OUR MISSION
Our mission is to teach our students how to improve their strength, mobility, & health while minimizing the cost to the body & enjoying the process along the way!
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Co-Owner & Coach
Before Mel was a coach, she was a full-time Judo athlete and was ranked in the top 3 in the country. She put her sights on the Olympics until until she tore both ACLs within one year. This closed the Olympic window for her so she re-focused her energy on a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practice and on becoming a strength coach.
As a competitive BJJ athlete she won gold at the Pan American Championships at blue belt, silver at Adult World Championships as a purple belt & gold at the Masters World Championships as a brown belt.
Mel has a black belt in both Judo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. She draws from kettlebell, bodyweight and barbell knowledge as a Strongfirst Certified Team Leader & Elite coach. She is an Iron Maiden and has completed Sinister. Inspired by the notion that “Size Matters Not,” at 120 lbs, she endeavors to be as powerful pound for pound as she can be.
Aside from practicing and competing in martial arts, Mel enjoys hiking, gardening, adventure stories, traveling & is often found next to a mug of tea when not in a gym.
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Instagram: @mo.throws007
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Co-Owner & Coach
Born and raised in Oakland, he first ran a family-owned auto collision repair business alongside his father. While running the family business, he discovered the gift of strength and developed a passion for health & fitness. This new greater purpose-led Luis to embark on an adventure of building his own business around his passion. Choosing to think outside the box and insisting on treading the non-beaten path are powerful assets Luis uses when coaching. After building the foundations of his vision, he later joined forces with other like-minded coaches.
Coach Luis has felt the difference a great coach makes in an athlete's motivation & success. Undergoing his own massive body transformation made him understand that change is hard and enabled him to relate to different perspectives. After, Luis decided to dedicate his time to helping others build their strength.
He has achieved the titles of StrongFirst Certified Team Leader & Elite Instructor, completed programming courses by Pavel & Strongfirst (Strong Endurance, Second Wind & Plan Strong), Level 2 PN Nutrition Coach (after a year-long mentorship program with Precision Nutrition), a Flexible Steel Instructor and Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) Mobility Specialist.
Outside of coaching at OMP & running the gym with his partner, you can find Luis training on the mats & competing at BJJ tournaments. He is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at 10thplanet Oakland under Michael Hillebrand.
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Instagram: @louisdeltoro
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Bubbles is a certified expert in napping in the sun. Well-versed on the health benefits of a low stress lifestyle, he observes a disciplined schedule of giving licks and receiving love from anyone in the immediate vicinity. Bubbles can most often be found napping, investigating the plants in the yard or meditating.