Using Technology to Monitor Athletes w/ Phoenix Coyote's High Performance Director Devan McConnell, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash Barbell Shrugged #627
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Devan McConnell is the Phoenix Coyote's High Performance Director responsible for maximizing performance, minimizing injury risk, optimizing fitness and nutrition levels and executing comprehensive training regiments for all Coyotes and Roadrunners players and club prospects.
Devan McConnell joins the Coyotes from the New Jersey Devils where he served as their Director of Performance Science and Reconditioning. In this role, he oversaw the integration and application of sport and performance science technologies, systems and practices. McConnell also assisted with the day-to-day performance training of all NHL athletes in the Devils organization, the return-to-play training of injured athletes and the organizational vision and directive of the Performance department at both the NHL and AHL levels.
Prior to his time in New Jersey, the Lake Stevens, Washington native previously served as the Head of Hockey Performance and Sport Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He was responsible for the oversight and development of all aspects of physical development for the ice hockey team.
McConnell also previously served as the Sports Performance Coordinator at Stanford University from 2008-11 where he worked closely with the women's basketball team as well as the men's and women's volleyball programs. All these teams were regulars in the NCAA tournament. During his time at Stanford, women's basketball competed in three consecutive Final Fours while the women's volleyball team competed in two Final Fours and the men's volleyball program won the 2010 NCAA Championship.
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- What technology is used to monitor athletes
- What metrics matter for optimal performance
- How to optimize performance with in season and offseason periodization
- Can you predict injury before it happens
- Sleep, recovery, and maximizing performance
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shrugged family this week on barbell shrug. We are hanging out with Devon McConnell the head strength coach for the Phoenix |
| 0:07.3 | Coyotes NHL team |
| 0:09.3 | We talk a lot about athlete monitoring a lot of the technology that they're using to ensure that their athletes are recovering and how much |
| 0:17.5 | Actual volume they are using I think this is a really important show one |
| 0:22.2 | Anytime we get to talk to a strength coach that has been |
| 0:25.5 | Coaching athletes at the very highest level in their specific sport |
| 0:31.0 | There's a ton to learn and I think it's a really good insight into how you can start to monitor how you're feeling the amount of volume and work |
| 0:39.2 | You're putting in at the gym the results you're getting out of it and how you can start to pay more attention to |
| 0:46.0 | data to help you in your |
| 0:49.8 | pursuit of strength |
| 0:51.5 | weight loss whatever the goal is |
| 0:53.5 | But using raw data |
| 0:55.9 | Is a big key to getting you from where you're at to where you're going before we get into the show |
| 1:01.3 | I want to thank our sponsors |
| 1:02.6 | There's so many benefits to having good fat in your diet |
| 1:06.0 | But there's just one little problem with all this healthy fat if you can't properly digest the fat in your diet |
| 1:12.7 | You won't feel good and a lot of people lack the one key nutrient needed to digest fat |
| 1:18.2 | To really get the best results from any diet whether it's paleo keto or even vegan |
| 1:22.7 | I found there are three things that can really help optimize your results first |
| 1:27.7 | Enhancer digestion and elimination |
| 1:30.0 | Second boost your cellular energy and third rev up your fat burning metabolism |
| 1:36.2 | Now can you do all that without any extra nutrients or nutritional supplements? |
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