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Make the Most of the Time You Have: Something is Better Than Nothing

Joseph Coupal - Thursday, August 25, 2011

By Heather Hawk

Remember the days when you had an hour (even more) to focus on exercise? You could train without worrying about making dinner, finishing work, or taking the kids to their next activity. Well, with our busy lives a 60-minute workout can sometimes be a luxury.

The good news is you can take advantage of shorter spurts of time and still get an effective workout. You might feel that the 15 or 30-minute chunks of free time aren’t sufficient, but that’s absolutely not true.

Only have time for a quick workout? Use the shorter segments of time to hit it hard. Whether it is strength training or cardio, you can raise your heart rate, work up a sweat, and exhaust your muscles with a challenging 15 to 30 minute session.

Don’t throw away your entire workout just because you don’t have an hour—this will get you nowhere. Make the most of the time you have—break it up—you will feel better, look better, and still see results!

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Be active. Be healthy. Be strong.

Joseph Coupal - Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Welcome to the Empower blog. We are here to help you in your quest to become an active, healthy, and strong woman.

Empower offers a realistic approach to leading a healthy lifestyle. By incorporating fitness, nutrition, and wellness expertise, Empower motivates and inspires women to be active, healthy, and strong.

This blog is a forum for helping woman of all ages find an approach to fitness and wellness that is both realistic and enjoyable. Our bloggers are all experts in the field of woman’s health and fitness. They are writing to cover a broad range of topics that go beyond fitness—to help you achieve and maintain an active and healthy lifestyle that is realistic for you.

Gin Miller—One of the industry’s top professionals, best known as the innovative force behind the Step Training revolution. Not only was she a founding member of Reebok University, she has also contributed to magazines such as Shape, Fitness, Fit, Family Circle, Self, Good Housekeeping, People, USA Today, Glamour, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Ladies Home Journal, Weight Watchers, and Parents magazine. Television appearances include CNN, The Today Show as fitness correspondent, CBS Fitness Matters, Fit TV, ESPN, and numerous others. (Click here to read more about Gin Miller)

Heather Hawk— A national health and fitness correspondent for television and radio. Heather has been seen on all the major networks as well as various cable stations including Discovery Health, ESPN, Lifetime, HSN, QVC and HGTV. Heather hosts “Smart Living,” launched as part of a national health and fitness campaign in 2004. She also hosted the popular news segment “Fit on Fox” on the Fox network for 7 years. Since 1996, Heather has been teaching listeners how to eat well, train properly, and create a healthier lifestyle through her radio show “Hawk On Health”. (Click here to read more about Heather Hawk)

Rachel Howe— As the owner of Momentum Fitness, Inc. in Massachusetts, Rachel has created a unique fitness boot camp that has taken off with tremendous success. As a fitness consultant, she provides customized services and content to other fitness companies, insurance agencies and private organizations. As a mother of three and business owner, Rachel understands first-hand the energy required to maintain an active, yet healthy lifestyle today. Her positive attitude and encouraging manner allow her to teach, motivate and inspire people to change their lives for the better every day. (Click here to read more about Rachel Howe)

Donna Savage and George Kessler are the great minds behind Empower products. Working together, they develop the solutions that help you get fit. Working with Empower’s fitness experts, Donna and George bring Empower fitness products to life. They welcome your questions, ideas, and feedback. Their posts will focus on how and why Empower products are developed.

Empower is here for you. We look forward to providing you useful information, workouts, tips, and tricks. We welcome your perspectives, your questions, your ideas, and your feedback.

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The Empower Team

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