The Power of Fitness Rituals
Discover nine embodiment practices you can embrace to help ease workout anxiety and prerace jitters.
What’s Your Favorite Short Workout?
Experience Life staffers share their go-to routines for when time is limited.
Does the Scalp Have a Microbiome?
Yes — and it plays a bigger role in your scalp health than you might think, affecting everything from dandruff to hair growth.
Mediterranean Smashed Chickpea Salad
Protein-packed chickpeas, fresh herbs, dried cranberries, and tangy feta are tossed with a refreshing yogurt-based dressing.
What Are Postbiotics?
You’ve probably heard of prebiotics and probiotics. Meet another biotic that can influence your gut health.
Why Telling Your Health Story Can Be Healing
When we’re facing illness or injury, the stories we tell ourselves matter.
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.
Lessons Learned
Experience Life's editor in chief on what she's learned in the pages of EL over 25 years.
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 research on exercises for knee pain and osteoarthritis suggests we may be better served by simply moving more.
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.
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.
How to Eat to Support Your Energy
Which foods actually give you energy? Expert-backed nutritional strategies to support your motivation and mental well-being.
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.
Are Fat-Burning Workouts the Best Way to Lose Body Fat?
Low-intensity "fat-burning zone" workouts sound appealing, but here's what the research actually shows about the best way to lose body fat.
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.
What Is Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria?
A therapist explains rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) — the intense emotional pain some people, especially those with ADHD, feel in response to perceived rejection or criticism.
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.
3 Expert Cues to Fine-Tune Your Goblet Squat
Make the most of your goblet squat with these three expert form cues — and get more out of every rep.