Episode 83 of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!  

With guests: Brice Crider and Juan Rodriguez!  Use promo code: good2learn25 for $25 off on Driveline PLUS! https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/pro...  

High performance trainer Brice Crider and throwing trainer Juan Rodriguez came on the pod today and chatted all things integrated baseball development! We talked about the keys to balancing strength and conditioning needs with the athlete's needs on the throwing/hitting/skills side of things, what we use to determine where the focus is for each athlete coming in, what it means to be a high performance trainer as opposed to just a strength and conditioning coach, etc. Electric show today, enjoy!  

Timestamps 

0:00 Intros 

6:26 Brice and Juan's first introductions to Driveline 

8:52 Juan's hitting lessons pre-Driveline 

10:52 Throwing trainers Brady and Lindley 

11:45 Brady's arm slot switch 

17:20 Training economy between S&C and Throwing 

18:38 Focusing on what will have the highest ROI 

19:10 High Performance training model 

23:04 The difference between a strength trainer and a high performance trainer 

25:57 Bench press for pitch design 

32:51 What makes a great strength coach 

36:18 Considerations for the focus of an athlete's program 

42:50 The importance of knowing an athlete's throwing history 

45:35 Training duration considerations 

48:10 Things that would've been better, looking back 

52:23 Data and education tools for developing coaches 

1:00:53 Learning to think critically vs. memorizing and re-distributing info 

1:05:13 The value of "I Don't Know" 

1:07:12 It depends 

1:11:05 summer training environment

Link to the hosts'/guests' Twitters:

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

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

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

Brice Crider: https://twitter.com/BriceCrider

Juan Rodriguez: https://twitter.com/jcrod22