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Exercise disclaimer (version 2026.2)
TellMeToMove — Health and Safety This page is in force for the testing period and is under review by our attorney; its wording may change. If it does, the app will ask you to read and accept it again. TellMeToMove sends you short exercises through the day and walks you through them. Moving more is good for most people, but any physical activity carries some risk of strain, injury or worse. Please read this page before you start. The app asks you to accept it before it sends you your first exercise. 1. We are not your doctor TellMeToMove is an exercise-reminder app. It is not a medical service. Nothing in it — no exercise, video, label, spoken cue, program or message — is medical advice, a diagnosis, a treatment plan or a rehabilitation program, and none of it replaces the judgment of a doctor, physical therapist or other qualified health professional who knows you. Talk to a health professional before you begin, and especially if any of these apply to you: you are pregnant or recently gave birth; you have a heart, lung or blood-pressure condition; you have had a recent injury or surgery; you have joint, back or balance problems; you take medication that affects your heart rate, balance or alertness; you have ever been told to limit your activity; or you have not exercised regularly in a long time. If you choose not to ask a professional, that is your decision, and you take on the risk that comes with it. Never ignore or delay medical advice because of something you saw or heard in TellMeToMove. 2. Every body is different No one — not us, not the person who created an exercise, and not a professional watching a video of it — can say for certain how a particular exercise will affect you. That depends on things only you are in a position to judge: your medical history, your current fitness, old injuries, how rested you are that day, where you are, and above all how you actually perform the movement and how hard you push. The same exercise can be easy for one person and harmful for another, or fine for you on one day and not the next. 3. What an exercise's labels can and cannot tell you Each exercise in TellMeToMove carries descriptive labels: the body regions it impacts (for example Shoulders, Hips & lower back, Neck), its characteristics (for example Seated, Highly dynamic, Weights required, Starting-from-zero gentle), a difficulty level, and, where the creator added them, cautions, easier and harder variations, and notes. These labels are the honest best judgment of the person who created the exercise. They are general guides, and they will never be completely accurate or complete for every person: • An exercise can stress a part of your body that is not listed as impacted. An exercise's page names every body region it involves and marks those on which it has a major impact; the regions it involves without a major impact are shown as well, so that you can judge them for yourself. • A difficulty level is relative. A "3" can be hard for you. • A missing caution is not a statement that there is nothing to be careful of. • A demonstration video shows one person doing the exercise one way. Your body, range of motion and form will differ. Treat the labels as a starting point for your own judgment, never as a guarantee that an exercise is safe for you. 4. Exercises and programs written by other members Many exercises and programs in TellMeToMove are written by other members. Before an exercise becomes public we review it for whether it belongs in the library — that it is appropriate, clearly described and correctly labelled as far as we can tell. That review is not a medical or professional safety assessment, and we do not certify any exercise as safe for anyone in particular. The same applies to programs, to exercises shared privately between members, and to anything a program owner or another member tells you in a message. 5. How an exercise is chosen for you When a program's reminder fires, the app draws an exercise automatically. It is a weighted random draw from that program's pool, shaped by the choices you have made (described in section 6) and by how recently you did each exercise. The choice is mechanical. It is not a recommendation that the exercise is right for you, and no person has reviewed it against your health before it arrives. Your settings work through the labels, and the app chooses exercises by the body regions marked as having a major impact. For example, marking Hips & lower back as Avoid keeps away every exercise labelled as having a major impact on that region — but it cannot keep away an exercise that affects your lower back and was not labelled that way, or one whose creator judged that impact minor. That is one more reason to look at each exercise before you do it. 6. You decide, every time Nothing in TellMeToMove requires you to do any exercise. You have control over the following features, and we encourage you to use them freely: • Practice (on a reminder) and Practice this (on an exercise's page) rehearse the whole session (the same video, steps, rests and spoken cues) — without accruing any active exercise time toward your weekly goal. Use it to see what an exercise asks of you before deciding whether to do it for real. • Choose another swaps the exercise for a different one before you start. • Skip declines the exercise. There is no penalty. • Never send me this (in an exercise's options) stops that exercise from ever being sent to you again. Send this more often does the opposite. • Avoid, Prefer and Require let you steer each program by body region and characteristic. For a body region, Avoid keeps away exercises with a major impact on that region; Prefer sends them more often; Require sends only exercises with a major impact on that region. For a characteristic, the label itself is what counts. • Snooze, do-not-disturb, your available times and blockout periods let you control when reminders reach you at all. • You can stop partway through any exercise, at any moment, for any reason. These controls are there for exactly the reasons on this page: you know your body, and the app does not. A weekly goal is a target you set for yourself, not an obligation, and nothing in the app is worth pushing through pain for. 7. Doing an exercise safely • Only respond to a reminder when it is safe to. Reminders arrive at scheduled times, wherever you happen to be. Never start an exercise while driving, cycling, operating machinery, crossing a road, holding a child, or anywhere that moving suddenly or looking at your screen could hurt you or someone else. Skip or snooze instead. • Clear enough space around you. Check your footing and the floor surface. Use a stable chair that will not roll or tip for seated exercises. • Check any equipment the exercise calls for (weights, bands, a mat) is in good condition and suited to you. • Work within a range of motion that feels comfortable. You choose the intensity — doing a movement smaller, slower or for less time is always acceptable. • Stop immediately if you feel pain, chest pain or pressure, unusual shortness of breath, dizziness or faintness, numbness or tingling, nausea, or anything that feels wrong. Seek medical help if it does not pass quickly. In an emergency, call your local emergency number (911 in the United States). 8. Your responsibility, and ours By accepting this page you confirm that: • you have thought about whether exercise is suitable for you, and have either consulted a health professional or chosen not to; • you will decide for yourself whether to do each exercise, and how and how hard to do it; and • you understand that exercise can cause injury, and that the way you perform an exercise and the intensity you choose can cause injury even when the exercise itself is suitable. You accept that risk. To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for injury, illness or other harm that results from how you perform an exercise, from the intensity you choose, or from doing an exercise that was unsuitable for you. Some places do not allow a business to limit its responsibility for its own negligence or for certain other harm. Nothing on this page takes away any right the law says you cannot give up. Our Terms of Use set out the rest of our agreement with you, including the limits on our liability. 9. Members aged 16 and 17 TellMeToMove is not for children under 16. If you are 16 or 17, use TellMeToMove only with the knowledge and permission of a parent or guardian, and ask them to read this page with you. A parent or guardian who allows a minor to use the app accepts this page on the minor's behalf. 10. Questions If you have a question about this page, send us a message from the app (Account → Message the admin) or email [email protected].