During old age, if you don't want to lose muscle, weight work out is a must. Most Taiji people don't like to work on the weight. I just don't know how they can deal with the "sarcopenia" issue.
What's your opinion on this?
Sarcopenia is the age-related progressive loss of muscle mass and strength. The main symptom of the condition is muscle weakness. Sarcopenia is a type of muscle atrophy primarily caused by the natural aging process. Scientists believe being physically inactive and eating an unhealthy diet can contribute to the disease.
My opinion here is that you seem to take any opportunity, no matter how unrelated, to attack and disparage Taijiquan. And all while you know so little about taijiquan due to your bias against it
My taijiquan shifu was a big proponent of body weight exercises. The Chen family stated that they felt weight lifting was a good thing, however isolation exercises were not, they said muscle group exercises were great for Taiji
I have been taijiquan for over 30 years, i worked out with weights extensively until i hit my 50s and arthritis, multiple eye surgeries and multiple knee surgeries hit me. That is when my weight training was far from consistent. I got back to it as a regular part of my routine in the last few years and was absolutely amazed at how much strength i had lost. Regular workout weight for a bench press was 150lbs, and i did not go higher because i had no spotter. I will not get into how much i lifted for other exercises. After my 50s, 50 pounds was heavy. Now dealing with a tear in my rotator cuff, i have had to modify again.
And i modified even more because of sarcopenia. Because what i was doing was only maintaining, not making better. Now i feel i am making gains
So, IMO and based on my experience, as weight lifting applies to Taiji, you are just plain wrong. Like many of your Taiji attack posts, due to your bias
Scientifically speaking, sarcopenia is a part of aging we ALL will experience, no matter what martial art one trains. Sorry to burst your Taiji biased bubble.
Are there Taiji people who don’t lift weights? Yup, but there are a lot of people in a lot of styles of martial arts that don’t lift weights
I posted in the other thread about sarcopenia as part of a discussion about age related changes for martial artists, i looked at it as a positive post. I didn’t post it to give you a springboard to make unfounded statements to attack Taiji and make it a negative. But you can post what you want, as long it is within the rules of MT.
But i maintain you know very little about taijiquan
