Gina Baski – CEO + Coach

Sports and fitness have always been a part of Gina’s life. Gina was involved in competitive gymnastics and swimming for over ten years. She worked as a swimming instructor, coach, and personal trainer while attending college and graduate school. After completing a B.S. from Cal Poly and an MA from SDSU she continued her work as a part-time trainer and began teaching college in San Diego, CA. Shortly after meeting her husband, Gina quit her job as a college professor and resumed her passion as a personal trainer and coach.

Gina is the co-founder and CEO of TriFit Club & Studios.  Today Gina is certified as a personal trainer, weight management consultant, yoga instructor, cycling instructor, Pose Running Coach, and as a USA Triathlon (Level II) Coach. Gina has served as a triathlon coach for Team in Training, the largest endurance program in the world.  Gina has volunteered her time and resources for the AIDS Ride, AIDS Lifecycle, Santa Monica-Venice Christmas Run, and the Arthritis Foundation’s California Coast Class ride. In addition, she has worked with Olympic endurance and strength coaches who have been instrumental in helping her to develop smart and effective training programs for her clients.

Inspiring her clients to find their athletic potential and discover something new within them is Gina’s greatest passion. Whether through nutrition, strength and endurance training, or training for their first race – Gina always strives to help clients maximize their goals, have fun and create a balanced lifestyle of health and well being. Gina has competed in two Ironman Triathlons and various other multi-sport races.

Bernard Baski – Head Triathlon Coach

Bernard Baski played fifteen years of amateur and professional hockey training with Canada’s top coaches. His desire to help other young up-and-coming hockey players excel was the turning point of his career. His devotion to the sport of hockey helped him develop a career as a trainer and a coach at one of Canada’s internationally renowned top training camps. His experience with aerobic, anaerobic, and strength training helped him to develop a successful training formula.

With his wife Gina, Bernard is co-founder TriFit Club & Studios, a complete training and testing facility designed to accommodate both beginning and elite athletes. He has coached several seasons for the corporate triathlon program for Team in Training, the largest endurance-training program in the world. Bernard’s certifications include: Pose Tech Running (Level II), USA Triathlon (Level II), USA/ASCA, is nationally certified as a strength and conditioning coach, and is nationally certified with Paul Swift Bike Fit Systems as one of their top fit specialists in the US and Canada.

His performance-based approach to training has been recognized as both a unique and effective method for improving outdoor cycling performance. His love of coaching and his competitive edge have been fulfilled through the sport of triathlon.

Bernard offers professional bike fitting, one-on-one run coaching, and programming for individuals competing in every distance of running and triathlon.

Email: info@tfmultisport.com or call TriFit Club & Studios and ask for Bernard in the Performance Center.

Rad Hallman – Swim + Triathlon Coach

Rad has been involved in the multisport community since 2000 as a coach and as an athlete. In 2002, he raced for Team USA in the Duathlon World Championships. Since then, he has raced in Triathlon Nationals and completed three Ironman distance races among dozens of other races from sprints to rugged xterra challenges.

Currently, he is the head coach for the University of Southern California Triathlon team. Under his coaching, the USC women’s team finished 9th in the country last year with a top 20 overall finish for the combined team. Within the collegiate program, Rad has taken tri newbies from his or her first race to overall podium finishes in the span of a nine month season.

Rad has also coached for the Team in Training Ironteam, raising money for cancer research while training people from all walks of life to complete an Iron-distance race. Year in and year out, the greatest fears of triathletes boil down to the swim. With a balanced, technique-oriented approach, Rad has coached athletes afraid of water more than waist deep to complete the 2.4 mile challenge of an Ironman. He has also taken athletes, stuck on a plateau, to new levels of achievement in the water and beyond.

Rad teaches two master swim workouts a week at TriFit, offers one-on-one private instruction, underwater swim video analysis, and will hold several clinics throughout 2011.  Rad also develops individualized programs for athletes competing in every distance of running and triathlon.

Email: Rad@TriFitLA.com

Josh Horowitz – Cycling Coach

Josh is a professional cyclist and director and head coach of the Adageo Energy Professional Cycling Team.  Josh has been racing for over 20 years and is a licensed USAC coach, certified personal trainer and spin instructor.  He has written over a hundred training articles for websites and magazines on a variety of topics including nutrition, periodization training, power based training, race strategy, mental training and weight loss.
Josh is also the founder of Ultimate Sports Psychology and the creator of The Ultimate Sports Psychology Hypnosis CD Series.  Clients include 3 time Tour of California winner and Tour de France podium finisher Levi Leipheimer, US National Champion Chris Baldwin and Italian National Champion Marco Pinotti.
Josh teaches two indoor cycling classes a week at TriFit and offers one-on-one cycling coaching and programming.

