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WHAT’S HAPPENING 3KRWRFRXUWHV\RI7UDYLV.ZRN)ORULGD Big Men Can Squat In the 1980s when BFS staff began training the Utah Jazz, they immediately found that these extremely tall athletes often had trouble performing basic exercises such as the squat and the power clean. It’s one thing to coach an athlete who stands six feet tall, but it’s a whole ’nother ballgame to coach someone a foot taller. But these athletes persisted, and the BFS coaching staff saw players such as Blue Edwards cleaning 300 pounds and squatting over 400.

Such dedication also played a role in the ability of the Jazz to play hard and stay healthy – in 1989 Coach Greg Shepard reported that the Jazz had the fewest number of injuries for eight of the previous nine years. One college strength coach who is continuing to set new standards in training elite basketball players is Coach Preston Greene, strength and conditioning coordinator at the University of Florida. His story appeared in the January/February 2012 issue of BFS magazine, and he recently sent us an update on his team’s off-season progress.

To help his athletes get low in the squat, Preston says he started with a progression of single-leg exercises such as step-ups and split squats, plus soft-tissue body work and changing the strength curve of the exercise with apparatus such as chains. “I think there is a mutual level of respect between the players and strength staff; thus they are more inclined to trust and believe in the coaching cues. Perhaps at first they give you a look of confusion, but by taking time performing many warm-up sets at a low rep bracket, they become accustomed to it.”

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Hammer Champ Lindsey Spencer Joins Team BFS Lindsey Spencer is the newest member of the Team BFS Weightlifting Club. A former track athlete who this summer converted to weightlifting, she qualified for the 2014 Senior National Championships in just her second competition. In 2013 Spencer graduated from Utah State University with a master’s degree in physical and sports education. As a student-athlete at USU, Spencer competed in the shot put, weight throw, hammer throw and discus events. Spencer’s specialty was the hammer (just like the Norse god Thor), and she won the Western Athletic Conference Championship in 2012.

Along the way she set school records in the outdoor discus (178-09) and hammer throw (203-04). After a month of being trained long distance by BFS Editor-in-Chief Kim Goss, Spencer moved to Rhode Island to train with Coach Goss on a fulltime basis. In addition to representing Team BFS, Spencer is sponsored by the Poliquin™ Group. 6DUDK9DOHQWLQHSKRWR BFS Magazine is expanding our format for 2014. We will be moving to an online format for summer issues to make the BFS Magazine more accessible to our readers throughout the year. The school year issues will remain as a printed magazine and be delivered to our subscribers just as always during the first week of November, January and March.

Now however the May, July and August issues will available online through our BFS eStore. We are very excited to be able to offer our readers the convenience of a magazine delivered to them during their busiest time of year. During the months school is out electronic issues will be available through online distribution.

BFS will be able to take advantage of the wide variety of options that an electronic publication offers. We project moving into a media rich environment where the online version will reach coaches athletes and teachers away from the school, keeping you in touch with the world of BFS throughout the year.

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From BFS Magazine — January/February 2014. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).