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2 Essential Moves to Enhance Your Soccer Performance
Step up your soccer game with these two complementary strength and mobility moves targeted at keeping your ankles strong and your balance sharp.
Olympian Cyclist Hayley Hunter Smith on Mental Health and Pursuing Excellence on Her Own Terms
The pro off-road cyclist shares her journey to mental well-being and how she’s refocusing her goals.
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.
How to Create a Ladder Workout
Short on time, equipment, or space? Try this high-volume training style for an effective strength and conditioning workout.
How to Use the Treadmill for an Indoor Hiking Workout
Our fitness editor shares a favorite indoor hiking workout for the treadmill — plus, an upbeat playlist.
Level Up Your Favorite Cardio With These Strength and Mobility Moves
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.
How to Do the Thruster
This full-body move combines two powerful strength moves into one exercise, boosting power and conditioning.
5 Knee-Strengthening Exercises
Build strong, powerful, resilient knees with this progressive workout plan.
3 Favorite Lunge Variations from the Guinness World Record Holder
Meet Austin Head, the Life Time performer and trainer who holds the Guinness World Record for the most lunges performed in one hour.
3 Ways to Walk for Healthy Aging
Walking offers many health benefits — here’s how to add more of it to your weekly routine.
Why Red-Light Therapy?
Red-light therapy uses different wavelengths of light to create some sort of impact — and when it comes to health, those benefits can include faster healing, reduced inflammation, muscle recovery, and more.
4 Moves You’ll See in Warrior Sculpt
What to expect in this fast-paced class that blends yoga, cardio, and strength training into one challenging workout.
Expert Answers: How Long Should I Stay in the Sauna?
Guidelines to keep both seasoned users and those who are new to saunas safe.
Supplements to Support Your Efforts in Your Favorite Fitness Classes
Pairing these expert-recommended supplements with your go-to Life Time workout class can aid your body’s recovery.
How to Do the Goblet March
This low-impact move challenges your balance while strengthening your grip, core, hips, and back.
Start Spreading the News: Life Time Pickleball Has Arrived in New York City
A tennis legend and four top-rated pickleball pros help break in the new pickleball courts at Life Time at PENN 1.
Can Chiropractic Care Help With Exercise Recovery?
A licensed LifeClinic chiropractor explains the role of this type of treatment in the recovery process.
Expert Q&A: How Cupping Can Alleviate Tension and Pain
Two massage therapists outline the benefits of this ancient therapeutic technique.
What Is Pilates — and What Are the Benefits of Pilates?
A Pilates expert shares the principles behind this exercise modality and the top benefits of adding it to your routine.
The Problem With Using the RICE Protocol to Treat a Soft Tissue Injury
Some think the RICE protocol — rest, ice, compression, and elevation — is an outdated way to handle injuries. Here’s how to use a little PEACE and LOVE for recovery.




















