Bend App for Mobility & Flexibility

Consistent balance, mobility and stability work are a largely missed opportunity for many. Does that include you?

Just look at that advert for the Bend App for mobility & flexibility though.

Seriously?

With the aid of a highly motivated team of goats and a well rigged pulley system, I might just be able to achieve the Day 1 stage. Only once mind you. I would never be able to repeat it, no matter how good my surgeons were.

Day 60? 

Only if my bones were first replaced by silly string. 

However, a dedicated balance, mobility and stability practice should be a key part of your overall exercise programme. 

Just as much as any other developmental, progressive exercise, there is no need for competition. I could practice daily for 15 years (I have) and never get anywhere near the Day 1 in that advert. 

Yet regular balance, mobility and stability work makes the difference between:

⛹‍ Moving well vs moving around pain

🏌‍♂️ Exercising consistently vs incurring more frequent injuries 

🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Retaining joint mobility vs losing degrees of motion

🏊‍♀️ Training for today vs training for the next 10-20-30 years

Also, together with power, balance and stability is a key skill to build to reduce the risk of slips, trips and falls of the kind that may just be annoying, or may result in a broken wrist, or worse, like a hip fracture. 

Balance is a skill, something to build & retain so you have it when you really need it.

Benefits of Balance, Mobility & Stability training:

🧠 Improves neurological coordination

📈 Increases confidence in movement

🏋‍♂️ Improves posture

It is also as simple as 5-10 minutes, daily or 3-4 times per week. Despite that ludicrous advert, the Bend app is genuinely great at providing guided routines.

You can also just perform things like single-leg balances, eyes-closed single leg balances, Yoga Warrior poses, and use kit like Bosu Balls, Single Foot Balance Boards and Balance Surfers.

Linking to some of my favourite tools and practices in the comments. 

Share yours? I'll give it a go . . . so long as it is not like the one in the picture!

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