Strength Training
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3 Favorite Lunge Variations from the Guinness World Record Holder
Meet Austin Head, the Life Time performer and trainer who holds the Guinness World Record for the most lunges performed in one hour.
How to Do the Goblet March
This low-impact move challenges your balance while strengthening your grip, core, hips, and back.
Why Escalating Density Training?
Escalating Density Training (EDT) is an approach to training that’s focused on density during strength training — and that can mean big results in a shorter period of exercise.
The Benefits of the Dead Hang
Strengthen your shoulders, core, grip, and more with this often-overlooked move.
Standing Abs Vs. Floor Abs — Which Is Better?
If you have balance issues, floor-based exercises are the way to go. If you have joint issues such as wrist pain, however, standing abs are ideal. Here’s why.
Sleep, Sweat, Repeat: 4 Workouts You Could Do Over and Over
Experience Life‘s fitness editor weighs in on routines you could turn to time and time again.
How to Use 4 Popular Strength-Training Machines
A Dynamic Personal Trainer demonstrates using four common strength-training machines — and offers advice for adding them to your workout routine.
Brad Jones on Overcoming Setbacks and Thriving at Life Time
A 60day Challenge winner reflects on the whole-body health benefits he received when he began focusing on his fitness.
How to Do the Clamshell
Strengthen your hips and glutes — and help build your side butt — with this lower-body isolation move. Plus, explore four variations to make it more challenging.
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.