Lighted pace feature in a treadmill
A treadmill includes an exercise deck. The exercise deck includes a platform, a first pulley attached to the platform in a front portion, a second pulley attached to the platform in a second portion, a tread belt surrounding the first pulley and the second pulley, and a pacing mechanism incorporated into the platform.
1. A treadmill, comprising:
an exercise deck, the exercise deck including:
a platform;
a first pulley attached to the platform in a front portion;
a second pulley attached to the platform in a rear portion;
a tread belt surrounding the first pulley and the second pulley; and
a pacing mechanism incorporated into the platform, wherein the pacing mechanism includes multiple lights that illuminate sequentially.
2. The treadmill of claim 1 , wherein the multiple lights are distributed along a length of the platform.
3. The treadmill of claim 1 , wherein the pacing mechanism includes a first set of multiple lights and a second set of multiple lights.
4. The treadmill of claim 3 , wherein the first set of multiple lights and second set of multiple lights are set to temporarily illuminate during a predetermined duration of time at a frequency based at least in part on a speed of the tread belt.
5. The treadmill of claim 1 , wherein a pace of the pacing mechanism is based on at least in part on a speed of the treadmill.
6. The treadmill of claim 1 , further including:
a console; and
memory and a processor, the memory including programmed instructions, when executed, that cause the processor to selectively illuminate one of multiple lights based on a pace.
7. The treadmill of claim 6 , wherein the programmed instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to receive a pace input from a user.
8. The treadmill of claim 6 , wherein the programmed instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to execute a programmed exercise routine where the programmed exercise routine contains the pace.
9. The treadmill of claim 1 , wherein the pacing mechanism further includes:
a first portion on a first side of the platform between the front portion and the rear portion; and
a second portion on a second side of the platform between the front portion and the rear portion.
10. The treadmill of claim 9 , wherein the first portion includes:
a first subset of multiple lights distributed along a length of the platform that illuminate sequentially based on a pace; and
a second subset of the multiple lights distributed along the length of the platform that illuminate sequentially based on the pace.
11. The treadmill of claim 10 , wherein the first subset of the multiple lights illuminate sequentially based at least in part on a speed and a movement that a user's first foot has to travel to maintain the pace; and wherein the second subset of the multiple lights illuminate sequentially based at least in part on the speed and the movement that a user's second foot has to travel to maintain the pace.
12. A treadmill, comprising:
an exercise deck, the exercise deck including:
a platform;
a first pulley attached to the platform in a front portion;
a second pulley attached to the platform in a rear portion;
a tread belt surrounding the first pulley and the second pulley; and
multiple lights distributed along a length of the platform.
13. The treadmill of claim 12 , wherein the multiple lights illuminate sequentially based at least in part on a speed of the tread belt.
14. The treadmill of claim 12 , further including:
a console; and
memory and a processor, the memory including programmed instructions, when executed, that cause the processor to selectively illuminate one of multiple lights based on a pace.
15. The treadmill of claim 14 , wherein the programmed instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to receive a pace input from a user.
16. The treadmill of claim 14 , wherein the programmed instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to execute a programmed exercise routine where the programmed exercise routine contains the pace.
17. The treadmill of claim 12 , wherein the multiple lights further includes:
a first portion on a first side of the platform between the front portion and the rear portion; and
a second portion on a second side of the platform between the front portion and the rear portion.
18. The treadmill of claim 17 , wherein the first portion includes:
a first subset of multiple lights distributed along the length of the platform that illuminate sequentially based on a pace; and
a second subset of the multiple lights distributed along the length of the platform that illuminate sequentially based on the pace.
19. The treadmill of claim 18 , wherein the first subset of the multiple lights illuminate sequentially based at least in part on a speed and a movement that a user's first foot has to travel to maintain the pace; and wherein the second subset of the multiple lights illuminate sequentially based at least in part on the speed and the movement that a user's second foot has to travel to maintain the pace.
20. A treadmill, comprising:
an exercise deck, the exercise deck including:
a platform;
a first pulley attached to the platform in a front portion;
a second pulley attached to the platform in a rear portion;
a tread belt surrounding the first pulley and the second pulley;
a pacing mechanism incorporated into the platform;
the pacing mechanism includes multiple lights distributed along a length of the platform that illuminate sequentially based at least in part on a speed of the tread belt;
a first portion on a first side of the platform between the front portion and the rear portion where a first subset of multiple lights are distributed along the length of the platform that illuminate sequentially based at least in part on the speed of the tread belt; and
a second portion on a second side of the platform between the front portion and the rear portion where a second subset of the multiple lights distributed along the length of the platform that illuminate sequentially based at least in part on the speed of the tread belt.