Strength Lab Truckee was founded in 2020 to help area residents improve their health and fitness so that they could continue living vibrantly and bringing value to their family and the Truckee community. The founders, Tashi Herzmark and Gaia Trojanowski discovered the surprising value of slow-cadence, high-intensity strength training when Gaia was needing to address back and neck pain from long hours working over her massage table.
Who We Are
THE STRENGTH LAB TEAM
Tashi Herzmark
MASTER PERSONAL TRAINER
Tashi came to Truckee from Colorado via Reno, NV after he met Gaia in 2017. He is a cofounder of Strength Lab Truckee, received the Master Personal Trainer Certification from HitUni.com and has trained more than 2000 sessions at SLT at the time of this writing. A former research and production chemist, he realized how precious the body is and now finds euphoria snowboarding, mountain biking and surfing. He is a Boulder, CO native and father of two children.
Gaia Trojanowski
PERSONAL TRAINER
Gaia is a 26 year Truckee resident, owner/operator of Embodiment Massage Studio, cofounder and trainer at Strength Lab Truckee. She received the Personal Trainer Certification from HitUni.com after she alleviated her back and shoulder pain from long hours over her massage table. During Covid with a medical referral, she would drive seven hours round-trip to San Jose once a week for a 20 minute high-intensity strength training session with Super Slow Zone because it worked! She is a SoCal native and mother of two children, skier, mountain biker and longboarder.