What’s Possible?
Life Time is a place where people come together and discover their potential.
Use this curated range of resources to help you feel confident in our athletic country clubs — and to help you unlock what’s possible in your life and with your time.
Workouts
Your First Week of Workouts at Life Time
A Dynamic Personal Trainer’s seven-day guide to jump-start your fitness if you’re new to or restarting a club routine.
The Back-to-Fitness Workout Plan
A 30-day program to help build all-around fitness and get you back into an exercise routine.
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.
A 30-Minute Strength Training and Running Workout
This 30-minute hybrid workout combines strength training and speedwork for an effective, efficient challenge.
6 Dynamic Core Training Exercises
Rotation and antirotation are vital for injury prevention and athletic performance. Incorporate both with this dynamic core routine.
A 10-Minute Glute Workout to Build Strength and Power
Try this two-move dumbbell routine for long-term strength gains and a same-day booty pump.
Barre Arms: Sculpt Your Upper Body With These 6 Exercises
Harness these dance-inspired, low-impact barre-arm exercises to build upper-body strength and endurance.
Workout Floor
Your Guide to Navigating the Fitness Floor
The gym can be confusing and intimidating to navigate. Our experts weigh in on venturing out of your comfort zone.
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.
How to Use 4 Popular Cardio Machines
A Dynamic Personal Trainer explains four common cardio machines — and offers advice for adding them to your workout routine.
How to Use 3 Odd-Looking Strength-Training Machines
Don’t let intimidation stop you! A master trainer demonstrates how to use three machines that may appear strange but can offer benefits to your routine.
6 Personal-Trainer Tips for Using the Workout Floor
Top reminders for using this space in the club effectively.
Fitness Tips
5 Common Mistakes People New to Fitness Make
A Dynamic Personal Trainer offers advice for combating these blunders when beginning a new workout regimen.
How to Add 30 More Minutes of Movement to Your Day
A Life Time Master Trainer shares the health benefits of moving your body beyond your daily workout, along with practical tips for integrating more activity into your routine.
I Don’t Want to Think About My Workouts. What Are My Options at Life Time?
Take the stress out of planning your workouts with several in-club or in-app possibilities.
Recovery
Why Recovery?
The better and faster you can recover, the more progress you can ultimately make with your fitness — and the healthier you’ll move and feel.
Expert Answers: How Do I Use a Cold Plunge?
Step-by-step guidance for the most effective way to use a cold plunge.
Expert Answers: How Long Should I Stay in the Sauna?
Guidelines to keep both seasoned users and those who are new to saunas safe.
A 5-Minute Mindful Meditation for Your Muscles
A guided meditation to support recovery from your workouts.
Expert Answers: How Do I Perform Contrast Therapy for Improved Recovery?
Step-by-step guidance for alternating between hot and cold therapies effectively.
Expert Answers: What’s the Difference Between Active and Passive Recovery?
A Dynamic Personal Trainer explains these recovery types — and why both are important for optimal fitness.
How to Use 3 Popular Recovery Tools at Life Time
Expert guidance for using three popular devices found in the recovery area at your athletic country club.
Using the Club
Get Inspired: 3 Perfect Visits to Life Time
A few team members share how they’d spend time at their athletic country club if they could do all their favorite things.
30 Minutes at Life Time
Ideas for making the most of your time at the club when you only have 30 minutes to spare.
13 Ways to Get Back Into Your Club Routine
A little guidance for re-establishing healthy habits and a solid regimen.
9 Features You Won’t Find at Many Gyms
The unparalleled amenities that set Life Time athletic country clubs apart from the rest.
3 Ways to Be a Life Time Club Hopper
Members share their strategies for visiting the network of more than 180 athletic country clubs and how it meets their healthy-living needs.
Club Programming
The Ultimate Guide to Life Time Classes
A complete look at the studio, yoga, and cycle class offerings in our athletic country clubs — and tips for finding the right fits for you.
What’s Your Signature Group Training Class Personality?
A guide to help you find the signature group training program that matches your needs, goals, interests, and workout style.
Achieve Your Fitness Goals With Dynamic Personal Training
Dynamic Personal Training can take your entire exercise experience — and your results — to new heights.
What Is Dynamic Stretch?
How an assisted-stretch session at Life Time can help you feel better and reach your fitness goals.
How to Play Pickleball
It’s the fastest-growing sport in the country — but do you know how to play pickleball?
