Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a secondary prevention intervention offered to promote cardiac recovery by reducing morbidity, mortality, and disability. As such, CR has been recognized as integral to the comprehensive care of patients with cardiovascular disease, and, in most current guidelines of cardiovascular societies globally, CR is a class I recommendation. At first, the standard “cardiac rehabilitation” approach focused almost exclusively on supervised exercise, since many previous studies had confirmed a positive impact of regular physical activities on cardiac outcomes. […]