Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Prospect Games Champ, Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

What's up? Welcome back.

My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

This week's guest is Cal Dietz. Cal is the director of

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

when I was coaching at Southern Utah as As I came across his training method, the triphasic method,

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

athletes. And today it's something that we still use

at brute in the brute body program and some of our competitor programs in the off season 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 valuable from an injury prevention standpoint,

from a change of direction standpoint, from the ability to apply force, there are just so many

benefits and so we dive into all of that in the

beginning of the show. We talk about how it applies to a variety of different

athletes and different sports, the difference between acceleration, acceleration and

acceleration training, and why that is, why more people, more athletes and

coaches to be focusing on deceleration training. We talk about whether or not

athletes that throw, right, like throwers in field sport and pitchers and baseball players things like that

should really care about things like power cleans.

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