Forget about the fact that yoga has been taken over by women. All three of these arts are essentially designed to make you better at meditating, and, to a lesser extent, better at martial arts. Tai Chi is particularly designed for martial arts although I would also say it is the hardest of the three.
TLDR: Yoga is probably the best art for incels, but they are all good. Denying the utility of these things as mysticism is understandable in a Western world but these arts have been used by celibate monks in asia for millennia
I don't practice all of these arts, just yoga, but I used to be very into Qigong. I think that practicing all three of them at once is not really possible. even if you can develop familiarity with all of them (assuming you have access to instruction around all three arts beyond just cursory youtube stuff), it's like the body has a way of deciding what will be effective.
I would say the more terminally online and degraded into a bad feedback loop you are, the more likely yoga is to be effective. Qigong is somewhat intermediate, and then finally you have Tai Chi which is more likely to be effective to provide finishing touches of stability and control rather than providing a framework of it; I've always found that even when I give it a good shot, Tai chi does not do well with my terminally online patterns. Ironically, I've also noticed that when elderly people do Tai chi (which is a stereotype but ultimately true), it seems most of them would actually be better off with yoga. They do develop better balance and stability but it doesn't provide as much reversal of postural deformation that occurs with age in a typical human such as a dowager's hump et cetera. Tai chi does provide some of the same benefits for meditating (all three arts really are supposed to shortcut certain pathways in terms of mechanical leverage and breathing efficiency), but it provides much more mobility rather than flexibility. And when you're old and have limited mobility and flexibility, your ceiling for both mobility and flexibility is usually gonna be based a lot more around flexibility at its root.
All three of these arts overlap heavily btw. And as a side note, I've found that they also make drugs more enjoyable. That shouldn't be the reason to do them, but it's a side effect that can motivate you to keep doing it. Really the reason to do it should be inner peace first, and then physical formidability second. I would also argue that for a typical terminally online human, going to yoga once or twice a week is likely to be a lot more effective than physical therapy. once you start to understand kinesiology a little better, studying physical therapy can actually enhance your progress in yoga, but for most people it will be a waste of time and a waste of mental space.
TLDR: Yoga is probably the best art for incels, but they are all good. Denying the utility of these things as mysticism is understandable in a Western world but these arts have been used by celibate monks in asia for millennia
I don't practice all of these arts, just yoga, but I used to be very into Qigong. I think that practicing all three of them at once is not really possible. even if you can develop familiarity with all of them (assuming you have access to instruction around all three arts beyond just cursory youtube stuff), it's like the body has a way of deciding what will be effective.
I would say the more terminally online and degraded into a bad feedback loop you are, the more likely yoga is to be effective. Qigong is somewhat intermediate, and then finally you have Tai Chi which is more likely to be effective to provide finishing touches of stability and control rather than providing a framework of it; I've always found that even when I give it a good shot, Tai chi does not do well with my terminally online patterns. Ironically, I've also noticed that when elderly people do Tai chi (which is a stereotype but ultimately true), it seems most of them would actually be better off with yoga. They do develop better balance and stability but it doesn't provide as much reversal of postural deformation that occurs with age in a typical human such as a dowager's hump et cetera. Tai chi does provide some of the same benefits for meditating (all three arts really are supposed to shortcut certain pathways in terms of mechanical leverage and breathing efficiency), but it provides much more mobility rather than flexibility. And when you're old and have limited mobility and flexibility, your ceiling for both mobility and flexibility is usually gonna be based a lot more around flexibility at its root.
All three of these arts overlap heavily btw. And as a side note, I've found that they also make drugs more enjoyable. That shouldn't be the reason to do them, but it's a side effect that can motivate you to keep doing it. Really the reason to do it should be inner peace first, and then physical formidability second. I would also argue that for a typical terminally online human, going to yoga once or twice a week is likely to be a lot more effective than physical therapy. once you start to understand kinesiology a little better, studying physical therapy can actually enhance your progress in yoga, but for most people it will be a waste of time and a waste of mental space.
