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Strength Training

Perfect Your Plank With These Expert Cues

This isometric full-body hold is a highly effective strength and stability builder, targeting the deep-core muscles of the abdomen as well as the shoulders, glutes, and back. Here's how to nail the setup and perform it correctly.
By Lauren Bedosky

Build Arm Strength With the Biceps Curl

Hone your biceps curl with these expert tips. Plus, we offer nine variations on the classic move.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Watch Out For These Common Split Squat and Lunge Errors

These moves — differentiated by whether both feet remain static (split squat) or one foot steps forward and backward (lunge) — strengthen the glutes, quads, and calves; build hip, knee, and ankle stability; and help improve overall balance. Here's how to nail the setup and perform them correctly.
By Lauren Bedosky

How to Set Up a Barbell Bench Press

This classic move builds chest and shoulder strength while also improving stability in the small, intrinsic muscles around the shoulder joint. Here's how to avoid common errors in the setup.
By Lauren Bedosky

A Powerlifting Workout

Curious about the “Big Three” lifts? Hone your squat, bench press, and deadlift with this well-rounded, all-ages workout.
By Andrew Heffernan

6 Must-Try On-Demand Workouts to Boost Your Routine

Sample these popular on-demand workouts — anytime, anywhere — in the Life Time app.
By Emily Ewen

How to Set Up a Bent-Over Dumbbell Row

Building strength through the middle and upper back, lats, and shoulders, this row also enhances mobility through the scapulae and improves stability in the thoracic spine and deep abdominals. Here's how to avoid common errors in the setup.
By Lauren Bedosky

How to Set Up a Barbell Back Squat

This exercise works muscles around multiple joints in the lower body, building strength and muscle in your quads, glutes, and hamstrings. Here's how to avoid common errors in the setup.
By Lauren Bedosky

4 Life Time Trainers Share Their Favorite Machine on the Workout Floor

Plus, they demonstrate how to use their most-loved equipment at the club.
By Emily Ewen

How to Set Up a Barbell Deadlift

This compound movement strengthens the hamstrings, glutes, back, and core. It also trains the hip-hinge pattern, which has functional carryover to other exercises and daily activities. Here's how to avoid common errors in the setup.
By Lauren Bedosky

How to Set Up a Barbell Overhead Press

Reaching for or lifting objects overhead is commonplace, making this shoulder strengthener a truly functional exercise. Here's how to avoid common errors in the setup.
By Lauren Bedosky

Perform a Safe and Effective Kettlebell Swing With These Cues

This dynamic move builds full-body strength and explosive power, working the posterior chain as well as the upper body, namely your lats, forearms, and hands. Here's how to nail the setup and perform it correctly.
By Lauren Bedosky

Are You Making These Common Pushup Mistakes?

This fitness staple is a full-body exercise that builds core stability as well as back, arm, and chest power. Here's how to nail the setup and perform it correctly.
By Lauren Bedosky

What’s the Best Way to Sequence a Workout?

Learn how to sequence your workouts to match your goals and make the most of your efforts.
By Jessica Migala

How to Do the Wood Chop

This rotational movement builds core strength, power, and coordination. Mix up the move with two variations.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard

9 Strength Moves You May Be Setting Up Wrong (and How to Fix Them)

Expert guidance for nailing the setup of common strength moves — so you can make the most of your lifting efforts.
By Lauren Bedosky

Feel the Zoom! A Low-Impact, Full-Body Workout to Build Speed and Power

Build explosive power at any age with this speed- and strength-boosting workout.
By Andrew Heffernan

What Women Need to Know to Age Powerfully

Exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist Stacy Sims, MSC, PhD, explains what women need to know to stay strong their entire lives.
By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

The Grip-Strength Workout

Build head-to-toe strength — and invest in your longevity — with this grip-focused workout.
By Andrew Heffernan

6 Beginner Moves Using Vibration Plate Training

A Life Time Dynamic Personal Trainer explains the benefits of the Power Plate — and demonstrates how to use the machine.
By Emily Ewen
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