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Strength Training

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Strong Summer: 6 Tips for Building Strength in the Sunny Season

Advice for enjoying the summer season while working toward your strength-training goals from two Dynamic Personal Trainers at Life Time.
By Emily Ewen
Fitness TipsStrength Training
a man stretches his calf while holding his bike

Level Up Your Favorite Cardio With These Strength and Mobility Moves

The secret to stepping up your cardio game may not be doing more cardio, but rather adding strength and mobility training to your routine. These moves can complement your cardio exercise of choice — and improve your overall performance.
By Lauren Bedosky
Body-Weight WorkoutsFitness Tips
thruster

How to Do the Thruster

This full-body move combines two powerful strength moves into one exercise, boosting power and conditioning.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard
Fitness TipsStrength Training
Austin lunging in a studio

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.
By Callie Fredrickson
Body-Weight WorkoutsFitness Tips
a man performs the goblet march

How to Do the Goblet March

This low-impact move challenges your balance while strengthening your grip, core, hips, and back.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard
Fitness TipsStrength Training
woman lifting a barre and headshot of Joe

Talks — S8, EP5 / 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.

With Joe Meier, CSCS, PN2
Strength Training
lead dead hang

The Benefits of the Dead Hang

Strengthen your shoulders, core, grip, and more with this often-overlooked move.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard
Strength Training
a couple sits in boat position while holding medicine balls

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.
By Sarah Tuff
Fitness TipsStrength Training
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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.
By Callie Fredrickson
Flexibility & MobilityStrength Training
Strength machines on the workout floor at Life Time

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.
By Emily Ewen
Equipment-Based WorkoutsFitness Tips
Brad Jones

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.
By Brad Jones
Inclusive WellnessMember Stories
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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.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard
Fitness TipsStrength Training
a woman performs a bench press

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.
By Andrew Heffernan
Strength TrainingWorkouts
a woman holds a kettlebell

The Simple Kettlebell Complex

Work your entire body with this fast, fun routine.
By Andrew Heffernan
At-Home WorkoutsStrength Training
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Talks — S7, EP8 / 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.

With Makoto Matsuo, CPT & Sarah Pope, CPT
Fitness TipsHealthy Habits/Goal Setting
Person stretching their arm

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.
By Emily Ewen
Active AgingFitness Tips

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.
By Emily Ewen
Active AgingFitness Tips
A man lifting a barbell.

5 Moves You’ll See in LIFT Barbell Strength

This foundational yet challenging strength-training class puts an emphasis on proper form.
By Emily Ewen
MembershipStrength Training
Two individuals doing a medicine ball toss.

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.
By Callie Fredrickson
Equipment-Based WorkoutsFitness Tips
woman on bike machine

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.
By Callie Fredrickson
CardioFitness Tips
a woman holds a squat in the middle of the man maker exercise

How to Do the Man Maker Exercise

This full-body complex combines three strength exercises to create an intense cardio effect.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard
Fitness TipsStrength Training
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