I worked with Empower over a 4 month period and am not thrilled with the results or the process. I gained 5 lbs with little change in measurements. A little background about me before Empower: Lost ~50 lbs on my own and maintained with good body composition (24in waist 34in hips). Very familiar w tracking calories to fit in the foods I like and weightlifting heavy - over 2x my body weight. The reason I joined Empower was to learn more about balance as far as going out to eat / drink at a restaurant that doesnt have the calorie counts listed & just to have a coach there for reverse dieting as its my first time really going through that process. All in all I did not achieve those goals. A Few Points - Exercise plans aren’t exactly customized as promised. I have a home gym set up with several different machines and a rack yet with all 3 plans given to me I had to go through and request different exercises and remind Emma of what equipment I have. This would be fine if it was a one off however for every single day of each plan at least one thing needed to be replaced. On top of that I requested different glute activation exercises as I had been doing the same one for 4 months or so and the new one I was given was literally the same 4 exercises in a different order. Although Emma is prompt in her responses I just feel answers were rushed as in she didnt really read what I was saying and plans were just thrown together based on the above. And my goals in working with Empower were not fulfilled.Its still unclear to me how to maintain balance while going out. Often I would ask the same question in different ways because the answer I received didnt really answer the question at all. For example she once told me to skip breakfast track lunch and then have an untracked dinner and this is after I mentioned the 2 meals I would be having out were breakfast and dinner - and I asked how I track the other meals if the dinner is untracked but did not get a clear answer. And as far as my results...I understand with reverse dieting not everyone has the genetics to maintain their weight or see results during that process however I let Emma know that I had events starting in early June. When we finally switched to a cut I still wasnt seeing the results I wanted so I decided to “pause” coaching with her to take the weight loss into my own hands. Since I’ve been working on my own (setting my own macros) Ive seen far better results losing 1 lb per week vs none with Empower. Ive since lost an inch off my waist and gained 0.25in on my glutes doing a different trainers exercise plan - and it takes less time to complete. Unfortunately I was billed for another month because you are supposed to notify a month in advance to cancel. I just had to act quickly and asked her to pause our coaching because with the events I have coming up I want to be in my best shape. And was just not getting there with Empower. Dreading having to work with Empower again because I know in that month results will stall and like I said Im not gaining any results or knowledge from it. I will say the one habit I did build because of Empower was walking 10K steps. So thats one positive that came out of it. But aside from that Im at the point where I might just write off the $175 for the month thats left.Edited to Add: We were supposed to continue coaching July 11 after the pause mentioned above but I HAVE decided to just write off the money I already paid because she is unwilling to extend the time for the pause and I am unwilling to begin working with her again ahead of the events I have as I know I will not be seeing results in that month. What can I say, I like results and I'm getting stronger with a smaller waist and bigger booty spending less time in the gym with a different trainer's exercise plan and my own diet plan.
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