For Dr A. Sharath Reddy, fitness is not about aesthetics or step counts. It is about clarity. Precision. Calmness under pressure. As Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Director of Cardiac Cath Lab, CTO & Complex Coronary Interventions, TAVR & Structural Heart Diseases at Medicover Hospitals, his days involve navigating some of the most delicate and demanding procedures in modern medicine. “Yoga first, Heartfulness meditation second, every single morning, no exceptions,” says Dr Reddy. “It is not a lifestyle choice for me. It is a professional one.”
By the time he reaches the hospital each morning, his day has already been grounded in silence and routine. “A day that begins with learning, not just doing, is always a better day,” he says. Unlike many doctors who squeeze fitness into impossible schedules, Dr Reddy keeps his routine remarkably simple. No gym memberships. No marathon running. Just yoga.
“Yoga done with genuine intention builds something no treadmill can replicate, sustained inner steadiness,” he explains. “I perform procedures that last two to three hours and involve millimetre-level decisions inside a human heart. That requires a very specific quality of focus.” That focus, he believes, comes as much from mental discipline as physical health. It is also why Heartfulness meditation has become central to his life and medical philosophy.
“Stress and anxiety are not abstract problems. They have measurable physiological consequences.”
His approach to food follows the same disciplined logic. Dr Reddy eats only two meals a day, breakfast and dinner, with no snacking in between except green tea or black coffee. A vegetarian for years, he follows a low-carbohydrate, high-protein, low-fat diet. Dinner is always before 7 pm.
“Eating late is one of the most underrated contributors to metabolic disease. I cannot advise my patients one thing and live another way myself,” he says.
But he is equally clear that balance matters. Once a month, he breaks routine for pizza and ice cream with his children. “One day, joy. The other days, discipline,” he says with a smile. “A life lived entirely on protocol is not a life.”
Sundays, meanwhile, are reserved for slowing down. His mornings are often spent at Kanha Shanti Vanam, the Heartfulness meditation centre on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Afternoons mean something even rarer for a busy cardiologist, a proper two-hour nap.
“That is my one genuine luxury of the week,” he says. Music is another form of therapy. When he wants to completely disconnect from hospital life, he turns to Ilaiyaraaja.
“There is something extraordinary about his music,” Dr Reddy says. “The layering, the emotion, the balance between classical structure and intuition. Everything else simply quiets down.”
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