Bend is the simplest way to practice stretching exercises at home to improve flexibility, recover mobility, and relieve back, neck, shoulder and hip pain. With easy-to-follow stretching and yoga poses, you’ll be able to instantly start a daily stretching routine and stick to it, even as a beginner.
START STRETCHING BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
Simple daily stretches can bring tremendous health improvements that last. They include both physical and mental benefits, such as:
⊕ More flexible muscles and joints
⊕ Less physical pain in the upper and lower back, neck, hips and shoulders
⊕ Higher energy levels throughout the day
⊕ Better sleep at night
⊕ Faster process of waking up in the morning
⊕ Correction of bad body posture
⊕ Reduced risks of injury during outdoor activities or sports
⊕ And more!
DIFFERENT GOALS, DIFFERENT ROUTINES
Bend offers custom stretching routines tailored to your specific needs. They include:
※ “Wake Up” routine:
Designed to maintain your body’s natural mobility and range of motion. Simple, quick, convenient, and effective, you can do it anytime, anywhere, everyday.
※ “Posture Reset” routine:
Specifically designed to improve your posture with seated stretches that can correct habitual posture problems by increasing flexibility in the shoulders, back, and neck.
※ “Full Body” routine:
Focused on improving overall flexibility, with more than 20 stretching exercises and poses that target key muscles and joints throughout your entire body.
※ “Sleep” routine:
Gentle, long-hold stretches designed to help you unwind and de-stress after a long day at work through better quality of sleep, which is made possible by relieving muscle tension and relaxing the body.
※ “Expert” routine:
Advance group of stretching exercises and yoga poses that cover all major muscle groups and extremities. Flexibility and range of motion can be improved significantly with their more complex movements.
※ You can even make your own custom routines to make them fit your body condition and needs!
EASE OF USE
Bend is intended to be simple, easy to use and quick to learn. All it takes is 3 steps to get more flexible today:
1. Download Bend
2. Open up and choose a benefit you want to receive, such as “Sleep”
3. Start the routine and simply follow the instructions
With custom, minimalistic illustrations and a timer, you’ll always know when it’s time to switch sides or go to the next stretch with Bend. Additionally, you can easily track progress and build up a streak as extra motivation to stretch everyday.
Apple Health: Bend integrates with the Health app, giving users the option to sync their health information and activity with Apple Health.
FEEDBACK & SUPPORT
⊕ If you like Bend, don’t hesitate to rate us on the App Store!
⊕ If you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions, feel free to contact us at hello@bend.com!
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Terms of Use: https://bend.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://bend.com/privacy
I was having a really hard time staying motivated to stretch every day to get my splits, and my dance teacher recommended this app to me. It’s awesome because it really motivates you to stretch. It has a daily streak, and to keep up the streak, you have to do stretching every day, which is motivating. Plus the app is just motivating in general because it’s really fun to use. It’s really cool how you can tell it what specific areas you need to work on and what your focus is and it creates a whole entire custom routine for you. it has little timers for the routine, and after each stretch or when it’s time to move to the other side for that stretch, it plays a beeping noise and tells you on the screen, so it’s easy to tell when to move onto the next one. And you can share your routines to friends and try out each other’s routines! Plus, it shows you how to do each stretch with a person demonstrating the stretch as well as written directions underneath. This app is amazing, it helps me stretch every day!!
more updates and new features plz
colleenscott
still loving this app after a while but it gets repetitive sometimes and there are things that i feel like could be improved. i guess one of them is when you skip an exercise, it goes straight into it without a countdown—i need a couple seconds after pressing skip to get into the stretch. most importantly, just need more stretches and exercises (and whatever else they’re called—movements, etc) to pick from, please please please!!! even switching the kind of routine, the exercises are the same and im getting unmotivated because its becoming less fun and exciting. they dont have to be advanced or even established, just more! examples: headstand(that is advanced but just as an example), childs pose but with arms in the other direction like facing down, inch worms where you walk your arms out and then back up. Another thing that would be great is having more mobility sequences; you already have some good mobility exercises but maybe add some more —if you look up “mobility sequences,” there are many moves and they aren’t necessarily harder but there can be more advanced ones as well as easier ones. keep adding new things pleaseeeeeee.
Helpful but needs a few more things
milkipedia
This app has helped me to slowly add/regain flexibility. It's probably helping me to manage pain too but that's harder to assess. I appreciate the picture guides, and the beeps are helpful as I move through the routines I know. As a busy person with young kids, the streak feature isn't so helpful for me. Life happens, and the all-or-nothing nature of streaks is that when they're broken, you return to zero. I would much rather set a goal like "stretch 25 out of 30 days". This is the biggest issue with the app for me. Streak nagging is why I quit Duolingo and I don't want this app to turn into that. Other wants: some kind of beep when the transition timer is done would be nice. Information about adjustments for stretches I can't do would be really helpful.i said I was a beginner, and some of the stuff still requires a higher degree of flexibility and fitness than I have right now. I've had to figure those out on my own. Dark mode would be a nice touch as well. And finally... pausing a routine shouldn't zero out the transition timer between stretches. Give me those seconds back!
Has the potential to be great
Lrain92
This app, like many of the fitness/body wellness apps, has a solid foundation of having different programs that meet different needs — targeting certain body areas, time frames, etc., but there’s no guidance.For example, when you set up the app, it asks you a variety of questions to learn about you. But it doesn’t really structure a program tailored to you, where you currently are at in your wellness journey, or your needs. You click beginner, but in all of the programs you have five seconds to transition into the next pose/stretch with no auditory or visual guidance as to how to properly do that. It’ll give you five seconds to go from a back bending pose to a lunge pose. That doesn’t make sense nor is it healthy. They have a little button you can click on to read how to properly do a pose but you’d have to stop the timer so you can read without wasting the time you’re given to do the pose. That’s not effective, and one of the reasons I wouldn’t pay for this app. For beginners, and all levels really, it’s more efficient to be guided in a visual and auditory manner. That makes it more inclusive, mindful, effective and unique.
