The "winding and folding" of Taiji Chuan makes the whole body striated muscle twist and wind repeatedly, which produces a uniform and comprehensive "massage" squeezing effect on the smooth muscle of the whole body blood vessel wall, which can effectively treat and prevent arteriosclerosis caused by atherosclerotic lesions, thus increasing the compliance of the whole body blood vessel wall. Among several exercise therapies to prevent cardiovascular diseases, no exercise therapy project can be compared with Tai Ji Chuan in terms of its external physical and limb activities; Gain's "cat walking" is more important for fitness than the upper body, and the "twists and turns" of the whole body often start from the lower body. In addition to this kind of physical exercise, Tai Ji Chuan's inherent "essence, qi and spirit" has only a good effect on human physiology in the current exercise therapy at home and abroad. In the exercise therapy to prevent cardiovascular disease, the first cause of human death at present, "cat step" is the best.
The amount of exercise in Tai Ji Chuan depends on the pace and stride. If the pace of "cat walking" is slow and the stride is big, the amount of exercise will increase accordingly, and vice versa. Regardless of the amount of exercise in Tai Ji Chuan, under the same exercise conditions, the heart rate and pulse rate are always obviously slower than other exercises. As a doctor, the author has made many years of medical observation on this strange phenomenon: Tai Ji Chuan's pulse is only slightly faster than usual under a large amount of exercise, often within 100 times per minute, and the exercise is often between 70 and 80 times per minute, with no obvious increase in breathing. It is a special phenomenon that Tai Ji Chuan's pulse does not increase with the amount of exercise. Some people misuse the western method of measuring human exercise by pulse number, and call this phenomenon of stable pulse "small exercise" Q: Why are you sweating? Then answer: a lot of exercise. On the one hand, it is said that "the amount of exercise is small", on the other hand, it is said that "the amount of exercise is large". In view of this, it needs to be measured by modern clinical medicine. Under a certain amount of exercise, the heart rate is not fast, but the cardiac output increases. The number of breaths is not fast, but the amount of oxygen supplied to tissues and cells increases. This proves that Tai Ji Chuan's special exercise is the most beneficial to human physiology. The author believes that the day will come when science is developed and modern clinical medicine is applied to prove that Tai Ji Chuan is the most ideal healthy exercise for human beings! I sincerely hope that all colleagues will make joint efforts to turn Tai Ji Chuan into a high-tech palace at an early date for the benefit of mankind.
According to the observation of modern biologists, in vertebrates, "the speed of heart rate is inversely proportional to the length of life", which reveals the mystery of animal life. Rats jump hundreds of times per minute and have a life span of only about two years; Elephants jump 30 times a minute and generally live for 40 to 50 years. Turtles' movements and heart rate are very slow, so "turtles live for thousands of years." Nowadays, the competition in competitive sports is fierce, and those who win by speed and explosiveness often face the limit of heart rate, which is very different from my Tai Ji Chuan. Tai Ji Chuan's "special exercise" is the basis of this kind of "special exercise", with a considerable amount of exercise, but it does not increase synchronously with the heart rate.
According to the author's observation for many years, the heart rate of people who practice Tai Ji Chuan for a long time and follow the "cat step" is always relatively slower than that of ordinary people, whether in normal times or during exercise, or in the same state of exercise and rest. According to the author's many experiments, Tai Ji Chuan practitioners and a group of people are on the standard track of the sports ground. After running 2000 meters at the same speed, check everyone's pulse immediately. The heart rate of "cat walking" exercisers is always lower than that of the same runners. A group of people practicing Tai Ji Chuan climbed Mount Emei at an altitude of 3000 meters. Because of the low oxygen content in the mountains, the average person's heart rate becomes faster. Under the same climbing conditions, the heart rate of people who practice "cat walking" is also significantly lower than that of their peers.
According to scientific research in the medical field at home and abroad, slow heart rate makes the myocardial diastolic period (resting period) relatively prolonged, the ventricular blood is fully filled, and the blood discharged from the heart increases, so that the blood injected into the arterial blood flows uniformly and unidirectionally, and the deposition of lipid substances on the arterial wall is reduced, which is one of the important reasons for treating and preventing cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease. Judging from countless elderly people who have practiced Tai Ji Chuan for a long time, few people suffer from cardiovascular diseases. The normal functions of human organs, such as internal organs, limbs, five senses and nine orifices, and flesh and blood, all depend on the communication of meridian system. In the twelve meridians of human body, the six meridians of "Foot Three Yin" and "Foot Three Yang" start and end at two toes respectively. Below two ankles, there are 4 1 acupoints closely related to the whole body health, which connect some tissues and organs of the head, trunk and limbs. The physiological functions and pathological changes of these tissues and organs are dominated by the meridians of the foot. Of the six meridians starting and ending at two toes, any one meridian is abnormal, and the tissues and organs it controls are abnormal in physiology, resulting in diseases, that is, the so-called "one pulse is not harmonious and the whole body is uncomfortable."
