Patent ID: 6902513

Claim:
A system for interactive fitness comprising: a server; a plurality of geographically-separated fitness equipment configured for communication with the server via a wide-area network, each of the fitness equipment comprising: at least one operating component; logic configured to obtain first performance parameters from the at least one operating component; logic configured to communicate the first performance parameters to a remote fitness equipment via the wide-area network and the server; logic configured to receive second performance parameters communicated from at least one remote fitness equipment; a communication interface through which data may be communicated to and from the fitness equipment; a display associated with the fitness equipment; and logic configured to drive the display in response to both the first and second performance parameters, such that a performance comparison between the fitness equipment and at least one remote fitness equipment is visually displayed; and a computer program executed by the server to configure the server for coordinating the communication among the plurality of fitness equipment, such that a plurality of the geographically-separated fitness equipment may simulate interactive exercise events.