Our Story
Driven opened in 2009 with the goal of facilitating the
best possible training environment for our clients.
Driven opened in downtown Austin in 2009 with the goal of being the anti-gym in every way imaginable. From the beginning, our priority was facilitating the best possible training environment for our clients. Rather than having gobs of members that we hoped didn’t show up, we wanted a smaller circle that we could fully invest our efforts on. Rather than acting as an assembly line where we churn large groups of strangers every 45 minutes we wanted a place where people we consider friends could come in to get a great workout that we could customize because we have history and know their strengths and limitations.
Over the years, we’ve added skills, services and equipment to continue to provide the best possible atmosphere for our clients. We have very high expectations of our coaches, and we are dedicated to their professional development as we’ll never stop trying to raise the bar and improve our services.
We pride ourselves in our extensive background and familiarity with the trends in the fields of fitness, rehabilitation, performance training, and nutrition and recognize that most people don’t fit neatly into one category. In fact, most of our clients utilize all of these services at one time or another regardless of why they came to us in the first place.
Our Team
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Heidi Bohall, M.A., ACSM-CPT, CAFS Performance Specialist
Heidi Bohall, M.A., ACSM-CPT, CAFS Performance Specialist
Heidi joined the Driven team in 2021 as a Performance Specialist from the Midwest where she attended the University of Northern Iowa earning two degrees in Health Promotion: Fitness Management (B.A.) and Health Education (M.A.) and a certificate in Environmental Health while working as a peer health educator, fitness supervisor, and graduate assistant. Heidi then spent 11 years at the University of Iowa (UI) accumulating a vast array of diverse fitness, nutrition and wellness experience as a Fitness Specialist/Behavioral Health Consultant and Health and Human Physiology instructional-track faculty. In 2017, Heidi also started coaching HIIT-style group fitness classes at UI and Orangetheory Fitness as additional outlets for her energetic positivity. Heidi is excited to come alongside the Driven community to improve movement quality and wellness for enhanced functioning, and empowers her clients to approach life with the mindset that there are no failures, only learning experiences, on the path to achieving their goals and sustaining their own unique healthy balance!
Heidi is a Certified Personal Trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine and has been certified in Applied Functional Science through the Gray Institute, kettlebells, TRX, is completing women’s health/pre- and post-natal coaching certification training, and has been a certified Intuitive Eating Counselor since 2011 helping individuals create a healthy relationship with food, exercise, mind and body. Heidi also has nearly two decades of competitive mid- and long-distance running experience and enjoys helping runners strengthen their stride.
Heidi enjoys spending time with her husband Dan, whom she met in a not-so-friendly game of pickup basketball, and their two active children, Trey and Maybri. Heidi embraces all of the outdoor adventures, parks and trails, coffee, culinary experimentation, and music that Austin has to offer!
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Chad Thetford, BS, CSCS Performance Specialist
Chad Thetford, BS, CSCS Performance Specialist
Chad joined the Driven team as a Performance Specialist in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from the University of Missouri. As a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Chad has had the honor of working with individuals from all ends of the spectrum, from the professional athlete to the first-time fitness novice client. His unique experiences have equipped him with the ability and knowledge to work with clients of all levels and ages.
Chad interned with University of Missouri’s Performance Nutrition Team where he assisted with body composition assessment and meal plan development for athletes and delved into strength and conditioning injury prevention techniques for weightlifting. To expand his knowledge and skillset, Chad completed an internship at MET-Fitness in Columbia, Missouri, a local rehabilitation training facility specializing in chronic disease management, injury prevention, and athletic performance for all ages. Upon graduation, Chad was hired as the Director of Sports Performance and Nutrition at MET-Fitness. Chad further diversified himself as a Performance Specialist at an athletic institute with specialization in injury prevention and sports performance where he had the opportunity of working with a diverse group of collegiate and professional athletes helping them fine tune their skills for upcoming seasons, professional drafts, and combines. Chad was also the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the University of Central Methodist where he organized, developed, and implemented strength training programs for men’s and women’s olympic sports, football, baseball, and wrestling.
In his free time, Chad enjoys being outdoors and spending time with family. Chad is a passionate athlete and loves a good competition. Whether it be fly fishing, hiking, golfing, or hopping into a pickup game, count on him being there.
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Sally Twellman, B.S., R.D.N. Director of Nutrition & Wellness
Sally Twellman, B.S., R.D.N. Director of Nutrition & Wellness
In and out of the kitchen, Sally’s focus is on personal empowerment, holistic health and using food to refuel and heal your body. She is a holistic functional Dietitian Nutritionist, she provides nutrition and wellness coaching. She also shares nutrition tips, recipes, meal plans and her passion of helping others live their best life every day through her blog, HERE. Sally believes that happiness, health, and wholeness are created from a foundation of nourishing your body with whole food, movement and positive self-care. She will help you see food, yourself and your body in a whole new way and will help you create a strategy and process to create your life and body that you love.
Sally loves spending time with her husband, Andy, and their three kiddos: Drew, Quinn and Piper. During her downtime, she enjoys being outdoors in the sunshine running, hiking and swimming. She is not outside soaking in the Texas sunshine she loves reading, practicing yoga and meditation and experimenting in the kitchen.
