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All About the 60XT Challenge: Everything You Need to Know
Learn about this new body transformation program that kicks off on March 24.
A Guide to Exercising During Cancer Treatment
Physical activity is a powerful complement to traditional cancer treatment. Learn how to manage your strength, energy, and mindset.
3 Functional Water Additives to Try
What you need to know about electrolytes, amino acids, and greens powders.
Why Am I Not Hungry After a Tough Workout?
Here’s expert advice on how to balance low appetite with proper fueling and recovery.
Perfect Your Plank With These Expert Cues
This isometric full-body hold is a highly effective strength and stability builder, targeting the deep-core muscles of the abdomen as well as the shoulders, glutes, and back. Here’s how to nail the setup and perform it correctly.
Build Arm Strength With the Biceps Curl
Hone your biceps curl with these expert tips. Plus, we offer nine variations on the classic move.
Watch Out For These Common Split Squat and Lunge Errors
These moves — differentiated by whether both feet remain static (split squat) or one foot steps forward and backward (lunge) — strengthen the glutes, quads, and calves; build hip, knee, and ankle stability; and help improve overall balance. Here’s how to nail the setup and perform them correctly.
How to Set Up a Barbell Bench Press
This classic move builds chest and shoulder strength while also improving stability in the small, intrinsic muscles around the shoulder joint. Here’s how to avoid common errors in the setup.
How to Set Up a Bent-Over Dumbbell Row
Building strength through the middle and upper back, lats, and shoulders, this row also enhances mobility through the scapulae and improves stability in the thoracic spine and deep abdominals. Here’s how to avoid common errors in the setup.
How to Set Up a Barbell Back Squat
This exercise works muscles around multiple joints in the lower body, building strength and muscle in your quads, glutes, and hamstrings. Here’s how to avoid common errors in the setup.
3 Tips for Fueling for Life Time Classes
Helpful reminders about prioritizing nutrition and hydration when going after your fitness goals.
4 Life Time Trainers Share Their Favorite Machine on the Workout Floor
Plus, they demonstrate how to use their most-loved equipment at the club.
How to Set Up a Barbell Deadlift
This compound movement strengthens the hamstrings, glutes, back, and core. It also trains the hip-hinge pattern, which has functional carryover to other exercises and daily activities. Here’s how to avoid common errors in the setup.
How to Set Up a Barbell Overhead Press
Reaching for or lifting objects overhead is commonplace, making this shoulder strengthener a truly functional exercise. Here’s how to avoid common errors in the setup.
Foundation, Transformation, Mastery: A Three-Phase Plan to Progress in the New Year
A longtime fitness coach shares the approach he advises for those starting a new fitness regimen.
Perform a Safe and Effective Kettlebell Swing With These Cues
This dynamic move builds full-body strength and explosive power, working the posterior chain as well as the upper body, namely your lats, forearms, and hands. Here’s how to nail the setup and perform it correctly.
Want to Reduce Low-Back Pain? Take a Walk
When it comes to low-back pain, walking might be better than rest, according to a recent study. Here’s why.
Are You Making These Common Pushup Mistakes?
This fitness staple is a full-body exercise that builds core stability as well as back, arm, and chest power. Here’s how to nail the setup and perform it correctly.
3 Tips to Build a Consistent Fitness Routine
Try these “cheat codes” to create more consistency in your fitness routine.
What’s the Best Way to Sequence a Workout?
Learn how to sequence your workouts to match your goals and make the most of your efforts.
9 Strength Moves You May Be Setting Up Wrong (and How to Fix Them)
Expert guidance for nailing the setup of common strength moves — so you can make the most of your lifting efforts.




















