Whatever works. Even if it comes from aerobics, physical therapy, tap dancing, or ballet.
Don't dismiss western physical culture exercises because they may seem crude, like a waste of energy meant for developing brute muscular size and aesthetic appearance for Narcissistic beauty contests, far beyond what is needed for practical daily functional strength and optimal health. If you do those crude looking exercises with a taiji qigong and yoga mentality, prioritizing jhana and taiji principles, then what superficially looks like a crude body builder exercise can be repurposed into an amazing blissful, refined, jhanic qigong.
What you gain is a valuable range of motion and form missing from taiji, qigong, and yoga. Many extremely useful exercises are not in qigong and yoga because they look un-elegant, crude, and even plain ugly.
Alphabetical, by topic
No body is paying me anything or offering any type of incentive for me to endorse any modality. I'm just giving objective opinions here on experiences (good and bad) that I've had.
the principle of alternating forward and backward bending of the spine, as well as all other directions of spinal flexing (left, right, and everywhere in between)
chi running
see qigor slow jogging
earthing
https://www.earthing.com/what-is-earthing/
I've gotten good results from the practice. When weather permits, probaby 80% of the year for me, I spend at least 60 minutes daily doing barefoot walking in contact with earth, usually while doing taiji, yoga, etc. There's some interesting science on this, if you read the book, examples such as tour de france cyclists recovering from fatigue and injuries faster, during the race. Has to do with electrical earth contact filling in electrons and reducing inflammation in the body.
the principle of alternating forward and backward bending of the spine, as well as all other directions of spinal flexing (left, right, and everywhere in between)
jump ropes
This is a fantastic exercise that works all kinds of areas. Cardio, hand eye coordination, whole body coordination, etc. I like to do a few minutes of this, after I've been primed and warmed up from qigor slow jogging.
Kicks for hips
🦵🦶Kicks for hips:
Kicking drills to open up hips and give them full range of motion.
qigor slow jogging
will write a separate section on this important topic later. I do at least 30min a day of this. My version is different than the Japanese professor's "slow jogging science".
olympic runner in barefoot relaxed training mode, not slow at all, but good model to study for good mechanics and relaxed natural movement.