Three more apps related to individual exercises are to be added to the portfolio of Gschwandtner’s company Foxyfitness before the end of this year. It includes a training plan, different levels, a leaderboard that you can use to compete with others, and various social functions. It should, says Gschwandtner in the self-confident superlative, be the “best push-up app in the world“. He has just reported back as a solo and sidepreneur: the first product called “100 Push-Ups Push-Up Coach”. How Runtastic founder Florian Gschwandtner also wants to be successful as a solopreneurĮx-frontman Gschwandtner, who is now an investor and founder of the coaching startup Leaders21, still believes in the success of sports apps. In terms of training in particular, it has become clear that users can offer users greater added value if Runtastic enters into partnerships with other fitness platforms. The corona pandemic has had a strong impact on the demand for training and fitness apps in recent years. Cooperation instead of own fitness appsĪccording to Runtastic CEO Dunlap, the previously existing “Trainings App”, which offers workout plans, will be discontinued in the coming months. However, it has long had the Adidas logo.

According to the Austrian company, the company will focus solely on the “Running App” in the future. Runtastic was founded in 2009 by Florian Gschwandtner, Christian Kaar, René Giretzlehner and Alfred Luger and has enjoyed great success with its sports apps. According to Linkedin posts, the restructuring affects people in all departments. Company boss Scott Dunlap, who was appointed in 2019 as the successor to co-founder and CEO Florian Gschwandtner, is now further cutting Runtastic: At the Pasching site near Linz, 70 of the 250 employees will be cut in the coming months. Eight years later, there is not much left of the startup – and soon there is almost nothing left. The Runtastic founders celebrated a great success in 2015 with the takeover by the sports group Adidas. picture alliance / HARALD SCHNEIDER / APA / | HARALD SCHNEIDER Old and new: Runtastic became Adidas Running in 2019, now the brand is almost completely gone.

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