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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.
How to Test Your Mobility
The overhead squat is a fundamental move that can help test, assess, and improve your mobility.
How to Do a Kneeling Backbend
Known as Camel Pose in yoga, discover how to move safely into this front-body stretch for an invigorating experience.
How Flexibility Affects Fitness
Learn the common sources of stiffness as well as techniques to increase your flexibility — and the benefits you may reap from doing so.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: Midyear Resolutions
Our fitness editor harnesses the energy of summer to tackle new goals.
Do You Need a Personal Trainer — Or a Fitness Professional?
Three traits to look for when choosing someone to help with your fitness efforts.
Fitness Testing 2.0
Test your fitness — and improve it — with these targeted, repeatable tasks.
The Science of Strength
Fundamental muscle and strength is something we all need. Ebenezer Samuel, CSCS, fitness director of Men’s Health, joins us to delve into the science of strength, including what it does for our physical health and other aspects of our well-being. He shares how to make strength training more accessible and create a quality workout plan, regardless of our fitness level or experience with this type of training.
Cullen Jones’s Success Story
A near-death drowning experience inspired this Olympic gold medalist to boost representation and help others learn to swim.
Diversifying the Outdoors
Meet athletes, coaches, and advocates who are working to make outdoor activities accessible and welcoming for all.
The SAQ Workout
Increase your power, coordination, and cardio capacity with speed, agility, and quickness (SAQ) training.
Wild Heart: Katie Boué
The climber, educator, and outdoor advocate wants us to let go of preconceived notions of what it means to be “outdoorsy.”
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: Moving With Ease
Our fitness editor talks about the fine line between working hard and working against yourself.
A Simplified Guide to Pre- and Post-Workout Nutrition
Wondering how to optimize your pre- and post-workout nutrition strategies? Hear from a Life Time dietitian about the most important things to consider.
Strength Training: Total Body vs. Split Workouts
Learn which training approach is right for you.
Why Being Around Water Is So Good for Our Psyches
A marine biologist on why water calms our brains.
5 Machines You’re Not Using But Ought to Be
Don’t walk by these machines the next time you’re at the health club — hop on.
The 8-Station Family Fitness Circuit
Take a break and have some active time together with these challenging — but fun — exercises.