Crossfit Niagara

• Category: Journal
• Date: 9.29.09

Went with Becca this morning to check out our first outsider Crossfit affiliate – Crossfit Niagara.

I met the owner, Mark Gleason, at a Crossfit Gymnastics course a while back at Conker Fitness in Oakville. Awesome guy, and he knows his shit.

On the menu at CFN was hang power snatches. Never really worked my snatches a lot yet, just got into the whole Oly thing, and so far have just worked my clean and jerk, and did some assesory snatch work (sotts press, snatch balance, OHS, muscle snatch).

Loved the workout! A few warm up sets, then 3 heavy triples and 3 heavy singles.

For some odd reason I chose to jump from 95lbs to 135lbs haha. That didn’t go well and I couldn’t get under the damn bar. Mark got me to go back to 95lbs and work my way up. Did that and I nailed 135lbs for an easy 3, without even re-gripping my hook grip.

It was Becca’s first real snatch experience too… I better not be the only one laughing that that hahaha. She nailed 90lbs for 2 singles, and struggled a bit for 95lbs, and then called ‘er a day.

After that we messed around with Mark’s new pull up structure – some bar muscle ups and levers – and then hit the road back to Hamilton.

An awesome first travelling crossfit experience, looking forward to hitting up other affiliates.

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