Email: Josh@TriFitLA.com

Aron Gadhia – Cycling Coach

Aron is a USA Cycling licensed cycling coach, an expert bike fitter, an N.A.S.M. certified Personal Trainer, and a Category 1 road and track cyclist.
Aron has been immersed in a career centered on physical fitness since the early 1980′s when he began weight training and bodybuilding. His original interest in bodybuilding culminated in a fourth place finish at the 1992 ABCC All Natural Mr. California Contest. Aron obtained his fitness trainer’s certification at N.A.S.M. in 1994 while working as a trainer at Jackson Souza’s Training Facilities in Santa Monica and Malibu. In his spare time he also worked at Paulseth and Associates Physical therapy as an aid as well as trainer for rehabilitated patients.
Aron began road racing a mere 6 years ago. His talent was obvious when he upgraded from a USCF Category 5 to Category 3 during the course of his first season. During his second season of racing (2004), Aron dominated Category 3 racing and won the Southern California Cup, reflecting his status as the #1 Category 3 in all of Southern California and Nevada. He also won the Category 3 State Championship Criterium and placed second in the Category 3 State Championship Road Race.
Now regularly lining up alongside top professional cyclists in the Pro/1/2 Category, Aron has already shown that even against the very best he is a talented sprinter on the track and the road. He has won 4 Elite State Championship titles as well as numerous State and National medals on the track as well as the road.
Aron is available for professional bike fitting and one-on-one cycling coaching and programming.

Email: Aron@TriFitLA.com

Kirsten Wagner – Testing

Kirsten Wagner was a collegiate soccer and All-American lacrosse player who also coached lacrosse at the University of Notre Dame for several years. From 1998 – 2000 she was a strength and conditioning graduate assistant for the athletics department at Columbia University in New York where she earned a master’s degree in Applied Physiology and graduated as a member of the Kappa Delta Pi honor society in education. After school Kirsten ran the Center for Health and Wellness for the Saint Barnabas Health Care System in Livingston, NJ. In addition to managing the center she was also the head exercise physiologist for the Athlete Development Program and the Obesity and Weight Management Center while continuing to coach club lacrosse in her spare time.
For the last two years Kirsten has been the head of the TriFit Performance Testing Center, one of only five official Certified USAT Performance Testing Centers in the U.S. Kirsten follows Olympic Training Center protocols for exercising metabolic, lactate and resting metabolic tests.  Kirsten teaches TriFit core conditioning classes twice a week and she works one-on-one with clients as a strength and conditioning coach. Kirsten is also a USA Triathlon (Level I) Coach and works closely with other TriFit coaches developing training programs for various multisport races. In her free time you can find Kirsten outdoors and always active, she loves to spend time with her dog Lucky.
Kirsten teaches two core conditioning classes a week at TriFit, is available for testing services, and one-on-one personal training.

Email: Kirsten@TriFit.Net

Taylor Johnson – Strength & Conditioning Specialist

Taylor is a recent graduate from the University of California, Davis with a degree in Exercise Biology. He has trained a in a collection of Martial Arts and his love and passion for training and fighting led him to live in Chang Mai, Thailand to train and fight competitively. Once at UC Davis, he shifted his focus to academics and research on exercise science, performance physiology, and sports psychology. During his time at Davis, he worked in various research labs for psychology and biomechanics until finding his dream internship as a strength and conditioning coach for UC Davis Athletics. He became a USAW Sports Performance Coach and gained experience working with all intercollegiate Division 1 NCAA teams but most exclusively with Football. His responsibilities included developing and implementing programs for speed development, aigility, strength, power and endurance as well as overseeing nutrition, recovery and regeneration, and rehabilitation methods to allow the athletes to reach their full potential.

He is now interning at UCLA coaching exclusively the Bruin Football team with the dream to one day become a head strength and conditioning coach at a major Division 1 University.

His passion for life, fitness, training, and unwavering desire to help individuals reach their full potential drives him each and every day.

Email: Taylor@TriFitLA.com

Beth Sobel – Registered Dietitian

Beth is a registered dietitian, certified yoga instructor and athlete and is passionate about food, health and wellness. She earned her masters degree of science in nutrition and clinical health psychology from Bastyr University, a leading natural medicine school in Seattle, WA. Beth believes that healthy living is best achieved when the body and mind are mutually supported with nourishing practices. She has an extensive and diverse background as a nutrition therapist, in the culinary field and as a mental health therapist. Her experiences include working as a dietitian in a variety of settings including hospitals, integrative medicine clinics and community health centers.

Her approach to helping others cultivate a healthy internal and external environment includes implementing healthy eating practices, exploring relationships to food and our food system, adopting a positive belief system, learning self-care and discovering balanced living. She believes that every individual is unique, and therefore tailors wellness plans to meet each person’s needs, lifestyle and goals. Beth currently offers on-site nutrition services including one-on-one counseling at TriFit Club & Studios.

Email: Beth@TriFitLA.com