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Chase Cunningham, B.S., CAFS Performance Specialist
Chase Cunningham, B.S., CAFS Performance Specialist
Having obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science with a focus in Health Fitness Instruction from the University of Texas, Chase joined the Driven team as a Performance Specialist in 2015. Chase is certified in Applied Functional Science through the Gray Institute and possesses a Level-1 certification through the Titleist Performance Institute. Chase also completed his MBA in May 2021 and has since been applying those skills into the Driven experience.
A true Austinite, Chase brings an array of athletic experience to the team. He grew up on the golf course, started competing at the age of eight and was one of the best junior golfers in the state by his teens. An elbow injury ended his competitive career in high school, but he still enjoys playing in a few local amateur events. In college, Chase picked up ultimate frisbee and has also enjoyed success on a few nationally competitive teams. From both working with clients and personal experience, Chase specializes in working with those coming back from injury or surgery, bridging the gap between completing a physical therapy program and getting back to 100%.
In his free time, Chase also enjoys cooking, playing music, and spending time with his wife Alexe and dog Bruno.
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Andy Twellman, M.ED., CSCS, FAFS Performance Specialist
Andy Twellman, M.ED., CSCS, FAFS Performance Specialist
With a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science from Truman State University and a Master of Education in Kinesiology from the University of Texas, Andy has accrued over twenty years in the fitness field. His experience ranges from first time fitness novice clients to professional athletes and everyone in between. His unique coaching style allows him to adapt workouts and programs for each individual client.
Andy began his career with internships and volunteer positions in Physical Therapy clinics, at the prestigious Cooper Institute and Austin’s own University of Texas. He is a certified NG360° Golf Performance Specialist through Nike and the Gray Institute, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA, a Master Fitness Specialist through the Cooper Institute and, after a year-long training endeavor alongside some of the most prominent physical therapists, trainers and physiotherapists at Gray Institute, he earned the title of Fellow of Applied Functional Science and was invited to return as a facilitator for the class of 2009. His education and credentials have granted him access to some of the most innovative minds in fitness and continue to fuel his relentless fire to identify and master a better way of training. This motive is what led him to establish Driven Performance Training.
Andy lives in Cedar Park with his wife, Sally, and children, Drew, Quinn and Piper.
Internships
Our internship is the lifeblood of Driven and the primary
process through which we recruit and train our next generation
of outstanding coaches.
But in reality, it’s much more than that. Albert Einstein said “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough“. We fully believe that to be true, and the internship process constantly challenges us to make the complex simple.
The internship is a minimum of 20 hours/week and the curriculum consists of several key components:
- Video Lectures – We want to maximize the times when we are all together, so we’ve recorded our lectures so that you can watch them on your own time and bring questions to our group discussions.
- Group Discussions – We’ll dedicate 1-2 hours per week to reviewing the previous week’s lecture materials and answering questions, which we’ll expect you to have a lot of.
- Directed Research/writing – We believe that communicating via the written word is a great way to improve your understanding of training. You’ll receive multiple writing assignments over the course of the semester, some of your choosing, some based on topics we assign to you.
- Assistant Coaching – All of the knowledge in the world isn’t going to help if you can’t coach, so you’ll be expected to help out with coaching so that you can put this knowledge into practice.
- Experimenting – Odds are you’ll be learning many new things related to training so we fully expect that you’ll use our facility during down hours to try some of the things you’re learning.
Here's a sneak peak at the curriculum:
- A primer on driven – organization, people, services, strategy
- Introduction to forces: gravity, ground reaction, and momentum
- Training principles – our strategic foundation
- Anatomy review – joint structure and triplanar function
- Biomechanical basis of movement
- Nomenclature – Position, Driver, Action, Triangulation, Load, Speed, Reps, Range, etc.
- Evaluating current trends in fitness and training
- Spotting 101 – safety
- Influence of starting position on joint biomechanics
- Adaptation – force as the language of cells
- Evaluation part 1 – the client interview
- Evaluation part 2 – posture
- Evaluation part 3 – gait analysis
- Evaluation part 4 – foot, ankle, and hip
- Evaluation part 5 – spine, scapula, shoulder
- Programming part 1 – creating a strategy
- Programming part 2 – the test is the exercise (and the exercise is the test)
- Programming part 3 – basic workout template
- Programming part 4 – progressions and regressions
- Programming part 5 – designing group training workouts
- Specific training techniques – multiple lectures covering a variety of specialized exercises
- Sport breakdown – identifying key trainable variables
If you’re interested in learning more about making fitness and performance a career, Contact Us Today.
Driven’s training program was completely new to me, focusing not only on the knee but also the surrounding joints and muscles that all have the ability to influence the knee. Over time, I’ve found that I am stronger, more stable, and more adaptable than I have felt in 15+ years....
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Robert Wooten
The attention to detail of the training, focused workout environment, and the engaging staff has made my time there the best decision I have made for myself…...
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Sandy Fleschman
I have been able to maintain flexibility and strength…..I love playing with golfers much younger and asking them how it feels to be outdriven by a 60 year old...
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Powell Thompson
I called Driven on the advice of a friend after my doctor told me to start strengthening my knee before replacement surgery. Andy and his team developed a workout that in six months has not only achieved that goal but actually has me in the best shape I've been in years. The emphasis on stretching, balance, cardio and core muscle strengthening have me convinced it's one of the best decisions I've made....
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