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Ask Coach Anika: How Do I Exercise During a Detox?
Advice for continuing your workouts while participating in Life Time’s D.TOX program.
5 Fitness Trends to Watch
Forget flash-in-the-pan exercise fads. These sustainable, accessible movements are already shaping the future of fitness.
Is It Safe to Exercise Outdoors When the Air Quality Is Bad?
Athletes are particularly susceptible to the effects of air pollution. Here’s what you need to know about working out outside — as well as how to protect yourself.
A Teen Fitness Guide
The young adult’s guide to getting strong, fast, and fit.
A 5-Step Plan for Starting a New Workout Routine
Getting into a workout routine can be difficult, especially if you’re new to it or have hit pause for a while. Lindsay Ogden, CPT, shares her secret steps for success that anyone can follow to begin — or begin again — and that can set them up for consistent and long-lasting fitness progress.
How to Take Your Favorite Outdoor Fitness Activities Indoors
Continue pursuing or strengthening your abilities for the warm-weather activities you love in the off season.
Is Your Inner Voice Self-Sabotaging Your Fitness Efforts?
Experience Life‘s fitness editor shares how Sesame Street’s Grover inspires her to push a little harder and finish stronger. Can he inspire you too?
7 Things to Consider Before Starting a Workout Routine
Dynamic Personal Trainers share their advice for setting yourself up for success.
30 Minutes at Life Time
Ideas for making the most of your time at the club when you only have 30 minutes to spare.
8 Strength Exercises for Pickleball Players
These workout-floor movements can increase your strength and mobility, safeguard against injury, and improve your pickleball prowess on the court.
5 Tips for Safely Exercising in the Summer Heat
Recommendations from two Dynamic Personal Trainers for working out when it’s hot outside.
9 Tips for Great Workouts Even When You’re Short on Time
Life Time performers share their advice for maximizing your fitness efforts when you’re in a time crunch.
Expert Answers: What’s the Difference Between Active and Passive Recovery?
A Dynamic Personal Trainer explains these recovery types — and why both are important for optimal fitness.
Expert Answers: Why Do I Feel So Good After a Workout?
A Dynamic Personal Trainer weighs in on the physiology behind the mood-boosting feelings post-exercise.
How to Do the Man Maker Exercise
This full-body complex combines three strength exercises to create an intense cardio effect.
The Benefits of Backward Walking
Walking or jogging in reverse improves stability, balance, coordination, and cognitive function. Learn more.
How to Flow Through Sun Salutation
A guide to the movements and poses inside the flow of sun salutation A.
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.
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.