{"id":14287,"date":"2026-05-14T08:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:40:28","slug":"building-a-fitness-business-as-a-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/building-a-fitness-business-as-a-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger together: The lessons from building a fitness business as a couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Holly Lynch and Endrit Shehu tell all about building a fitness business as a couple, in this FitPro webcast hosted by Teresa Wheatley; FitPro&#8217;s executive director.<\/h2>\n<p>Listen in to Holly and Endrit as they share what they&#8217;ve learned in running their successful fitness business Empower HQ and the Lancashire Fitness Festival together. Holly has won multiple awards and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/eventshqltd\/1791872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lancashire Fitness Festival<\/a> is building on its early successes.\u00a0 They talk relationship dynamics, coping with the pressures, and share practical takeaways for fitness professionals looking to build something special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gyt_eGaMPKU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the webcast now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stronger together: The lessons from building a fitness business as a couple | FitPro WEBCAST\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gyt_eGaMPKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11958\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11958\" class=\"wp-image-11958 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-24-at-14.54.06-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Holly Lynch\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-24-at-14.54.06-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-24-at-14.54.06-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-24-at-14.54.06-140x140.jpeg 140w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-24-at-14.54.06-500x500.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-24-at-14.54.06-350x350.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-24-at-14.54.06-800x800.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holly Lynch<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Holly Lynch <\/strong>BSc(hons) MSc, PGCE is an award-winning PT, a business owner and a cat mum. She is part of the FitPro National Trainer team for MOSSA UK. Her passion to help people and excel in her career has seen her recently awarded as Female Personal Trainer of the Year. Holly works alongside her husband \u00a0and team in their Empower HQ personal training and fitness studio in Barrowford. She is a college lecturer, presenter, trainer and ambassador for many fitness brands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14342\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14342\" class=\"wp-image-14342 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Endrit Shehu<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Endrit Shehu<\/strong> has a first class degree in Sports Coaching and is a UEFA A licenced football coach who has worked at academy\u2019s including Salford, Accrington Stanley, Preston North End and Blackburn Rovers.\u00a0 He is co-owner of Empower HQ where he leads fitness classes, coaches clients 1:1 and delivers school fitness sessions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Lynch and Endrit Shehu tell all about building a fitness business as a couple,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[860,23,3074],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-group-exercise","9":"category-webcast"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14343,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/14343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}