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Highly recommend to anyone that wants, needs and is willing to work for that push they need. I have worked with Emma for just under a year and I can’t thank her and the empower team for everything they’ve done! My experience was slightly different to the usual as I started working with Emma to actually gain weight from being servilely underweight. I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for the help, support and encouragement from Emma. It has been a difficult journey, a lot of ups , a lot of downs but I’m so greatful to be where I am today and I truly believe I couldn’t have done it myself.
Fabulous team of coaches who really care for you, which I have not found in coaching before. The app is amazing and really user friendly. Everything is in one place from your food ,workouts and chat with your coach. Highly recommended.
I’ve been working with Emma for about two years now and I really enjoyed almost every second of it! I really really love tracking macros and I think that is because how easy it was after working with Emma. One thing I can say I loved almost every single meal they were amazing they tasted awesome I just love them so much! I loved having weekly check-in’s from the pictures and just taking my body measurements and really talking with Emma about where I was and how I was feeling at that time. Overall I had a pretty good experience and I would be down to work with her again if I ever needed too!
Sadly my experience with Empower was terrible. After being in a calories deficit for almost 6 months I barely lost any weight and I was feeling constantly very tired and hungry. My mood was low. I was sleeping poorly. Since I was barely loosing weight, feeling bloated and constipated, Emma kept lowering my kcal intake. And I followed her recommendations. I was committed and I thought I could do it. Until I couldn’t and I broke and I felt into, the worst I’ve experienced so far, binging cycle. Emma has no professional training in treating binging disorder and the more she interacted with me the more anxious I felt. It’s over a month like we finished working together and I’m still recovering after toxic relationship I had with her. Recently I reached out to certified psycho dietitian that specializes in binging disorder and according to her calculations, calories intake that was recommended to me by Empower was lower than my Basal Metabolic Rate ( I was at ~1700 and my BMR is 1800). I cycle to work and hit the gym 5 times a week.I was always a very active person and with Empower I started to hate gym and lifting weights and I would experience weekends where I couldn’t leave my bed as I was so tired. Now I’m slowly recovering but the damage that was done… it’s extremely difficult for me to understand why someone would hurt anyone so much. It’s not even about the money. For many years I’ve been struggling with my relationship with food but what happened with Empower… I never thought it can be that bad. If you are struggling with eating disorder I honestly do not recommend you starting this program.
This was my first experience with a trainer and I loved it. My biggest takeaways we’re focusing on CONSISTENCY > perfection. Emma and the empower team also give a lot of useful information about nutrition and how to balance diet and lifestyle: from a psychological perspective and the science of how much to eat etc. in order to be losing weight. Emma and empower come across extremely genuine and you feel supported and cared about. I was very happy with my results and left feeling inspired with more tools and knowledge. I think anyone could benefit from this program, working with someone else and having an outside perspective is super useful! I may be back again to work toward some different goals in the future. Thanks Empower :)
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.
Joining Empower has honestly been the best choice I ever made this year!!Initially I was very hesitant to make the decision but after discussing everything over the phone with one of the lovely Empower team members I knew that it would really help me with both nutrition and fitness goals.Emma is absolutely lovely and was always there to support me, answer any questions and to motivate me when I was feeling low and if I had any slip ups. She never made me feel guilty if this was the case and is so so understanding of real life- she provides the most enjoyable workouts and delicious meal plans that work around a realistic working, busy life. I have learnt to love fitness and food, and what is so special about Empower as opposed to other coaches is how specific and personalised and tailored everything is to the individual. Also, Emma teaches you the theory behind every strategy that is implemented (unlike other coaches where you just blindly follow what they have told you to do) and this has taught me so much about how to balance fitness sustainability so that I can now come out of Empower with so much more confidence in my own physique and a newfound confidence in how to tackle the fitness world solo! Thank you so much Emma and her lovely team- I will definitely be returning if I have a new fitness goal in the future!!!💕
I was with Empower Coaching for 6 months, but the last 3 months I got an injury. Because of this, I wasn't able to train properly. I had to take it very easy, couldn't progressively overload, sometimes I had to take a few weeks off training etc. Despite this, I saw great results and my body composition has really changed since starting with Empower! A lot of it, I believe was due to nutrition. Before starting with Empower I had no idea about macros, what my maintenance calories were etc. I was completely lost. So learning how much food and what kind of food my body needs was the biggest takeaway from my coaching journey. As soon as I started to track my macros, my body started to change. I was already familiar with strength training before joining, so the exercises were nothing new to me. It was good to have a plan though and to stick to it. I had to leave Empower as my injury got worse and I felt like I wanted to go off on my own so I can decide myself what and how much to train, how big of a surplus I want to be in etc. Overall, my experience with Empower has been great, I've seen really great results and I'm blown away by how much my body has changed.I would say though, that before joining, you have to be prepared to put in the work. It will not be easy. You need to do your steps, track your food (or stick to the meal plan), and you have to stick to your training plan. It's not a quick fix, it's a lifestyle change. If you're not prepared to work hard, you probably should think twice before joining. My overall impression is that this is a great service but I also agree with others that it seems like they have too many clients. Sometimes the responses you get are a bit confusing, and sometimes, I was given exercises like deadlifts etc, despite the fact that I had stated in the beginning that I do not want to deadlifts due to my injury. No hard feelings though, but for the price you pay I think it would be better to take on less clients and give them full 100% attention. But to summarise - I have loved my time with Empower, it's truly changed my body and how I view myself - now I love my body and feel proud of it, and I no longer have these intense urges to restrict and binge. That is priceless to me. I definitely recommend Empower, just be prepared to work hard. You are the one who needs to put in the effort.
Emma is a fantastic coach who teaches food freedom. That was the biggest takeaway for me, that I can eat Nutella for breakfast and if it is in moderation I will still see results. Another benefit was the gym plan. I had not followed one in the past besides PTs and I now confidently go to the gym 5 times a week and have seen great strength improvements. And can wrap up a workout routine in about an hour. If you are a complete newbie Emma would be amazing for excellent educated advice that would prevent you from making the same mistakes as me, restricting on “bad” foods etc! Again if you are gym educated, I still believe I learned a lot especially in relation to food. I definitely would recommend Emma :)
Emma is simply amazing! She has the knowledge about nutrition and how the body works to help people achieve their goals. I started weight lifting 5 years ago but this program is the only thing that has ever helped me achieve my goals. I met my goal weight and learned so much about what it truly means to be healthy. This girl knows what she’s doing! The meals are delicious and I could still indulge when I wanted to. She helped me understand the importance of balancing my macros and needing to actually eat more. I can’t recommend Empower enough!
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