Coordinating workouts across remote exercise machines

Abstract

A method includes receiving, with a processor in communication with a first exercise machine, a first request for an exercise class, the first request being provided by a first user of the first exercise machine. The method also includes providing a video file associated with the exercise class to the first exercise machine, providing a notification to a second user indicating that the first user has chosen to participate in the exercise class, and receiving a second request for the exercise class provided by the second user. The method further includes providing the video file to a second exercise machine of the second user via the network. In such a method, display of the video file via a display of the second exercise machine is synchronized with display of the video file via a display of the first exercise machine.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method, comprising:
 receiving, with a processor in communication with a first exercise machine, a first request for an exercise class, the first request being provided by a first user of the first exercise machine;   providing a video file comprising audio content and video content associated with the exercise class to the first exercise machine, and via a network;   providing a notification to a second user via the network, the notification indicating that the first user has chosen to participate in the exercise class;   receiving, with the processor and via the network, a second request for the exercise class, the second request being provided by the second user; and   based at least partly on the second request, providing the video file to a second exercise machine of the second user via the network, wherein display of the video file via a display of the second exercise machine is synchronized with display of the video file via a display of the first exercise machine.