communication module being configured to deliver the packetized programming including the at least one control signal to the user module; and (d) a scaling control that enables a user to vary the one or more operating parameters of the exercise device, the scaling control provides a value representative of a proportional change to be made to the at least one control signal received by the user module to change the one or more operating parameters of the exercise device.