Triphasic Training 2 is an applied performance book showing coaches how to build strength, speed, and power by targeting the eccentric, isometric, and concentric phases of training.
Compressed weight-room-to-field transfer...in 2 weeks
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"How long does it usually take for weight room gains to show up on the field?" Most coaches will tell you four to eight weeks. Cal got it down to one or two. The pairing that compressed everything Functional Transfer Complexes — or FTCs — are one of those things that sounds fancy but is actually dead simple. You pair a posterior-chain exercise with a prime time fly movement. That's it. Two exercises, done back to back. But the results are anything but simple. Cal put it bluntly: "With functional transfer complexes, I got this transfer of performance down to one to two weeks!" The COVID experiment that proved it During COVID, when Cal's athletes came back, they had terrible movement patterns. Running times were slow. Coaches were frustrated. The athletes were working hard but not seeing results on the field. So Cal ran an experiment: he deliberately did NOT use RPR warm-ups. He wanted to see if FTCs alone could fix the compensation patterns. He had athletes do reverse hypers with big toe activation paired with flying straight-leg prime times. Over 12 weeks, the hockey athletes' running patterns got smoother and faster — even though they were still skating heavy loads that normally wreck running mechanics. No RPR. No special warm-up. Just the right exercise pairings. Your go-to FTC pairings
And if you're training yourself without a team — these pairings work just as well solo. No spotter needed, no complex setup. The weight room doesn't have to be separate from the field. It just needs the right bridge. The complete FTC system — including five specific pairings, coaching cues, and how to program them into your existing blocks — is all in TP2. https://triphasic2.com << order here Keep going, PS - Here is what Steve had to say: "I picked up the book and began using drills and cues with my athletes immediately. Great information and looking forward to implementing more." https://triphasic2.com << order here Coach Cal Dietz, U of MN If you do not want to get this newsletter, we will miss you, sniff sniff, but you can unsubscribe by clicking the link below and -poof- we are gone. |
Triphasic II
Triphasic Training 2 is an applied performance book showing coaches how to build strength, speed, and power by targeting the eccentric, isometric, and concentric phases of training.
"Wait, you tape their mouths during training?" Yes. On purpose. And it's one of the simplest, cheapest tools in the whole book. The CO2 Flip Most coaches out there roaming IG late a night assume more oxygen in equals better performance. However, blood oxygen saturation sits around 95-99% even during hard exercise — oxygen usually isn't the limiting factor. Nasal breathing actually increases CO2 slightly compared to mouth breathing, because you're exchanging less total air. That sounds bad....
"Cal, is the GOAT Drill just a fancy warm-up?" I get this one a lot. And I always say no — but it takes about a minute to explain why. The Part Coaches Keep Missing Watch your athletes in warm-ups. You're looking at their feet, their hips, their arm swing. Makes sense. ..But Cal says there's something happening before any of that — and most coaches never see it. When we were deep in the Olympics prep discussions that shaped TP2, Cal said something I keep coming back to: "All I did was make...
"When should I run my speed work during practice?" If you said "at the end after we get through our main drills" — you just wasted your best window of the day. The window that closes and doesn't reopen Cal and Jonathon Janz lay this out clearly in TP2: there's a narrow window right after warm-up where speed and skill gains actually happen. Once fatigue accumulates past a certain point, no amount of effort, coaching, or motivation reopens it. This isn't opinion. It's how the neuromuscular...