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The Power of Fitness Rituals

Discover nine embodiment practices you can embrace to help ease workout anxiety and prerace jitters.
By Lauren Bedosky

What’s Your Favorite Short Workout?

Experience Life staffers share their go-to routines for when time is limited.
By Experience Life Staff

Does the Scalp Have a Microbiome?

Yes — and it plays a surprising role.
By Michael Dregni

What Are Postbiotics?

You’ve probably heard of prebiotics and probiotics. Meet another biotic that can influence your gut health.
By Adam Meyer

Step Inside: Life Time Lakewood Ranch

Get a sneak peek at Sarasota’s first athletic country club.
By Tina Nguyen

What Is Narrative-Based Therapy and How Can It Help Healing?

The stories we tell about our illnesses and injuries can shape how we cope with them. Here's how narrative-based therapies can help us create stories that can heal ourselves.
By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

How to Modify Burpees as You Age

Burpees train an essential life skill: getting up and down from the floor with strength and control. Here’s how to modify the movement to support your ability level.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Lessons Learned

Experience Life's editor in chief on what she's learned in the pages of EL over 25 years.
By Jamie Martin

Why Exercise May Be the Best Medicine for Joint Pain

Creaky knees and other sore joints often send us to the medicine cabinet in search of pain relief. But recent research on osteoarthritis suggests we may be better served by simply moving more.
By Craig Cox

PUMPING IRONY: The Cognitive Costs of a Reclusive Retirement

Recent research suggests that loneliness and social isolation may lead to postretirement cognitive impairment. Overcoming those obstacles may take some practice.
By Craig Cox

How to Curate Your Own Retreat

A seasoned retreat expert shares how to create your own refuge for one hour, one day, a weekend, or longer.
By Caroline Sylge

How to Eat to Support Your Energy

Expert nutritional strategies to support your motivation and mental well-being.
By Henry Emmons, MD

Your Healthy Grilling Guide

Grilling can produce harmful compounds. Here are our tips for reducing carcinogens, improving flavor, and adding nutrients to your next cookout.
By Rachel MacPherson

Are Fat-Burning Workouts the Best Way to Lose Body Fat?

Here's what the research shows.
By Lauren Bedosky

All About the Resting Metabolic Assessment at Life Time

Discover how the data gleaned from this test can inform your nutrition and training plans to help you reach your metabolic goals.
By Callie Fredrickson

What Is Rejection Sensitivity Dysmorphia?

A therapist explains.
By Alexandra Smith, MA, LPCC

7 Ways to Take Your Pickleball Skills to the Next Level

Looking to up your DUPR rating? Two pickleball pros share tips to help you climb the ranks.
By Callie Fredrickson

3 Expert Cues to Fine-Tune Your Goblet Squat

Make the most out of your goblet squat with these form refinements.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard

How Much Hydration Do I Really Need in the Summer Heat?

Recommendations for staying hydrated during the warmer months.
By Tina Nguyen

Tyra Black Finds a New Path in Pickleball

Tyra Black was raised to be a tennis star. Now, at 25, she’s making her mark professionally with pickleball.
By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC
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