Foot reflexotherapy, based on the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine, rose in Europe, America and Japan in modern times. It uses modern scientific instruments to detect the existence of thirty-six "pathological reaction zones" on the sole of the foot, and uses these "reaction zones" to detect the diseases existing in the corresponding tissues and organs of the human body, and uses various methods to stimulate these "reaction zones" to achieve the purpose of treating diseases. Self-therapy with definite curative effect and no side effects is favored by people. For example, a factory in Japan paved a square gravel road with a circumference of 75 meters. The pavement consists of pebbles protruding from the ground and sharp pebbles. Before going to work, the organizer walked twice on this "healthy road" to stimulate the soles of the feet to achieve the purpose of fitness. It is exactly the same as the "foot massager", "lunar rover" and "foot massage therapy" that have sprung up in China in recent years.
"Catwalk" massages the soles of the feet and stimulates the meridians and acupoints of the whole foot through ground reaction, which is far different from ordinary walking and running, and is more natural and comprehensive than "plantar reflex therapy", "healthy road" and "plantar massager". Take "Zuo Zheng lunge" as an example:
Because "cat walking" is a crouching step of both lower limbs, the posture requires to keep running on the same horizontal line. When the heel of the right foot slowly leaves the ground and moves forward, the reaction force from the ground to the sole of the right foot effectively changes from weak to strong. When the toe leaves the ground, the reaction force from the ground to the toe turns from strong to weak in turn, and when the right foot falls forward, it faces the reaction force from the heel. When the right foot steps forward to form the right bow, the supporting force of the left leg increases and decreases, and the reaction force of the left heel to the left toe on the ground effectively changes from strong to weak and then from weak to strong. If the specification of "Cat Walking" is higher and the stride is larger, the contrast and massage effect on the evolution of sole strength will be more obvious.
The reaction force of the sole of the foot turns from heel to toe; When retreating, thrusting, striding and following, a slow and gentle massage from toe to heel can stimulate 4 1 point of the foot, and the medical fitness effect produced by "dredging meridians" and "harmonizing qi and blood" can not be underestimated.
The qualified "catwalk" only needs to be practiced for three or two minutes, and even people with strong physical strength can practice sweating. If you don't exercise regularly, you will feel sore in your thigh and calf muscles the next day if you continue to "catwalk" for ten minutes, that is, a boxer who practices "catwalk" for a long time will feel sore in his lower limb muscles the next day if he exceeds a traditional Yang Tai Ji Chuan for less than half an hour. It is really difficult for ordinary sports to do this at the same time. In particular, the effect of "self-massage" on foot acupoints is incomparable to other sports. Therefore, Tai Ji Chuan has the characteristics of "being able to achieve the maximum exercise effect in the shortest time". The "catwalk" in the many essentials of Taiji Zhuan can really be described as "hard training". "Catwalk" is carried out under the alternate transformation of the virtual and real positions of two legs. Because the infusion is slow and uniform, all bones, muscle groups and ligaments below the waist need to be borne by one leg to support the whole body weight. Therefore, people who practice Tai Ji Chuan for a long time have muscular legs and strong lower limbs, and like activities. Especially middle-aged and elderly people, the more active they are, the healthier they will be. This virtuous circle will really play a good role in strengthening the body and prolonging life. Therefore, western countries call "legs are a mirror of health" and "you should know a person's life span, sir, this person's legs". In China, there are folk sayings that "people's legs get old first" and "people's legs die first", which shows that legs play an important role in overall health.
Because "cat walking" can make the two lower limbs "blood connected", it can effectively prevent and treat diseases caused by degenerative diseases such as lumbar hyperosteogeny, calcaneal hyperosteogeny and knee joint deformity, which are common in middle-aged and elderly people. Among the author's more than 10,000 Tai Ji Chuan students, before practicing Tai Ji Chuan, countless people suffered from the above diseases. Due to the special emphasis on the standard of "cat step" in boxing practice, their situation has generally improved after practicing in Tai Ji Chuan for a period of time. Among them, there are many typical cases that have achieved ideal curative effects: because of hyperosteogeny of lumbar vertebrae and cervical vertebrae, they have been bedridden for many years, although various treatment effects are not ideal and miserable. After insisting on Tai Ji Chuan's exercise for a period of time, it has shown miraculous effect. Today, more than ten years later, the overall health of many people has been greatly improved. Because of long-term observation of Tai Ji Chuan's remarkable curative effect on general chronic diseases, after 40 years as a doctor, he took pleasure in traditional Tai Ji Chuan Hui Ze and specialized in boxing.
In order to get the "spiral force" of "cat walking" and make the waist rotate freely, the abdominal wall itself must strengthen the arc action of ups and downs and left and right rotation, so that the abdominal wall muscles, mainly including rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, oblique abdominis and oblique abdominis, can alternately extend and contract from different directions at the same time, and enhance the stretching force of each muscle layer for a long time. It can not only massage abdominal organs, improve chest breathing conditions, but also eliminate and prevent abdominal wall fat excess. If Tai Ji Chuan has been practicing for a long time, but he is still paunchy, then check whether he is qualified to "cat walk" first. In a society where material life is superior, "paunchy" is more common among middle-aged and elderly people, and the medical profession has recognized that "waist circumference is inversely proportional to life span". There is a folk saying that "an inch thin waist will prolong life for ten years", which shows the relationship between waist circumference and health.
Many entrepreneurs, managers, professors and government officials are eager to learn from the author because some mental workers consume too much heat energy because of less exercise. The general effect only takes one or two months, and it has lost more than ten kilograms. In recent years, the number of young people attending training courses in Tai Ji Chuan has gradually increased. After a period of exercise, they have become ruddy and healthier, so they can talk about cats.