Expert Answers: Deep Squats, Carbs for Endurance Athletes, and More
Here we wrangle leading experts to address your most perplexing workout quandaries and conundrums — from how low to go when squatting and two moves to help alleviate low-back pain.
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An Appetite for Integrity
It makes me happy to see that a growing number of us have lost interest in dog pills slathered in peanut butter. We’re hungry, instead, for the unvarnished, nutritious truth.
Step Inside: Life Time North Shore Sport and Racquet
Chicago welcomes a Life Time with standout pickleball amenities to its portfolio of athletic country clubs.
Train Like a Hybrid Athlete
Improve your strength and endurance with these three challenging workouts.
All About the 60XT Challenge: Everything You Need to Know
Learn about this new body transformation program that kicks off on March 24.
Core, Tone, Reform: What Is CTR at Life Time?
Step inside the studio for a peek at CTR, the newest athletic reformer class for Life Time members.
Quiet Sports
There’s a quiet subculture of outdoor enthusiasts who prefer muscle power to motorized recreation — and they’re beginning to make some noise.
Revolutionary Act 12: Go at Your Own Pace
A healthy life is more a marathon than a sprint. So start where you are. Choose sensible, sustainable shifts over instant cures and quick fixes.
Advice From a Trainer: 5 Tips for a Successful D.TOX
The top strategies for success this trainer learned after going through the Life Time D.TOX program multiple times.
How to Up Your Mountain-Biking Game
Dial in your mountain biking with specialized training for the ups and downs of the trail.
Control Issues
This being the Take Charge issue and all, it’s tempting to claim that when we relaunched Experience Life magazine a little over a year ago, we knew exactly what we were doing – that we planned it out and made it happen just so.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Dilbert comic-strip creator Scott Adams explains how to stumble your way to success — one trip-up and mistake at a time.
Step Inside: Life Time Clarendon
Virginia welcomes its newest athletic country club to the Arlington area.
Pavel Tsatsouline’s Guide to Pushups, Sit-Ups, and Squats
Think you know everything about sit-ups, squats and pushups? Well, Russian strength trainer Pavel Tsatsouline thinks you might know just enough to be dangerous.
17 Ways Kids Can Enjoy Life Time Year-Round
Fall, winter, spring, summer — there are always fun activities and healthy play options for your kids to take part in at our athletic country clubs.
Inspired to Move
With @KaisaFit
Movement can take many shapes and forms outside of structured workouts. Kaisa Keranen, CPT — AKA KaisaFit — flips the script on common perceptions of fitness, including explaining the power and benefit that comes from moving our bodies often and in ways that feel good and bring us joy.
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7 Easy Ways to Revamp Your Fitness Routine
Here are some simple but powerful ways to breathe new life into your routine – and jump-start your fitness growth.
Why Magnesium?
With Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Magnesium is one of the most prevalent minerals in the body, impacting how we feel and function every day — yet it’s also the second most common nutrient deficiency behind vitamin D. In this mini episode, Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, explains magnesium’s far-reaching role in our health and offers tips for making sure our bodies have optimal levels.
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Why Dynamic Personal Training?
With Anna Taylor, CPT
Dynamic Personal Training is Life Time’s unique philosophy around a fully engaged approach to training — but what is it exactly? And how is it different from other one-on-one training programs? Anna Taylor, CPT, explains Dynamic Personal Training and the unique experience — and elevated results — it delivers to members.
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Why Creatine?
With Paul Kriegler, RD, CPT
Creatine can be a powerful supplement for improving lean muscle mass, strength, energy, cognition, and more.
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