What is Tai Cheng?
Tai Cheng is a 90-day total-body fitness program developed by martial arts master trainer Dr. Mark Cheng, designed for immediate and long-term benefits from learning the graceful movements of Tai Chi (pronounced “tie-CHEE”).
Tai Chi is a martial art practiced primarily for its health and physical conditioning benefits, rather than for combat. Many health experts today agree there’s an association between the daily practice of Tai Chi and improvements in health, both physical and mental.
Every day, the Tai Cheng program takes you through a gentle, energizing warm-up and the practice of Tai Chi moves. Each move helps you strengthen areas of weakness, tone muscles, increase flexibility, improve balance, and reduce stiffness, while also helping you burn some calories.
Elite athletes find that Tai Cheng helps improve athletic performance in fundamental ways. If you’re overweight, Tai Cheng can help you shed pounds safely as your entire body becomes stronger and more agile. Whatever your fitness level, daily practice of Tai Cheng can result in greater awareness and help improve your strength, energy, and stability.
Why is Tai Cheng so effective?
From childhood on, our mobility decreases until we lose our natural alignment, flexibility, and strength. We convince ourselves that it’s natural to wake up with aches, or fight through stiffness. But it isn’t.
Tai Cheng’s gentle and thoughtful movements can help open your joints, reduce painful knots in your muscles, and promote balance and flexibility, so your health can actually improve as you age. These therapeutic postures can help increase lung capacity, improve muscle strength, and encourage your blood to circulate more regularly through areas
where it may have been sluggish, removing toxins and helping to boost your immune system.
The Tai Cheng workouts can make you feel good, help improve your posture, have a positive effect on your energy level, and help restore the fluidity and physical strength that come from gentle and comprehensive total-body conditioning. The practice of Tai Cheng promotes suppleness, strength, ease of motion, and inner peace, helping prolong
your fitness and your enjoyment of the activities you love.
How does Tai Cheng work?
In teaching Tai Cheng, Dr. Cheng uses a technique called Dynamic Motion Control®. This teaching method helps students learn individual movements, how to join the movements together to make combinations, and then build the combinations into longer series.
Dynamic Motion Control allows you to experience the practice of Tai Chi, and the Tai Cheng program, without feeling overwhelmed by being introduced to too many moves
at the same time.
What makes Tai Cheng unique?
Tai Cheng isn’t just a Tai Chi instructional video. It’s a fusion of the traditional Chinese martial art with modern functional movement training. Tai Cheng’s mingling of exercise for both body and mind can help you change your health in a profound way. Neural Reboot—the warm-up you’ll do every day—helps wake up your body, prepare your mind for Tai Cheng practice, and give you a platform of stability, strength, and safety.
You’ll learn a workout that promotes balance and flexibility, helping you feel more energy and less pain. All this helps you develop greater physical control and body awareness.
Tai Cheng helps take the “parking brakes” off your dormant muscles, allowing them to move fluidly and easily, while letting your overworked ones relax. Through this practice,
you’ll learn to move with less strain, access your full range of motion, and help condition your body to function as it should.
The Workouts
Phase 1 DVD: You'll learn 6 Tai Chi moves, combining them into a fluid routine that builds strength, increases your overall range of motion, and helps reduce pain.
Phase 2 DVD: Dr. Cheng teaches you 6 new moves to help increase your energy; burn off excess fat; and build greater stability, strength, and balance.
Phase 3 DVD: You'll be introduced to the final 6 moves that you'll need to learn on your way to becoming a Tai Chi Master.
Phase 4 DVD: The last disc will guide you through performing all 18 moves in a powerful, yet graceful health-boosting routine.
Base Package:
Easy Does It Fitness Guide: Filled with practical tips on form, technique, and mind-body realignment, it shows you how to complete Tai Cheng to help improve your health, energy, and mobility.
Feel Better Food Plan Nutrition Guide: Use this guide to find delicious, easy-to-make meals and snacks that'll help you feel younger, healthier, and more energetic.
90-day Daily Workout Calendar: We've done the work for you so you always know which sequence to do and when. Just follow along and chart your progress.
Blue Foam Roller: Work out everyday kinks and pains and loosen tight muscles as you develop better balance, posture, and flexibility.
5 FREE BONUS gifts (over $200 VALUE!):
Tai Cheng for Travelto help reduce pain and stiffness while traveling
Tai Cheng for Sport—a workout that helps enhance your sports performance, especially golf.
Resistance Strength Band: Use it to build up your strength and balance.
Removeable Floor Tape: Create your Tai Cheng foot placement grid with low adhesive strips that leave no sticky marks to clean up afterward.
Free Online Support: Stay motivated with 24/7 access to fitness experts and peer support.
Exclusive BONUS Order Tai Cheng on Team Beachbody, and receive the Tai Cheng Body Alignment For Better Living DVD—a $19.95 value—FREE!
Shakeology Challenge Pack (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
You will receive everything from the Base Package, PLUS:
Access to Beachbody on Demand Stream hundreds of workouts from our massive collection of world-class programs including P90X and INSANITY
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Meal plans personalized for your goals
VIP access to your favorite trainers and Beachbody® experts, including live chats, exclusive videos, nutrition tips, and delicious recipes
Your own personal Coach for guidance and support
Access to SuperGym®, where you can earn prizes just for logging your workouts every day
Message Boards and chatrooms to help you find new friends and workout partners, and get advice and support from the entire community.
Master Package
You will receive everything from the Base Package, PLUS:
Special Workouts!
Master Class: For the first time ever, Dr. Cheng will take you step-by-step through all of the Tai Cheng moves you've learned in one graceful, yet powerful sequence. You'll perform it at 3 speeds: slow—to challenge your balance, stability, and strength; a moderate pace to get more comfortable with the sequence; and fast, designed to create a flowing healing energy throughout your body. This is the DVD you'll want to use over and over again to keep up your practice and maintain your results.
Qi Gong: Learn the ancient practice of Qi Gong breathing exercises and techniques to improve your mental clarity and get more out of the Tai Cheng exercises. You'll begin with the "Energizing Series," then advance to "Level 1" to relax and increase the flow of oxygen to your body, and finally "Level 2," where you can focus on breath control to develop and move energy. This mind-body connection helps tap into the healing potential within you.
Expert Tools!
RumbleRoller: It's like having a masseuse on call. Offering more penetrating muscle relief than a conventional roller, the RumbleRoller's strategically aligned bumps and advanced polymer surface will help you release trigger points of tension to regain your mobility for your workouts.
Weighted Gloves: Increase the challenge of each move by wearing these gloves. They'll help you refine your hand and arm movements, and get stronger, while increasing your muscle control!
High-Resistance Strength Band: Offering more resistance than our yellow or green bands, our High-Resistance Strength Band will take your training to the next level to help you build lean muscle.
Master Workout Calendar: Follow this workout calendar, and you'll know exactly what you should be doing each day of the Master Kit program.
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