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.
How an Olympic Gold Medal Team Got Built From the Feet Up
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"What does Cal actually do differently with an Olympic athletes vs. everyone else?" Honestly? Nothing. And that's the whole point. 30–0 Into the Gold Medal Game Cal's USA women's hockey team went into the gold medal game at the Olympics with one of the most dominant stretches in the history of the sport. 30 goals to zero. They'd beaten Canada 5-nothing a week earlier. These women were on another level. And Cal? He walked into the arena 40 minutes before warm-ups and something hit him that he didn't expect: "I walked in that arena every day for three weeks and the energy hit me in the chest. I felt it. There's nobody around. Nobody. I walked through there by myself and the second I stepped in that arena, the crowd's already there. They're watching warm-ups. And all of a sudden, bam, I got nervous. And I don't get nervous. I've been in 20 national titles, won 11 of them." Even Cal felt it. That's the stage. When They Showed Up Broken Here's where most coaches would panic. The athletes arrived and their patterns were off. Bad movement. Bad positions. Cal's interns saw it too — especially with Lee Stecklein, a four-time Olympian who Cal has trained for 13 years. Day one? She didn't even look like her prime-time video. Not close. The interns were worried. "In my program, there's about four problems with her prime time right now, but the program is going to fix it." Eight weeks later, the interns saw it: completely different athlete. Because Cal didn't add cues. He didn't coach harder. He fixed feet, restored patterns, and trusted the process. The COVID Lesson Same thing happened post-COVID. Athletes came back to Cal's gym after lockdown and 80% of them had bad glute patterns. Flip-flops, stress, no training — it all showed up in how they moved. Cal didn't reach for RPR as he wanted to test a different approach . He used prime time movements and the big toe squeeze. Three to four weeks later, all 40 athletes were fixed. If you're training yourself — pay attention. Your patterns change with stress, travel, and bad sleep. The fix isn't more coaching. It's the right foundational work, consistently. Gold medals aren't won with secret exercises. They're won by fixing the basics nobody else checks. The pattern restoration methodology Cal used with the Olympic team — including prime time progressions, big toe integration, and how the program self-corrects movement — is all in TP2. https://triphasic2.com << order here All the best, PS - Here is what Brandon had to say: "Triphasic II has been ten years in the making. Cal has teased us long enough and together with Mike T Nelson they've knocked it out of the park. If you just worked through one portion of the book, you'll be a different coach and have a different team of athletes in front of you." 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...