What are the health-preserving sports?

Nowadays, more and more people pay more attention to health preservation. There are many ways to preserve health. You can preserve health not only through diet, but also through exercise. If you pay attention to health preservation, you can not only enhance your physical fitness, but also have a good effect of prolonging life. Let me introduce to you what kinds of sports are there for health preservation!

Traditional exercise health-preserving methods are the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese working people. For thousands of years, people have summed up many valuable experiences in health-preserving practice, which has continuously enriched and developed sports health-preserving, forming a health-preserving method with Chinese characteristics that integrates guiding, qigong, martial arts, and medical theory. The exercises derived from guiding qigong include: Five Animal Exercises, Eight Section Brocade, etc.; the exercises derived from martial arts include: Tai Chi, Tai Chi sword, etc. However, no matter which kind of exercise is used in health preservation, it is necessary to pay attention to regulating breathing, focusing the mind, and moving the body, all of which are aimed at unblocking the Qi and blood meridians, exercising the muscles and bones, and harmonizing the internal organs.

Sports health care refers to a health care method that uses physical activities to maintain health, enhance physical fitness, prolong life and delay aging. The characteristics of the Chinese nation's health-preserving exercise are: based on the theories of yin and yang, internal organs, qi and blood, meridians, etc. in traditional Chinese medicine, with nourishing essence, practicing qi and regulating the mind as the basic characteristics of exercise, and emphasizing health-care activities that coordinate thoughts, breathing and body movements. Traditional exercise-based health care, through continuous summary and supplementation by successive generations of health practitioners, has gradually formed a health care method that includes exercising the limbs, self-massage to practice the body, breathing in and out, adjusting the nasal breath to practice the qi, and calming the mind and eliminating distracting thoughts to practice the intention.

Using traditional sports to exercise, to move the muscles and bones, regulate the breath, calm the mind to open up the meridians, dredge qi and blood, and harmonize the internal organs, thereby achieving the purpose of strengthening the body and prolonging life, this health-preserving method is called exercise health-preserving method.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that regular and moderate physical exercise can promote blood circulation, improve the nutritional status of the brain, promote the metabolism of brain cells, and enable the brain to function fully, which is beneficial to the health of the nervous system and helps maintain vigorous energy and stable emotions. Moderate exercise can develop the myocardium, make its contraction stronger, promote blood circulation, and enhance the vitality of the heart and the respiratory function of the lungs. It can promote and improve the blood circulation of the internal organs in the body, which is beneficial to the physiological functions of the organs. It can also enhance the body's immune and endocrine functions, thereby making the body's vitality more vigorous.

No matter which traditional sport it is, it is based on the theories of yin and yang, internal organs, qi and blood, meridians, etc. in traditional Chinese medicine. It takes nourishing essence, practicing qi and regulating spirit as the basic points of exercise. It is exercised through physical movements, and uses the theory of yin and yang to guide the emptiness, reality, movement and stillness of exercise; it uses the holistic concept to explain the coordinated unity of form, spirit, qi, blood, appearance and interior in exercise and fitness. Therefore, every move of fitness exercise is closely related to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine.

The key to traditional sports health preservation is to unify the concentration of mind, breathing and movement. Among these three aspects, the most important one is concentration. Only when you concentrate your mind can you calm your mind, breathe evenly, and let your qi and blood flow smoothly. The relationship between these three is: use mind to lead qi, and use qi to move the form. In this way, during the exercise process, the spirit is tempered internally and the muscles and bones are tempered externally, so that the whole body can be fully exercised.

Sports for health is to achieve the purpose of fitness through exercise, so we should pay attention to the amount of exercise. If the amount of exercise is too small, the purpose of exercise cannot be achieved and the fitness effect will not be achieved; if the amount of exercise is too large, it will exceed the body's tolerance limit and will cause damage to the body due to overwork.

There are many ways to maintain health through exercise. It is best to choose one or two of them according to your own preferences. However, it should be noted that if you want to achieve the purpose of health through exercise, you must persist in exercising continuously. Only by perseverance can you achieve good fitness and health effects. Exercise for health is not only a physical exercise, but also a test of your will and endurance.