What to do if your knees hurt when you do Tai Chi regularly

Tai Chi is a very good exercise for physical fitness. Since Tai Chi is not a very strong form of boxing, it is particularly suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to exercise. If you experience knee pain while practicing Tai Chi, it is likely directly related to your physical constitution, or you may have caught a cold. Now let’s talk about the main causes of knee pain when practicing Tai Chi.

1. Insufficient joint mobility before practicing Tai Chi. Some people are too lazy to do warm-up exercises when practicing Tai Chi due to time constraints, and start practicing routines directly, hoping to use the limited time to practice Tai Chi more times. Some boxers themselves do not attach importance to warm-up exercises, thinking that they are useless. This is a very wrong idea. Just like running a machine at high speed without preheating it will cause great damage to the machine. If you start practicing boxing without sufficient exercise, the muscles and ligaments around the knee joint will still be relatively stiff, and if you are not careful with some movements, you may sprain your knee joint, which will cause pain during future practice.

2. Not paying attention to rest and maintenance after practice. Since Tai Chi is performed with the hips relaxed and the knees bent, it requires great leg strength. After a long period of practice, the leg muscles will become tense due to fatigue. At this time, after stopping the practice, you must pay attention to relaxing the muscles. If you do not fully rest, the leg muscles will become stiff and cause knee strain, just like an athlete participating in a 100-meter sprint cannot stop immediately after the run, but has to jog for a distance to allow the body to recover. In addition, in addition to fully stretching the knee joints before exercise and fully recovering and resting after exercise, you should also pay attention to the maintenance of the knee joints. That is, after practicing, you will sweat a lot all over your body and your pores will open. At this time, you must pay attention to avoiding the wind. As the saying goes, "Avoid the wind like avoiding an arrow." At the same time, you should not enter an air-conditioned room, use an electric fan or take a cold shower right after practicing. Because you have just sweated, the pores all over your body will be open. If you are blown by cold wind, your joints will be chilled and cause symptoms of stroke or joint pain.

3. It is caused by several incorrect postures that are easy to occur when practicing.

Exercising is a very good lifestyle habit, which is very important for preventing diseases, increasing physical fitness and resistance. But it should be noted that you must pay attention to the methods and techniques when exercising. Be careful to avoid sports injuries. This way a good thing won’t turn into a bad thing. Especially the elderly should pay special attention.