Sticking with Your Exercise Program in 2024
Exercise and fitness-related New Year's resolutions are always popular. Riding the New Year momentum makes starting an exercise program in January easy. But now that it's February, it can be hard to stick to it. Life gets busy, the weather is terrible, motivation drops, and the excitement has worn off. Time magazine has estimated that 80, we asked PhysioPartners' therapists for their best tips to keep exercising through the February dip and into the spring.
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Posted on 2024-02-02
Aaron Rodgers' Road to Recovery
Aaron Rodgers’ Injury: The Path Back to the Field
By Tyler Nord, SPT
When Rodgers ruptured his Achilles tendon, many fans were left wondering what the next steps would be for the 39-year-old quarterback. It was reported that he would have surgery in the days following his injury, determined to return to the football field. Typical surgical interventions for Achilles rupture consist of percutaneous and open repairs. Rodgers opted to undergo a new style of open repair, described as the Spe...
Posted on 2023-10-10
Redefining Human Potential
By Ake Paramadilok, PT, DPT
October 12th, 2019 marked an historic day in the world of marathon running and athletic achievement. Eliud Kipchoge, the reigning 2016 Olympic marathon champion and current marathon world record holder from Kenya, redefined human potential once again by running a sub-two-hour marathon in Vienna, Austria. Kipchoge completed the 26.2 mile run in 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds, making him the fastest human to ever run a marathon and the first to break the elusive ...
Posted on 2019-10-15
How Actively Will You Age?
A 2010 study suggests that the decline in fitness we typically attribute to advancing age are largely caused by living sedentary lifestyles—which are on the rise due to the prominence of desk jobs in the workplace and activity-limiting personal technologies, including smart phones and voice-activated remote controls in the home. Still, this runs contrary to the widely held belief that any declines in our physical abilities are caused solely by biological aging. Do we really have control ov...
Posted on 2018-02-17
Exercising in 3 Dimensions
By Katie Albert, PT, DPT
With the arrival of warmer temperatures, the population of Chicago appears to grow by ten-fold. Overnight, scores of people transition from the hibernation of winter to enjoying the great outdoors! The lakefront path is packed with bikers, walkers, and runners alike. Evidence of 5k, marathon, adventure race, and triathlon training surrounds us with people exercising before and after work. Some even choose the great option of walking the 40 minutes home instead of taking...
Posted on 2017-08-01