What is BFS?

PROGRAM By Coach Rowbotham, Anderson and Shepard to discuss subjects such as nutrition, rest and strategy. A WHAT IS BFS? BFS is an organization dedicated to helping athletes succeed, especially at the high school level. ideal way to give a motivational story is to show our Fantastic Stories Video (info. on page 9).

Even though Coach Shepard has a doctorate, we are not Too Much To Do? Do SomeThings Outside Class! Does professors talking over people’s heads. We are not giving a a good QB go out and throw with his receivers on his own?

University’s program and making you scramble to adapt it Sure he does. Why not extend this concept to your training to your high school. We are not givers of a Russian / program? Let your competition stretch for 15 minutes of the European weightlifter’s program who expect a high school 42 minute physical education class period. Let your coach to decipher what is relevant for his kids. competition get frustrated and exclaim “We can’t get to it.

We are strength and football coaches and have been There isn’t enough time”. at the high school, college and pro levels. We All we are saying is to give your athletes a chance to be have blended this experience with world-wide concepts to excellent, a chance to reach their potential. If your team is bring you a state-of-the-art total program tailor made for truly committed to winning, most of them will stretch and the high school situation. do their agility drills outside class time. All a coach has to do We have literally been to thousands of high schools in all is test periodically and the results will verify the athlete’s 50 states conducting BFS clinics.

These unique events have commitment. Some Plyometric, Speed and Technique work added immeasurably to our knowledge which is reflected can also be done on their own. We believe signing commitin a culmination of proven ideas and concepts that work, ment contracts or goal cards can be of great benefit in makgiving you a fantastic winning advantage. ing your success happen.

Require Disciplined Spotting and Technique: A football A great way to organize a high school or college weight room is to handle it just like a football practice or like a team. Do anything you want.” Let your competition be that practice from another team sport. way in the weight room. Always have spotters who encouprescribe a workout and sit ata desk reading a newspaper. rage their teammate and pull out the best in him. Every Require the Same Discipline: athlete should be keenly aware of the coaching techniques of time and have the feeling that it’s football practice in the every lift and accept the responsibility of being a coach weight room.

Athletes should be attentive, hustling and while they are spotting. team oriented. Let your competition make their weight training session a social hour.

It’s Better To Modify the Program Intelligently, Than To Compromise Discipline and Organization:

Instill a Team Concept Approach: Make gains as a team. one of the workouts in our 4-week cycle is to do 5 sets of 5 Take team pride in individual records. You could have while another is to do a 5-4-3-2-1 workout. In a 42 minute contests between defense and offense, juniors and seniors, physical education period, that many sets can’t be done. your team and another team etc. A coach must be active just Therefore, we recommend doing 3 sets of 5 like a football practice, constantly motivating and teaching. those respective workouts. It’s perfect and very little is actu- Let your competition make workouts dull and without team pride. ally lost in the way of physical development.

Now, there is Organize Time and Total Program EfÏciently: Wouldn’t time to do it right. Be creative in your use of time and your it be great if the opposing football coach spent all of his practice time on offense and did absolutely nothing with equipment. Don’t Scrimmage With The Kids: Every Coach defense or the kicking game? Let your competition work experience lifting but there are too many weaknesses when only on weights or concentrate largely on the upper body a coach gets into his own training during the athlete’s workand be bodybuilders. With the BFS Total Program, you will out time.

It is just too difÏcult to teach and motivate work each important area with just the right amount of time. properly, if you're busy lifting. Although, all athletes respect You will work on flexibility and agility everyday. You will a coach who keeps in shape. Also, once in a while, it could lift three times per week concentrating on the legs and hips be a great learning situation if a coach demonstrated things with total body lifting movements like the Squat and Power like intensity, poundage and technique, provided the coach Clean. You will work on Speed and Plyometric Training has that capability. twice per week in the off-season.

Time is also set aside to work on technique skills by position and sport. Some time should be set aside (5 minutes) on Tuesdays and Thursdays Organize your weight program just like practice and let BES help you with the details. The only way we can be greatly successful is to help you be greatly successful. 11

From BFS Magazine — November/December 1989. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).