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Why Resting During Your Workout Matters
Optimizing how you rest during your workout can help you reach your fitness goals. Here’s why.
How Daily Movement Helps With Better Sleep
Physical activity during the day can lead to quality sleep, according to a recent study.
8 Powerful Ways Exercise Benefits the Brain
The benefits of physical activity are more than muscle-deep. Moving your body builds and conditions your gray matter, making you smarter, happier, and more resilient.
Train Your Brain — and Improve Your Sports Performance — With Neuro Optimization
The next frontier in athletic performance? Neurological optimization. Here’s why.
5 Tips to Help Overcome Clumsiness
There are all sorts of reasons you might be clumsy. Here are some expert tips to help build balance, body awareness, and motor control.
5 Common Mistakes People New to Fitness Make
A Dynamic Personal Trainer offers advice for combating these blunders when beginning a new workout regimen.
How to Add 30 More Minutes of Movement to Your Day
A Life Time Master Trainer shares the health benefits of moving your body beyond your daily workout, along with practical tips for integrating more activity into your routine.
Embracing Intuitive Movement
Our fitness editor reflects on learning to listen to her body during exercise.
30 Days to a Stronger You: All About the 30 Strong Challenge
Learn how this results-driven program can transform your habits and help you sustain your health and fitness long after the challenge ends.
6 Tips for Choosing Workout Wear That Works for You
Feel comfortable and confident while you’re exercising with this advice from a group fitness coach.
100 Ways to Move More as a Family
Movement connects and brings us together, cutting across generational lines and sparking joy and camaraderie. Give some of these ideas a go as you get active with your family, friends, and community.
A Week in the Life of a 20-Something Who’s New to Life Time
How our editorial intern makes the most of her membership and builds a healthy-lifestyle routine.
Ask the Trainers: Your Fitness Questions, Answered (Part Two)
Two Dynamic Personal Trainers join us to answer some common fitness questions they hear from clients.
6 Beginner Moves Using Vibration Plate Training
A Life Time Dynamic Personal Trainer explains the benefits of the Power Plate — and demonstrates how to use the machine.
How to Create a Diverse Movement Diet
Learn about Bowman’s concept of the “Movement Diet” and how anyone can improve the health of their movement plan by being thoughtful about “movement calories,” “movement macronutrients,” and “movement micronutrients.”
5 Mental Health Benefits of Group Fitness Classes
Life Time class performers share how attending group fitness classes can boost your mental and emotional well-being.
How to Create a Movement Plan You Love
Biomechanist Katy Bowman, author of the new book, My Perfect Movement Plan, explains why one-size-fits-all exercise programs don’t work — and shares a self-assessment activity to begin building a purposeful, meaningful, and functional fitness plan.
6 Ways to Level Up in Your Favorite Fitness Classes
Advice from Life Time performers for improving your fitness and making progress in group fitness classes.
Strong Summer: 6 Tips for Building Strength in the Sunny Season
Advice for enjoying the summer season while working toward your strength-training goals from two Dynamic Personal Trainers at Life Time.
How Functional Neurology Can Improve Fitness Performance — For Everyday Athletes and Professionals Alike
Performing well in fitness endeavors takes consistent effort — yet even with persistent dedication, there may be underlying causes preventing you from performing at your best.
3 Fitness Tests That Can Offer Insights About Your Potential Longevity
The ability to perform these simple tests can be predicative of overall health.