Guided health exercises are health exercises based on martial arts.

Zhang Guangde, the founder of Health Guide, was admitted to Beijing Institute of Physical Education (now Beijing Sport University) on 1955, and studied martial arts under Zhang Wenguang. 1974 He got lung cancer and soon got blood disease. Because of his allergic symptoms, he couldn't take medicine, and his life was in a serious crisis.

To this end, he studied hard and finally created a set of guiding health exercises with obvious medical pertinence in the mid-1970s. Not only cured his own disease, but also spread to all parts of the world.

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Guided by the philosophy of Yi-ology of TCM, the theory of meridians, the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, and the theory of Qi and blood, Professor Zhang created and compiled a guiding health-keeping system for the purpose of strengthening the body and preventing and treating chronic diseases, and won the National Sports Science and Technology Progress Award with 1992.

At present, guided body-building exercises have entered the undergraduate and graduate classes of Beijing Sport University and become a characteristic course of Beijing Sport University. 1996 has been identified as the first batch of national fitness program promotion projects by the state, and has been popularized in more than 60 countries and regions.

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