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The Michael Caz Podcast

TBT: Triphasic Training with Elite Coach Cal Dietz

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Business, Health & Fitness

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Cal Dietz, Director of Strength and Conditioning for the University of Minnesota, is a world-renowned strength coach who’s made immeasurable contributions to the fitness industry for athletes and coaches alike. He joined the Brute Podcast to discuss his training manual, Triphasic Training: A Systematic Approach to Elite Speed and Explosive Strength Performance.

Get ready for a series of knowledge bombs to improve your training game, because, in this episode, Dietz inspires us with information about acceleration and deceleration training and the importance of quality breathing.

Topics:

21:46 - What is Triphasic training?

36:15 - Triphasic training for weightlifters

40:25 - Why CrossFitters need to get outside of linear movement

44:40 - Rotational force production and overhead athletes

51:10 - What is deceleration training & why is it important

55:36 - The importance of breath

1:06:35 - Guiding principles for resistance training kids

Links:

Top 5 Brute Podcast Episodes

Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR)

xlathlete.com

Books:

The Oxygen Advantage - Patrick McKeown

Triphasic Training - Dietz & Peterson

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day.

0:04.0

You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset.

0:07.0

If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do.

0:11.0

Relentless pursuit of progress.

0:14.0

There's a difference between the best and the rest.

0:17.0

Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast.

0:22.0

Champions are built in the morning first.

0:24.2

Where we interview scientists, world champions,

0:26.6

doctors and experts,

0:28.0

in just about every area of health and fitness.

0:30.4

What do you care enough about?

0:32.1

What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else?

0:39.0

And now here's your host, Michael Kasyu. What's up? Welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the

1:04.4

brute strength podcast. This week's guest is Cal Dietz. Cal is the

1:09.1

director of strength and conditioning for the University of Minnesota. I learned about Cal when I was

1:15.0

coaching at Southern Utah as I came across his training method, the

1:19.6

triphasic method, I quickly fell in love with it and started using it on my track and field athletes and my soccer

1:27.2

athletes. And today it's something that we still use at Brute in the Brute program, in some of our competitor programs in the

1:34.6

off season.

1:36.5

And so a good portion of the beginning of the show is just explaining what Triphasic is and explaining how adaptation works in exercise science and why this method is so

1:48.6

Valuable from an injury prevention standpoint from a change of direction standpoint,

1:53.4

from the ability to apply force.

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