Thursday, March 12, 2009

Tai Chi~the elderly & me

Recently I embarked on the mission to shed myself of the winter blahs. To this end, I begin to walk and practice Tai Chi under the supervision of a personal guide. I thought nothing of it, looked easy enough and the idea of seeing elderly people do this for of exercise on walkers and sometimes while sitting in chairs caused me to chuckle. After about a hour of Tai Chi, we called it quits. By the time I got home and out of the car, my body had stiffened up so bad that I could hardly walk, I was in such pain. I realized that I had probably moved muscles that I did not even know existed~the pain from this innocent looking exercise was excruciating, and while I endured many soaking salt baths, the pain lasted for several days~the moral of this tale is to never laugh at old people who practice Tai Chi~I've learned my lesson~those who laugh first usually laugh last.