Rethinking Heart Health
Think you know what makes for a healthy heart? Think again. New research and progressive practitioners are looking beyond cholesterol for answers.
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The Impact of Endurance Exercise on Heart Health
For decades we’ve been told that endurance exercise is good for the heart. But as more endurance athletes are diagnosed with heart issues, they are learning the hard way that more isn’t always better.
Measuring Body Weight
Have a weight-loss goal? Learn what makes up your body weight — and why you want to use methods outside of the scale to measure your progress.
Why This Scale is the Best Way to Measure Progress
If you have a weight-loss goal, you probably want to look outside of the traditional bathroom scale to assess your success.
COVID-19 and You: A Healthier Look at the Current Crisis
The coronavirus crisis is extremely concerning, but there is a healthier way to understand it and what you can do to help overcome the pandemic.
Thyroid Health: How to Identify Imbalances + Tips for Support
With Samantha McKinney, RD
Thyroid issues are prevalent: An estimated one in seven people are affected, with even more suffering from an imbalance — and many not even aware that their thyroid is behind their symptoms. Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, shares the signals our thyroid might be sending us, the tests to ask for, and the lifestyle habits we can implement in our daily lives to nourish and support our thyroids.
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Ask the Dietitians: Your Nutrition Questions, Answered (Part Two)
With Anika Christ, RD, and Samantha McKinney, RD
Which supplement ingredients should I avoid? What is considered “clean eating”? Are there healthy habits to never waiver on? Life Time dietitians answer these common nutrition questions — and more.
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Step Inside: Life Time Las Colinas
Texas welcomes another athletic country club in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
How to Breathe
The way we breathe affects our athletic performance, cognitive health, and overall well-being. Here’s how to breathe better.
Masks and Exercise: What You Need to Know About Working Out Safely and Effectively
The Life Time Training team offers insights, tips, and reminders to help you adjust to mask-wearing during exercise.
How to Test Your Fitness Power
The box jump is a fundamental move that can help test, assess, and improve your power.
“Speak” Your Partner’s Love Language at Life Time
Ideas for expressing and receiving love that can all be done at your athletic country club.
Hormone Stress Test
How a cortisol test can help you evaluate whether your stress levels are cause for concern.
16 Tips for Upgrading Your Fitness Routine in 2023
Seven healthy-living experts share their go-to advice for embracing healthy habits and sticking to your goals in the New Year.
PUMPING IRONY: Stressed About Stress Tests
A new study from Johns Hopkins uses treadmill stress tests to determine mortality rates, an approach that, to me at least, seems unnecessarily stress-inducing.
COMING CLEAN: Developing a Home-Workout Practice
My workout space is all set up at home and ready for my new program to start on Monday. Here’s what I’ll be trying out.
Going Green at the Gym
From eco-conscious lighting to thermal energy, Life Time is redesigning its gyms with the planet in mind.
Why Water Workouts?
With Rob Glick
The water provides advantages not available from forms of land exercise, making it a valuable addition to anyone’s fitness regimen — whether you use it as an environment for low-impact movement, recovery, cross-training, or everyday fitness. In this mini episode, Rob Glick shares the benefits that working out in the water can offer, plus different ways you can include it in your routine.
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6 of the Best Exercises You’re Not Doing
Tired of doing the same old lifts? Hungry for variety—or just looking for some exciting new results? Try these six innovative, underutilized moves.
The Kettlebell Effect on Aerobic Capacity, Muscle Development, and Fat Loss
A study by ACE, the American Council on Exercise, confirms what all dedicated kettlebell afficionados already know: that kettlebell training torches calories and builds cardiovascular fitness at the same time it builds muscular strength.