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Kenny Kane |
Owner, Head Coach
Kenny Kane is a life-long performer and coach who is fueled by improving quality of life for people in principled ways. He bought CrossFit Los Angeles in 2014 with a vision to build a unified coaching team and the business to support it. The business rebranded in 2017 as Oak Park, a nod to the Kenny’s roots in Santa Rosa, CA as well as a symbolic transition to something evergreen. His dream has always been to create an environment where he can be a student and learn entirely new things from the people within it. As the Oak Park coaches and community continue to evolve, that dream becomes more of a reality.
Kenny has an extraordinarily diverse background. He grew up in a family fitness business with a mother in the Swimming Hall of Fame and a father who was an officiant at the Olympics. At 15, he earned his Black Belt and began his coaching career as a martial arts instructor. Kenny attended UC Davis where he played soccer, ran track, and competed in triathlons. He then went on to teach physical education and drama in his hometown while training for the Olympic Trials. A career ending running injury pushed him to shift focus to standup comedy and private training. Kenny spent 14 years splitting time between training clients and touring the world. He performed standup and gave motivational talks while simultaneously transforming people as a coach. Kenny retired from performing in 2013 to do what he loves. He now dedicates all of his professional time to coaching and the business endeavors that support it.
Charlotte Kane |
Owner, Coach
Char believes that with determination, purpose and connection, clients can reach any goal in life. Even at times when life is challenging. Char will challenge her clients’ mindset and develop their confidence and competence along the way. She is the ultimate performance coach, regardless of whether you are a competing athlete or a mother dealing with postpartum issues. She will take her clients to places they never thought they could conquer.
Char has an extraordinary athletic background. Born and raised in Sweden with some Finnish in her blood, SISU is a good way of describing her. As a 15 year old, she was handpicked by a National Track and Field Coach. Her background as a gymnast became a natural transition into the world of running. She started her life-long athletic career as a pole vaulter but found her true passion and talent running the 400m hurdles. Char has won multiple National and International titles and has competed all around the world earning her spot in the Swedish National Track and Field team. As a 23 year old she was ranked top 15 in the world. In 2014 Char got pregnant with her first son and decided to put her spikes (track shoes) aside. She married Kenny Kane in 2015 and they together decided to create an environment where coaches and athletes could thrive and develop their physical and mental capacity. During this time, Char also earned her Swedish Law Degree from Lund University as well as her Masters Degree from the University of Southern California. Aside from her law degrees, Char has a major in biology and exercise physiology, she is an XPT certified coach, CF-L1 trainer, MWOD Coach and a Certified Track and Field coach. She specializes in performance training and pre- and postpartum training for women. She thrives working with humans in helping them reach their greatest potential.
Matt Nichols |
Coach
Matt Nichols is an explorer, driven by curiosity and a love for solving complex problems. He believes that forging a meaningful connection is fundamental to the coach-athlete relationship. Matt’s superpower as a coach is his ability to listen – truly listen – to his athletes to understand their concerns and then to apply his unique problem-solving skills (honed in a 15-year career as an attorney) to those concerns.
Matt is personally and professionally dedicated to the lifelong quest of self-discovery. Matt holds multiple coaching certifications, including:
XPT Master Coach
Advanced Oxygen Advantage Breathing Instructor
SH//FT Art of Breath certified
Certified CrossFit Level 3 Trainer
Precision Nutrition Level 1 Coach
The Ready State Movement & Mobility Coach
Functional Range Conditioning Movement Specialist
As an XPT Master Coach, Matt is a recognized expert in performance breathing, in the use of thermal stress exposure (sauna and ice baths) for recovery and resiliency training, and in XPT’s unique land and water-based physical training protocols.
Matt coaches group classes and individual and small-group private training virtually and live at our facility. Additionally, Matt is the strength & conditioning coach for USA Artistic Swimming. He regularly leads corporate wellness workshops and customized group experiences focused on fitness, performance breathing, and mental skills coaching.
Nicholas Yiakos |
Coach & Head of Programming
Nick Yiakos is an energetic, growth oriented coach and athlete. His athletic experience and education taught him the value of a growth mindset. When working with new people, Nick tries to uncover their beliefs about themselves by asking questions. He feels if you can answer “why”, he can help you through the “what” and “how” parts of the journey.
Playing high school basketball helped Nick find his true character at a young age. Through this experience, he learned the importance of personal sacrifice and humility in building a team. After graduating from college, Nick began his coaching career while he personally trained CrossFit and Olympic weightlifting. Years later, he continues to coach and train with the intense curiosity of a new student. Nick believes in prioritizing the fundamentals and works closely with his clients to improve their motor skills, structural integrity, and functionality. But above all, he values his relationship with each client because their trust and understanding is the foundation for the work that lies ahead.
Brian Ugale |
Coach
Brian Ugale is a firm believer in “it’s not what you do, but how you do it." His love for coaching grew out of years of trying to figure it out and doing what the other guy was doing. After realizing we are all different, Brian came to understand that fitness is not a on-size-fits-all endeavor and that there was more to it than just reps and sets. Brian loves the playfulness and comradery of group training, and believes that we should all enjoy how we train to a certain degree (though we still need to get uncomfortable). He creates an environment that is easy and comfortable for people of all training levels to let loose and be themselves. He is convinced that we all have potential that is just waiting to be discovered and looks to help more people discover this for themselves through the practice of physical training.
