How to Train Like an Athlete - With NBA Trainer Cory Schlesinger
The Model Health Show
Shawn Stevenson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Whether you’re a gym rat, parent, or a professional athlete, we can all find ways to maximize our performance and use our bodies more efficiently. On today’s show, you’re going to gain insights into the world of sports training and performance and how it can improve your strength, overall function, and longevity.
Today’s guest is sports performance coach Cory Shlesinger. Cory has worked at the highest level of collegiate athletics and today he’s a top expert in the NBA, working with the Detroit Pistons. He’s joining this episode of The Model Health Show to share invaluable insights on optimizing sports performance, how to microdose exercise, and the top exercises everyone can do for better health and longevity.
You’re going to learn about the best way to stress the body, how to optimize performance no matter what your goal is, and how to build a well-rounded training routine. Cory Shlesinger is a true expert in this field, and I hope you find this conversation valuable and entertaining. Enjoy!
In this episode you’ll discover:
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The biggest training mistake most athletes make. (4:10)
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What it means to microdose exercise. (6:26)
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How to train around practice for athletes. (9:00)
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When to use machines for training. (14:38)
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What it means to regress exercises. (16:30)
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The purpose of plyometrics exercises. (19:53)
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How to manipulate speed and load to improve performance. (31:40)
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What isometrics are and how to use them. (33:13)
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The difference between long duration and short duration isometrics. (35:02)
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What the #1 exercise all athletes should do is. (38:58)
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How to use deceleration techniques. (42:09)
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What a kettlebell drop lunge is and how to do it. (52:43)
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Why the best athletes are multisport athletes. (58:17)
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The importance of warmups. (1:02:22)
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An interesting relationship between fatigue and efficiency. (1:05:34)
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The top exercises every human should be doing. (1:09:54)
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How to microdose exercise into your daily routine. (1:12:58)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. |
| 0:04.8 | For more, visit the modelhealth show.com. |
| 0:13.1 | Today, you're going to get access to some of the biggest secrets that our most prestigious, |
| 0:19.0 | high performing professional athletes are using to have the bodies |
| 0:23.9 | and the performance that is awe-inspiring for so many of us. |
| 0:29.4 | We're going to learn from one of the leading strength and conditioning coaches in the world. |
| 0:35.1 | He's currently working with the Detroit Pistons basketball team, which has seemingly |
| 0:40.2 | come out of nowhere and just blown the roof off of the NBA, charged into the playoffs, |
| 0:47.2 | and made an incredible run. Prior to this, yes, he's had incredible success with athletes at |
| 0:53.8 | Stanford and athletes at the |
| 0:56.6 | University of Texas, but he was working with the Phoenix Suns basketball team. |
| 1:02.0 | And when he came on board, just so happens, they went to the NBA finals. |
| 1:07.7 | Now, I'm not saying that this is because of our special guests, but the |
| 1:11.7 | synchronicity is pretty amazing. He has some incredible insights he's going to share |
| 1:15.8 | with you that you can utilize in your own life, but also if you know any athletes, |
| 1:21.0 | this is priceless, priceless information. If you have kids who are athletes, friends, |
| 1:28.4 | family, colleagues, |
| 1:34.2 | this is information to share because this is beyond the cutting edge. This individual, |
| 1:41.0 | not only are his strategies being used and, dare I say, copied by many organizations, |
| 1:46.5 | he knows what's coming next. And so listen, intently, pick up some of these insights because this is a masterclass on training for high performance. Before we get to our |
| 1:53.1 | special guests, let's check out the Apple Podcast Review of the Week. Another five-star review |
| 1:57.8 | titled Inval by Empowermenta. |
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