The HIIT Yoga Workout

The HIIT Yoga Workout Will Satisfy All Your Calorie-Blasting

Rev those endorphins when you’re stressed AF.

The struggle is real: You crave the calorie-crushing results you get from high-intensity interval workouts, but you also love getting down with downward-facing dog. Enter Insta-famous trainer Alexis Novak, of Los Angeles, who created a solution for those “Which workout do I want?” dilemmas.

Meet: HIIT yoga. Instead of doing 30 minutes of HIIT work followed by 30 minutes of yoga, for example, Novak guides her clients (and nearly 20,000 Instagram followers) though hard cardio and strength-training bursts broken up by lengthening, relaxing cool-down-style moves.

But just because there’s an upward-facing dog on the other side of those burpees and mountain climbers doesn’t mean the workout is going to be easy. “Threading [yoga] with bursts of cardiovascular exercise revs up the caloric burn factor in half the time,” she says.

Novak recommends incorporating a HIIT/yoga-style workout into your regular routine three to four times per week—and she created this workout especially for Women’s Health. Get ready to sweat—and stretch!