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Barbell Shrugged

Phoenix Suns Strength Coach Cory Schlesinger w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash Barbell Shrugged #612

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Schlesinger is finishing his second season in the NBA working as the Director of Performance /Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Phoenix Suns.

 

Prior to the league, he was the Director of Basketball Performance at Stanford University. In his time on The Farm, he has revolutionized in-season strength training for collegiate student-athletes, with a method that is now internationally recognized. He has been a chosen presenter on both the national and international stage, sharing his philosophy in strength training to other experts and colleagues in the field. He is continuously sharing his knowledge and experience on multiple platforms, including podcasts, satellite radio, and several public speaking engagements.

 

Prior to joining the staff at Stanford, Schlesinger spent three years as the Director of Basketball Performance at UAB, two years as the Director of Strength and Conditioning at Santa Clara University, and two years as an Assistant at Campbell University.

 

Uniquely, Schlesinger also played basketball at the collegiate level, which brings his experience to over 14 years in higher-level basketball as a player and a coach.

 

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

 

  1. Individualized programming in a team sport
  2. How to coach athletes with different roles on the team
  3. Skill and finesse or big muscle and training for body type
  4. How to prioritize training on game days 
  5. Is there a secret recipe for recovery

 

Connect with our guests:

 

Cory Schlesinger on Instagram

 

Anders Varner on Instagram

 

Doug Larson on Instagram

 

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Short family this week on Barbara. I'll shrug we're hanging out with Corey Slesinger the strength coach for the Western

0:06.3

Conference NBA champions Phoenix Suns, which is super cool because NBA players to me are like the freak of the free

0:14.8

Gathletes like when he walks in the gym and I make this joke in the podcast today like every single person in the gym that he

0:23.2

Trains at or coaches people at is above like six six and

0:28.0

I've never coached anyone above six six much less an entire team of the best athletes in the world and all of them are six six

0:36.7

But it's also really cool to get in and see how he breaks down some of the more skilled players for some of the big players

0:44.2

And and how he uses just you know general assessments on which training programs these people need to increase their ability to

0:52.6

Perform at their specific skill and how they fit into the team and just overall durability and resilience that they need to get through the season

0:59.6

And how you know on on a shortened season like last year they

1:03.6

have just tons of

1:05.6

Games in such a very little recovery and I was also really blown away to talk about the recovery side of things and how

1:13.6

Difficult it is for them to recover during game days the next day with practice and maintain a really good strength training schedule

1:20.0

So I think you're going to really enjoy this anytime we get to have

1:23.9

Guys that are coaching like the highest level athletes on in the world. It's it's a really special day

1:29.0

So Corey Slesinger on the show, but before we get into it, we got to thank our sponsors by optimizers

1:34.0

I recently received a question from a listener

1:38.1

She wanted to know if it was possible to avoid digestion problems by eating only healthy organic food

1:43.5

It's a nice thought, but unfortunately, it's just not possible

1:47.3

You see your natural bill natural ability to digest food decline to age

1:51.7

This is because your body produces fewer enzymes which are the proteins responsible for digesting food

1:57.5

Fewer enzymes mean more means more difficulty digesting food even organic foods won't provide enough enzymes to properly digest them

2:06.0

This is especially true if you cook your food because cooking kills enzymes

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