Monthly Archives: January 2012

LiveFit Challenge Week 1: Linda & Amy’s Updates

Six Aurora BayCare Medical Center have embarked on a wellness challenge that will change their lives forever! Over the next six months, these people will be coached, trained and transformed into triathlon-level athletes through the Aurora BayCare Sports Medicine Live Fit program.  “Now that … Continue reading

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Live Fit Challenge Week 1: Kim’s Update

Six Aurora BayCare Medical Center have embarked on a wellness challenge that will change their lives forever! Over the next six months, these people will be coached, trained and transformed into triathlon-level athletes through the Aurora BayCare Sports Medicine Live Fit program.  When I … Continue reading

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LiveFit Challenge Week 1: Leslie’s Update

Six Aurora BayCare Medical Center have embarked on a wellness challenge that will change their lives forever! Over the next six months, these people will be coached, trained and transformed into triathlon-level athletes through the Aurora BayCare Sports Medicine Live Fit program.  “Now that … Continue reading

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LiveFit Challenge Week 1: Lisa’s Update

Six Aurora BayCare Medical Center have embarked on a wellness challenge that will change their lives forever! Over the next six months, these people will be coached, trained and transformed into triathlon-level athletes through the Aurora BayCare Sports Medicine Live Fit program.  So yesterday, … Continue reading

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LiveFit Challenge Week 1: Dr. Utrie’s Update

Six Aurora BayCare Medical Center have embarked on a wellness challenge that will change their lives forever! Over the next six months, these people will be coached, trained and transformed into triathlon-level athletes through the Aurora BayCare Sports Medicine Live Fit program.   So … Continue reading

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Perfect Posture: protect your spine with proper squats

It is one thing to maintain perfect posture during static activities such as standing or sitting, but to maintain that same posture through other actives is more difficult.  One thing that I have noticed while working at the Sports Medicine … Continue reading

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Perfect Posture: strengthen your abs, stabilize your core

The purpose of the abdominals is to act as stabilizers between the hips, pelvis, spinal column and rib cage.  This stability is key when trying to maintain perfect posture.  Although the main muscle that most people would identify first as … Continue reading

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Six Aurora BayCare caregivers rise to triathlon challenge

Last year, Scott Zahn, MD, an Aurora pediatrician, decided he needed to make a change where his health was concerned. As part of the CNN Fit Nation program, Dr. Zahn began to integrate fitness into his everyday life in a … Continue reading

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Athletes: what’s your strategic plan for 2012?

In my newest posting, I went to one of our experts and asked her to help me explain what an athlete’s year-long training schedule might look like. Staci Gruenke, is not only a licensed athletic trainer, but also one of … Continue reading

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Reposition your health with perfect posture

As an athletic trainer working at a high school, I have first-hand experience in seeing bad posture take its toll on students.  Common examples include a senior during finals week lugging around 50 pounds of books in a backpack that … Continue reading

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