Nestor’s Morning Power Smoothie (Serves 2): 1 cup vanilla soy milk (or almond milk) 1 cup plain low-/non-fat yogurt 1 banana 1 cup frozen mixed fruit (your choice; I like Dole fruit medley with peaches, pineapple, strawberries, mango, and grapes) 1/2 cup fruit juice (your choice; I like mango/passion fruit) 2 scoops vanilla soy protein powder [...]
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Jamie here, with this week’s health and fitness blog. For the blog this week, we decided to pose an interesting question to our training staff. The question was… What are you doing for self- improvement? Essentially, what do you do to do to challenge ourselves to become better, brighter, more powerful (physically or mentally). After [...]
Sticking to a routine isn’t always easy. In fact, it’s hardly ever easy unless the routine doesn’t require us to do much work. For instance, if I lived in Barbados, I think I could gladly start up the routine of getting up every day to chill in beach chair under some palm trees. Or better [...]
What exercise should you do every day? Name an animal that is easy to imitate? Which trainer is most likely to lose it? These were just a few the questions that our trainers had to answer yesterday during our first ever Empower Personal Training Trainer Feud. This challenge, created by our very own Caroline Crocker [...]
At Empower, we have all kinds of “fun” equipment that we use to train our wonderful clients. At any given time, you may come in and see someone using Dynamax balls, sand bags, ropes, sleds, TRX straps, free weights, medicine balls, etc… The list really goes on and on. Now that its nice and warm [...]
