Chinese Radio Exercises: A Beginners Exercise Program for all Ages and Abilities

This exercise routine is based on one of the most modern sets of Public Broadcasting Gymnastics (or Radio Gymnastics) which are a series of free-standing exercises that can be practiced without equipment and in limited space. (Gymnastics in the everyday exercise sense is not really recognized in the West - calisthenics is probably the closest term) Every day, instructions are ‘broadcast’ on the radio along with a tempo, allowing millions of people to complete the movements together.

This set...