Belinda Koo knows the importance of a healthy heart - and she's on a mission to make sure Hongkongers do, too.
When she was just five, her father died of a heart attack and, years later as a mother of two young children, faced her own heart troubles. Fearful of history repeating, she made radical changes and embraced a daily workout regime.
She soon found herself building fitness as well as resolve. She believes a daily dose of exercise is transformational, for our minds and our hearts.
Fitness is important in our lives, not just physically, but in the way it trains the mind.
Ten years on, the managing director in private wealth management at UBS is also a master of her own fitness enterprise - XYZ indoor cycling studio in Central. One of the greatest forms of cardio for heart health, the studio features a darkened cave-like theatre with 48 bikes, mesmerising music and incorporates weights for upper-body strength.
"It's like a party with your friends and with music," she says. "You need to have a strong heart, and to find a way to build one in an enjoyable way."
She discovered the hip cycling trend while travelling in New York two years ago. Within six months, her handpicked team had opened the doors.
"I always thought indoor cycling could be better. I didn't like being in glass rooms, being distracted by watching others or feeling like I was being looked at, and I didn't always like the choice of music," she says.
"I wanted a place where people would accept cardio as a way of exercise that wasn't boring or difficult."