By Dr. Greg Shepard

CRITICAL MISTAKES 1. Every Coach Runs A Different Program With Different Equipment And Philosophy. 2. Important Conditioning Phases Are Left 1. All Sports Both Boys And Girls Do The Same Program.

2. All Phases Of Conditioning Must Be Done. 3. Weight Room Sessions Should Be Just Like Out Or Minimized.

Practice. Out of all the different segments of the secret, nothing an extremely sound program all year round. can kill success quicker than making critical mistakes in Speed and Plyometric training should be done twice organization and unity. The most successful programs in a.week in the off-season and whenever possible during the country at the high school level have unity. All the in-season. All coaches should teach the same athletes regardless of their sport do the same program program. I saw a high school basketball coach having his and all coaches teach the same philosophy. team run lines.

He yelled encouragement, “Work, work, The worst thing that can happen is where every sport don’t give up! Go! Go!” They worked very hard but and every coach is off doing their own strength and everyone of his varsity players were running with terrible conditioning program, while concepts and philosophies technique. Heads going back and forth, arms rotating are totally opposite. Sometimes, where egos are so strong from side to side, toes not pointed straight etc. They between head coaches and the athletes are confused with worked hard but not smart.

With just a little time spent loyalties tested, the whole athletic program is adversely coaching sprinting techniques, the athletes could have affected in terms of winning. If all sports would adopt the run those lines faster and with less energy. If all coaches BES System, all the athletes would do basically the same would learn the simple BFS Speed and Plyometric program as they changed sport seasons. Teaching time Program, all athletes would experience continuity form would be reduced,many hassles eliminated, everybody sport season to sport season. would be pulling for one another and the winning percentage of all sports should be dramatically improved.

I’ve been to many high schools where the football The most important BFS concept in organization is run the total athletic strength and conditioning program just like practice. coach did one program primarily with free weights and newspaper while his team prepared for a football game?

Obviously not. Then why do it that way in the weight and use machines. The girls coach would say, “My girls room. A coach should coach 100% of the time while in the are intimidated,” and work on a Universal machine. weight room and demand the same things there that he Then, the baseball coach would tell his players, “Hey, would demand on the field. The following guidelines weights will screw you up,” and do no stretching, should give you winning advantages: running or plyometrics. The multi-sport athlete is now in a real fix. His loyalties are torn. The baseball coach has unwittingly given the athlete a very real excuse not to 1. Require the same discipline as in a football practice.

a team concept approach. Make gains as a work hard or prepare to reach for his potential. It’s a team. Have contests between offense and defense or tragic story told over and over again. So it’s no big juniors and seniors. Coaches should constantly surprise when we set up a unified program at a BFS clinic that the school does an immediate turnaround. motivate and coach.

3. Organize time and the total program efÏciently.

The BFS Dot Drill is a tremendous way to warm-up Work all parts of the program. Don’t leave out and the BFS 1-2-3-4 Flexibility Program makes terrific speed work or flexibility in order to do a few more sense for all sports both at the junior high and high school level. [f all coaches would adopt these two phases of the auxiliary lifts. 4. You can assign homework. If you only have 45 secret, three great advantages would be yours. First, unity minutes or Jess of actual workout time, athletes can and continuity would take place. Second, time would be do some things outside class. For example, do some saved at the beginning of each season.

Since everyone knows what to do, you just continue the program. You agility and flexibility training outside class. 5. Don’t scrimmage - lift with your athletes. It is just can even have the veterans teach the new athletes. Third, too difÏcult to teach and motivate properly, if each coach can be assured that all athletes are performing you're busy training all the time.

From BFS Magazine — November/December 1990. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).