Review of Technogym MyRun Treadmill

Vincenzo Belpiede
StellarTalents
Published in
2 min readMar 4, 2016

After a lot of convincing, I managed to get my father into buying a Treadmill at home so that he can stay fit, feel better and live longer! I argued that he should invest in his health with the same mindset he has when buying a car, a TV, a smartphone, a sofa…etc

GOOD

  • Design: beautiful, small footprint at home
  • Running experience: amazing, I ran up to 15km/h (max supported is 20km/h) and the experience was just exceptional

BAD

  • Experience in pairing the app via bluetooth was unclear / not easy (and I’m a geek) (still not sure if you turn on MyRun bluetooth by long pressing the start button, if yes that’s really not easy to discover nor it was written on the printed how to guide
  • I had the Forma app installed as well and after signing up on the MyRun app it would open the forma app and ask for login again plus it wouldn’t even let me pair the Forma app with the MyRun treadmill

IDEAS

  • Easily allow to switch among different accounts on the MyRun iPad app
  • Support iPhone as well in the MyRun app
  • App should have reminders to run everyday, should be more social (so that I can compete with my friends and family)
  • Apps should allow me to run also in the street (This might actually already be supported)
  • Allow me to pair my Apple Watch as heartrate monitor

General Ideas for Technogym

  • Make an (affordable ;) walking desk

Here is a quick video I took!

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Vincenzo Belpiede
StellarTalents

🇮🇹Italian 🇺🇸American — Tech Entrepreneur passionate about SaaS & remote tech talent — Lived in 9 countries 3 continents— California / Europe @stellartalents