Tips to design your own exercise program
Exercise can help in alleviating
arthritis - pain and fatigue. As practiced in eastern medicine, applying the
Yin and Yang Theory of Chinese Medicine, balance is best. Be sure to exercise
regularly and not sporadically. It is said
"To miss one day of
practice is like missing 10 days."
Ease into a program - don't
jump into it. Do exercises which are slow, steady and don't jerk or bounce.
Warm-up first - take time to
get blood flowing to the joints, muscles ligaments and tendons. This can be done by
self massage, hot packs or showers, and gentle stretching exercises.
Duration of Exercise - shoot
for 30 minutes a day. This 30 minutes can be broken down into as small increments
as 10 minutes each session. Perhaps, in the morning when you get up, in the
afternoon before or after lunch, and in the evening after dinner or before bed.
- Listen to your Body - when doing an exercise, don't push it
because you feel good. See how you feel several hours or the next day to determine
if you did enough or too much. If the you are a little sore and it clears up by the
next day, you are ok; however, if the pain or soreness get worse in the next 24 hours you
did too much.
The tips from this article came from the Medical Essay Journal.
All
of these tips can apply to Chi Kung/Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan practice.
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