Yoga is great for activating slow-twitch muscle fibres, which builds endurance.

It’s awesome for helping your body to cleanse itself and also builds flexibility, balance, and peacefulness.

 

Even if the flow is faster, yoga simply doesn’t target your fast-twitch muscles, which you need for muscle definition, gains in all-around strength.

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Yoga does not provide enough impact, which improves bone and joint health.

A yoga practice alone also does not get your heart rate up enough to trigger true cardiovascular optimization, fat and calorie burn, and a raise in your metabolic rate.

Yoga is a wonderful spiritual and movement discipline, but it is only a partial exercise form, and anyone who tells you differently is ignoring science.

Enter HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). This is where you do short, super-intense bursts of movement with a very high heart rate.

If you are doing HIIT correctly, you go all-out, for your body’s ability, for the duration of the activity. Then you rest, but not for enough time to recover. 20 seconds activity, 10 seconds rest. 8 rounds of this, totalling 4 minutes, per exercise for a total of 32 minutes and you’re done.

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You also cause your body to do incredible things: strengthen, burn calories and fat, and optimize cardio health as if you worked out for an hour or two!
Science proves that a few minutes of HIIT switches on your body as if it’s exercised for hours a week. It’s incredible.

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The Yoga Shred™ is the first program to blend yoga mindfulness with HIIT, and it continues to be the most popular with teachers and students alike. It's not only  effective—it’s fierce, fun and empowering!