Discover ARORA
Learn all about Life Time’s latest collection of activities designed for those who want to stay active, healthy, and social as they age.
Let the Fun Begin: The Many Ways Kids Can Enjoy Life Time
Whether your kids are taking their first steps or heading to high school, our athletic country clubs offer a range of healthy options for every age, stage, and personality.
Membership
9 Surprising Things Included in Your Membership
Beyond the best fitness equipment, fresh towels, and relaxing whirlpools, your Life Time membership includes a wide range of incredible bonus benefits. Are you taking advantage of them all?
Maximizing the Experience: 7 Features of a Signature Membership
This Life Time membership now includes an even wider range of amenities, programs, and services — some that may surprise you.
Perks for Parents: 5 Things Included for Kids in a Junior Membership
Explore how your family can maximize their membership and take advantage of its complimentary offerings.
All the Ways to Use the Life Time App
Make it your go-to, trusted resource for tapping into your healthiest, happiest self.
Just Ask L•AI•C: Life Time’s Health and Wellness Companion
How Life Time is leveraging AI technology to make healthy living easier.
Healthy-Aging Fitness
8 Vibration Plate Exercises for Healthy Aging
A Dynamic Personal Trainer demonstrates vibration plate exercises that support muscle and bone health.
Exercising With Arthritis: Trainer Tips for Joint-Friendly Fitness
A Dynamic Personal Trainer outlines the exercise modalities recommended for those with arthritis.
A 7-Move Glute Workout for Healthy Aging
Learn why strong glute muscles are essential for aging well — and how these exercises can strengthen your lower body.
3 Ways to Walk for Healthy Aging
Walking offers many health benefits — here’s how to add more of it to your weekly routine.
A 6-Move Core Workout for Healthy Aging
Learn why a strong core is essential for aging well — and how these exercises can strengthen the important muscles that help stabilize your body.
Nutrition
How Much Protein Do I Need?
One of the most important things you can do for your nutrition is make sure you’re consuming enough quality protein. Learn why this macronutrient is so critical for health, how much protein you need, and more.
How to Detox With Whole Foods
Learn how to detox your body with a whole-foods approach that feels far from depriving — and that can support nearly everyone in feeling and functioning better.
How to Balance Your Blood Sugar
Learn how blood sugar impacts nearly every aspect of health and understand the opportunities we have to intervene with lifestyle habits to better control it.
How to Eat for Good Gut Health
Learn why nutrition plays such an essential role in caring for the gut, as well as the foods and supplements that can help the most.
What Are Macros and Calories?
Understand the differences between macros and calories and the roles they play in our health and well-being — as well as gain insights for how to think about them when it comes to healthy eating.
Supplements
All About LTH: The Story of Life Time’s Nutritional Supplement Line
Learn about the story of Life Time’s nutritional line and how it’s evolved over the past two decades — including the evolution to its rebranding as LTH.
I’m New to Supplementation — Where Should I Start?
A beginner’s guide to the supplements that can form a solid nutritional foundation.
What Supplements Can Support My Body-Composition Goals?
Recommendations from a Life Time dietitian and trainer.
Which Whey Protein Is Right for Me?
A guide to choosing the form of whey protein that best supports your body — and your health and fitness goals.
10 Surprising Things to Look for When Choosing Your Daily Supplements
Consider this your cheat sheet of clues to help guide you to quality supplement choices.
How Can Pre-Workout and Amino Acids Supplements Boost My Exercise Efforts?
Experts offer guidance for incorporating these supplements into your workout nutrition routine.
What Supplements Can Support Stress Relief?
Learn about how chronic stress alters our nutrient needs, how nutritional strategies can counteract common stress effects, and the supplement options that can provide valuable support to stressed bodies.
Lifestyle
Sleep and Resiliency: A Guide to This Essential Recovery and Repair Window (Performance & Longevity Series)
Learn about the critical role of sleep for health and longevity, the barriers that might be preventing you from getting enough quality sleep, and practical strategies for sleep improvement.
How to Calm an Activated Nervous System
Learn the reasons your nervous system can become dysregulated and what you can do to bring it back into balance.
9 Tenets to Build Mental Fitness
Dr. Drew Ramsey presents nine tenets for mental fitness from his book, Healing the Modern Brain, offering insights and actions to help you build habits for the betterment of your mental well-being.