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The guides are general information, not advice about you. We are not doctors. Talk to one before hard training if anything in the list below applies, stop if something feels wrong, and check your trainer is clamped before every ride.
Turbo Trainer Games publishes guides about indoor cycling, and makes browser games that are driven by how hard you pedal. This page says what that is, and what it is not.
Everything in the guides is written for a general audience. It is not advice about you, because we do not know anything about you: your health, your history, your training, your age, or what your body is doing today.
Training numbers in the guides -- percentages of FTP, interval lengths, how many sessions a week -- are starting points to be adjusted, not prescriptions to be obeyed. Where a guide suggests a session, it also says to lower the target if you cannot complete it. Please do that.
Nothing on this site is medical advice, and nobody writing it is a doctor, physiotherapist or qualified coach.
Talk to a doctor before you start, and particularly before any maximal effort such as an FTP test, if any of the following apply:
Stop immediately and seek medical help if you get chest pain or tightness, unusual breathlessness, dizziness, faintness, an irregular heartbeat, or pain that is not ordinary training discomfort.
Riding a bike indoors is strenuous. Done hard it carries real risks, including heart problems, heat illness, dehydration, muscle and joint injury, and falling off. A trainer can fail or come loose, and a bike can come out of one.
You take part at your own risk. By following anything on this site you accept that risk and agree that Turbo Trainer Games is not liable for injury, illness or loss arising from it, so far as the law allows. Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Several guides cover trainer setup. They are general guidance and they do not replace the instructions that came with your own trainer, which differ between models and which you should follow.
Check the bike is clamped properly before every session. This is the one that actually hurts people.
The guide on riding indoors with children is about keeping it short and playful. It is not a training plan and must not be used as one. Children should always be supervised, and anything resembling structured training for a young person is a question for a qualified youth coach and their GP, not for a web page.
The games are driven by your own power output, and they scale to the FTP you enter. They will encourage you to work hard, which is the point of them. The game does not know how you are feeling and cannot tell when you should stop. You can. Stop when you need to.
The games run in your browser and are provided as they are, with no promise that they are free of faults or will work on any given device.
We write the guides carefully and correct them when we find them wrong. We do not promise that everything is complete, current or correct, and sports science moves. If you spot something wrong, please tell us: <a href="mailto:info@turbotrainergames.com">info@turbotrainergames.com</a>
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This page is a plain statement of how we see it. It is not legal advice and it has not been drafted by a solicitor. If you are relying on it for anything important, have it reviewed by one.