Proform Fitness Products, Inc.

Icon Health & Fitness, Inc.

Donald J Standing

William T Dalebout

Scott R Watterson

Dane P Brewer

David R Rowley

Lee Robertson

A control console for exercise machines such as treadmills having a microprocessor to generate signals to control the exercise. The console is operable to control an exercise program comprising a series of time segments for which the difficulty levels are individually specified, and to provide a display of the program time segments. The console is further operable to display and store user-designed programs of the type described. Optionally, the console is operable to control two difficulty parameters of an exercise machine. The console may also include preset programs selectable by a user. The preset programs may include a fitness test comprising a series of exercise time segments of increasing difficulty, in which a user's fitness level is based on the user's inability to continue exercising beyond a particular time segment.

User-programmable computerized console for exercise machines

A rowing apparatus having an elongate frame, a seat mounted for slidable displacement along that frame and a handle/cable arrangement fixedly mounted to an axle journaled in the frame. The cable being wrapped about a reel mounted on that axle causes a rotation of that axle in a first direction upon a given displacement. The axle is likewise fitted with a spring which is tensioned upon the axle's rotation in a first direction. Upon the storage of sufficeint energy in that spring, the spring effects a counter rotation of the axle to return the cable and its associated handle to its rest position. The axle is fitted with a flywheel, and a means adapted for applying a frictional drag force thereto. The drag means is adapted for controlling the resistance of the handle to displacement outwardly from the frame and further, for controlling the force by which the handle is urged restoringly back to its rest position.

Rowing apparatus

A control console for exercise machines such as treadmills and stationary cycles having a microprocessor to generate signals to control the exercise and to regulate the heart rate of the user by varying the resistance to the exercise.

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Logan, UT, United States of America

Donald J Standing