An exercise system may include an exercise device, which may be configured to facilitate personal exercise and quantification thereof. An associated apparatus is also provided. A provisioning determining unit 23 changes the resource allocation amounts of the active virtual machine 41 and the standby virtual machine 42, allocates a sufficient amount of resources to the standby virtual machine 42, registers the standby virtual machine 42 as a target of load balancing in a load balancer 11, and executes provisioning. The storage device is equipped with a plurality of buckets in which nuts of different kinds are stored, and a feed screw mechanism for moving one bucket selected from the plurality of buckets to a position near the take-out base.