Emerge Fitness

🚨 WE’RE HIRING! 🚨

Emerge Fitness is growing, and we’re looking for an incredible coach to join our team.

This isn’t just a job counting reps. We’re looking for someone who genuinely loves helping women become stronger, more confident, and excited to walk through our doors each day.

Our members aren’t looking for bootcamp instructors or drill sergeants. They’re women who want to feel seen, supported, challenged, and capable—and we’re looking for a coach who can create exactly that. 💪🏼

✨ You’re a great fit if you:
• Love building relationships just as much as coaching movement
• Believe strength training should feel empowering, not intimidating
• Meet people where they’re at while helping them achieve more than they thought possible
• Bring positive energy, professionalism, and hospitality into every session
•Have at least 1 year of experience and an active personal training certification

📍 Manayunk, Philadelphia
🕓 M-Th. 4:30-7:30pm
💰 Competitive pay + room to grow

If this sounds like you—or someone you know—we’d love to connect.

📩 Email your resume to [email protected] // DM with any questions!

Tag a coach who would absolutely thrive at Emerge! 💪

The face you make when you find out burpees are never on the workout. 🙌

Yep… no burpees. Guaranteed. 💯

At Emerge Fitness, we intentionally program exercises that are functional—not just movements designed to leave you exhausted and gasping for air.

If you want to focus on proper form and progressive overload, which simply means following a program and adding weight or volume week by week, then we might be the right fit for you! No random workouts of the day and random exercises, everything is thought out and designed to improve overall strength, muscle, and endurance.

Trial a free session by shooting us a DM or visit our website at www.emergefitnessllc.com 💪🏼

📸 emily valeo

Come to get strong, stay for the laughs, friendships & community 👯‍♀️

Emerge is more than just a place to check in, workout & leave. With just 6 women per session, it’s a place to build connections and feel a sense of community in this virtual world we live in!

If you’re looking for a place to not only get the strongest you’ve ever been but to finally find a sense of community in adulthood, come try us out! Your first session is free, followed by a 2 week $99 trial to make sure it feels like the absolute best fit for you before committing to a membership!

We hope to see you soon 💪🏼

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Huge shoutout and spotlight to our Whitney!

How it started ➡️➡️ how it’s going!

Whitney started in the fall of 2024, by winter 2025 she got her first full chin-up (and a half) and by 2026 she worked up to her first goal of 10 chin-ups and a 40LB weighted chinup before turning 40 (iconic!)

Whitney is an inspiration not just because of her strength but her perseverance and consistency to hit these goals. It doesn’t happen over night, it happens over the course of years and consistently showing up and this is the perfect proof of that!

It’s easy to get stuck comparing ourselves to others while forgetting to remind ourselves that everyone starts somewhere, and it takes workkkk!

Wherever you are in your fitness journey, keep going! Take it day by day and keep showing up. 💪🏼 If you’re feeling stuck or unsure where to start, shoot us a DM to help you get started!

Emily here! 👋 Owner of Emerge Fitness, and I’m just about out of the first trimester of my second pregnancy. I wanted to share a few survival tips for navigating fitness during those first 14-ish weeks.

The hardest part of the first trimester—for me—is simply managing the symptoms. I was extremely sick with my first pregnancy, and while this one has been a little better, I’ve still spent more free time napping than working out (being fully transparent 😅)… and that’s okay.

Prioritize rest. Manage your symptoms. Train when you feel good enough to train.

Some weeks that might look like 2–3 workouts. Other weeks it might be 0–1. This is just a season, and your fitness will be waiting for you when you feel like yourself again.

One thing that helped me tremendously was accountability.

Right before getting pregnant, I started weekly physical therapy sessions to address some recurring aches and pains. Having those appointments on my calendar made it so much easier to show up because self-motivation is HARD when you’re nauseous and exhausted. (Shoutout to .pt)

Whether it’s a trainer, a workout buddy, or simply scheduling workouts ahead of time, having someone expecting you can make all the difference.

There aren’t any mandatory exercise changes during the first trimester for most healthy pregnancies, but that doesn’t mean every movement will feel good.

A few modifications I’ve personally made:

• Swapped flat bench exercises for an incline because lying flat made my nausea much worse.

• Skipped barbell hip thrusts because the pressure across my abdomen just wasn’t comfortable. Instead, I opted for banded or single-leg hip thrusts.

• Avoided anything with a meaningful risk of falling. If I didn’t feel 100% stable, I’d hold onto something or choose a different exercise.

Pregnancy isn’t the time to prove anything. There’s almost always another exercise that accomplishes the same goal with less risk.

Lastly…

✨ Keep snacks with you. (Watermelon Sour Patch Kids and carby snack bars were my MVPs. 😂)

✨ Stay hydrated. (Flavored water was WAY easier for me than plain water.)

✨ &&& Give yourself grace. ❤️

100 sessions for 🩷💪🏼💪🏼

Amazing work Megan— you’ve made the commitment to yourself and stuck to it consistently for over a year on top of balancing all of the things. We’re so proud of you!!!!

Can’t wait to see what the next 100 brings us!!

Different times for different schedules… 7 days per week!

With sessions as early as 6am and as late as 6:30pm, we strive to offer flexible times for all schedules. We also offer sessions on both Saturdays and Sundays!

Come get strong with us at Emerge Fitness 💪

DM for your first free session!

Different times for different schedules… 7 days per week!

With sessions as early as 6am and as late as 6:30pm, we strive to offer flexible times for all schedules. We also offer sessions on both Saturdays and Sundays!

Come get strong with us at Emerge Fitness 💪

DM for your first free season!

100 sessions for Mackenzie!!!!

Mackenzie joined in the fall and has consistently come 3x per week since and has made tremendous progress!!! We love you Mackenzie, keep up the amazing work!

100 sessions for Kelly!!!! — we are SO proud of all of the hard work you have put in over the last year. You are so strong and hard working, always getting your workouts in despite the balancing act of working mom life!!! Keep up the amazing work!!

From Kelly 🥰
“I decided I wanted to start weight training. I had no idea where to start and if I’d be able to find someone inclusive and kind to me and my body. I found Emerge Fitness and
, who have made me love moving my body for the first time in my life. 100 workouts later I can deadlift 225 lbs, bench press 113, and get joy and relief every time I go to the gym. And most importantly, I always want to go back for more.”

To anyone who has feared taking that first step into a new gym, we’re here for you!!! ❤️❤️❤️