Nitish Nag

Specialties: MTB Racing, Road Racing,Junior and Under 23 Development, General Fitness

Home: Berkeley, California

Client levels accepted: Individual, SemiCustom, Custom, Consultation.
 
Available to take on all levels of athletes, both racing and non-racing.

Available for seminars, camps, clinics, and team direction on a contractual basis.

Nitish Nag is a remarkably dynamic coach with a diverse background including cycling, martial arts, and backcountry outdoorsmanship. Racing for almost a decade, Nitish Nag is a dedicated national level racer competing as a Mountain Bike Pro and enjoys helping other athletes to reach the elite level. A USA Cycling Level 3 Coach and a USA Cycling Race Mechanic, he is an expert at all aspects of cycling from training to mechanics, tactics, and equipment selection. He brings an immense amount of knowledge to Wenzel Coaching.

Nitish is currently a student at UC Berkeley where he is studying Nutritional Science with a focus on Physiology and Metabolism in addition to Integrative Biology with a focus on Kinesiology. His serious interest in science makes Nitish a very detail-oriented coach. In particular, he enjoys working with athletes who are also scientifically oriented. He helps athletes optimize all aspects of their preparation to truly bring out the best performance. At the same time his relaxed and positive attitude make him a great motivator and allows athletes to enjoy their sport to the maximum.

Nitish has coached multiple athletes towards wins and podium finishes at the state and national levels. He enjoys supporting developing athletes and is the president and founder of the NRL Racing Development Cycling Team, working with young motivated athletes as they reach towards the elite levels of cycling. He also is heavily involved with the NorCal High School Mountain Bike League, has founded two high school competition teams, and is a director on the Cal Cycling Team for the University of California, Berkeley.

Nitish is an Outdoor Idol, one of the nation’s top awards for outdoor sports athletes. He also is a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) certified Backcountry Backpacking Trip Leader and representative as well as a Leave No Trace Instructor, helping people enjoy and care for the outdoors while creating powerful leadership skills.

He currently works at the UC Berkeley Nutritional Science Laboratory doing cutting edge research, after working previously in three top biology and biotech firms over the last seven years.

Before coming to cycling, Nitish was a top level Martial Artist, earning his 2nd degree Black Belt and competing and fighting all over the West Coast of the United States. He has been a top instructor, mentoring multiple candidates to reach their Black Belts. He continues to train for martial arts in the off-season. Nitish currently races a full year schedule with Mountain Bike, Road and Collegiate events around the continent. Outside of coaching and competing, he enjoys rock climbing, snowboarding, backpacking, kite flying, rafting, dancing, running, photography, cinematography and much more.

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