Find That Feeling
The feeling of possibility. Of accomplishment. Of progress.
We’ve curated a range of resources to help you feel confident in our athletic country clubs and be equipped to get and stay healthy and happy.
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.
The 8-Week Glute-and-Hamstring Workout
Supercharge your strength, power, and overall resilience with this eight-week glute-and-hamstring program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your On-the-Go Health and Wellness Companion: 7 Features of the Life Time App
Best-in-class workout classes and programs, science-driven health insights, award-winning wellness content — are you taking advantage of all the ways the complimentary Life Time app can support your goals?
Meet L•AI•C: Life Time’s Health and Wellness Companion
How Life Time is leveraging AI technology to make healthy living easier for members.
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.
Why 1-2-12?
1-2-12 is Life Time’s dietitian-developed nutrition system that offers a framework nearly anyone can use to improve their eating behaviors.
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.
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.
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.
Fitness Supplements 101
Here are 4 go-to fitness supplements to help you get better, stronger, and faster.
What Supplements Can Support My Body-Composition Goals?
Recommendations from a Life Time dietitian and trainer.
Lifestyle
Why We Need Sleep
Sleep is often taken for granted, yet its role in our lives cannot be underestimated, as too little or poor quality of it can negatively affect us physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially.
Reset Your Stress Response
Being on high alert for too long can put you into adrenal overdrive. Learn how to shift from fight-or-flight mode into calmer states that help your body recover.
An Integrative Approach to Mental Well-Being
Learn why taking an integrative approach to mental well-being can be a productive route to a more optimal state of mental-well-being, and gain tangible ideas for different practices and modalities that can help you feel and function better.