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Oct 1, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Anneli Rufus |Andrew Heffernan |Laurel Kallenbach
It’s been a summer of wanderlust for friends and family. I’ve lost count of how many of them visited Ireland, and I’ve marveled at photos from Norway and reports from New Orleans, Colorado, and even Brazil. These are not young people jetting around the globe, by the way — they’re retired or approaching it. And, if I’m to be completely honest, viewing their adventures just makes me a tad weary.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Lauren Bedosky |Kara Thom |Laurel Kallenbach
Soccer and other field sports feature a lot of accelerating, decelerating, and quick changes of direction, says former collegiate soccer player Erica Suter, MS, a youth female athlete speed and strength coach. As the link between the upper body and lower body, the hips play a crucial role in transferring power efficiently for these high-speed movements. The ankles are key, too, because they help transfer the force from the hips to the feet.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jamie Martin |Laurel Kallenbach |Kaelyn Riley |Courtney Helgoe
Skip to content Join Members Experience Life Work Living Store More Sites Life Time Athletic Events Life Time Foundation Life Time Academy Culture of Inclusion Get the latest content and program updates from Life Time. Subscribe Life Time Member * I’m a Life Time member I’m not a Life Time member First Name * Last Name * Email Address * Nearest Life Time Club * If you are human, leave this field blank. Δ Not a fan of hardcore camping? “Glamping” gets you out in nature — without sacrificing...
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May 7, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jamie Martin |Laurel Kallenbach |Elizabeth Millard |Jill Metzler Patton
“Do you know where your food comes from — or how it got here?” I’m not a gambler, but I’d bet most of us heard some variation of this question a time or two when we were kids. Perhaps it was during the educational curriculum about our food systems. Or maybe it was posed to us when we took the food on our plates for granted.
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May 6, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Heidi Wachter |Laurel Kallenbach
If feeling low is for the birds, maybe it’s only right that our feathered friends can also lift our spirits. Recent research suggests that listening to birdsong — whether in nature or via a digital device — may improve our mental well-being. It’s about connecting with nature, which has long been shown to improve both body and brain health.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Lauren Bedosky |Maggie Fazeli Fard |Molly Tynjala |Laurel Kallenbach
More girls and women are playing sports than in decades prior, yet research on female athletes lags far behind: Just 6 percent of sports and exercise studies focus on females. The result? These athletes often receive guidance based on studies of men. Christine Yu tackles this disparity in her new book, Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes. Experience Life | Why is now the time to be talking about the research gap? Christine Yu | It’s an exciting time in women’s sports right now.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jill Metzler Patton |Heidi Wachter |Laurel Kallenbach
Andrea Hanson expected her trip to Africa to be transformative. She didn’t expect her transformation to begin before she even left JFK Airport. A graduate student in social work, Hanson was headed to Ghana last December for a research internship. She was the only Black person from her university on the trip, but virtually everyone else boarding the plane to Ghana that day was Black. “To see an entire area at the airport filled with Black people — I had never experienced that before,” she recalls.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Emily Ewen |Laurel Kallenbach
In Tanzania, Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro stands as the highest freestanding mountain above sea level in the world. Every year, over 30,000 climbers attempt to reach its peak — it’s a grueling trek that requires roughly a week of hiking for six to eight hours a day through five distinct climates. It’s not for the faint of heart, yet with the proper training, maintains Life Time Dynamic Personal Trainer Ashley Drazkowski, it’s more accessible than you might think.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Laurel Kallenbach
Visiting wildlife in the Galápagos Islands taught me a lot of things, including how to be a courteous guest. On our first day, our guide explained that we would be able to observe blue-footed boobies, giant tortoises, Sally Lightfoot crabs, and marine iguanas up close in their natural habitats — but only because these creatures have evolved without predators and didn’t fear humans.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Laurel Kallenbach |Jon Spayde
I’m not usually a big shopper, but I found the handcrafted textiles in the Santiago Atitlán market in Guatemala breathtaking, and I loved meeting the women who made them. One did her weaving on a portable backstrap loom just as her foremothers did for 2,500 years. Bargaining is customary in Guatemala, and the occasional haggle gave me a chance to practice my rusty Spanish — but I wasn’t a hard sell.
