I would like to start by prefacing that Emma and her team are lovely and this review is nothing against them personally. One of the below reviewers was right when they said that this coaching programme is not for experienced gym goers - it is definitely more beneficial for people who have no experience with the gym or with macros. I started the programme because I saw her incredible transformations of clients online and I had a holiday coming up in 3 months time so I wanted 3 months focused on fat loss and then post-holiday, I wanted to focus on some muscle gain. When I sent her this information in the questionnaire, she came back and said I was going to do a body recomp instead. This made me a bit sceptical because I've been weightlifting and tracking my macros for years (as I stated in the questionnaire) and recomps work much better for newbie lifters. To no surprise, this body recomp didn't work at all. My weight stayed the same whilst my measurements were going up and glute measurements going down. I raised my concerns and their only answer was to add 1 x 30 minute cardio session a week. Again, this didn't do anything. Despite telling them my constant worries that my holiday was getting closer and I hadn't lost any fat, they still refused to drop my calories. I ended up taking macros into my own hands and lost more weight in 2 weeks than I had with 2 and a hald months with empower. As for the meal plans, my biggest annoyance with this is how they never updated it unless you specifically put your cravings into the weekly check in. For me, I never used to crave anything and when I asked if they could update my meal plan they told me that I needed to put in my cravings and they would add this into my meal plan. But I would have much prefered them to just re-fresh my meal plan every week or so to keep things interesting instead of eating the same things for 3 months. Despite this though, some of the meals were nice. All in all, I feel like I've wasted a lot of money on empower (which isn't ideal in the middle of a cost of living crisis). I geuinely was so excited and thought I was going to finish with a lot of body confidence but this wasn't the case at all. If you have previous experience with the gym and macros, I highly recommend researching other online coaches first.
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