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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.
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.
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.
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.
Why Lunges?
Lunges are a fundamental movement for strengthening muscles from your waist down. Yet because they appear easier to perform than they actually are, many people do too many too soon and end up discouraged or with lower-back or knee injuries. Alec Blenis, CPT, CSCS, explains why this move is a staple in strength and conditioning programs and how to add lunges into your routine in a safe and beneficial way.
Tips to Make the Most of Your Walk
While walking may seem like a simple and natural movement, there are things to keep in mind to ensure that you get the most out of your walk and avoid injury. Read on to learn more.