http://www.charlespoliquin.com/Blog...9-Chi-Kung-can-increase-maximal-strength.aspx Gains of 2-9% in elite athletes are pretty impressive.As the article suggests,it possibly helps more with recovery than anything else.
Positive thinking works better: Taken from http://www.womens-law-of-attraction-solutions.com/brain-exercises.html
Chi doesn't (IMO) but the positive effects of chi gung are not limited to belief in that type of fluff. My Si-Hing talks about "body feel" and how his practice of Chen Style allows him to functionalise his whole body by being "in touch" with it...this ties in with the tensegrity/good mechanics approach that I subscribe to
We don't know if chi exists or not but even if it does its got nothing to do with the results of the study."Chi kung" is a blanket term for various forms of exercise,some are useful and others are completely ridiculous.The useful forms generally involve hard physical work rather than some feel-good hippy type activity.
Interesting. i'd like to see a study done on it but i think i already know why the techniques would work. its similar to sport psychology techniques of visualisation and imagery to increase neural pathways and kinasthetic focus/awareness
Correct.The interesting thing is that one or two high level Chinese martial artists,such as Wang Xiangzhai,were doing this around a hundred years ago.Wang also rejected the concept of chi as he saw it as outdated.
It probably is a great method for recovery, I've seen friends do warm-downs that lasted half an hour, claiming it helped recovery, I believe that this could be a similar affect. Also, I'm sorry for dismissing you so early, it's not cool for me to do that. I just have trouble believing such a thing as "chi" can exist.
Like I said,there are hundreds of different methods of chi kung and some are appropriate for warm-downs but I think in this case Zaad was right about an increase in neural pathways.
