1927: Performance Training Secrets from a Top NBA Trainer With Cory Schlesinger
Oct 20, 2022
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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