Health Disclaimer

01What the app does not do

Trainic is not a medical device. It has not been reviewed or approved by any health authority and it has no way of assessing your state of health.

It does not diagnose. It does not treat anything. It does not prevent any disease. It does not stand in for a doctor, a dietitian or a coach who can actually see you and knows your history.

Nothing in the app is medical advice. Do not make decisions about your health based on it alone and, above all, do not stop or change a treatment because of something you read or saw in Trainic. Talk to the doctor who prescribed it first.

02Where the numbers come from

So you know how much weight to give them, here is exactly how they are worked out:

• Daily calories - the Mifflin-St Jeor formula, a general equation that estimates how much energy you burn at rest based on your age, sex, height and weight. The result is multiplied by an activity factor and then adjusted by a percentage according to your goal.
• Macronutrients - protein is calculated in grams per kilogram of body weight, fat as a percentage of calories, and carbohydrates are whatever is left.
• Recovery score and streaks - simple, fixed calculations run on the data you type in. They measure nothing about your body; they just rearrange what you wrote.

All of these are statistical averages, worked out for the general population. Your body may be different, sometimes very different. Two people of the same age, weight and height can have completely different needs, for reasons no formula can know about: genetics, medication, thyroid, sleep, stress, a history of dieting.

03Photo estimates are approximations

Estimating food from a photo and estimating body measurements from a photo are both done by an artificial intelligence model. They are approximations, not measurements.

The model can get the portion wrong, get the ingredients wrong, or get it entirely wrong. It cannot know how much oil went into the pan, what the sauce is made of, or what is hidden underneath. The same limits apply to measurements estimated from a picture.

Use them as a starting point, so you do not have to type everything by hand. Do not treat them as the truth.

04When to talk to a doctor first

Before you start a training programme or change the way you eat, ask a doctor. It matters even more if:

• you have a medical condition - heart, blood pressure, diabetes, thyroid, kidneys, liver, joint problems or anything else chronic;
• you take medication of any kind;
• you are pregnant or breastfeeding;
• you have ever had an eating disorder, or you feel your relationship with food and calorie counting is not a healthy one;
• you are under 18;
• you are over 65, or you have not exercised in a long time;
• you have recently been injured or had surgery.

This is not a box-ticking formality. An app cannot run your blood work, cannot listen to your heart and cannot read your medical file.

05Intermittent fasting and cutting calories

The app has a section about intermittent fasting. It is purely informational: it explains what it is, it does not prescribe it and it does not recommend that you do it.

Intermittent fasting and calorie restriction are not right for everyone. They can be genuinely dangerous if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, if you have diabetes or take medication that affects your blood sugar, if you have had an eating disorder, if you are still growing, or if your weight is already low.

One more thing: do not slash your calories because you want faster results. Too big a deficit brings muscle loss, exhaustion, hormonal problems and, most of the time, the weight straight back on. Here, slower means safer.

06Signs that mean stop

Stop training or dieting and get medical help if any of these show up:

• pain, pressure or tightness in your chest;
• shortness of breath far beyond what the effort would justify;
• dizziness, fainting or the feeling that you are about to pass out;
• an irregular or very fast heartbeat;
• sharp pain in a joint or a muscle, or pain that does not go away in a few days;
• extreme tiredness that rest does not fix;
• losing weight faster than you intended, or losing weight you cannot explain;
• for women, your period stopping;
• obsessive thoughts about food, calories or the way your body looks.

That last point is every bit as serious as the first. If calorie counting starts doing you harm, stop counting and talk to someone - a doctor, a psychologist, or at the very least someone close to you.

07In an emergency

08You decide, you are responsible

Using the app is your choice and it is at your own risk. You decide how you train and what you eat. We give you a tracking tool, not a prescription.

We are not liable for injuries, health problems or other consequences arising from using the app or from following the information in it. See also the Terms of Use, of which this disclaimer forms part.