Elderly people can practice Tai Chi to treat these diseases

Tai Chi is now the main exercise program for many middle-aged and elderly people. The elderly are physically weaker and need to be careful when choosing fitness exercises. Tai Chi is very suitable for the elderly, and practicing Tai Chi regularly is very helpful for their fitness. So what are the specific benefits of Tai Chi for the elderly? What are the precautions for the elderly to practice Tai Chi? Next, I will introduce them one by one for your reference.

What are the benefits of Tai Chi for the elderly?

1. Improve flexibility

In the process of continuous practice of Tai Chi, the muscles of our whole body can be effectively exercised. Long-term exercise can effectively enhance our muscle endurance. Usually Tai Chi involves walking in circles and arcs at a slow speed, combined with bent-leg half-squatting movements, and then alternating shifts in center of gravity. This method is a great way to exercise your entire body. The movements of Tai Chi are mainly hugging, twisting and twisting, which can improve our muscle strength and endurance, and in the long run improve the body's flexibility.

When practicing Tai Chi, combining it with multi-directional and large-scale movements, such as the downward stance and kicking postures, can not only improve muscle flexibility, but also improve the flexibility of various joints.

2. Treat digestive tract diseases

Research has found that regular practice of Tai Chi can also help us effectively treat various digestive tract diseases. This is because during practice, the joints, muscles, and bones of our body will pull, entangle, squeeze, and relax each other, and the internal organs of our body will produce a self-massage effect due to abdominal breathing. At the same time, the diaphragm's up and down movement increases during exercise, which has a positive stimulating effect on intestinal peristalsis, thereby playing a therapeutic role and improving digestive function.

3. Improve cardiopulmonary function

Practicing Tai Chi more often in daily life can also help the elderly effectively improve their cardiopulmonary function. Usually, the cardiopulmonary function of the elderly is relatively poor, which is why the elderly are often prone to illness. As long as you practice Tai Chi more often in your daily life, it can help the elderly quickly and effectively enhance their cardiopulmonary function. This is because when practicing Tai Chi, you need to keep your breathing natural and solid, and during the practice you can also use deep, long, fine, slow and even abdominal breathing methods to effectively increase the air capacity of the chest cavity and increase the number of oxygen inhalation and carbon exhalation, thereby relatively increasing the amount of oxygen available to various organs.

In addition, practicing Tai Chi usually takes a long time. It takes about 20 minutes to practice the 24-posture Tai Chi four times in a row. Therefore, it can help us train and improve our cardiopulmonary function. Especially some elderly people who have poor cardiopulmonary function should improve their immunity by practicing Tai Chi.

4. Physiological benefits

Tai Chi has a long history in my country. The practice of Tai Chi combines traditional guiding and breathing methods, emphasizing the close coordination between body training, qi training, and mind training. Since ancient times, Chinese people have had the habit of practicing Tai Chi to achieve the purpose of strengthening their bodies. Therefore, experts remind some people who are often weak and sickly to actively practice Tai Chi in their daily lives. The best time to practice is probably in the morning. Not only is the air very good at this time, but the human body is also in a very suitable state for practicing Tai Chi. Therefore, practicing at this time can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

By practicing Tai Chi, we can effectively exercise our muscles and at the same time it can also have a good effect of relaxing muscles and tendons. In addition, while practicing, you can also coordinate your breathing and movements to massage your internal organs, thereby enhancing your body's physical fitness and improving your disease resistance, which is very important for the elderly.