Warm up and stretching

I'm discovering the importance of warm up and stretching. In the old days, before moving to Taiwan, I would simply launch into vigorous training with little or no warm up and rarely do any stretching. I had started to take an interest in stretching before I left the UK, but only in an experimental sense, not as part of my daily exercise routine.

Warm up and stretching prepare the body for exercise, which makes the tougher exercises easier to do and consequently more of a pleasure.

I'm learning how to respect my body a bit more these days, I hope, but it's hard sometimes to remember to do everything, especially if there is not much time in my daily schedule for everything. Life just gets in the way of doing good Taijiquan sometimes, but then that is all part of the challenge, right?