Gym Planning
If it’s your first time stepping into the club, or it’s been a few years, these resources will help you make the most of your time.
Getting Started
How to Pack a Gym Bag
Packing the right gear before you head to the health club can keep your workout routine on track.
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.
5 Tips to Navigate a Busy Gym
Here’s how to make the most of the busy season at the gym.
You Belong
You Belong: A Rookie’s Guide to Health-Club Confidence
Just because you’re new to the health-club scene doesn’t mean it has to show. Here’s how to avoid typical rookie mistakes, feel more at ease and get the results you’re after.
What Are Some of the Latest Rules Around Health Club Etiquette?
Our fitness editor reflects on how to make health clubs more welcoming for everyone.
8 Tips to Overcome Fear of Going to the Gym
Anxiety about being judged can lead to a fear of exercising in public settings. Try these tips to increase your confidence — and then celebrate what you can do.
Creating a Strong Foundation
The Stages of Change
Break a habit. Achieve a goal. Transform your life. Here’s a look at the six parts of Prochaska’s stages of change.
Why Your Fitness Mindset Matters
The key to sticking with a workout program may be strengthening the “muscle” between your ears.
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
A leading expert on the art of achieving goals shares her best insider tips for success.
Your Fitness Personality
Find out how personality-typing systems can help you discover activities and regimens you’ll really enjoy.
6 Steps to Create a Fitness Routine You’ll Love
Here’s how to find a fitness routine that resonates with you.
Overcoming Obstacles
When “You’ve Changed” Feels Like Criticism – Coping With Unsupportive People
You’d like your loved ones to be happy and supportive about your positive life transformations. But what if they’re not?
17 Common Fitness Excuses and Tips on Overcoming Them
Don’t hit the snooze button on your fitness goals. Here are 17 of the most common obstacles to exercising — and expert advice on how to overcome them.
All Over It: How to Eliminate Goal-Blocking Obstacles for Good
Is your resolve dissolving in the midst of setbacks and challenges? Here’s how to spot the obstacles blocking your way — and then put them behind you.
Explore Sample Workouts
The Workout: New Twists on Old Faves
Get strong, build power, and burn fat on your go-to cardio machine.
The Workout: The Cardio Challenge
This HIIT routine reimagines the treadmill jog, burning fat and building endurance in a quick workout.
A 30-Minute Strength Training and Running Workout
This 30-minute hybrid workout combines strength training and speedwork for an effective, efficient challenge.
The Easy-Strength Workout
You don’t have to sweat and strain to get strong. This two-month, field-tested strength-training program will show you another way.
Discovering Group Fitness
The Power of Working Out in a Group
Discover how training in a fitness community can improve your performance, keep you accountable, and help you tap into a greater sense of purpose.
Which Group Fitness Class is Right for You?
Whether you’re embarking on a new fitness journey or building onto your routine, there’s a Life Time class (or two!) that can enhance your workout regimen and move you closer to your goals.
The Ins and Outs of Group Fitness Classes
Make the most of your next group fitness experience — and enjoy the power of the class dynamic — with these tips.
How Can I Avoid Injury When Trying a New Group Fitness Class?
Knowing your strengths and your limitations is key, says our fitness editor.
Health Podcasts
Motivation for Fitness and the Ways We Can Move
Maggie Fazeli Fard, fitness coach and senior fitness editor at Experience Life, discusses moving for your unique body and motivations, the importance of mechanics and consistency, the components of a well-rounded exercise routine, and why fitness is about so much more than aesthetics.
Fueling for Your Workouts
Fueling for workouts can be tricky: How we do it depends on a lot of individual factors, and it can take time to learn what does or does not work for us. Cliff Edberg, RD, Master Trainer at Life Time, breaks down what we need to know about pre- and post-workout nutrition, and offers general guidelines we can start with to then hone in on what’s best for us.
Habit Hacking for Health: A 4-Step Plan
Results are a lagging indicator of our habits. Lindsay Ogden, CPT, nutrition coach, walks us through her four-step process — what she calls the IPTR method — for developing lasting health habits, so you have the know-how and a tactical plan to go after your goals.
Straight From the Coaches: Your Health & Fitness Questions, Answered
What do I do if I’m not seeing results? How often do I need to exercise? How many calories should I be eating? Life Time coaches Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, and Lindsay Ogden, CPT, join us to answer the most common health and fitness questions they hear from our members — including these ones and more.
The Mind-Body Connection: Tapping in to Mindfulness Through Movement
The mind-body connection refers to how our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and feelings either positively or negatively influence our physical bodies — and vice versa. It can be a truly powerful resource to tap into. In this episode, Jessie Syfko explains more about this connection, the benefits it provides, how we can grow it, and the integral relationship it has to our fitness efforts.
Planning, Preparation, and Practice: Why Programs Matter for Progress
A month or so into the new year, it’s common for people to fall off their goals. Often this isn’t for a lack of want or will, but rather not having the right program in place. Life Time Talks cohosts Jamie Martin and David Freeman share how they’re personally approaching their own aspirations this year, explain the reasons why having a program can be a game-changer, and offer considerations to help you move forward on your own plan.