Watching a Daoyin in martial art video again today from the Traditional studies website (http://traditionalstudies.org/Internal_Cultivation/Internal_Cultivation_Welcome)., I cant help but think about what is physically happening while you are standing for blood and standing for Qi.
According to Andrew, standing for blood require you to turn you limb similar to wringing a towel while stretching all body parts away from each other. While standing for Qi, you relax your muscle and solft tissue as much as possible while keeping the posture with minimal muscular force.
Standing for blood, you are basically stretching your muscle and tendon in a spiral manner. This would be similar to pulling a rubber band, which is your tendon and muscle, really hard. Doing so probably causes a automatically respond of the body to toughen up the tendon, muscle, and fascia , as everyone know that micro tear int the muscle/tendon from any type of work out will cause the body to make a stronger replacement afterward
Standing for Qi, on the other hand, you are require to relax but still keep the correct posture. This encourage you to focus on your bone structure. Having bones line up in a way that gravity pull them directly down to the ground with the least muscle intervention. Therefor, teaching your bones to line up in the most efficient manner. This probably will come to play when you try to push or receive a push from someone. As transferring the force to the ground and generating a linear force is basically depending on how well all bones the body in the body line up.
I cant help but think about the Taichi of this practice, the yin (the tendon) and the yang (the bone). It is also inline with the saying that after a long time of practice, you should have a solid bone and tough tendon.
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