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  Boost Heart Health: 5-Minute Cardio Routine for Yoga Practitioners

In just 5 minutes, you can significantly improve your cardiovascular health and overall well-being. Yoga practitioner? Here’s a quick and efficient cardio routine to bolster your heart and lung capacity, activate metabolism, and reduce stress, recommended by Yoga and Welfare Expert Xuan Lan.

While strength and muscle mass are essential, let’s not forget the importance of cardio exercises for maintaining a healthy heart and lungs. As Xuan Lan reminds us, “We talk a lot about strength and muscle mass, but we cannot forget the heart.

Incorporating cardio into your yoga practice can help:

• Strengthen your heart and lungs
• Improve cardiorespiratory capacity
• Lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases
• Activate metabolism and regulate blood sugar
• Reduce stress and improve mood by releasing endorphins

Add these 5 exercises to the end of your yoga class before Savasana for an instant cardio boost. Perform 10 repetitions of each exercise, or work for 45 seconds per exercise with 15 seconds of rest. Modify and increase the intensity by adding squats to the core exercise or elevating your knee in lunges.

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Raise a knee to the elbow of the same side, tilting your trunk to approach them. Squat and stand for added intensity.

Perform lunges with medium pace to accelerate the pulse. Add a forward knee raise for balance and intensity.

Alternate knees to chest at a medium pace, then transition to mountain climbers with an accelerated rhythm.

Work both sides independently by lifting or touching the side with your knee.

March 25, 2023