EMPOWER’s 7 Days of Smoothies
EMPOWER’s 7 Days of Smoothies: Designed and Tested by the EMPOWER Team – for you! Our most recent special offer on Facebook was a FREE Download for EMPOWER’s 7 Days of Smoothies. (Find our Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/empowerpersonalizedfitness?ref=hl) If you missed out on the opportunity to download it from our Facebook, you can now get all the […]
Three Bean Salad Recipe
Three Bean Salad Recipe: Ingredients: 2 cans black beans (drained & rinsed) 2 cans kidney beans (drained & rinsed) 1 can garbanzo beans (drained & rinsed) 6 green onions (rinsed & chopped, I like to only use the white end and a little of the green) 6 tbsp olive oil 6 tbsp red wine vinegar […]
EMPOWER Workout of the Week 06/25/13
EMPOWER’s Workout of the Week: Total Body Burner Check out the full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ_eMp4V7IQ In this weeks video Angelo takes you through the exercises demonstrating proper form, he also gives suggested modifications if you need a more/less intense version of any of the exercises! EMPOWER Total Body Burner: 45 seconds of Jump Rope Before and […]
21 Day Detox Cleanse: Week 3
Cleanse Blog Week 3 – Becoming Powerful. Week 3 of the cleanse was a breeze. I kicked up my workouts a notch because I heard sometimes in the third week people hit a little bit of a plateau in terms of weight loss. I had my routine down and it really flew by. I was […]
Nestor’s Power Smoothie
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 […]
21 Day Detox Cleanse:
Liz Hurley Style – Week 1: For those of you that do not know me…my name is Liz Hurley, I am the group fitness coordinator and a personal trainer at EMPOWER. This is my summary of Week 1 on “The Cleanse.” If you are unfamiliar with it- the cleanse is a 21 day liver detox […]
Alec’s Blog: Family Weight Loss Challenge Update
Family weight loss challenge update 3/7/2013: I’ll be honest, the first two weeks of February were tough. With the Super Bowl, my busiest season at work, an out-of-town engagement party, and the first Carolina-Dook game, there were many reasons to both celebrate and drown my sorrows in food and beer (based on how I spelled […]
Alec’s blog: Checking In
1/10/13 Three weeks in and I have successfully tracked my food and exercise in my phone’s app and been committed to working out. My phone told me I needed to weigh 258 pounds or less today and I came in at 253.5! In more exciting news, Empower kicked off its group fitness classes with Casino […]
Alec’s Update: 1/5/13
Family Weight-Loss Competition: The decorations are back in the attic, the ball has dropped, and 2013 is upon us. What does this mean? It means we are only six months away from lying by the pool, sunbathing at the beach, and going to weddings every other weekend. In other words, we are six months away […]
Alec’s Story: Catching up
So here it goes again – work hit overdrive and Alec hit the fast food window more times than you can count on your fingers and toes. With a colleague out on vacation during our busiest time of year, I had to pull all-nighters and work 70-80 hours per week. With that said, working out […]