Just started this a couple days ago. Great fun, although somewhat intellectually frustrating in the many variations, some of which seem to do the exercises in different orders. I ended up with Jwing-Ming Yang's version which itself is somewhat scattered in that the video course (from Udemy - I had credits…) seems to cut out a couple bits and not all the sections get a name, etc.
But, I felt some nice qi movement even from the first explanation video. A curious experience is in each of the days since I've started, I've been walking around and felt as if all the strength of my legs had suddenly drained from the rectus femoris. Didn't necessarily affect my gait which was fortunate as I was walking up stairs the first time), but had a distinct feeling of no control, even as the body kept moving. Any ideas why this might have happened or is it just from holding the modified horse stance and me not being as used to it as I thought I was?
Another question: how long does it take you to do, and how many reps of each exercise do you do? As with all things qigong, the instructor says one thing, then demonstrates at least two others, so the total reps are given as 24 for most of the exercises and 16 for some, but in some video or other, he explains to start with 4 and work up to 36. Took me about 20 minutes to complete 4 reps of each exercise (his follow-along takes less than 15 minutes to do the same). Seems like going for the recommended 24 reps would probably take me all day….
