When, Why & How Your Fitness Should Evolve
Here at Empower Personalized Fitness, we help people and communities lead stronger, healthier, and happier lives through personalized fitness plans. Fitness is a journey and therefore it must evolve. People, and most everything else in life, are always changing; your workouts should too. Let’s explore when, why, and how your fitness plan should change. See what […]
Is Your Fitness Plan Working?
Got Workout Plans? Is your workout plan progressing you towards your health and fitness goals? Is it enjoyable? Empower Personalized Fitness is a boutique fitness studio in Durham, North Carolina. We help people and communities lead stronger, healthier, happier lives through personalized health and wellness programs. We are here to tell you if your workout […]
How to Choose a Personal Trainer
15 Years and Counting Empower Personalized Fitness opened our doors in Durham back in 2005. It’s super exciting that our community is now in our 15 years! When we started this back in 2005, our goal was to be different than any other fitness solution out there. We have achieved that goal by offering personalized […]
Make Exercising Personalized
Happy New Year from Empower Personalized Fitness! It’s that time of year where we start to get flooded with questions from people with concerns about their fitness plans. “My (lack of) fitness plan just isn’t working anymore!” Or, “What’s the best workout for me?” In our nearly thirty years in the fitness industry, the have […]
No Time for Exercise? That’s Why You Need a Personal Trainer
Time. There are 168 hours in a week but we still can’t ever find enough of it. Between work and sleep, we lose a significant chunk of it right away. Add in family, food, and life in general, and its easy to see why working out ends up in the Way Too Busy to Do […]
Strength & Flexibility: The Best of Both Worlds
Everybody loves muscles. They look good, feel nice, and help you move heavy things. Unfortunately, as we age muscle is harder to maintain. This may lead to more vigorous strength training, which isn’t exactly a bad thing, but can sometimes cause us to under train in other, equally important areas. When you use muscles, […]
5 Exercises to Help Elevate Your Tennis Game
Professionals may make it look easy running back and forth across the court, often for several hours at a time, but playing the sport of tennis requires a high degree of both strength and coordination. To perform at their best, a tennis player needs the right mix of endurance, speed and agility, as well as explosive strength and power. […]
5 Secrets of the Pros
Thinking back over the years, how many lessons have you had that made a long-term impact on your golf game? If I had to guess, I would say that the lessons early on in your golf career dramatically helped you improve, but since then you have probably only found a couple gems that […]
How to Achieve Work/Life Balance
The first blog in this series was an overview of work/life balance and what it means . Now we will dive deeper in on How to Achieve Work/Life Balance. 1 – Make time to connect with others. #Relationships There is a Ted Talk 75 year study on happiness and those people who were happier were […]
Food As Medicine: Immune System
It’s that time of the year again! It’s the season for playing in the winter snow, cozying up with some hot chocolate, a blanket and binging on Netflix…and the time for seasonal sniffles, coughs, colds and flu. This time of the year we are more vulnerable to viruses and allergies. No one enjoys being sick […]