North Shore CrossFit

Our Coaches

Dave Picardy is the Head Coach, Operations Manager, and owner of North Shore CrossFit. After a short stint in the Army and a career in the office furniture industry, Coach Dave finally settled into the fitness industry as a personal trainer. He brought with him years of martial arts training and an understanding from the army of real world fitness. It did not take very long to realize the current fitness industry model of building lean muscle and burning calories was way off base. After reading two journals from Greg Glassman (What is Fitness & Foundations) everything changed. Welcome to North Shore CrossFit! Dave holds the following certifications.

* CrossFit Certified Level III
* CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting certified
* CrossFit Running and endurance certified (Pose running)
* USA Weightlifting Club Coach
* USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach
* CrossFit Kettlebell certified under Jeff Martone
* National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) certified personal trainer
* Assistant instructor at the Martial Arts Research Institute
* Please contact Dave at info@northshorecrossfit.com

Dan Vadala -(AKA Danny Vee) is the manager and Head Coach of North Shore CrossFit’s Beverly facility. Dan has been involved in the fitness industry since 2000 when he taught swim lessons and coached youth swimming at the Cape Ann YMCA. In 2004 Dan started his personal training career at the YMCA training individual clients and instructing group fitness classes. His passion for fitness began at an early age, running his first road race at the age of three alongside his father and playing numerous youth sports. Dan specializes in one-on-one personal fitness coaching, kettlebell training, Olympic weightlifting, strength and conditioning, and posture. Dan has a passion for proper nutrition. Dan’s qualifications are:

* Level 2 CrossFit
* CrossFit Kettlebell Certified under Jeff Martone
* Assistant Instructor for CrossFit’s Level I Kettlebell Certification
* CrossFit Running and Endurance Certified under Brian Mackenzie
* AAAI/ISMA Sports Nutrition Consultant
* ACE Certified Personal Trainer

Beverly Instructors

Paul Dalton- Bio coming soon

Alicia Gomes is the gymnastics coach at our Beverly location. She has been coaching gymnastics since 1991 at the age of 13. By 14 years old, she had already produced two state champions in Level 4. She competed nationally as a level 10 gymnast, was ranked nationally, regionally, and was MA State champion numerous times. She competed on and helped coach the UNH Division I gymnastics team.

Alicia currently coaches at Yellow Jackets Gymnastics in Middleton where she has coached girls and teams to state championship titles, as well as regional and national titles. Furthermore, Alicia has had the privilege to bring athletes to the TOPs Camp at Bela Karolyi’s Ranch (National Team Training Facility). There she had the opportunity to work with the National Staff on the various techniques and skills involved in the sport of gymnastics. Alicia is a “coach of coaches,” running clinics for USAG and local high school coaches.

Since her retirement as a gymnast, she has been searching for program that matched the intensity she was used to training at. When she stumbled upon Crossfit, she finally found a program that met her expectations. Her qualifications are:

* Girls Team Coach at Yellow Jackets Gymnastics Club
* Head Coach of the Danvers High School Varsity Gymnastics Team
* AFFA Certified Personal Trainer
* USA Gymnastics Safety Certified
* USA Gymnastics Member
* MA state clinician for USA Gymnastics
* TOP testing clinician
* MIAA and the NFHA coaching certified
* 2007-2008 Salem Evening News Coach of the Year
* Physical Education Teacher
* Board Member, MA Girls High School Gymnastics Coaches Association
* CrossFit Level 1 certified