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5 Life Time Experts Share Their Healthy-Living Goals
Plus, the daily habits they prioritize to ensure they achieve them.
A 5-Step Plan for Starting a New Workout Routine
Getting into a workout routine can be difficult, especially if you’re new to it or have hit pause for a while. Lindsay Ogden, CPT, shares her secret steps for success that anyone can follow to begin — or begin again — and that can set them up for consistent and long-lasting fitness progress.
Be Your Own Best Health Advocate
A Lyme disease diagnosis and accompanying body-wide pain and debilitating fatigue led Ryan Sutter — firefighter, endurance athlete, and Bachelorette alum — to take action to find answers, treatment options, and a path toward wellness. In this episode, Sutter shares his health journey, as well as advice for pushing through challenge, fighting health obstacles, and advocating for your well-being.
Life Time in the News: “His Doctor Said He Wouldn’t Make it to 50 Years Old — So He Lost 230 Pounds”
How a doctor’s visit prompted this Life Time member to start a transformational weight-loss journey.
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.
Finding Strength in Partnership
Working with a coach or personal trainer can boost your fitness efforts and help you make meaningful progress toward your goals. Sometimes, however, we overlook how powerful the partnership can be, including the gains that go beyond physical fitness. In this episode, we hear the firsthand experience of Life Time member Roshini Rajkumar and her coach Brian McKinney, CPT, how they get the most out of their experience working together, and what to look for in your own trainer-client relationship.
STRONG BODY, STONG MIND: Spring Awakening
Our fitness editor on being patient with yourself in your fitness journey.
13 Ways to Combat the Winter Blues at Work
Learn why we experience a lull in the winter months and how we can set ourselves up for success.
Why Dynamic Personal Training?
Dynamic Personal Training is Life Time’s unique philosophy around a fully engaged approach to training — but what is it exactly? And how is it different from other one-on-one training programs? Anna Taylor, CPT, explains Dynamic Personal Training and the unique experience — and elevated results — it delivers to members.
Pedaling for Meaning: One Athlete’s Pursuit to Bring More Riders to the Trail
Professional cyclist Alexey Vermeulen’s latest endeavor bridges the gap between new riders and big cycle events.
Oliver Jack’s Success Story
After a near-fatal accident, a promising young golfer finds the support he needs to one day fully return to the game he loves — and pay it forward.
CHANGING LIVES: Ryan Jurgensen
How choosing fitness helped one woman rebuild her resilience.
CHANGING LIVES: Ken Zylstra
Reflections on trail life, perseverance, and gratitude.
Active, Healthy, Social: 5 Benefits of ARORA
A few Life Time members share what they love about the latest programming for active, older adults and how they participate in this growing community.
CHANGING LIVES: Ali Sorour
How choosing fitness helped one man cope with the grief of losing his wife of more than 40 years.
Changing Lives
For these eight Life Time members, choosing fitness changed everything.
Birdie Wermy’s Success Story
How a grueling relay started one Indigenous runner on a path toward a healthier, happier life.
Strength Times Two
One woman’s search for strength leads to her daughter’s personal power, too.
A Whole-Family Health Transformation: Meet the Draney’s
What started with a dad looking to address an injury has led to his wife and two kids also joining in on a journey to become their healthiest, happiest selves together.
Jane Knight’s Success Story
After years of near immobility, a woman gains independence — and much more — when she discovers recumbent cycling.
Determined to Overcome: Meet Life Time Member Dennis R.
The recent 60day Challenge winner shares how he used a low point as a catalyst to take hold of his health for the positive — and offers the strategies for success he learned along the way.