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
- Sit Ups: How to Do Them, Muscles Worked and Are They Bad for You?
- Shoulder Exercises: 8 Moves for Stronger, Wider Delts
- Tricep Exercises: The 8 Best Moves for Bigger, Stronger Arms
- Crunches: How to Do Them, Muscles Worked and Better Variations
- Sissy Squat: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Benefits
- Chest Exercises: The 9 Best Moves for a Bigger, Stronger Chest
- Quad Stretches: 6 Ways to Loosen Tight Quads (and When Not To)
- Power Clean: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Common Mistakes
- Push Press: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Why It Beats the Strict Press
- Bird Dog Exercise: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Benefits
- Cossack Squat: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Progressions
- Pec Deck: How to Do It, Muscles Worked and Better Alternatives
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