An inch longer sinews will give you a ten year longer life

There is a saying that “one inch longer tendon, life extension ten years”, meaning that the tendon is good, can enhance the body’s immunity, so as to achieve the effect of prolonging life. Although the statement is exaggerated, but the importance of tendons to health is self-evident. How is your tendon? How to stretch correctly? Chinese medicine to human skin, flesh, tendons, bones, veins called “five bodies”. Modern medicine refers to the soft tissue is similar to the category of tendons. Whether it is the traditional Chinese fitness qigong Yi Jin Jing, five birds, eight brocade, taijiquan, or modern gymnastics, aerobics, and even today’s popular yoga, there are many stretching fitness steps. It may be worthwhile to do a self-check first: do you have a sore back when you bend over? Squatting smoothly? Walking, heel part of the tendons have radioactive traction pain? Do you feel like you can’t take a big step when you walk with others? If you have the above problems, you may appear “tendon contraction”, to put it plainly is that your tendon lack of flexibility, especially those who like to car instead of walking, like to sit all day long do not exercise friends should pay more attention. If you exclude other diseases caused by the above problems, we should try “stretching” exercise. This is conducive to maintaining the vitality of the tendons, maintain the health of the tendons, thereby improving the quality of health, longevity. “Stretching” exercise is not very high on the requirements of the venue, the following for you to recommend two relatively simple “stretching” exercise methods: the first method is the “Yi Jin Jing” the third potential “Palm Tou Tianmen “: two feet open, toes on the ground, heel lift; hands raised above the head, palm up, two middle fingers 3 centimeters apart; sunken shoulders bent elbow, tilt the head, the eye to see the back of the palm. Tongue licking the palate, nasal breath harmonization. Inhalation, both hands with dark force try to support, both legs at the same time force down stirrups; exhalation, the whole body relaxation, the two palms forward downward. When closing, the two palms into a fist, the back of the fist forward, the upper limbs will slowly close the two fists to the waist, the center of the fist upward, the heel of the foot on the ground. Repeat 8~20 times. The second method is: the use of their own door frame, hands up, holding both sides of the door frame, as far as possible to stretch the arms; a foot in front, standing lunge, the other foot in the back, leg as straight as possible; the body is just parallel to the door frame, the head upright, eyes forward and flat; stand in this position for 3 minutes, and then change a leg to stand lunge, but also for 3 minutes. It should be noted that high blood pressure, heart disease, osteoporosis, long-term frail people, people recovering from serious illnesses, etc., must follow the doctor’s instructions, not to do this kind of exercise without authorization, so as not to be counterproductive.