Coaches
Four people
No rota, no cover. The person on the timetable is the person in the room.
Coaches
Four people, no rota
Inês Carvalho
Strength
Former national-level weightlifter. Runs the barbell floor.
Inês lifted for Portugal for nine years before she coached anyone. She teaches the squat the way she was taught it: slowly, from the feet up, with the bar going nowhere until the position is right. Her Monday 06:30 has had a waiting list since the unit opened.
Kofi Mensah
Conditioning
Rowed at Henley. Writes every conditioning piece on the board.
Kofi spent a decade in a boat and brought the ergometer with him. His sessions are timed to the second, scored on the board and over in forty minutes. He is the reason the rowers here are the most used machines in the building.
Sana Iqbal
Mobility
Physiotherapist. Keeps the other three programmes honest.
Sana came to Threshold as the physio the coaches sent people to, and stayed to stop them needing to. Her mobility floor is where the strength members fix what the barbell finds. She still sees members one to one on Thursdays.
Marek Nowak
Open Floor
Founder. Built the rig himself. Coaches the open sessions.
Marek took the lease on the unit in 2016 with a rack, a platform and a plan for four. He welded the rig, wrote the first programme and still coaches the open floor, where members train their own plan with a coach in the room. Ask him about the threshold bar at the door.
