Fab 4 Fitness Friday – Core Blast!
It’s all about the core! Core work will strengthen your pelvis, low back, hips and abdomen. Why is that important? Being strong in those areas helps promote stability, balance, and protects you from injury. An added benefit to core work is that it doesn’t require a single piece of equipment to do. Try our Fab […]
Move More, Sit Less.
How do we fight the threat of our chairs? The answer is to get up and move.
Fab 4 Fitness Moves Friday – Squat it Out!
Ever wonder how Beyoncé gained her assets? She probably did a few squats.The benefits of squats are many, but they crush calories, improve core strength, and you don’t need equipment to do any.Squats are a compound movement – one that hits several major muscle groups at a time – which means they are a fantastic […]
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 […]
Tired of Elliptical? Try a Gameful Approach
Does your exercise routine sound like this? 30 min elliptical one day – maybe throw some weights around or do some machines another day – walk the dog. This routine gets booooringgggg and many of my clients come to me feeling flat, tired and totally uninspired. If you aren’t getting enough physical activity in […]
Cheetos & Beer: 4 Tips to Better Snacking.
As someone with something of a perfunctory relationship with food, there are a few things about it which I know with an absolute certainty. Cheetos taste good. Cookies taste good. Chips taste good. Add a little beer to wash these down and its a party, because beer tastes great too. Alas, like everything else […]
Consistency + Motivation=Results
This year I trained for my first national competition called CG Games (Camp Gladiator). Not only did I have to be strong, and agile but have endurance, and speed as well. There are 5 events: strength, agility, endurance, interval and peak (which was an obstacle course). It took months of training leading up to nationals […]
How Amanda Plays
In this blog I want to share some examples of how I’ve used play in different aspects of my life: Play in my relationship I was struggling with being snappy, and short with my boyfriend. In addition to praying for patience and to be slow to anger, I decided to make this a game. […]