How Exercise Heals
Regular physical activity can help us recover more quickly, heal more easily, and get an edge over all kinds of disease and injury. In fact, exercise may just be nature’s best medicine.
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Yes, You Can Do a 5K
No matter your current fitness level, completing a 5K is both doable and fun. Here’s how to get yourself to the starting line — and across the finish.
Small Victories: A Story of Fitness, Growth, and Self-Acceptance
Frustrated that your fitness efforts aren’t producing more immediate, dramatic results? Tune in and chill out. By savoring and celebrating each small breakthrough, you’ll stay motivated for the long haul.
How to Exercise When You Have Chronic Pain
If you suffer from chronic pain, working out may be the last thing you feel like doing. But exercise can make you feel better – now, and over the long term.
The Art of the Warm-Up
You’ve probably been told that you should warm up before exercise, but has anyone shown you how?
Every Body Into the Pool: 8 Strength and Stamina Water Workouts to Try
Water workouts aren’t just for hardcore swimmers anymore. Learn how aquatic exercise can help you take your fitness to a whole new level.
The “Shortest Mile” Track Workout
Increase your aerobic capacity and strength in just four short laps around a standard running track.
Shifting Gears
It took a cancer diagnosis to convince Brad Dawson to rethink his eating and exercise habits. Then he discovered a more positive source of motivation -feeling great.
Gung-Ho Guy Trips
Dude-only vacations can bring guys closer and yield benefits far beyond simple camaraderie.
Resolutions Workshop: One Step at a Time
Lofty goals all begin with a single step. Here’s how to plan — and sustain — the small changes that matter.
A Better Way to Burn Fat
If your weight-loss efforts seem stalled or stymied, heart-rate-based interval training may provide just the metabolic boost you need.
How to Get the Most From Your Personal Trainer
Finding the right PT can transform your health and fitness efforts. But the real magic happens when you learn how to work as a team.
Celebrate Your Fitness Accomplishments
Before you rush into setting health and fitness goals for the year ahead, stop and appreciate what you’ve already accomplished.
Living Strong With Cancer
When an otherwise healthy, fit person who has “done everything right” receives a cancer diagnosis, it can feel unfair on many levels. Still, experts say, don’t ditch your healthy habits now — they may be some of your strongest allies in recovery.
How to Gain Muscle Mass
Do you have trouble putting on muscle mass? Learn the right way to gain the healthy weight you want.
High-Performance Supplements
There are lots of sports supplements out there, claiming to make you faster, stronger or more enduring. But which ones really boost sports performance?
Follow Your Dream
What happens when you actually do the thing you always wanted to do? There’s only one way to find out.
Expert Answers: Gym Funk, Ramping Up Resting Metabolic Rate, and More
Here we wrangle leading experts to also address how tight IT bands may be causing your knee pain and exercising while detoxing.
My Road Less Travelled
This is me (an idealist dreamer from an early age) in the early farm days, circa 1973, in one of our commune’s many improvised environments — a “barn apartment.” That’s…
Keeping Kids Fed
Learn how the Life Time Foundation is supporting school districts as they continue to safely feed children throughout the United States during these challenging times.
4 Ways to Add More to Your Fitness Routine
Break through fitness plateaus with these tips for safely and strategically adding more speed, distance, weight, reps, recovery, and nutrition into your fitness routine.