The Sunday snatch

Back from a super fun weekend in Boston, doing lots of affiliate tramping and CrossFit stuff. I got back late last night, so here's a quick update and a preview of fun things to come on the blog this week.

• We had dinner with Mathieu Lalonde (Science is Hot) on Friday night, and got caught up on his training and diet and qualifiers prep. We also got a sweet tour of his labs at Harvard. I think I'm still high from all the ether. We also talked a lot about diet and nutrition, as I wanted to do a follow-up to his last interview. I received so many comments from people trying to lean out and drop fat that I focused mostly on that topic. It will take me a while to compile our discussion, but I hope to have it up by the end of the week.

• Spent Sunday morning hanging out at CrossFit New England with Ben Bergeron and Heather Keenan, and some out of town guests (Jay Ross, Micah MacBeth and their friend Holly) from Philly. Jay was in my KB cert in NYC, and his crew is in the process of affiliating right now. I see a Philly road trip in my future... We also watched Heather run a CrossFit Kids class. I don't normally like kids, but I REALLY like kids who power snatch and drag tires. It was super fun to watch, and something I'd love to implement at some point waaaay down the line with our box.

• Headed over to CrossFit Boston in the afternoon to meet up with Zach Singer, from CrossFit NYC. Zach was also in my NYC KB cert, and we kept in touch. He's been having some problems with his shoulder and back lately, so he drove up to hang with some Boston friends, get in some training and (primarily) have Dallas work his PT magic. They spent about an hour evaluating his issues and working rehab drills. I'm lucky to have a physical therapist as my trainer and affiliate partner. Which means our 603 trainees (and trainees by proxy, like Zach) are lucky, too.
  

• And finally, the Main Event... Dallas and I spent two hours working on snatches with EC Synkowski, of CrossFit Boston. I had yet to learn to snatch, but I'd been working my clean and jerks hard. EC promised that after snatching, the cleans would come easy. We hit all kinds of progressions and training drills before moving to the bar. I worked up to 40#, and Zach was nice enough to take lots of pictures and video. More on my Olympic snatching later this week.
  

Please take note of how CAREFUL I was to phrase that last bullet point. While snatch jokes never get old, EC complimenting my snatch is NOT the point of this post. Although she did, at one point. Which was pretty awesome. Also, those hand prints on her pants are her own. That's our story, at least.