Juan is a 30 year old recent UNC graduate. We asked Juan why he came to Empower to train: “It all started with preparation for an upcoming wedding. I visited the Empower headquarters frantic one afternoon and told Paul I...
All righty, then end of a week of Paleo. Here’s the wrapup. I knew going in that the weekend (Day 6/7) was going to be tough. Weekends are traditionally, for me, the times when I get lax and slip up....
Day 5 and I keep rocking. Had some more shrimp and a little pork tenderloin today to go with the fruits and veggies. Cravings have gone away for the most part. Two more days! See you soon. Mike Babbitt, M.F.A,...
Day 4. Food is good. Today made a few change-ups in what I’m eating. I had a huge salad with lots of greens, broccoli, cauliflower, and two nice salmon fillets and ate on this throughout the day. Quite good when...
All right, Day 3 has come and gone and I’m feeling pretty in the grove with the diet. I will add though that yesterday was the first day I had any specific cravings; I really wanted some bread. But didn’t...
Onto day 2. What I ate yesterday was pretty much the same I ate on day one. I added a few more nuts and I ate an extra 6 oz of chicken but all in all it was the same....
All right. Yesterday was the start of the paleo experience. Here’s what I ate throughout the day: 2 boiled egss 1 apple 2 nectarine 6 oz chicken 6 oz london broil 2 oz cashews 2 tomatoes 1 red pepper 1...
So if you haven’t heard, this week Empower Personal Training is doing a week long nutrition challenge using the Paleo Diet. The gist of the diet is that if you can pick it and eat it raw or kill it...
Here at Empower we enjoyed the Vegan Challenge Week so much that we decided to have another nutrition challenge for fun. We hope you’ll join us as we take nutrition back to our Paleolithic roots. Here’s a quick guide on...
I think stress is one the great inhibitors of how we choose to live. Because stress is what is perceived, stress becomes part of our routine. We develop physical reactions to our perceptions of stress, which controls how we carry...
Client Spotlight: Juan Arango
One Man and Paleo (Day 6/7)
One Man and Paleo (Day 5)
One Man and Paleo (Day 4)
One Man and Paleo (Day 3)
One Man and Paleo (Day 2)
One Man and Paleo (Day 1)
One Man and Paleo (Day 0)
Paleo Diet Challenge Week
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