objectives of self awareness and exercising at appropriate levels through a unique combination of verbal queues motivation entertainment participation and achievement monitoring thus an individual can increase his or her level of fitness by controlling their perceived level of exertion and performance of their heart during exercise through guidance and monitoring control for stationary exercise devices includes speed difficulty and incline while levels of exertion are contemplated as an individual 39 s ability to exercise at certain percentages of their maximum effort provision is also made for transferring responsibility of controlling the exercise equipment and determining the level of exertion from an instructor to the person or group participating in the exercise thus there is incorporated into the system and method active participant involvement including ideas and suggestions in the form of guidance motivation entertainment participation and monitoring of achievement application_number US 81943501 A description now turning to the drawing fig1 is seen to be a schematic view illustrating the principal components of the system there it will be seen are an element 10 titled u201c programming u201d by programming is meant the algorithm underlying the sequence of actions that occur in conducting an exercise program in accordance with the invention this sequence of actions may be communicated to participants 11 by any audio visual means well known in the arts such as through an internet access a compact disk player an mp3 player and the like.