Connor White | The Future of Data Driven High Performance | Driveline R&D Pod Ep 76

Episode 76 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!  

With guest: Connor White  

A long-overdue HP episode! Connor White, HP Trainer at Driveline that also masquerades as an active flamethrowing indy baller, gets DEEP into the nuances of our force plate driven assessment, how HP programming at Driveline integrates with the skill floors, PT, and R&D, and what we're most excited to dive in for the future! A couple fuego playing + lifting stories sprinkled in throughout this episode too.  

Timestamps: 

0:00 Intros 

5:40 C White Current Playing Career + Brady Bat Boy Stories 

10:27 Seattle Studs Legends/Stories 

15:27 Brady's chance at Breaking PIL K's 

18:12 DL HP Assessment 

22:50 Biggest Signal/Shift from Assessment 

31:05 Strength Phases 

33:49 Tech Stack for HP Assesment 

39:16 Forcehooks Validation 

40:20 MyJumpLab Model/Validation 

44:00 Workload in the Weight Room 

48:53 Nutrition and Recovery 

53:27 HP Integration with Rest of Depts 

57:50 Common weaknesses for athletes coming in 

1:01:50 Gaining strength v losing mobility? 

1:08:05 Impressive Gym Lifts 

1:11:25 Future things for HP 

1:15:20 Cara/Lindley BenchOff 

1:19:10 Weight room upgrade 

1:21:05 Blowing out your spine DL'ing w/ Ian Walsh  

Link to the hosts' + guest Twitters: 

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan 

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_ 

Connor White: https://twitter.com/@cwhite23_