What are the benefits of horse stance?

Although horse stance requires a certain level of skill, if you practice seriously according to the correct method even if you don't have that skill, it will also play a certain role. Horse stance has many benefits. It not only makes people healthier, but also helps with weight loss. So besides this, what other benefits does horse stance have? Next, let us learn about the benefits of horse stance. It is more meaningful for us to have a comprehensive understanding of horse stance.

Horse stance is the basic kung fu of many martial arts schools. The horse stance of each school is similar. There are two main purposes of standing in horse stance: one is to practice leg strength, the other is to practice internal strength.

The steps of practice are as follows:

Step 1: Turn your feet 15 degrees out to shoulder width, then squat slightly. Why open outwards? Because the human femur is externally rotated 15 degrees. This position is the movement that is least contrary to human physiology.

Step 2: Start turning your toes forward. This is to obtain a twisting force. However, even though the toes are pointing forward, the knees still need to be aligned forward, thus creating a slight twist and thus generating force.

Step 3: Lower your center of gravity and gradually squat deeper. This is to obtain downward force. At this time, in addition to the forces from the toes and knees, there is also a downward force on the legs, which is the gravity of the body. To overcome this gravity, place your center of gravity on the Yongquan point and in the middle of the body, so that your knees and ankles get an upward force to keep you from sitting on the ground.

Step 4. Open your feet wider until they are three feet wide. In this way, another force is obtained, which is an outward force. To overcome this force, the calf and thigh muscles start working, generating a reaction force to achieve body balance. Once you understand this pair of forces, you will be able to perform sideways kicks, split kicks and hook kicks.

Step 5: Change your arms from being hugged to being flat, with your palms facing down.

The benefits of horse stance are to exercise endurance, strengthen lower body strength and stability, help improve the quality of sex life, and enhance sexual desire. Because exercise can regulate the body's autonomic nervous function and can also help with weight loss and fitness. Improve the endocrine system and the function of the pituitary gland to secrete sex hormones, thereby increasing the content of sex hormones in the body and enhancing sexual desire.

The disadvantage of doing horse stance for too long may cause muscle damage, muscle atrophy and other adverse consequences, so the exercise should be appropriate and not excessive.

Most people have no basic knowledge and it is a bit difficult for them to practice the fifth step right away. If you can do five to six hundred or even a thousand horse stance punches at a time, then the Siping stance will not be too strenuous. If you can stand there for three to five minutes, then the fifth step will be easier.

Remember: take it step by step. It's better to go slow and maintain interest. Master the core and make some changes yourself: for example, do it more times a day and only do a hundred punches at a time. In this way, you can improve your skills over time. But the key point, of course, is step five. At that time, Kung Fu was mainly focused on the hands.

There are many benefits of doing horse stance, but it takes time to master the essentials of doing horse stance. It requires us to persevere and make steady progress. Of course, although horse stance has many benefits, we should pay more attention to our physical safety during the practice, and not let our lives be threatened due to excessive movements.