Any of you use or need an ACES system? This equipment has been in
storage for 8 1/2 years (used for only first 6 months of purchase as
our fitness lab closed down). Email me back at barrymail1-
coach@... if you are interested.

Thanks,

Barry
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FROM ACES WEBSITE:

The revolutionary Ariel Computerized Exercise System (ACES), with a
retail price of $25,000 heralds a new era in physical conditioning,
executive fitness, sports training, rehabilitation and research. The
Personal computer approach to the practice of resistive exercise is a
quantum change in both thinking and application. The computer puts
resistive exercises into a broad new realm of possibilities for
applications in health care, human service, athletics, fitness,
training and education.

This new generation of exercise equipment uses a state of the art
computer to monitor and produce instant feedback on the individuals'
performance. With this unique feature, ACES achieves the most
efficient and productive exercise and training program in the world
today.

ACES combines a unique set of objectives which will be quite
beneficial to you and your organization. Naturally we have the
objective to help you to achieve maximum health and fitness in the
shortest possible time, but we go one step further. For the first
time, you can now use high technology to manage and control your
exercise system.

Ariel Dynamics Inc. is a company founded by field experts in the
areas of fitness, exercise and rehabilitation. Our team of designers
and programmers have been involved in 5 existing successful
companies, written over 200 scientific papers, designed over 100
successful products, and worked with leading corporations and
agencies such as IBM, NASA, Wilson Sporting Goods, US Olympic
Committee and many more. This experience is evident in our hardware
and software. The features you will treasure are the most advanced in
the fields of rehabilitation, training and physical fitness.

In all the previous descriptions of exercise equipment, the user has
had to determine the amount of resistance and the number of
repetitions desired. The reason the user made these choices was, of
course, that the exercise equipment itself was inherently incapable
of any intellectual participation. However, with the advent of
computers, it became possible to design exercise equipment with
artificial intelligence enabling the CES to select the best exercise
method based on the individual user.

ACES possesses several unique advances over other resistive exercise
mechanisms. The most significant of these advances is the
introduction of a stored program computer which monitors and selects
the amount of force, velocity, acceleration, work, power and fatigue
assignment. These selections are made based on continuous
simultaneous measurements from the human performance.

The computer and its associated collection of unique programs allows
the feedback controlled resistance to vary not only with the measured
parameters of force velocity and displacement, but additionally, to
modify that feedback loop while the exercise is in progress. This
modification can, therefore, reflect changes in the pattern of
exercise over time. The unique program selection can effect such
changes in order to achieve a sequential or patterned progression of
resistance for the optimum training effect. The advantage of this
capability over previous systems is that the user can select the
overall pattern of exercise and the system assumes responsibility for
choosing the precise force level, speed of movement, and temporal
sequence to achieve that pattern. Hence, this is the first 5th
generation computer system where, in addition to assigning a constant
program, the computer has the intellectual capabilities to adjust and
modify its assignment to achieve excellence.

The revolutionary ACES can be used to measure and record joint and
associated muscle capabilities; diagnose and rehabilitate muscle and
joint injuries with out risk of re-injury; evaluate the results of
prescribed treatment; assist in the prevention of injury by
indicating the effects of certain physical stress; provide
conditioning, reconditioning, and strength training.

The state-of-the-art computer displays in real-time graphic analysis
of any dynamic movement under the exercise condition on the monitor.
Graphs correspond to each independently programmable system action.

Measures of:

position,
speed,
strength and
range of motion

are displayed to facilitate precise evaluation and diagnosis. Data
can be quantified against previous data or against established
normative values.

These unique characteristics can be used in: rehabilitation,
fitness,
conditioning,
testing evaluation,
diagnostics and
research.

http://www.sportsci.com/adi2001/adi/products/aces/description.asp