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The Fascial Connection
Just beneath your skin lies a complex network of connective tissue called fascia that helps you move, stand straight, and play hard. Keeping fascia tissue healthy might be one of the most effective — and most overlooked — ways to improve your health and fitness.
8 Yoga Poses to Help You Unwind
Find calm with these eight relaxing bedtime — or anytime — moves.
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS): How to Reduce Post-Exercise Soreness
Discomfort can be an inevitable result of training sessions. Learn why it happens and what you can do to minimize it.
5 Signs You Need More Recovery After a Workout
Here are some warning signs that you might be overdoing it on the exercise front.
The Active Metabolic Assessment: The Most Accurate Test For Cardio Training
Use this guide to determine your anaerobic threshold and learn how to train in your heart-rate zones.
Tandem Snowboarding
Read an excerpt from adventurer Devon Raney’s new book, Still Sideways: Riding the Edge Again After Losing My Sight.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: Ghosts of My Past
Our fitness editor reflects on her changing motivations to work out.
7 Body and Mind Benefits of Building Muscle
Muscle plays an important role in many areas of your health. Learn the reasons why we consider strength training to be a non-negotiable part of any fitness regimen.
5 Ways to Fit in Fitness When You Have No Time
Think you’re too busy to exercise? Try these five strategies to make it a regular part of your days.
Essential Amino Acids: How to Choose and Use Them Wisely
If you can’t get enough protein in your diet through food alone, you may want to consider supplementing with an amino acid.
Ed Kriesel’s Success Story
Diagnosed with a terminal lung disease, a longtime athlete focused on maintaining his fitness while preparing for a transplant.
How to Do the Crunch
Connect with your core to protect your neck and lower back.
Strong, Fast & Fit: Part II — Month 3 Moves (Video)
Learn the moves for month 3 of our Strong, Fast & Fit: Part II six-month workout program. Variations on body-weight classics are the focus.
Strong, Fast & Fit: Mixing It Up (Part II, Month 3)
Maintain your momentum during month 3 of our six-month program with these variations on body-weight moves.
Migration Stations
Each year, millions of birds engage in a remarkable feat of endurance as they fly from one continent to another. These six birdwatching hotspots offer the chance to see them as they rest during their journey.
Motivation for Fitness and the Ways We Can Move
Maggie Fazeli Fard, fitness coach and senior fitness editor at Experience Life, discusses moving for your unique body and motivations, the importance of mechanics and consistency, the components of a well-rounded exercise routine, and why fitness is about so much more than aesthetics.
Power Aging
The older, the better? You bet! These age-specific strategies will help you get off on the right foot.
9 Ways to Make the Most of an Indoor Cycle Class
A little guidance from a cycle expert can help you feel more comfortable and confident in the studio at Life Time.
How Massage Can Heal the Body and Mind
Think of massage as an indulgence? Perhaps. But it can also be a powerful tool for health and well-being — from easing pain and inflammation to soothing stress and anxiety.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: Stepping Off My Treadmill
When an injury forced our fitness editor off her favorite cardio machine a decade ago, she learned to embrace all a gym can offer.