Martial arts training at peak performance levels are the best way to prevent disease, as well as to stimulate positive changes in the body's natural healing systems.
The need for a kick
Our current lifestyle of Lazy-boy chairs, remote controls and bean bags does not challenge us to move, yet our biological need for physical movement is still the same as when time began. Martial arts can strongly influence the function of most of the human organ systems and much of the chemistry of our brains and bodies.
Martial arts training, as well as other exercise forms, dosage combines distance (or time), intensity and frequency -- how far, how fast, how often. An additional factor may be technique, which determines the muscle groups and total muscle mass used in the exercise.
For example, kicks work your leg muscles but also increase aerobic capacity. Taking into consideration the type and dosage of martial arts training, it affects the body and its systems in numerous positive ways.
Training to be alive
Tai chi, sometimes called tai chi chuan, is a noncompetitive, self-paced system of gentle physical exercise and stretching. To do tai chi, you perform a series of postures or movements in a slow, graceful manner. Each posture flows into the next without pausing.
Anyone, regardless of age or physical ability, can practice Tai chi. It doesn't take physical prowess. Rather, tai chi emphasizes technique over strength.
Despite its ancient history, tai chi has been studied scientifically only in recent years. And that research is suggesting that tai chi may offer numerous other benefits like:
- Reducing worry and depression
- Improving equilibrium and coordination
- Curing insomnia
- Slowing bone loss in women after menopause
- Controlling blood pressure
- Improving cardiovascular fitness
- Easing chronic pain
- Improving everyday physical functioning
- Reduce stress
- Improve muscular strength, energy, stamina and agility
- Increase feeling of well-being
Tai chi may also help your overall health, although it's not a substitute for traditional medical care. Tai chi is generally safe for people of all ages and levels of fitness. Older adults may especially find tai chi appealing because the movements are low impact and put minimal stress on muscles and joints. Tai chi may also be helpful if you have arthritis or are recovering from an injury.
Martial Arts training at Maher
True natural martial arts movement may be different than most people think or even know about. For hundreds of years martial arts were used not only as a means of self-defense but also to rejuvenate the body with forms and movements.
Training in the martial arts and fighting sports does give you potential benefits - physical as well as mental. You can have a try and you will see the good result after a period of practice.
Training for martial arts involves the balancing of energies within the body, and cultivation of the no-mind state in action. Based on similar principles as meditation, martial arts evoke natural grace, fluidity and deep concentration in motion. Healing is a natural spin-off.
Listen to the rhythm of a vibrant flower, a chirp of a bird, the rolling ocean, a turbulent storm, or simply the breath of a human being—and you can heed the unanimous cry—‘I am alive!’ To be alive is to be animated by the Supreme Force—the vital energy, the prana, or what the Chinese call the ‘chi’ - that infuses life in the entire cosmos. A living being is filled with it. The dead has none. And till the time you breathe life, the chi not only needs to be expanded and cultivated, but also its flow and toxicity ought to be regulated. This is the cornerstone of traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts.
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