Bend: Stretching & Flexibility

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!!

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.

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!