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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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 a decade 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.
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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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Anthony Winn, PT, DPT, CSCS, LMT Physical Therapist
Anthony Winn, PT, DPT, CSCS, LMT Physical Therapist
Dr. Anthony Winn is Driven’s lead Physical Therapist and Director of Manual Therapy. Anthony graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology in 2010 and a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology in 2012. Dr. Winn went on to graduate with a Doctor of Physical Therapy from St. Augustine for Health Sciences in 2018.
While attending UT, Anthony was able to immerse himself in many lessons outside of the classroom. During the course of his bachelor’s degree, he served as an assistant to UT’s basketball, volleyball and tennis teams’ strength training programs. While pursuing his master’s degree, Anthony had the honor of working closely with Dr. Dixie Stanforth, examining various forms of stretching and the simultaneous role on performance and injury prevention. This in-depth look at how soft tissue structures of the body use movements to harness energy sparked his initial interest in manual therapy and influenced his decision to pursue his licensure in massage therapy. Following the completion of his massage therapy license, Anthony felt compelled to expand his reach in the healthcare community by obtaining his Doctor of Physical Therapy. During his studies, Anthony focused on the use of manual therapy techniques, in conjunction with movement therapy, to address injuries and dysfunctions in patients. For his second clinical rotation, he was able to study abroad in Australia with Dr. Cynan Lewis to observe and learn from some of the best in the profession.
Dr. Winn continues to be involved with UT and the Gray Institute in an effort to bring Driven Performance Training clients and Driven Physical Therapy patients the most up-to-date functional science and manual therapies available for both health and performance. By integrating physical therapy into the array of services provided by Driven Performance Training, patients and clients alike are provided with the utmost quality in care from the beginning of rehabilitation, to the maintenance of daily functionality through fitness.
When he’s not practicing, Anthony can be found on any field, court, course, trail or track available, hunting the Austin foodie scene, or traveling and adventure-seeking with his beautiful wife Sky, and their three dogs.
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Chase Cunningham, B.S., CAFS Performance Specialist
Chase Cunningham, B.S., CAFS Performance Specialist
With a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science and a specialization in Health Fitness Instruction from the University of Texas, Chase joined the Driven team as a Performance Specialist in 2015. Currently in charge of the majority of group fitness classes and individual training, he is also in the process of continuing his education in massage therapy.
Chase grew up on the golf course as a true original Austinite. He started competing at the age of eight and was one of the best junior golfers in the state by his teens. An injury ended his competitive career in high school, but he found a new passion in college, Ultimate (Frisbee). He played for his club team at UT and now plays with Austin’s own semi-pro team, the Austin Sol. Chase brings an array of athletic experience to the team, with an in-depth understanding of the different demands each sport requires.
In his free time, Chase enjoys playing music, golf, cooking, and all things Ultimate. If you want to learn to throw a frisbee, he’s your guy.
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Jordan Stroope, BS, CSCS Performance Specialist
Jordan Stroope, BS, CSCS Performance Specialist
The newest member of our team, Jordan began as a summer intern and moved into a part-time role throughout his senior year at the University of Texas, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Exercise Science.
During his time at UT, Jordan worked for the department of Recreational Sports as a group fitness instructor and a personal trainer, as well as leading group fitness for faculty and staff in the Fitness Institute of Texas. He takes great pride in creating challenging and effective workouts, and brings a unique style to our Group Training classes. He recently became a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the NSCA.
When not at Driven, Jordan enjoys playing basketball and flag football, trying new BBQ joints, or paddle-boarding Ladybird Lake.
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.
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