Nadia Popescu

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.