who wakes up early and practices there internal arts and qigong? have you been to china and seen the hundreds of practioners in the morning? it is quite and amazing spectacle. here in america you never see something like that, it even makes you look crazy in the morning here if you do taiji or pakua in a park. The chinese think that the morning breathing has the best time to cultivate 'chi'. science had proven this that the air has more oxygen cause of the plants giving off more O2.
what do you practice in the morning? i find bagua to wake my body up alot more than taiji, but taiji with balance my circulation that bagua woke up.