Physical exercise apparatus having motivational display

摘要

A running/walking machine, or treadmill, is disclosed which has an automatically controlled speed-varying electric motor and an automatically controlled elevation-varying electric motor. The commands are entered in a display panel having a microprocessor which communicates with the motor controlling circuitry. The display panel has feedback information in a pictorial display, controlled by the microprocessor, in which an oval track simulating a running track displays both the current position of the user in moving around the track and the percentage of completion of a pre-established goal. The track has a multiplicity of segments, each represented by an LED, and each constituting a given fraction of the distance represented by the complete track. A lighted LED, which changes as the user progresses, indicates the current position of the user; and a string of LEDs behind the LED indicates the portion of the total program which has been completed. At completion of the program all the LEDs in the track are turned on.