Empower Fitness

Specialties

Empower Fitness Gym for Women offers an affordable fitness center, including full cardio and weight areas, a strength circuit, and over twenty classes per week. Massage and personal training services are also offered. Every woman who joins is assessed by a personal trainer and is oriented to a customized workout routine to meet her specific needs. Our programming is designed to resolve fitness problems of women over forty years old. Empower Fitness is known for its friendly and supportive environment, and values kindness, inclusion, and diversity.

History

Established in 2004.

Opened in 2004 in the Lawrence Shopping Center as a franchise — Slim & Tone. As we grew and expanded, we left the franchise in 2009, moved to a larger space in the Lawrence Shopping Center and have since been operating independently as Empower Fitness. We are a limited liability corporation (Brame LLC dba Empower Fitness).

Meet the Business Owner

Joan B.

Business Owner

Joan is owner and manager of Empower Fitness, and is both a certified personal trainer and certified cancer exercise specialist. Joan, with a Ph.D. in Sociology, MSW in Social Work, and BS in Math, retired in 2003 after a long career in academia and hospital administration. Joan teaches several classes at the gym, and has provided fitness consultations and workshops to several community organizations, including NAMI Mercer, Heart-​to-​Heart, Radiology Affiliates, and Capital Health Breast Center. Believing that good health is a lifelong journey, Joan feels privileged to be involved in the lives of so many wonderful women at Empower Fitness, all working toward the common goal of improving their health.