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5 Safety Tips for Cold Conditioning
Cold conditioning offers a variety of health benefits, but it’s important to stay safe when it’s cold outside. Here’s how.
The Exercise and Movement Guide to Supporting Your Immune System
Learn how exercise and movement can help support your body’s immune system. Plus, get a four-week, immune-friendly strength workout plan.
How to Mix Up the Pull-Up
Personalize your strength routine with these variations on one of your favorite moves.
Straight From the Coaches: Your Health & Fitness Questions, Answered
What do I do if I’m not seeing results? How often do I need to exercise? How many calories should I be eating? Life Time coaches Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, and Lindsay Ogden, CPT, join us to answer the most common health and fitness questions they hear from our members — including these ones and more.
5 Steps to Develop Cold Tolerance
This breathing technique from Wim Hof can help with cold conditioning.
How to Mix Up the Barbell Back Squat
Personalize your strength routine with these variations on one of your favorite lower-body moves.
How to Mix Up the Bench Press
Personalize your strength routine with these variations on one of your favorite lifts.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: How to Use a Fitness Device Mindfully
Our fitness editor shares how she listens to her body instead of obsessing over device-driven goals.
Why Recovery?
The better and faster you can recover, the more progress you can ultimately make with your fitness — and the healthier you’ll move and feel. In this mini episode, Danny King, Master Trainer at Life Time, explains the difference between system and muscle recovery, and the ways we can optimize our efforts for each.
How to Mix Up the Overhead Press
Personalize your strength routine with these variations on one of your favorite upper-body lifts.
How to Mix Up the Barbell Deadlift
Personalize your strength routine with these variations on one of your favorite lower-body lifts.
Thyroid Health: How to Identify Imbalances + Tips for Support
Thyroid issues are prevalent: An estimated one in seven people are affected, with even more suffering from an imbalance — and many not even aware that their thyroid is behind their symptoms. Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, shares the signals our thyroid might be sending us, the tests to ask for, and the lifestyle habits we can implement in our daily lives to nourish and support our thyroids.
Exercise: A Promising Factor for Protecting Against COVID
A regular fitness routine may help protect those diagnosed with COVID against hospitalization and even death.
How to Mix Up Your Strength Routine
There’s no need to muscle through the same old weight workouts. Personalize your strength routine with these variations on your favorite lifts.
Get Flexible: Ideas for Embracing a Hybrid Approach to Fitness
Personal trainers offer tips for integrating both onsite and virtual fitness programming to create a routine that works for you.
The Standing Ab Workout
Tired of crunches? These six dynamic moves can build a strong, functional core.
5 Fitness Mistakes — and How to Avoid Them
Skipping warm-ups, not having a plan, and other common workout blunders.
How to Do Jumping Jacks
Finesse your form on this classic calisthenic move to amp up its cardio benefits. Explore one of its many variations for a playful and dynamic workout.
4 Rotational Stretches to Ease Back Tension
Rotate your spine safely — and reduce back tension — with these four stretches.
The Health Benefits of Cold Conditioning
Cold exposure and conditioning may offer a range of health benefits, from mood stabilization to metabolic improvements.
Three Movements, Six Ways: How to Modify Staple Exercises
Step-by-step guidance for ways to build up your ability to do the movements or add challenge once you’ve mastered the originals.