Which one is more effective, yoga or Tai Chi

In fact, there is no absolute standard answer at all. Whether the effect is good or not depends entirely on whether it suits your state when you practice.

I have been practicing Tai Chi for almost ten years, and I also took the junior yoga teaching training two years ago. There are a lot of friends around me who practice both. I really don’t see anyone who can say that one thing can completely crush the other. There used to be a little girl who worked in design, with rounded shoulders and a hunched back. She went to the park with her grandma to practice Tai Chi. She couldn't help but take out her phone to check messages after standing for three minutes. After two months, she was forced to get up earlier, but her shoulders and neck still hurt. She started practicing Hatha yoga for shoulders and neck three times a week. The teacher watched her adjust her posture. Within a month, she changed most of her habit of holding her breasts in her arms. Everyone said that yoga is much more useful than Tai Chi. As a result, she fell and fractured her coccyx last year. The doctor did not allow her to bend and twist significantly, so she would definitely not be able to attend yoga classes. She went back to her previous Tai Chi teacher, who specialized in slow-paced stances and cloud hands without running, jumping or twisting. She practiced at home for twenty minutes every day. After three months of reexamination, her recovery was better than the doctor expected. She changed her mind and said that Tai Chi is really a good exercise for recuperating injuries.

Which one of these two do you think is more effective? To put it bluntly, they are all exercises that help you build body awareness, coordinate breathing and movements. The cores are really the same, but the rhythm and adaptation scenes are different. If you are usually impatient and want to find an exercise that can make you sweat quickly and relax your shoulders and neck, and there happens to be a reliable yoga studio near your home, then yoga will definitely be more effective for you than running to the park every day and waiting for a Tai Chi teacher to teach you. If you are quiet yourself, or have old joint injuries and are not suitable for extensive stretching, there are fixed Tai Chi classes in the park downstairs, and you can slowly follow the teacher's movements, and the effect is not necessarily worse than yoga.

This matter is actually like asking whether you should drink cold boiled water or honey water. Cold boiled water is the best to quench your thirst when you are extremely thirsty. When you want to moisten your throat, honey water is more suitable. There is no absolute difference. I have seen too many people struggle for a long time about which one to choose. They checked a lot of information to compare the effects of this and the advantages of that. In the end, they didn't stick to either. It's better to try both for two or three weeks. Whichever one you can stick to without any effort will be the best for you. By the way, don’t believe the stereotyped labels on the Internet. All yoga is soft stretching, Tai Chi is an exercise for the elderly, high-intensity Ashtanga can make your sweaty clothes wrung out, and Chen’s Tai Chi’s powerful movements can make your legs sore for three days and you can’t climb a building. These are common occurrences. Choosing the right school is more useful than listening to blind recommendations from others.