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How Do You Make Time for Play?
Experience Life staff members share how they incorporate play into their lives.
How Play-Inspired Moves Can Boost Your Fitness
Play is proven to boost physical and mental health — for kids and adults alike. But what does play look and feel like once we’re grown and more prone to injury? And how can we get more of it in our lives?
Pick Up a Paddle: 5 Health Benefits of Pickleball
Discover the ways this popular all-ages sport is good for your physical and mental well-being.
4 Fun Facts About the New Pickleball from Life Time
The innovative design of the The LT Pickleball prioritizes durability, sustainability, and consistent play for all levels.
How Making Time for Fun Can Recharge Your Life!
When was the last time you cut loose and had true fun — for real? Learn why fun is so good for your health and how to find your way back to whatever brings you joy.
What to Pack in Your Pool Bag
Life Time team members share their poolside essentials when spending time at the Beach Club.
Create Your Travel Vision Board
Design your dream adventure this year with our curated collection of articles that will inspire your wanderlust.
Discover How Play Can Improve Your Mental Health
Explore how adopting a more playful attitude toward life can boost your mental health.
Time for Fun: The March, April, and May Kids’ Events at Life Time
Discover what’s on the schedule for your children to take part in this spring.
5 Pickleball Shots to Master
A pickleball pro demonstrates how to perform select shots that can improve your game.
Summiting to New Heights
A Life Time Dynamic Personal Trainer prepares to climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro — and she’s inviting others to join her.
Life Time Breaks Ground on its First Ground-Up Pickleball Club
The athletic country club brand takes its commitment to this rising sport to the next level with the announcement of this new pickleball facility in the company’s home state of Minnesota.
How to Take Your Favorite Outdoor Fitness Activities Indoors
Continue pursuing or strengthening your abilities for the warm-weather activities you love in the off season.
Fun in the Fall: The September and October Kids’ Events at Life Time
See what’s on the schedule for your kids this season.
How to Plan the Perfect Birthday Party for Your Kids
Four party-planning-essentials for every child’s birthday party.
5 Life Time Beach Clubs to Visit This Summer
Planning a trip? Take advantage of these Life Time Athletic Country Club locations when you’re traveling outside of your home state.
5 Swimming-Gear Essentials to Keep Kids Safe in the Pool
A checklist for getting your child ready to jump in the water.
Contentment in Motion
Experience Life‘s editor in chief on using guided imagery and movement to stay calm, grounded, and ready for what life has to offer.
Live, Work, Play: Bringing a Healthy Way of Life In to All of Your Spaces
Our wants and needs in our work and home environments have changed, with many of us prioritizing health-supportive features now more than ever. In this episode, James O’Reilly, president of Life Time Work, and Eric Padget, senior director of real estate for Life Time Living, share how health can be better integrated into spaces and how Life Time has responded to this desire with the offerings of Life Time Work coworking spaces and Life Time Living apartment homes, respectively.
Why Fitness Competitions?
The term “fitness competition” often conjures images of bodybuilding events, but it’s much more encompassing than those, including 5Ks and marathons, powerlifting meets, obstacle course races, and more. Danny King, Master Trainer, explains why he thinks everybody — at any fitness or experience level — can benefit from participating in a fitness event.
Cycling for Change
As an athlete and industry innovator, HED Cycling cofounder Anne Hed is on a mission to make cycling more accessible and welcoming for everyone.