Yoga Beats Simple Stretching As A Cardio Exercise Supplement: Best Of: Dec, 2022
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Fifteen minutes of structured yoga added to a half-hour aerobic exercise program more effectively tones your cardiovascular system than 15 minutes of stretching added to vigorous exercise. Researchers at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute demonstrated this phenomenon in 60 individuals with high blood pressure over a 3 month period.
Those with yoga added to their exercise program enjoyed a greater reduction in their systolic blood pressures, reduced resting heart rates, lower lipid levels, reduced blood glucose, and a lower assessed 10 year risk of cardiovascular disease.
So far, the investigators cannot explain the mechanism of yoga’s superiority to simple stretching, but studies are ongoing.
https://www.onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-282X(22)00892-3/fulltext