Health-Fitness Archives - Experience Life

- Fitness Tips -

Fit To Be Tied: A Couples’ Survival Guide

By Pilar Gerasimo

When it comes to health and fitness, are you and your sweetheart compatible, combative, or somewhere in between?

Sad little gingerbread man covering his face

- Food Culture -

Holiday Food Frustration

By Jon Spayde

With all the season’s celebratory meals and treat-heavy traditions, it can be hard to steer clear of unhealthy stuff. Here’s how to enjoy holiday meals while staying true to your own food values.

- Workouts -

‘Body Trainer for Men’

By Michael Dregni

Big muscles may look good on the surface, but true fitness goes all the way to the core.

- Fitness Tips -

TwoGrand: Reimagining the food journal, one photo at a time

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Pictures trump calorie-counting on TwoGrand, a recent addition to the bastion of food and exercise tracking apps.

- Fitness Tips -

How Exercise Keeps the Skin Young

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

New research shows that exercise cannot only prevent, but also reverse, signs of aging in the skin.

Bahram Akradi, founder, chairman, and CEO of Life Time — Healthy Way of Life

- Perspective by Bahram Akradi -

Race-Brain Retrospective

By Bahram Akradi

In the heat of the goal-seeking moment, it’s important not to let larger priorities get lost in the shuffle.

- Stress Relief -

Try a Healthy Dose of Lifestyle

By Experience Life Community Manager

A study by Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, found that making lifestyle changes can be as effective as drugs at treating depression and other mental health disorders.

- Personal Development -

The Ways of the Worried Well

By Pilar Gerasimo

These days, frankly, if you’re not at least a little concerned about your health, you’re probably not paying attention.

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Behind the Scenes With Tony Sanneh (Video)

By Experience Life Staff

Soccer great Tony Sanneh talks about helping kids succeed through the Sanneh Foundation.

- Personal Development -

Time Off for Good Behavior

By Joe Robinson

Are you measuring your worth by what you get done? Here’s why it’s time to give your productivity-seeking a rest, and go in search of some fun instead.

- Sports/Recreation -

After 18 years of playing professional soccer, Tony Sanneh retired from the sport in 2010. But “retired” is hardly a word that describes this world soccer great. A native of St. Paul, Minn., he established The Sanneh Foundation, a nonprofit organization, in 2003; its purpose is to provide positive environments – including soccer clinics and camps – for urban youth in America. We caught up with Sanneh by phone to find out more about his projects and passions.

- Community -

Four Happy Places

By Courtney Helgoe

For as little as these locations have in common, they share one delightful trait: Their residents rate among the happiest in the world. Find out what they know, and what they can teach the rest of us, about living well.

- General Health -

How Renewable Is Your Energy?

By Pilar Gerasimo

Until we better master the art of cultivating renewable, sustainable health and vitality for ourselves, we’ll have a hard time respecting the principles on which all sustainable energy production depends.

- Personal Development -

An Exercise in Self-Discipline

By Experience Life Community Manager

How self control in one area can help in other areas.

- Fitness Tips -

Group Effort

By Gina DeMillo Wagner

The best fitness classes don’t just offer physical challenge. They serve up support, community and loads of motivation. But how can you tell a great class from a merely good one. Here are the four factors that matter most . . .

- Personal Development -

An Appetite for Integrity

By Pilar Gerasimo

It makes me happy to see that a growing number of us have lost interest in dog pills slathered in peanut butter. We’re hungry, instead, for the unvarnished, nutritious truth.