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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

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.

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In an exercise apparatus having a moving surface for running or walking, a motor for driving the moving surface, and means for varying the motor speed; a control and display system comprising: user-operated command means for selecting desired motor speeds; an electronic processor for storing the com

In an exercise apparatus having a moving surface for running or walking, a motor for driving the moving surface, and means for varying the motor speed; a control and display system comprising: user-operated command means for selecting desired motor speeds; an electronic processor for storing the commands and causing them to control the motor-speed-varying means; sensor/feedback means for conveying to the electronic processor information as to the distance represented by the motion of the moving surface; a visual display including: (a) a closed course, the length of which represents a given distance; and (b) a position-indicating means which travels along the course repeatedly; and means under the control of the electronic processor for causing the position-indicating means to travel continuously and repetitiously along the course as a function of the distance represented by the motion of the moving surface, in order to pictorally inform the user as to the distance covered.