L’Usine CrossFit Team

Dominic Adam - Head Coach

Dominic Adam is a professional, black belt, martial artist who competes in Karate and Kick-boxing across the world. He started training in Karate and Kick-boxing 15 years ago and has been representing Canada and North America in tournaments around the world since 1999. Dominic also teaches multiple disciplines including Karate (at all age groups, including 4 year olds, teenagers, adults and elite fighters), Kick-boxing, Cardio classes, Boot Camp, Fusion classes (which include a mix of Yoga and Martial Arts) and self defense. In October 2007, Dominic became certified as a CrossFit Trainer.

 

Christopher Kalec

Christopher Kalec is a two-time member of the Canadian Olympic Diving Team. Having spent 17 years in the sport of diving, Christopher’s achievements include 13 junior and senior national titles, 1997 Quebec Junior Athlete of the Year and Canadian Olympic Team Member in 2000 & 2004. Since retired from Olympic sport, Christopher understands the frustrations many consumers have when trying to achieve visible, measured results from today’s training options. He discovered the CrossFit method in 2007 and believes strongly in this method to provide the results he achieved as an Olympic athlete. In May 2009, Christopher became certified as a CrossFit Trainer.

Nicolas Desmarais

Nicolas Desmarais is a world class longboarder. He has won several events on the Longboard World Cup circuit and was named 2008 Speedboarder of the Year by Concrete Wave magazine. Niko is also a member of the Quebec Snowboard Cross Team with hopes of making the National Team. Between workouts, he studies at l’Université de Montréal in kinesiology. He was completely blown away by his first CrossFit workout and has been doing CrossFit ever since.

Marc-André Mireault

Marc-André Mireault, head coach of L’Usine Boucherville,  a former football player who played for the Kent Lions in Connecticut, has been associated with l’Usine since the very beginning. A superb all around athlete and a born motivator, Marc-André combines efficiency and knowledge into his elite types of training. His background includes coaching football players from different levels, teaching and an education in sports nutrition at the University of Montreal. He also has been training and learning from the very best in the lights of Dominic Adam, Carmen Buchmann and Christopher Kalec in CrossFit, along with Marc-Elie Toussaint in track and field. He truly believes that being fit ables you to do what you want to do, when you want to do it and that CrossFit is the perfect way to achieve that goal.