Coach Brian’s passion for helping others better themselves through functional training led him to leave his career in finance to become a professional coach. He is currently a CrossFit L2 Trainer with a background in strength training & Olympic weightlifting. He enjoys using the fitness he gains in the gym to learn and play new sports. Currently Brian is a student of the games of golf & tennis.
Jay Bernardo |
Coach
Coach Jay got his start in Coaching in 2014 at CrossFit 808 on Hawaii's island of Oahu. Growing up playing multiple sports like football, wrestling, baseball, track, and lacrosse, he fell in love with strength & conditioning for what it could provide for him as an athlete. It was his experience as a collegiate football player that led him to coaching.
Coach Jay believes that fitness is a metaphor for life and that the gym is a place where Science and the Spirit meet. “The goal is to always meet people where they’re at and guide them down a path of having a healthy relationship with themselves and their fitness. There’s so many lessons that fitness can provide. I truly believe in honoring the individual and their respective journeys.”
No matter the goal, Coach Jay has a broad knowledge and experience guiding individuals to their health and performance goals. He’s worked with competitive fitness athletes, Olympic weightlifters, military and first responders, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors, architects, court interpreters, engineers and many other professionals.
Dusty Hyland |
Coach
Coach Dusty embodies an athletic life, and has been coaching at all levels for over 20 years. His experience as a collegiate gymnast, stuntman, elite athlete, and high performance coach— and the evolution of these practices over time— is a reflection of his quest to push his own limits as he ages.
He meets his athletes where they are, and develops programs that are tailored to optimize their experience as humans as they work to achieve their personal, wide-ranging goals in their current season of life.
Always seeking new ways to reframe adversity with clients, Dusty’s unique expertise in gymnastics informs his ability to identify possibilities from a fresh perspective. He provides technical strength and conditioning, nutrition consulting where appropriate. For over 12 years, Dusty has continued to receive and provide high-level education as a Master Coach of Human Dynamics. Most importantly, he encourages his athletes to engage with the deep work that has meaningfully enhanced his own life.
He is most inspired by the opportunity to help Masters perform at their highest level as they age. Most recently his clients have achieved all of the following:
Summit Mount Denali
Learn to do an Iron Cross
Gain the ability to slow down
Lose hundreds of pounds
Secure life-changing job promotions
Improve listening skills
Start families
Discontinue cholesterol medication
Gain thousands of pounds of muscle
Rediscover the value of sleep
Take dream vacations
Kylie Tullipan |
Coach
Coach Kylie is a seasoned performance coach, certified StrongFirst and CrossFit Instructor, and a qualified Neuromotive coach with multiple degrees in Sports Marketing, Languages, Events, and Business. She empowers her students to reach and exceed their goals through a combination of strength training, mobility, breath, and mental discipline. She embodies the philosophy “strong in the gym, strong in life.”
While Kylie loved movement and sports as a child, her adult professional life began with a less active and more traditional path: working in a high-stress corporate job. As that role began to take a toll on her, she started to explore movement and experienced how movement and strength training could bring her an unprecedented sense of calm. Kylie quickly realized that re-engaging with movement ignited a fire that made her feel alive. This discovery put her life on an entirely new course. She left the corporate world in Sydney, Australia in 2013 for Los Angeles and began her career in the fitness industry. At the start of her fitness journey, she trained for triathlons and suffered multiple injuries, which led her to explore CrossFit, Strongman, and finally, Russian Kettlebell training. Kylie fell in love with Kettlebells from her first swing and fell deeper with every repetition. She has been working with kettlebells for many years and is still learning and challenging her body ways she had never thought possible.
Kylie teaches athletes, moms, dads, teens, and individuals on the autism spectrum. She also mentors and prepares students for SFG Certifications. Kylie’s students work hard both in and out of the gym as they overcome challenges in all areas of life. In addition, she trains her students to develop the confidence to train themselves.
James “Jamie” Silber |
Tri Team Director, Coach
With over 30 years of experience, Jamie Silber is a highly accomplished coach and athlete. He has spent the majority of his career preparing people of all ages and abilities for anything that may come their way physically, mentally, or emotionally. From completing Ironman triathlons to keeping mobility into old age, Jamie goes out of his way to ensure that his clients succeed. He believes that whether you’re 6 or 65, your goals should be endless, and it all starts with a foundation built on a trust.
Jamie graduated from UCSD with degrees in Psychology and Exercise Physiology. He is also the founder of the LA Tri Club, a CrossFit L2 trainer, and Certified Mobility WOD Coach. As an athlete, Jamie is a 12-time Team USA triathlete and recently placed 4th in his age group at the ITU World Triathlon Championships. He has completed seven Ironman triathlons, including the Ironman Hawaii World Championships. Jamie is the primary Oak Park Coach for triathlon training and he actively bridges the gap between CrossFit methods and endurance culture.