Get involved on campus while having fun! Recreation and Wellbeing offers a wide range of programs, services, and facilities designed to engage your mind, body, and spirit. Whether you’re into sports and competition, exploring the great outdoors, or focusing on personal fitness, you'll find the perfect opportunities here to learn, play, and grow in all areas of life.

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Join your colleagues in the fun and let Walkingspree help you get rewarded for healthy behaviors! Earn Points everyday for your activity. Participate in company wide challenges for even more ways to win rewards!

Enter Registration code: UIHEALTHWALKS

University Health Service (UHS) provides occupational health services to employees of the University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics (UI Hospital), University of Illinois Chicago, UI Hospital volunteers, and health sciences students.

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Exercise Is Medicine

Exercise is Medicine® (EIM), a global health initiative managed by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), encourages primary care physicians and other health care providers to include physical activity when designing treatment plans and to refer patients to evidence-based exercise programs and qualified exercise professionals, especially those with the EIM credential.

EIM is committed to the belief that physical activity promotes optimal health, is integral in the prevention and treatment of many medical conditions, and should be regularly assessed and included as part of health care. The UIC Recreation Center has integrated EIM into student wellness initiatives on campus. The expansion of EIM initiatives to include UIC employees and UI Health is currently in progress. The Recreation Center and the University Health Service have partnered to provide a Walking program, titled Walk Well. Refer to the Walk Well tab on this UHS webpage. Future initiatives are to pilot EIM in the Ambulatory Care Clinics at UI Health. More to come on this program.

The UIC Recreation Center submitted an EIM award application to the American College of Sports Medicine and was awarded a GOLD campus award. For more information on EIM, Please refer to the UIC Recreation Center website at (https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/support_page.php/recognition-program/)​. UIC received the award at the American College of Sports Medicine annual conference in Orlando, FL on May 30th, 2019.​

For more information on Exercise is Medicine on Campus, please contact fitness@uic.edu

RECOGNIZE YOUR POTENTIAL!

• ​​Exercise is Medicine on Campus https://recreation.uic.edu/mission-vision-and-values/exercise-is-medicine/​

• UIC Campus Recreation https://recreation.uic.edu/

• Rec Center Fitness Classes: https://recreation.uic.edu/fitness-wellness/fitness-classes/

• Fitness Testing: https://recreation.uic.edu/fitness-wellness/fitness-testing/

• Exercise is Medicine: https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/

Walk Well Routes​

1. Route-7-1

2. Route-8

3. Route-9-1

Other​ Resources​

• ​Safe Lifting Techniques​

• Stretching & Strengthening

  • Stretching - Lower Body

  • Stretching - Upper Body

• ​​​Workstation Ergonomics​