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Why Finish Lines Work for Fitness Programs
Four reasons to work finish lines consistently into your health and fitness approach.
How Fitness Can Improve Your Brain and Mental Health
Moving your body can help you sharpen your focus, improve your mood, and more.
The Benefits of Moving Your Body
The benefits of physical activity can be felt in every part of the body, making you stronger, smarter, healthier, happier, and even more gorgeous.
How to Up Your Tennis Game — Without Stepping on the Court
Improve your range of motion, joint stability, and overall performance with this off-court workout.
Being Coachable
In sports and in life, the ability to be coachable is a helpful trait that can take you far. NFL veteran Desmond Howard shares his inspiring insights and personal experience around why being coachable matters — and ways to open yourself up to it.
Workouts to Train Your Body for Outdoor Adventures
Get trail-ready with advice and exercises from our expert trainers to prepare you for hiking, backpacking, paddling, or portaging activities.
Why Nutrition-Only Programs Rarely Work
Looking for transformational results? Learn why nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle all play a pivotal and connected role.
The 5-Sequence Family Yoga Workout
Follow these family-friendly yoga sequences that are designed to challenge the minds and bodies of all ages.
Fueling for Your Workouts
Fueling for workouts can be tricky: How we do it depends on a lot of individual factors, and it can take time to learn what does or does not work for us. Cliff Edberg, RD, Master Trainer at Life Time, breaks down what we need to know about pre- and post-workout nutrition, and offers general guidelines we can start with to then hone in on what’s best for us.
Morning Exercise May Stoke Your Brain All Day Long
Morning movement can increase cognitive skills, according to a recent study.
Coach Anika’s Fat-Burning Fourth of July Workout
With 13 moves with 50 sets, this do-anywhere routine is perfect for a pre-fireworks sweat.
How to Train for Your First 5K
This beginner-friendly plan can help you become a 5K runner in just 90 days.
Expansive Focus: Bahram Akradi
The founder and CEO of Life Time shares the visionary story of creating the Healthy Way of Life brand, plus his insights on the evolution of health and fitness.
Living in Your Light
At any stage, making a life change — and focusing on the pursuit of health and fitness — can be challenging. Kemma Cunningham, a Life Time group fitness performer, shares her journey to do both, and offers her advice for others looking to find what sparks excitement and purpose in them.
PUMPING IRONY: Born to Run?
Late-blooming runners are routinely beating veteran racers at the national level, raising questions about the toll decades of training exact on the body — and why we choose to run (or not) in the first place.
HIIT for Heart Health
Interval training improves the transfer of calcium in the heart’s cell membranes, according to a recent study.
3 Moves to Combat Knee Pain
Plus, ways to address common lifestyle factors that can contribute to knee discomfort.
How to Test Your Fitness Power
The box jump is a fundamental move that can help test, assess, and improve your power.
Animal Flow Fitness
Improve how you move with this dynamic, body-weight workout.
How to Test Your Muscular Endurance
The pushup is a fundamental move that can help test, assess, and improve your muscular endurance.
6 Exercises to Improve Your Posture
This 15-minute recovery workout, based on moves from the Egoscue Method, will have you standing tall and moving easy.