Nadia Popescu
Strength & Conditioning Writer, Best Exercise
Kettlebells, dumbbells, mobility and exercise technique
Nadia Popescu has coached strength and conditioning for more than ten years, working with everyone from nervous first-timers to club athletes. Most of that coaching now happens around home training, where she has learned what actually works in a spare room or garage rather than a fully kitted commercial gym.
At Best Exercise she focuses on technique and the kit that supports it: kettlebells, dumbbells, resistance bands and the exercise form guides that help people get results without picking up injuries. She is a stickler for honest cues and realistic progressions, and she judges a movement or a piece of equipment on how it holds up over months of regular use, not a single session.
Nadia leans on coaching experience and current strength research in equal measure. If a product or a technique will not help you train better, she would rather say so than sell it.
Latest from Nadia
- EZ Bar Weight: How Much Does an EZ Curl Bar Weigh?
- Glute Drive Machine: How to Use It, Muscles Worked and Home Alternatives
- Kettlebell Deadlift: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Variations
- Landmine Squat: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Benefits
- B-Stance RDL: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Benefits
- Close Grip Lat Pulldown: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Benefits
- Frog Pumps: How to Do Them, Muscles Worked and Progressions
- Leg Muscles: Anatomy, What Each One Does and How to Train It
- Chest Press Machine: How to Use It, Muscles Worked and Benefits
- Best Cable Machine UK 2026: Functional Trainers for Home
- How to Deadlift: Proper Form, Muscles Worked and Common Mistakes
- Dumbbell Deadlift: Muscles Worked, Proper Form and Variations
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