Coaches
Chuck Kyle
While serving in the military, Chuck had the opportunity to play elite-level soccer and club hockey. As his military career path changed from Navy to Army, enlisted to officer, information operations to strategy, so did his athletic interests. From ultra-marathons to Iron Man, Chuck embraced several different disciplines of endurance sports before focusing solely on competitive cycling.
As the number of miles recorded by his Garmin increased, so did his knowledge of physiology, training response, and adoption. As his expertise improved, he helped his teammates and friends with their training, eventually founding KyleCoaching.
As a USA Cycling-certified Level 1 coach with additional Power certifications through TrainingPeaks and a certified personal trainer and nutritionist through the National Personal Trainer Institute, Chuck combines lessons learned from years of racing with the most recent innovations in exercise science literature to craft training plans and programs that deliver measurable results.
Dana Stryk
During graduate school, Dana started cycling as a means to reduce stress. After receiving her doctoral degree in economics and moving to the other side of the classroom as a professor, she continued to ride and started to race. After leaving academia, she worked for a local bike shop where she had the opportunity to apply her love of math and numbers to bike fitting. She is a certified BG Fit (Specialized) and F.I.S.T. (Slowtwitch) fitter. Although she returned to the world of economics and teaching, for those in the DMV area, she helps optimize the relationship between KyleCoaching athletes’ bodies and their bikes.
James Weinstein, PhD
Dr. Jim Weinstein is a Board Certified Sport Dietitian and Air Force Officer. He obtained his PhD in Nutrition from the University of Connecticut, two master’s degrees in nutrition and business administration and has spent his career teaching the relationship between nutrition and performance. Jim has coached and mentored athletes from beginners, to world-class athletes, Olympic champions, and elite military forces. Jim is an accomplished and experienced athlete himself, has raced his bicycle for more than 30 years in a wide array of events including having raced the team endurance event, Race Across American on 3 occasions and is the author of the popular nutrition blog, Setting the Record Straight.