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6 Pre- and Post-Workout Stretches for Strength Training

By Chris Alfaro, CPT

A stretch specialist demonstrates how to use targeted stretching to prepare your muscles for and help them recover from a strength-training session.

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6 Unique Stretches to Add to Your Recovery Routine

By Emily Ewen

Improve your flexibility and mobility by mixing these stretches into your post-workout rotation.

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Reduced Pain, Injury Recovery, Athletic Advances, and More: 6 Dynamic Stretch Clients Share Real Results

By Katie Wahowske

A diverse group of Life Time members detail their success stories after working with a Dynamic Stretch Specialist.

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Level Up Your Favorite Cardio With These Strength and Mobility Moves

By Lauren Bedosky

The secret to stepping up your cardio game may not be doing more cardio, but rather adding strength and mobility training to your routine. These moves can complement your cardio exercise of choice — and improve your overall performance.

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5 Stretches to Promote Recovery and Stress Relief

By Chris Alfaro, CPT

A stretch specialist demonstrates a few moves that can relieve muscle tension and counter stress.

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Dynamic Duo: 3 Stretches to Do With a Partner

By Emily Ewen

A stretch specialist outlines the benefits of assisted stretching and demonstrates three options you can try with a partner.

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Sleep, Sweat, Repeat: 4 Workouts You Could Do Over and Over

By Callie Fredrickson

Experience Life‘s fitness editor weighs in on routines you could turn to time and time again.

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ONE HEALTHY HABIT: Sit on the Floor Daily

By Experience Life Staff

Support your health, mobility, and longevity by regularly getting down on the ground and then rising from it.

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6 Tips for Using a Standing Workstation

By Kelly Starrett, DPT, and Juliet Starrett

Consider these tips when you’re setting up a standing workstation.

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5 Healthy-Aging Benefits of Barre

By Emily Ewen

The creator of ARORA Barre on the advantages of this exercise format for active older adults.

Been Sitting Too Long? Try These 2 Moves

Been Sitting Too Long? Try These 2 Moves

By Kelly Starrett, DPT, and Juliet Starrett

You can do these two mobility exercises at or next to your desk to balance out the effects of sitting.

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How to Do the Reverse Burpee

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

This playful variation on a classic exercise delivers similar strength and cardio benefits — minus the pushup.

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5 Stretches to Help Your Pickleball Game

By Emily Ewen

A Dynamic Stretch Specialist on the importance of prioritizing your flexibility and mobility to reduce the risk of pickleball injuries.

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The Challenges of Self-Diagnosing Hypermobility

By Mo Perry

It may be tempting to self-diagnose a condition, but it’s best to find an experienced clinician. Here’s why.

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Why Treating Hypermobility Is Important to Your Overall Health

By Mo Perry

Hypermobility can lead to a host of health conditions and chronic pain. Here are some things to know and some treatment approaches to consider.

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What Are the 3 Phases of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder?

By Mo Perry

Researchers have outlined three distinct phases: hypermobility, pain, and joint stiffening.

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Which Health Conditions Are Associated With Hypermobility?

By Mo Perry

Fatigue, brain fog, digestive issues, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) are just some of the surprising health issues associated with hypermobile Ehlers-Danos syndrome.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Posture and Balance

By Emily Ewen

A Dynamic Personal Trainer offers tips for working on your posture and balance so you can reduce the risk of falling.

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What Is Hypermobility?

By Mo Perry

Learn about the difference between flexibility and hypermobility — as well as the associated health risks of hypermobility.

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Why Dynamic Stretch?

With Danny King, Master Trainer
Season 7, Episode 4

Dynamic Stretch is Life Time’s unique approach to one-on-one, assisted-stretch sessions — but what does this protocol actually entail? And how is working with a stretch specialist different than stretching on your own? Danny King, Master Trainer, explains Dynamic Stretch and the support it delivers for improved function, mobility, and performance.

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What Is Connective-Tissue Disorder?

By Mo Perry

We often think of flexibility as a mark of fitness, but for some, hypermobility can raise challenges — and signal a connective-tissue disorder that may involve a range of chronic health issues. Here’s what you need to know.

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