The idea for PumpOne

...was inspired during a training session between PumpOne creators Craig and Declan. Declan was devising a workout Craig could do on an upcoming vacation. As he illustrated his exercise descriptions and safety tips with stick figure drawings, it occurred to Craig that there had to be a better way. After all, exercise is difficult enough without the added challenge of carrying around flimsy magazine clippings of exercises, stick figure drawings, or workout books. The idea for PumpOne was born.

Craig Schlossberg

A serial entrepreneur at heart and with a gift for identifying and meeting industry and consumer needs with unique technology solutions, Craig has launched several successful companies over his career.  He is an expert in creating award winning business applications using his expertise in audio and visual technologies in particular for multi industry solutions based on digital imaging.

Craig Schlossberg’s inspiration for co-founding PumpOne in 2005 was to make the concept of affordable personal fitness trainers for the masses a reality by radically changing the way exercise and fitness content is distributed to consumers.   Craig seized the immediate opportunity to bring together today's technology with the need for personal fitness training by shifting the paradigm of audio fitness trainers to visual workouts using his digital imaging, editing and interface design expertise.

Craig also co-founded Mosaic Legends, LLC during 2005, bringing the spectacular digital art form of photomosaics to music and sports memorabilia collectors. Mosaic Legends is the exclusive licensee permitted to create and distribute photomosaics, which uses technology under patent by Runaway Technologies. Photomosaics are a collection of hundreds or thousands of digital images brought together to recreate a single, large target image. Mosaic Legends creates the likeness of legendary musical artists, bands, athletes and sports teams as hand-signed limited edition prints available through a limited-distribution collectibles network.

Craig co-founded Image Info, Inc. in 1994 providing a suite of integrated business to business solutions for the retail industry.  Image Info revolutionized the fashion world with digital imaging software that automates the creation of sales tools, catalogs and front-end reporting which resulted in setting the standard in that industry for database publishing. Image Info also pioneered digital imaging by digitally shooting, editing, cataloging and distributing hundreds of thousands of images ranging from fashion shows to e-commerce web stores.  Image Info received Deloitte & Touche's Fast 50 award in 1998 and was acquired by QRS in 2000.

Declan Condron, MS, CSCS, USAW

Declan is PumpOne's exercise physiologist and has been in the fitness industry for over 10 years. He has worked as a Strength and Conditioning Coach, Physical Education Instructor and Personal Trainer. As an elite personal trainer at an exclusive New York City gym, Declan has held the positions of Personal Training Manager, Fitness Manager and Personal Trainer.

As co-founder and fitness expert for PumpOne, the only portable personal training program for color image-ready handheld devices like the iPod, Treo and others, Declan designed all the digital trainer workouts for consumers for varying fitness levels and goals.

Declan holds a M.S. and B.S. degree in Exercise Physiology from Southern Connecticut State University and Hofstra University respectively. He completed his internship for his B.S. degree in Cardiac Rehabilitation at a Long Island Hospital. He completed his internship for his M.S. degree in Sports Strength and Conditioning at Yale University. During these times, Declan has worked with everyone from post rehabilitation cardiac patients to professional athletes. Declan is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), as well as a Certified Olympic Weightlifting Coach through the United States Weightlifting Association (USAW).

Declan was also a collegiate scholarship soccer player at both universities. While at SCSU, he was a member of the 1999 National Championship team. He has also been a youth soccer coach for many years.

Always looking for ways to make personal training more accessible to everyone, Declan saw the advantages that PumpOne offered. As a trainer, he continually saw people exercising incorrectly and inefficiently. People would bring books, workout logs or magazine cut-outs to the gym and try to follow along, but were also bringing their iPods. So in combining the exercise imagery with everyday technology, PumpOne is able to offer Declan's personal training expertise in convenient customizable workout programs on today’s hottest gym accessory.

As a fitness professional himself, Declan was completely in tune with the income limitations of personal trainers. By performing enormous market research on the needs of his peers and their clients, he designed the foundation for the youPump platform that is considered by many to be “the future of personal fitness.”