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The Health Benefits of Cycling
Cycling enthusiasts and experts explains the many ways that hopping on a bike, whether indoors or out, can boost your overall health — and just maybe help build a better world.
Goal-Setting That Sticks
How-to guidance from a trainer for setting achievable goals. Plus, her top eight tips for lasting success.
Get to Know Your Trainers: Meet Mike Thomson
Plus, try his favorite workout designed to challenge your power, strength, and endurance.
The Racquet-Sport Workout
This off-court routine will improve your range of motion, joint stability, and overall racquet-sport performance.
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.
How to Do the Mountain Climber
This do-anywhere body-weight move combines strength and cardio training with intensity. Explore several fun modifications to add variety to your workout routine.
Why Signature Group Training? With Nastassia Smith
Many people engage with group training programs for the community and accountability — and because, when designed based on science and research, they can offer fitness growth beyond what an individual might otherwise be able to achieve on their own. In this mini episode, Nastassia Smith shares the advantages of Life Time’s signature group training, and offers guidance if you’re considering giving it a try yourself.
A 5-Move, Lower-Body Workout for Strength
Go through this base-building routine on your next lower-body day.
How to Meet a Workout Partner — and Be a Better One Yourself
The benefits of finding your fitness community, how to meet friends to exercise with, and tips for being a supportive workout partner.
The Beginner’s Guide to Sprint Interval Training
An eight-week sprint interval training (SIT) program that newbies can use to reap the benefits of this intense exercise method — or to prepare for taking your first Ultra Fit class.
The Science of Sprinting
Sprint interval training (a.k.a. SIT) can boost your fitness and transform your body at a cellular level — and Life Time is putting it to work in its Ultra Fit training class.
Which ARORA Class Is Right for You?
Learn more about Life Time’s collection of fitness classes designed for healthy aging — and find the one that best fits your goals.
7 Moves You’ll See in ARORA Chair Yoga
Embrace the added support of a chair as you go through these gentle yoga movements.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: 3 Moves to Release Shoulder Tension
Our fitness editor shares her three-part, do-anywhere stretching routine for soothing her muscles and mind.
Leg Day: A 5-Move, Glute-Focused Workout
Strengthen your glute and leg muscles with this easy-to-follow lower-body workout.
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.
Determined to Overcome: Meet Life Time Member Dennis R.
The recent 60day Challenge winner shares how he used a low point as a catalyst to take hold of his health for the positive — and offers the strategies for success he learned along the way.
The Indoor-Rowing Workout
These three indoor-rowing workouts promise to propel your cardio fitness forward, no matter your level.
4 Moves You’ll See in GTX
Curious about this signature group training program? Try these compound moves, then string them together for a quick workout.
How to Do the Bear Crawl
This functional full-body movement can help strengthen the body and mind at any age.
Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?
According to a recent study, we could get many of the health benefits with about half as many daily steps.