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 […]
EMPOWER’s Nutrition for Runners
Thanks to everyone who came out to our Nutrition for Runners Lectures! Nutrition is such an important part of training for any race (whether it be a running race or just the race that is life!) As promised, the notes from the lecture are at the link below! Please let us know if you have […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eat with Friends!
Our blog post today will deal with how we eat more than what we eat. Keeping in theme with our chili cook-off this week, we’ll discuss how eating socially with friends and family can affect our eating habits. 1) Getting kids involved in cooking and teaching them about food It’s a little scary how many […]
Paleo Diet Challenge Week
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 the why, what, and how for the week: All the lean meats, fish, and seafood […]
Local vs. Organic
People often ask me when it comes to fruits, vegetables and meats which is better, local or organic? My quick answer is local, however I feel that the question is dealing with apples and oranges here (no pun intended!). So here goes a more comprehensive explanation as to why I feel that if you must […]