Most people have heard of tai chi, but do you know what it is? We are so lucky at our J.F. Hurley YMCA. I seem to run into amazing people who want to be part of our great organization and share their ...

While workouts like high-intensity interval training (HIIT) have only been popular since the early 2000s, many other types of exercise have been around much longer. Pilates, for instance, began nearly ...

Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art. While historians don’t know exactly when the practice began, it may have been as early as the 8th century. “Tai chi started as a martial art in a time when ...

About 15 minutes into my online tai chi class, a notification popped up on my laptop about an email I’d been waiting for all morning. I dropped the exercise we were doing and ran over to check what it ...

It’s easy to tell people to make exercise part of their daily routine. It’s not so easy to tell them what to do. Some folks like to run marathons or climb mountains. But if you would rather care for ...

One of the best low-impact workouts to target the whole body, walking comes with plenty of physical and mental benefits. But walking is just walking, right? Evidently not. Now the newest iteration is ...

“Parting the Wild Horse’s Mane.” “Wave Hands Like Clouds.” “Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain.” These are not song titles or poems. Rather, they’re the deceptively complex movements of tai chi. With ...

Another month, another walking trend that we can't get enough of. This time, it's the turn of tai chi walking. That's right: fuse the ancient Chinese martial art with a simple stroll, and (if the ...

Once you reach a certain age, whether retired or still gainfully employed, it seems to me that one responsibility dwarfs all others. That’s to stay healthy, to the extent that exalted state remains ...

Tai Chi Hero is a sequel to the Hong Kong Chinese 3D martial arts film Tai Chi Zero directed by Stephen Fung and written by Chen Kuo-Fo. The story revolves around the adventures of Yang Lu Chan, a ...