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The Importance of Maintaining Mobility as You Age
Mobility is a critical component of aging well. Experts explain how to maintain it for the long haul.
Strength, Mobility, Balance: Introducing ARORA Fit
A Q&A with the creators of the new signature group training format that’s designed for active older adults.
How Can a Chiropractor Help Me Reach My Fitness Goals?
A LifeClinic practitioner explains the connections between regular, preventative chiropractic care and fitness progress.
How to Relieve a Stiff Neck
Simple strategies for addressing and preventing discomfort in your neck.
6 Exercises to Help You Get Down on the Floor — and Up off the Floor – With Ease
Have you done a sit-stand test? The ability to get up off the floor with minimal support is a marker of longevity. Practice these moves to improve flexibility, balance, motor coordination, and muscle power.
BREAK IT DOWN: The Arm Bar
Improve shoulder and thoracic-spine mobility with this unilateral move.
9 Do-Anywhere Stretches to Ease Back Pain
Try these neck, shoulder, and back stretches when you’re feeling achy.
BREAK IT DOWN: The Spinal Rock
Use this fun drill to mobilize your spine, massage your back, strengthen your core, and prevent injury.
Becoming a Pilates Believer
The change the cofounder of Life Time’s ARORA program experienced after adding Pilates to her fitness regimen.
Finding My Groove Again
How a resurfaced workout playlist sparked this Life Time team member to find fitness — and joy in it — once again.
3 Moves to Stretch Your Inner Thighs
Mobilize your adductors to improve pelvic positioning and protect against inner-knee and lower-back pain.
BREAK IT DOWN: The Seated Twist
Twisting can help stretch muscles of the torso, restore spinal mobility, stimulate circulation, and support digestion.
3 Moves to Relieve and Prevent Elbow Pain
Tennis elbow doesn’t just affect tennis players. Stay pain-free with these wrist and forearm exercises.
The Stretching and Mobility Workout
This head-to-toe routine will stretch your muscles, mobilize your joints, and leave you feeling fantastic in five minutes flat.
4 Rotational Stretches to Ease Back Tension
Rotate your spine safely — and reduce back tension — with these four stretches.
4 Stretches to Target Your Trapezius Muscles
Relieve neck and shoulder tension with these four moves.
Back on Track: A Posture Recovery Workout
Summer leave you a little banged up? This 15-minute recovery workout, based on moves from the Egoscue Method, will have you standing tall and moving easy.
How to Test Your Mobility
The overhead squat is a fundamental move that can help test, assess, and improve your mobility.
BREAK IT DOWN: The Kneeling Backbend
Learn how to move safely into this front-body stretch.
BREAK IT DOWN: The Cat-Cow
This two-part flow warms and unwinds the body, stretches the core, and mobilizes the entire spine.
The Science Behind the Stretch
Why stretching goes beyond just muscles.