July 18, 2025
Get started with Sword Move to get stronger from home
Feel stronger, move with confidence, and avoid future pain. Learn how Sword Move connects you to expert-designed plans that you can follow from home.
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Evidence-based healthcare insights
Sword Move was designed to help you build strength, lose weight, and prevent injury, all from the comfort of home.
Maybe your back tightens up after long hours at your desk. Maybe your knees feel stiff when you’re chasing after the kids. Or maybe you’ve just fallen out of your movement routine, and you’re not sure how to restart safely. Sword Move was built to help you tackle that pain for good and give you a simple regular movement plan to prevent future flare-ups.
Move offered a personalized a whole-body movement program created by Physical Health Specialists (who each carry a Doctor of Physical Therapy qualification). Members have 24/7 access to their personalized care plan through the Sword app and members were sent a Move wearable for real-time feedback and progress tracking. No gym equipment. No referrals needed. No stress. And all of this from the comfort of home.
Sword Move helped members build healthier habits with personalized support that made daily movement feel more doable. Today, that same approach has grown into Pulse, Sword Health’s cardiometabolic AI Care program. Pulse builds on the support model behind Move and expands it to help members with things like high blood pressure, weight management, diabetes risk, high cholesterol, and GLP-1 support.
Pulse fits around any schedule, adapts to your goals, and is offered as a health benefit by many employers and insurance plans. You might already be covered for Pulse with your existing health insurance plan. Check your coverage to see if you can access Pulse right now at $0 cost to you.
What is Sword Move?

The Sword Move program gave members the expert guidance to overcome pain and build the whole-body strength needed to prevent injury.
Members were matched with a Physical Health Specialist who considered their specific health goals, lifestyle, and movement history. Based on that, members received a personalized care plan with short, guided sessions (10 minutes or less) and daily step targets, all delivered through the Sword app.
Now, Move has evolved into Pulse, Sword Health’s cardiometabolic AI Care program. Pulse builds on the same habit-building foundation that helped Move members become more active, while expanding support to include other daily habits that affect long-term health, like nutrition, sleep, and stress. Pulse also supports members with things like high blood pressure, diabetes risk, cholesterol management, weight management, and GLP-1 support.
Benefits of using Move
For anyone trying to reduce soreness, lose weight, or prevent future injuries, Sword Move was designed to meet members on their terms are and help them move forward with consistent progress. No gym. No guesswork. No waiting. Just expert-backed movement plans accessible from home at any time of the day or night.
- Build strength
- Prevent injury
- Reduce fall risk
- Improve mobility
- Better balance
- Increase flexibility
- Support weight loss
As Move has evolved into Pulse, the program now helps weight loss medication and Ozempic users to retain strength and sustain weight loss by reducing GLP-1 related muscle loss. The program delivers lasting movement habits with 69% of inactive and insufficiently active members members reaching active or healthy active status within 10 weeks of starting the program.1
I was sitting too much at work and feeling stiff and sore. With Sword Move, I finally got into a routine I could stick with. I feel stronger and more mobile now — and I’m not worried about hurting myself when I move.
Who is best suited to using Move (now Pulse)?
Sword Move was built to support anyone improve their whole-body strength and health. Move made it easy to work on a tailored mobility plan that can improve the quality of your everyday life.
With Move evolving into the new, comprehensive Pulse program, the support for Pulse members expands beyond movement to include everyday habits that also affect long-term health, like food choices, sleep, stress, and staying on track over time.

How Pulse (previously Move) supports healthier habits
The support style introduced through Move is still part of Pulse today. The goal is still the same: help members take small steps that feel realistic, repeat them often enough to become habits, and build from there.
Pulse helps members build daily routines that support long-term health and wellbeing. Over time, many members notice changes like:
- Moving more regularly throughout the week
- Building strength and confidence in everyday movement
- Developing healthier habits around food, sleep, and stress
- Becoming more aware of patterns that affect blood pressure, weight, and energy
- Feeling more in control of daily health choices
- Creating routines that fit into real life and are easier to stick with
Pulse health outcomes
Proven to help you build healthier habits
69%
of members upgraded to healthy active status within 10-weeks2
91%
reported significant improvements across 26,000+ members3
How Pulse works to build healthier habits
Pulse is designed to support members in a way that feels personal, practical, and easier to stick with over time.
Phoenix, Sword’s AI Care Specialist
Phoenix is available through the Sword app whenever support is needed. You can talk directly with Phoenix at any time, and Phoenix can help you with everyday choices and routines with simple, immediate messages that feel more like guidance than homework. That might mean a reminder to take a short walk, a nudge to check in on progress, or support around building healthier habits with food, sleep, or stress. Over time, Phoenix learns what fits each person’s life so the support feels more useful and less generic.
Your matched Health Specialist
Pulse also includes support from a Health Specialist. When a member needs more guidance, more context, or more human support, that specialist can step in.For movement and lifestyle-focused support, that may include Doctors of Physical Therapy. Other appropriate specialists may also support members with more complex needs. Pulse is built to make sure your feel supported, understood, and not left to figure everything out on your own.
Connected devices that help personalize support
Pulse can also use connected devices such as wearables, blood pressure monitors, and smart scales. These tools help tailor support to the your daily life, your schedule, your sleep, and even your mental health to help you make lasting progress.That means guidance can be based on real patterns and real progress, not just generic guesswork.
This personalized care means your support feels more timely and makes it more realistic for you to stick to your plan. Together, Phoenix, the Health Specialist, and connected devices help Pulse offer support in the moments it is needed most, instead of waiting for the next appointment or scheduled check-in.

Take the next step toward moving with confidence
Physical inactivity contributes to pain, injury, and rising health costs, and Move mades it easy to reverse that trend.
Move was created to help you build healthier routines through simple, personalized guidance you can follow at home. With the guidance of 24/7 expert support and the Move Wearable keeping members on track, so many people managed to build stronger, healthier habits.
Pulse builds on the support behind Move and expands it to help with more of the daily habits that shape long-term health. By joining Pulse you are making a commitment to better health, greater energy, and a future with fewer limits.
Check your coverage today to see if Pulse is available to you and take the first step toward lasting progress.
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Footnotes
Sword Health. “MET-min analysis, Move Members 2024: over 500 MET-minutes per week.” Internal dataset.
Over 500 MET-minutes per week, self-reported sitting time at the latest reassessment on or after 5 weeks into the program
Percent of members who scored 5 or above on the PGIC scale from all of those who have answered a reassessment, +9 DWA.
