Ten specialists.
Each coach is here for something specific — a lift that has stopped moving, a snatch that needs rebuilding, an aerobic base that was never built. Working with one is optional and stays optional.
Marcus Vieira
Marcus competed for eleven seasons before moving fully into coaching. He writes long off-season blocks and is the coach members go to when a lift has not moved in months.
Danielle Okafor
Danielle coaches the snatch and the clean with the patience of someone who spent six years fixing her own. She runs both platform sessions each week.
Aaron Feldman
Twenty-two years of coaching, most of it with people who want to stay strong for another twenty. Aaron builds programmes around what a joint will tolerate every week, not once.
Priya Raman
Priya turns the movements people assume they will never do into a sequence of steps with dates attached. She coaches the Saturday and Wednesday evening sessions.
Tomás Delgado
Tomás spent nine seasons in collegiate strength and conditioning before joining BASALT. He owns the testing protocol both programmes are measured against.
Nia Whitfield
A former collegiate rower who now coaches the two early morning conditioning sessions. Nia is the reason the aerobic work at BASALT has a plan behind it.
Sergei Antonov
Twenty-four years of coaching physique athletes, and the only coach here who will spend an hour on how you stand. Sergei runs the Thursday morning session.
Grace Lindqvist
Grace handles the members coming back — after surgery, after a long absence, after a bad year. Fifteen years of coaching, most of it in the first six weeks of someone's return.
Devin Carter
Devin coaches the sessions most members start with. His stated goal is that nobody leaves their first month still guessing what they are doing.
Yuki Tanaka-Brooks
Yuki writes the conditioning pieces and then defends the stimulus behind them. She coaches the midday and Friday morning sessions.