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The Importance of Maintaining Mobility as You Age
Mobility is a critical component of aging well. Experts explain how to maintain it for the long haul.
8 Beginner Strength-Training Moves for Body-Composition Change
Resistance training is an essential part of any fitness routine. These exercises can help boost metabolism and support fat loss.
What Are Some of the Latest Rules Around Health Club Etiquette?
Our fitness editor reflects on how to make health clubs more welcoming for everyone.
How Positive Emotions Supercharge the Effects of Exercise
Psychologist Kelly McGonigal, PhD, on how a joyful approach to exercise can help people reach their fitness goals more easily.
Life Time in the News: “His Doctor Said He Wouldn’t Make it to 50 Years Old — So He Lost 230 Pounds”
How a doctor’s visit prompted this Life Time member to start a transformational weight-loss journey.
How to Do Lateral Raises
Optimize your lateral raise technique to get the most out of this shoulder-isolation exercise and its many variations.
Three 10-Minute Workouts to Build a Full-Body Strength Routine
Low on time, energy, or motivation? Try fitness stacking. Combining 10-minute bursts of activity might be just the trick you need to get moving.
Behind the Scenes With Mechelle Lewis Freeman (Video)
Go behind the with scenes of Olympian Mechelle Lewis Freeman’s cover shoot for Experience Life magazine as she talks about inspiring people to move — now and throughout their lives.
How Do You Play Skinny Singles Pickleball?
This one-on-one pickleball variation can be a method of practice for improving your skills.
The Joint-Friendly Water Workout
These pool-based cardio and strength exercises are easy on your joints — and all together add up to good workout.
7 Tips to Build Your Gut Health and Enhance Athletic Performance
A healthy gut can enhance athletic performance. Here are three nutritional strategies to boost gut health.
3 Moves You’ll See in MAXOUT Lower Body
Exercises to strengthen and stabilize your lower body.
4 Antirotation Exercises to Build Core Strength
Antirotational exercises can improve alignment and core stability. Consider adding one of these moves to your next workout.
The Mind-Body Connection: Tapping in to Mindfulness Through Movement
The mind-body connection refers to how our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and feelings either positively or negatively influence our physical bodies — and vice versa. It can be a truly powerful resource to tap into. In this episode, Jessie Syfko explains more about this connection, the benefits it provides, how we can grow it, and the integral relationship it has to our fitness efforts.
From Antiaging to Proaging
As she approaches a milestone birthday, our fitness editor considers her motivation to keep moving.
Everything to Know About Pilates at Life Time
A Pilates expert explains the basics of this practice and how to work it into your routine.
How Your Gut Microbiome Can Affect Your Athletic Performance
Research is beginning to shed light on the relationship between the gut microbiome and improved athletic performance. Discover how these two seemingly unrelated factors are connected.
Why Using a Personal Trainer Can Help You Reach Your Fitness Goals
Working with a personal trainer can transform your health-and-fitness efforts. Find the right one to work with — and make some fitness progress as a team.
Spring Training: A Time to Go for New Goals
Inspiration for pursuing your spring fitness routine from Life Time Dynamic Personal Trainers.
How Walking Strengthens Your Heart and Lungs
For more cardiovascular benefits, you can increase your pace and walk up and down hills.
How to Do the Donkey Kick
Build strength and stability with this low-impact lower-body move.