Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
On July 23, 2009, Life Time Fitness, Inc. (the "Company") reported its financial results for its fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2009. See the Company's press release dated July 23, 2009, which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference in this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The press release furnished as Exhibit 99.1 and certain information the Company intends to disclose on the conference call scheduled for 10:00 a.m. eastern time on July 23, 2009 include certain non-GAAP financial measures. The reconciliations of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in the earnings release. In addition to the information in the press release under the heading "Non-GAAP Financial Measures," the Company provides the following additional information about the Company's use of the non-GAAP financial measures presented in the press release and on the conference call.
EBITDA. The Company believes EBITDA is useful to an investor in evaluating the Company's operating performance and liquidity because:
• it is a widely accepted financial indicator of a company's ability to service its debt and the Company is required to comply with certain covenants and borrowing limitations that are based on variations of EBITDA in certain of the Company's financing documents;

• it is widely used to measure a company's operating performance without regard to items such as depreciation and amortization, which can vary depending upon accounting methods and the book value of assets, and to present a meaningful measure of corporate performance exclusive of the Company's capital structure and the method by which assets were acquired; and

• it helps investors to more meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of the Company's operations from period to period by removing from the Company's operating results the impact of its capital structure, primarily interest expense from the Company's outstanding debt, and asset base, primarily depreciation and amortization of the Company's properties.

The Company's management uses EBITDA:
• as a measurement of operating performance because it assists the Company in comparing its performance on a consistent basis, as it removes from the Company's operating results the impact of the Company's capital structure, which includes interest expense from the Company's outstanding debt, and the Company's asset base, which includes depreciation and amortization of the Company's properties;

• in presentations to the members of the Company's board of directors to enable the board to have the same consistent measurement basis of operating performance used by management; and

• as the basis for incentive bonuses paid to selected members of senior and center-level management.

Free Cash Flow. The Company believes free cash flow is useful to an investor in understanding the Company's cash flow generation because:
• free cash flow allows the Company to evaluate the cash generated by operations and the ability of its operations to fund investment items related to purchases of property and equipment;

• free cash flow reflects the cash available for repayment of indebtedness, to add to the Company's cash balance or to use in other discretionary activities; and

• if negative, free cash flow reflects the need for incremental financing activities or use of existing cash balances.

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The Company's management uses free cash flow to monitor cash available for repayment of indebtedness and in discussions with the investment community.

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Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
The following Exhibit is being furnished herewith:
99.1 Press Release Announcing Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results dated July 23, 2009.

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