Make your job as a Coach easier with the BFS Beat the Computer and Athletic Achievement Software

Computerized C o a c h i n g Can Do For You Make your job as a coach easier with the BFS Beat the Computer and Athletic Achievement Software Our Summer 2004 issue featured the athletic achievements of Portage High School in Portage, Pennsylvania, a school that uses the Beat the Computer program. Head football coach Gary Gouse is shown here giving his football players their workouts.

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. If you can’t manage it, you can’t accomplish it. his is a motto BFS has employed right from the start, because we know that a key method of ensuring continual results is to have a goal every time you train. If you’re doing a Dot Drill, you want to complete the entire series in less time. If you’re performing a bench press, you want to perform more repetitions or lift more weight than you did last time. The problem, especially when working with large groups, is administrating the program to ensure that athletes all have specific goals every time they train. Enter the BFS Set-Rep Logbook.

TUsing the coach-friendly screen to enter data (Figure 1), an athlete’s training informaiton is entered into the computer. After this step, all the current and past information can be viewed in another section of the program (Figure 2).

Weekly Workout Schedule for the week of July 17, 2006 Athlete Information SMITH, RYAN 845 W 2400 S Salt Lake City, UT 84119 Week # 3 of a 8 week workout.

For Squat and Bench lifts, we recommend a max of 10 reps, and for ID Number: Grade/Period: 9 Weekly Workout Schedule: FH1 For Aux Lifts: for the last set. On the last set use the weight shown, but try to get more reps than the Beat the Computer!

Dead Lifts and Cleans, a max of 5 reps. Use the weight and reps shown for each set, except computer shows so that you East Side High School Individual Ironman, Power, and Overall Rankings Sport / Positions FOOTBALL Workout Schedule: FH1 Notes on the Workout For Core Lifts:

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Height: 5 Ft 9 In Weight: 135 Lbs Sport: FOOTBALL Note: For all Lifts and Speed & Agility Events, higher Point Values are better. Ironman Ranking Write your Reps here!

Write your Reps here!

Did you BEAT THE COMPUTER on your last set? Write your Reps here!

Ironman Ranking Good Great All-State Great Rank within Grade School 3rd 44th 9th 59th 4th 39th 11th 63rd Point Total:

Did you BEAT THE COMPUTER on your last set?

1 Rep Max 225 lbs 150 lbs 345 lbs 140 lbs Did you BEAT THE COMPUTER on your last set?

The next step is to produce a workout based upon the athlete’s current lifting maxes. Shown here is a sample of such a workout.

Power Ranking Most Recent Score 2.80 sec 5.10 sec 63 sec 29" 6' 8"

Power Ranking Great Good Great All-State Beginning Point Total:

Overall Power Ranking:

Event 20 Yard Dash 40 yard Dash Dot Drill Vertical Jump Long Jump Sit & Reach Rank within Grade School 1st 7th 2nd 6th 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd Remember it is not where you start, it is where you finish. Be totally committed to breaking your personal records each day, and you will learn the true path to success, happiness, and achieving your goals. Recommendation # 1 Flexibility is key to improving speed. Stretch with intensity every day with the BFS 1-2-3-4 Flexibility program. Recommendation # 2 These manual workbooks were developed nearly thirty years ago to enable athletes to record their progress and set goals for their next training session.

When used properly, the system is a perfect way to produce highly motivated athletes who strive for personal bests every training session. However, a manual system is time consuming, especially if a coach wants to closely monitor all his or her athletes’ progress – or, for that matter, the overall progress of a team. For these reasons, 15 years ago BFS enlisted the help of Richard Knowley, director of computer programming at BFS. Working with BFS Founder/CEO Dr. Greg Shepard, Knowley improved the BFS program by translating it into a computeraided system. By simply imputing an athlete’s current maxes, the computer would set up challenging workouts.

The innovative software brought an additional and unexpected benefit by motivating athletes to exceed the computer’s expectations. This unique feature inspired Knowley to call the program Beat the Computer. Figures 1, 2 and 3 show how the process works, from entering data to producing detailed, computer-aided workouts for every athlete. The Beat the Computer program was a The key to explosive power is the Parallel Squat, Power Squat, and Plyometrics. You need to really emphasize this part of your total program. Recommendation # 3 To get even faster you need to work on your sprinting and sprint techniques, and your Straight Leg Dead Lift.

Recommendation # 4 You need to do the BFS Dot Drill every day. Get Quick!

To assess an athlete’s progress, a report can be produced that shows the Ironman Ranking, the Power Ranking, and recommendations to help an athlete improve.

When used properly, the system is a perfect way to produce highly motivated athletes who strive for personal bests every training session.

TRAINING & EQUIPMENT hit, freeing coaches from painstaking administrative work. Then BFS decided to take the program to the next level with individual and team reports, so that coaches and athletes could compare an athlete not only to current team members but also to the all-time leaders on the team and to BFS national standards. The result was Knowley’s Athletic Achievement Software, which was eventually combined with the Beat the Computer and called Beat the Computer Pro.

The first goal of this latest software East Side High School Top 10 scores among Current Athletes in the East Side High School Top 10 scores of All Times - Men and Women in the is to produce individual progress reports on all the major exercises and field tests in the BFS program. Each report is divided into three categories – Ironman Ranking, Power Ranking, and Recommendations – and is illustrated in Figure 4. The Ironman data shows the athlete’s performance in the core lifts, while the Power Ranking compares the field tests. The ranking, based on a score of 1 to 10, divides the results into a point value based on national standards, school grade level, and the ranking in the school.

Finally, the report contains a computerized assessment area that provides recommendations based upon the athlete’s results, such as paying more attention to diet or flexibility. The next goal of the program is to show athletes how they compare to current and past members in individual results. Athletes can choose to print a report that takes any of the benchmarks from the individual reports and provides Top 10 lists of all the major core lifts and field tests (Figure 5), or they can select a report that provides a historical perspective by producing Top 10 lists of the best-ever performances in those tests in the history of the school (Figure 6).

With the ever-increasing responsibilities involved in coaching, BFS wanted to find a way to motivate athletes and reduce paperwork without sacrificing quality coaching. We think we’ve found that answer with Beat the Computer Pro. Isn’t it time you stepped up to the next level with this high-tech coaching tool?

The computer can product Top 10 lists of the results of current players (Figure 5), or All Time Top 10 reports of the best-ever performance to a historical perspective of a school’s workout program (Figure 6). SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006 Create personalized, sport-specific workouts using the most successful Set-Rep Computer Software Program ever created.

Beat the Computer Pro® Here’s how it works Athletes fill out a form listing current core & auxiliary lifts.

Print Test Sheets Forms for weights and field testing Generate Individual Workouts Computer-aided workouts for maximum results Enter the lifts into the computer, which calculates the precise weights for each set and creates individual, sport-specific workouts.

At the beginning of each week simply print out the athlete’s BFS Set-Rep Program weekly workout schedule.

ADDITIONAL REPORTS: Produce Top 10 Lists Challenge your athletes to improve ADDITIONAL REPORTS: Ironman & Power Rankings Compare to national standards Want to get started now? Download your FREE 30 Day Trial at Each program is customized with the school name and CANNOT BE RETURNED. Please get the demo version if you are unsure of your 8 megs of RAM, Windows 95/98, ME or XP, 10 megs of disk space, CD-Rom drive.

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From BFS Magazine — September/October 2006. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).