What are the standard postures for squatting?

Many people do not know how to master the correct method when practicing horse squats, because horse squats are very difficult for many people. Many people can squat, but I believe that many people cannot squat well. If some people do not squat well, they will feel very tired after squatting, and some people will sweat profusely. However, if you do not squat hard, these phenomena will not occur. So what are the standard postures for squatting horse stances?

Horse stance is the basic standing practice adopted by most Chinese martial arts schools. Only a few types of boxing, such as Tai Chi, do not have standing practice. The main purpose of practicing horse stance is to regulate "essence, qi and spirit", complete the regulation of qi and blood, the training of spiritual cultivation, and exercise the control of thoughts and consciousness. When doing horse stance, one is often required to concentrate and calm down, breathe naturally, and squat deeply, flatly and steadily to exercise organs such as the throat, chest, and kidneys, and to retract the abdominal muscles and tense the leg muscles in order to achieve comprehensive training of the whole body.

This kind of standing meditation is a long-term static exercise, so it is a good exercise for all organs in the human body. Through such exercise, the body's reaction ability during strenuous exercise can be effectively improved. In many martial arts schools, horse stance is often trained as one of the most basic stance exercises. It has always been regarded by martial artists as an indispensable training method that is extremely effective in increasing internal strength and improving fighting ability, and it often appears in many routines in the form of footwork. As a stance and footwork, why is it so important? How does it produce its unique effect in martial arts training? What are the basic principles and methods of practicing it?

Horse stance can meet the special requirements of martial arts. As a technique to subdue an opponent or fight a desperate battle with an enemy, martial arts has special requirements on human body functions that are different from general competitive events. This special requirement can be roughly divided into two aspects: one is the inner spiritual consciousness, and the other is the special physical fitness of the human body. Inner spiritual consciousness mainly refers to the natural and rapid reaction and adaptability that the human body acquires through training during a fight, as well as the unique spiritual deterrent effect on the opponent and the temperament that makes the opponent lose three points without fighting.

The special physical requirements of the human body mainly include the flexibility of leaping, capering and jumping, the strength of force used to strike the enemy with hands, feet, knees, body and other parts, and the ability to resist strikes of the head, chest, abdomen, throat, crotch and other parts. To meet this special requirement, special training methods are required. This is what the martial arts world calls "training the spirit, energy and energy internally, and the muscles, bones and skin externally."

If you want to achieve the desired effect by doing horse stance squats, you can choose to do it this way. Horse stance squats can make our body strong and improve some symptoms of physical weakness and illness. Horse stance squats are very hard. If you don't do them well, you won't get good results. You need to persist in doing horse stance squats. Don't stop doing them when you feel tired.