1927: Performance Training Secrets from a Top NBA Trainer With Cory Schlesinger
Oct 20, 2022
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Cory Schlesinger, a top NBA head strength and conditioning coach, shares his insights on performance training for elite athletes and the average individual. He discusses the evolution of strength training in basketball, especially the rising sneaker trend of low tops. Revealing the importance of individualized training, he highlights how fatigue can indicate efficiency. Cory also emphasizes innovative techniques like isometrics and calisthenics, and reflects on the significance of mental fortitude in athletes, all while navigating the challenges of sponsorships in college sports.
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with a top NBA head strength and conditioning coach about training for performance for the pro athlete and the average person.
If you stick out like a nail, you’re going to get hammered. (2:55)
How to reverse engineer ‘special’ athletes. (8:10)
Why you got to give athletes what they DON’T get. (15:05)
Why is the sneaker trend now low tops in the NBA? (19:33)
The evolutions of strength training in basketball. (21:20)
Personal highlights watching the game and being a part of a ‘winning’ culture. (24:45)
The strange environment of playing in the ‘bubble’. (27:38)
Would he change his approach if he were to work with college athletes again? (31:05)
Exposing to the rest of the world that basketball players lift weights. (38:40)
How fatigue is a good indicator of efficiency. (43:10)
Why isometrics is the “bee’s knees” in sports performance. (50:02)
What has he learned through his training experience that he would apply to the average person? (56:38)
The trend towards calisthenics. (1:04:03)
Why he built a gym in a box. (1:05:15)
The mini-band plague in professional sports. (1:11:06)
How everyone can create a lot of force, but who can create it the fastest? That’s what wins. (1:15:33)
What players blow his mind mentally and physically? (1:24:35)
His opinions on college athletes and sponsorships. (1:28:47)
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