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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.
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.”