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6 Treadmill Workouts for Heart-Rate Zone Training
Improve your endurance, performance, and recovery with workouts tailored to your heart-rate zones.
Does Shame Actually Motivate You to Get Healthy?
As it turns out, feeling bad about yourself isn’t a great catalyst for change. Here’s what works instead.
Boston Marathon Winner and Olympian Des Linden on Discipline, Resilience, and the Road to Greatness
Linden offers valuable insights into the mental and physical aspects of running, including offering strategies for balancing training, overcoming setbacks, and adapting to challenges.
Exercise Rewires Your Body — At the Molecular Level
Exercise affects health at the deepest level. Learn more.
What It’s Really Like to Do an Active Metabolic Assessment
A Life Time team member shares her firsthand account of taking this informative test.
What to Know About the Active Metabolic Assessment at Life Time
How this test can provide individualized insights to make workouts more efficient and effective.
What Counts as Strength Training?
Study after study shows that strength is essential for long-term health. But what are the most efficient ways to get stronger?
How Can I Use My Apple Watch for Heart-Rate Training at Life Time?
For smarter workouts, pair your Apple Watch with the Life Time app and bring them into your GTX and Alpha classes.
Curiosity, Courage, and Connection: Lessons From a Mother-Daughter Hybrid Fitness Competition
Hear about one woman’s experience competing in a hybrid fitness competition with her 82-year-old mother and the lessons she learned from it, including the transformative power of facing challenges at any age.
Why Drinking Less Alcohol Is Important for Fitness
Learn why limiting your alcohol consumption matters for reaching your fitness goals.
Can Stress Really Affect the Results of My Workouts?
Learn when stress helps your body get stronger — and when it holds you back.
4 Ways to Move Your Body That Won’t Spike Your Cortisol
High-intensity training isn’t the only way to achieve fitness progress. These tips can help you balance those efforts with exercises that promote cortisol regulation, allowing you to reap the many benefits of active recovery.
Train Hard, Recover Harder: Advice for Bouncing Back (Performance & Longevity Series)
Learn lifestyle strategies for supporting your recovery — whether you’re training intensely or coming back from an injury.
Why Hydration Is So Important for Fitness
Learn why drinking adequate water matters for reaching your fitness goals and how to ensure you’re getting enough.
5 Common Fitness Goals for Spring
A Dynamic Personal Trainer outlines common fitness goals for spring and offers advice for reaching them.
Why Eating More Plant-Based Food Is Important for Fitness
Learn why plant-based foods matter for reaching your fitness goals and how to ensure you’re getting enough.
Setting Intentions and World Records: Meet Life Time Performer Austin Head
Two-time Guinness World Record holder Austin Head discusses how his holistic training philosophy and intentional approach to fitness inspire transformative change.
Why Eating Enough Protein Is So Important for Fitness
Learn why protein matters for reaching your fitness goals and how to ensure you’re getting enough.
Spring Forward: 7 Expert-Inspired Fitness Shifts for the Season
Consider adding these habits to your routine so you’re ready for the warmer months ahead.
Ask the Experts: Your Fitness and Nutrition Questions, Answered
Two Life Time experts join us to answer some of the common fitness and nutrition questions they hear from clients.
Why Eating Enough Is Important for Fitness
Learn why consuming enough — and the right type of — calories matters for reaching your fitness goals.