Aging doesn’t mean you have to give up being strong, flexible, and active. There’s a simple move that can make a big difference in your daily strength and mobility. Bruce Scott, a Sydney, Australia-based fitness coach who has more than three decades of experience in movement and tai chi, shared a “life-changing exercise” he’s practiced for 35 years in an Oct. 2 Instagram post. (Also read: Fitness coach says this simple ‘5-minute mobility routine’ can keep you feeling young and flexible after 30 ,
What is a Qi machine and how does it work
This exercise is the first exercise that my first Tai Chi teacher taught me. And 35 years later, I’m still doing it and it’s still working for me,” Scott says. “This will be covered in more detail in my upcoming online course. But for now, let’s see if we can find it and let you start searching for it.”
Known as the Qi Machine, Scott explains the basic principles of the movement. “Feet shoulder-width apart. First, we want to find this double bounce in the knee. I’m lowering my weight through my knees and letting my elasticity catch me. Boom, boom, bum, bum, bum. Instead of a squat, press, squat, press, see how it looks, it’s very tiring. It uses a lot of muscles to do the movement. Here, I switch it up so that it Be it the fascia and ligaments, the tendons that work like rubber bands to convert the fall into an action potential that makes me bounce back, bam, bam, or almost effortless.
How can this exercise benefit the entire body?
Exercise isn’t just about legs. Scott says that once the timing is right, it becomes a full-body activity. “Then I can bring the arms into it. If I get the timing right, it becomes a whole body exercise. Beautiful wave through the ankles, knees, hips, spine, beautiful big movements through the arms. The body starts breathing into this movement. There’s a natural inhale, natural exhale. You don’t have to think about it.”
Scott highlights the holistic benefits: “It circulates blood throughout the body, produces very little metabolic waste because we’re not using muscles, we’re using ligaments. It opens up the mind, balances the chakras. Beautiful.”
Simple yet profound, this practice emphasizes natural movement, flexibility and harmony between mind and body. For people in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond, Scott recommends incorporating it into a daily routine to maintain mobility, circulation and overall vitality.
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