| （Department of Physical Education，Yibin University，YIbin 644000，China） Abstract: The authors collected and analyzed related literature about the effects of Taijichuan on the fitness of mid-dle-age and elderly people at home and abroad in recent 10 years, and drew the following conclusions: 1) Taijichuan exercising over a long period of time plays a significant role in boosting the cardiopulmonary functions, immune functions, mental heath level, sports functions, cytokine and flood fat metabolism functions of middle-age and eld-erly people, being an ideal way of exercising for middle-age and elderly people; 2) there are too few researches on the horizontal comparison between different Taijichuan series, the particularity of the fitness effects of Taijichuan, the effective patterns of the fitness effects of Taijichuan, and the effects of Taijichuan on the capacity to control the upper limbs harmoniously.
Key words: Taijichuan；middle-age and elderly people；fitness effect；overview |
