EAT Your Way to Better Health & Fitness: Part 1
EAT your way to Better Health and Fitness: Part 1 Written by: Michael, General Manager at EMPOWER Personalized Fitness Raleigh & Durham. If you are reading this article you are probably a health and fitness enthusiast perusing topical subject matter, or you are realizing how you failed to keep last year’s New Year’s Resolution to […]
Do I Need A Personal Trainer?
Do I Need to Hire a Personal Trainer? Written by Co-Owner and Founder Jessica Bottesch I bet many of you have found yourself contemplating this very same question. Many of you have health goals that you haven’t successfully reached on your own, some of you don’t even know where to start, some can’t seem to […]
Tips from the Trainer: Tiffani
The Importance of Glute Training: Written by: Tiffani Cox-Kuchyt, Personal Trainer at EMPOWER Personalized Fitness Raleigh and Durham. Booty, badonkadonk, junk in the trunk, caboose, buns, back with a crack, lazy lump, rump shaker are all adjectives that people use to describe the biggest and strongest muscle in the human body. Besides for looking good […]
Meet Rob King: Personal Trainer at EMPOWER Personalized Fitness Raleigh
Meet Rob King: Personal Trainer at EMPOWER Personalized Fitness Raleigh First off I want to thank you for spending a little time with me and reading this blog. This is the first of what I hope to be many coming your way in the near future. Let me start off by telling you a little […]
emPOWER Yoga: Crow Happened
The Day Crow Happened: Written By: RJ Lisander CROW HAPPENED There are lots of styles of yoga. In general, my class sequences follow a flow traditional to the style I’m teaching. However, this week during the 6:30 am emPOWER Yoga class at EMPOWER Durham, I threw the rulebook out the window and provided a totally […]
Meet the EMPOWER Raleigh Trainers: Eric Broadbent
Eric Broadbent: Eric Broadbent joined the Empower Raleigh Team as a Personal Trainer in the Fall of 2013. He is extremely excited to be joining such a diverse and enthusiastic TEAM. The transition to joining Empower Personalized Fitness Raleigh was quite easy for Eric because they share a lot of the same values. At Empower […]
Personal Training at it’s Best Now Serving the Raleigh Community
Are you someone who knows that exercise is important but can’t seem to find the time on your busy life schedule to fit it in? Have you tried weight loss and fitness plans in the past but never quite been able to reach your goals? Have you realized lately that you are not in the […]
Empower Raleigh NOW OPEN
Empower Personalized Fitness is NOW OPEN at 2501 Blue Ridge Road in The Atrium Building at the intersection of Blue Ridge and Lake Boone Trail near Rex Hospital. The Raleigh location is a culmination of everything Ronda and I have learned since we opened our flagship location in Durham in 2005. For those of you […]
Steve’s Blog: The Tale of the Taper
The Tale of the Taper The taper is the curse of the well-prepared runner. I’m two weeks away from my first half-marathon. I’ve been adding mileage for the last few months and feeling rally good about the base I’ve built. Now, all the experts are telling me to back off – to effectively stop training. […]
Steve’s Blog: It’s Good to have Goals
It’s Good to have Goals When I tell people that I’m about to run my first half-marathon, I get the same question: “What’s your goal?” I assume they’re referring specifically to time, but is that all there is? It makes me think about what I really want from this race. So, here’s my list of […]