Strength Training
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Strong, Fast, and Fit: A 9-Week Escalating Density Program
Short on time? This nine-week program will get you strong — in less than three hours a week.
The Simple Kettlebell Complex
Work your entire body with this fast, fun routine.
Ask the Trainers: Your Fitness Questions, Answered
What’s the right exercise routine for me? How often should I be working out? How can I make progress when I’m starved for time? Life Time trainers Makoto Matsuo, CPT, and Sarah Pope, CPT, join us to answer a few of the most common fitness questions they hear from members.
5 Ways to Improve Your Posture and Balance
A Dynamic Personal Trainer offers tips for working on your posture and balance so you can reduce the risk of falling.
4 Strength-Training Tips for Active Older Adults
An ARORA-certified trainer offers advice for starting or maintaining an effective resistance-training routine, along with guidance for balancing it with low-impact cardio efforts.
5 Moves You’ll See in LIFT Barbell Strength
This foundational yet challenging strength-training class puts an emphasis on proper form.
8 Strength Exercises for Pickleball Players
These workout-floor movements can increase your strength and mobility, safeguard against injury, and improve your pickleball prowess on the court.
9 Tips for Great Workouts Even When You’re Short on Time
Life Time performers share their advice for maximizing your fitness efforts when you’re in a time crunch.
How to Do the Man Maker Exercise
This full-body complex combines three strength exercises to create an intense cardio effect.
A 10-Minute Lower-Body Workout
This quick lower-body workout is designed to strengthen and tone your glutes and legs.
A 10-Minute Core Workout
Short on time? Try this 10-minute workout to strengthen your deep core muscles and obliques.
5 Strength Exercises for New Runners
Running is about more than just speed and miles. Strengthening your body can help you push the pace and go the distance.
8 Beginner Strength-Training Moves for Body-Composition Change
Resistance training is an essential part of any fitness routine. These exercises can help boost metabolism and support fat loss.
How to Do Lateral Raises
Optimize your lateral raise technique to get the most out of this shoulder-isolation exercise and its many variations.
The Joint-Friendly Water Workout
These pool-based cardio and strength exercises are easy on your joints — and all together add up to good workout.
3 Moves You’ll See in MAXOUT Lower Body
Exercises to strengthen and stabilize your lower body.
4 Antirotation Exercises to Build Core Strength
Antirotational exercises can improve alignment and core stability. Consider adding one of these moves to your next workout.
How to Do the Donkey Kick
Build strength and stability with this low-impact lower-body move.
6 Dynamic Core Training Exercises
Rotation and antirotation are vital for injury prevention and athletic performance. Incorporate both with this dynamic core routine.
Why Lunges?
Lunges are a fundamental movement for strengthening muscles from your waist down. Yet because they appear easier to perform than they actually are, many people do too many too soon and end up discouraged or with lower-back or knee injuries. Alec Blenis, CPT, CSCS, explains why this move is a staple in strength and conditioning programs and how to add lunges into your routine in a safe and beneficial way.
Strength, Mobility, Balance: Introducing ARORA Fit
A Q&A with the creators of the new signature group training format that’s designed for active older adults.