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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, including taking ice baths, 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.
Fitness Data Explained
Wearable fitness devices collect a lot of information. Learn how to make the most of yours.
Meet Your Studio, Cycle & Yoga Performers: Three Experts to Motivate Your Workouts
Plus, learn to move like these performers with their signature moves.
The True Source of a Runner’s High?
Could endocannabinoids —not endorphins — be the answer?
The Nature Cure
Discover nine ways that being in nature can help ease depression and hypertension and improve resiliency and immunity.
A Holistic Approach to Health — and Weight Loss
When it comes to building optimal health — including goals like losing weight — fitness and nutrition are often the two main factors that are associated with results. But there are many other lifestyle behaviors that influence your ability to reach and sustain your goals. Anika Christ, RD, CPT, joins us to take a comprehensive look, offering strategies for better health as a whole — and weight loss as a byproduct.
3-Week Indoor Cycle-Training Workout
A beginner’s plan to train your body for a one-hour cycle ride.
How to Do Side Plank
Boost your lateral stability, core strength, and overall balance by personalizing this body-weight training staple. Take it to the next level with two challenging variations.
The Chipper Workout
This high-volume workout will challenge your strength, conditioning, and mental stamina.
Why Modifying Your Workouts Is Key to Long-Term Fitness Success
How our fitness editor personalizes her routine to make exercises easier, harder, smarter, and all-around better.
6 Steps to Create a Fitness Routine You’ll Love
Here’s how to find a fitness routine that resonates with you.
4 Trapezius Muscle Stretches to Relieve Pain
Release tension in your neck and shoulders with these simple exercises.
Staying Fit in College
A chaotic class schedule doesn’t have to mean a non-existent exercise plan. Learn how the Life Time app can support your healthy-living efforts.
How Do I Start Working Out?
Four of Life Time’s Master Trainers share their go-to strategies for making fitness progress — whether you’re picking up your routine again or starting fresh.
Why Small Habit Changes Might Not Work For Everyone
While one-habit-at-a-time methods can be useful for some, many times a more holistic overhaul may be a more successful approach for getting you to your goal.