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The present invention provides a computerized exercise system and method allowing exercising in both a gravity field and a gravity free environment. The exercise system includes one or more exercise modules positioned at specific locations and coupled to an exercise member through an extendable cabl

The present invention provides a computerized exercise system and method allowing exercising in both a gravity field and a gravity free environment. The exercise system includes one or more exercise modules positioned at specific locations and coupled to an exercise member through an extendable cable extending between each exercise module and one or more exercise members. A controlling structure controls tension forces in each of the cables for generating desired resistive forces in the exercise member at each point of its trajectory, simultaneously moving through a trajectory, defined by exercise parameters. When a user performs an exercise routine, he/she moves the exercise member and overcomes the resistive forces elevated by the exercise modules through the controlled tension forces in each cable.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A computerized exercise system, comprising:an exercise member,a reference base,at least one exercise module removably attached to said reference base,a reversibly displaceable cable means extending at one end thereof from said at least one exercise module and coupled at

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. A computerized exercise system, comprising:an exercise member,a reference base,at least one exercise module removably attached to said reference base,a reversibly displaceable cable means extending at one end thereof from said at least one exercise module and coupled at another end thereof to said exercise member,a displacement sensing unit within said at least one exercise module adapted to sense displacement of said cable means,force sensing means for measuring the total force applied to said cable means,a tension actuating unit within said at least one exercise module adapted to generate desired tension forces in said cable means,processor control means, including:means for monitoring said displacement sensing unit,means for monitoring said force sensing means,memory means for storing at least one exercise configuration represented by a predetermined data set of (1) resistive forces, (2) desired motion, and (3) combinations thereof, to be applied to said exercise member in correspondence to position parameters and to measured total forces on said exercise member,means for comparing, in real time, said monitored displacement of said cable means, said predetermined position parameters of said exercise member and said force values measured by said force sensors to determine the resistive forces thereof to be applied to said exercise member by said tension actuating unit, andtension planner means for translating said resistive forces into said desired tension forces to be exerted in said cable means by said tension actuating unit, thereby creating desired resistive forces at said exercise member at each position thereof in correspondence with said at least one exercise configuration.