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A 10-Minute Upper-Body Workout

By Nicole Radziszewski

Try this quick and effective upper-body workout designed to strengthen the major muscle groups of your chest, shoulders, arms, and upper back.

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How to Flow Through Sun Salutation

By Emily Ewen

A guide to the movements and poses inside the flow of sun salutation A.

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A 10-Minute Core Workout

By Nicole Radziszewski

Short on time? Try this 10-minute workout to strengthen your deep core muscles and obliques.

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8 Beginner Strength-Training Moves for Body-Composition Change

By Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT

Resistance training is an essential part of any fitness routine. These exercises can help boost metabolism and support fat loss.

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Three 10-Minute Workouts to Build a Full-Body Strength Routine

By Nicole Radziszewski

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.

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The Joint-Friendly Water Workout

By Emily Ewen

These pool-based cardio and strength exercises are easy on your joints — and all together add up to good workout.

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4 Antirotation Exercises to Build Core Strength

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Antirotational exercises can improve alignment and core stability. Consider adding one of these moves to your next workout.

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6 Dynamic Core Training Exercises

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Rotation and antirotation are vital for injury prevention and athletic performance. Incorporate both with this dynamic core routine.

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Barre Arms: Sculpt Your Upper Body With These 6 Exercises

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Harness these dance-inspired, low-impact barre-arm exercises to build upper-body strength and endurance.

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5 Moves You’ll See in ARORA Tai Chi

By Emily Ewen

Learn about the benefits of this practice — and a few of the moves you’ll do in class.

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Sprints, Strength, and Balance: A Look at Ultra Fit Training

With Mechelle Lewis Freeman, Olympian and Ultra Fit Coach
Season 6, Episode 13

The blend of sprinting with strength and balance work makes Ultra Fit training unique in its ability to improve your functional fitness and push you to your athletic limits. It’s also why Bahram Akradi, the founder and CEO of Life Time and developer of this format, describes Ultra Fit as one of the “most efficient, effective workouts.” In this episode, track and field Olympian and Ultra Fit Coach Mechelle Lewis Freeman digs into the science behind the training and explains how it’s designed to challenge your body and brain through every stage of life.

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The Gardener’s Workout: 7 Functional Moves to Prevent Injury

By Heidi Wachter

Gardening is a great workout, but it may cause a lot of wear and tear on the body. These moves can help you tackle yard projects big and small.

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20-Minute 60day Workout to Get You Stronger

By The Life Time Health Team

In this sample Sweat Session you’ll perform three movements for four rounds, going down in reps and up in weights as you go, before finishing with a core block.

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Your First Week of Workouts at Life Time

By Emily Ewen

A Dynamic Personal Trainer’s seven-day guide to jump-start your fitness if you’re new to or restarting a club routine.

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6 Exercises for Shoulder Pain

By Lauren Bedosky

Performing this combination of strength and mobility exercises will help ease shoulder pain, make everyday tasks easier, and even improve athletic performance.

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6 Exercises to Help You Get Down on the Floor — and Up off the Floor — With Ease

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Have you done a sit-stand test? The ability to get up off the floor with minimal support is a marker of longevity. Practice these moves to improve flexibility, balance, motor coordination, and muscle power.

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How to Use a Foam Roller to Build Strength

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Foam rollers aren’t just for recovery. This innovative workout shows how to use the tool to elevate your strength routine.

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9 Do-Anywhere Stretches to Ease Back Pain

By Dr. Reza Alizadeh

Try these neck, shoulder, and back stretches when you’re feeling achy.

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Split Training: An Upper-Body and Lower-Body Strength Workout

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Hone your strength — and optimize your recovery — by splitting your workouts into upper-body and lower-body training days. These two workouts show you how.

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Fit + Focused

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Break through your fitness plateau and build upper-body strength with this tempo-based workout.

A father and daughter doing a workout at home together.

The After-School Workout

By Callie Fredrickson

Once the final bell of the school day rings, encourage your kids to get moving and burn off some energy with this 30-minute workout.

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