By Dr. Greg Shepard
OPPOSITE APPROACH From Scholastic Coach August and September Issues.
High Intensity Training Ideas. Tom Kelso (M.S.,C.S.C.S.) wrote a to Improve Your Strength Program” later in this Journal on page 30. guy doing curls is beyond me.
Kelso states, “Always remember the number one priority of the program - injury prevention/longevity.” very much the opposite of mainstream training principles and BFS. It is common knowledge among boxers that if you throw a punch, you should expect one back. 1 will make a rebuttal in relation to that dictable that a team that does the HIT bodybuilding/body-toning type greater number of injuries during the season. but I honestly believe that is healthy.
It helps crystallize a certain position, exercise. form their own decision as to what’s best for them. The first point of difference is the woman doing the same thing. ferent. strength training with skill training. tial injury from such lifts. thousands of photos in the BFS.
Our position is that Olympic lifts like the Power Clean, Power Snatch is, REBUTTAL TO AN OPPOSITE APPROACH and Jerk Presses get practically expect an injury-free season. How did Southeast Missouri ing this 1995 football season? started with low-back injuries. ling. a 24-37 record since Kelso began.
FOOTBALL COMPARISON Michigan, who uses the HIT philosophy, had a first game nailbiter. Their freshman QB threw a desperation pass on the last play and the receiver caught it and stayed in bounds by one inch to win the game. Does that last play success mean their strength program is successful? If they had missed, would it have meant the program was unsuccessful? I say absolutely “No” on both counts. I have always said that’s what makes strength and conditioning so interesting and challenging in football because there are a variety of factors which contribute to both winning and losing. Michigan may | have recruiting advantages over some of their opponents.
One hundred thousand people sit in Michigan stadium while their opponents average only half of that in their stadiums. Maybe comparisons are invalid. However, it may be interesting enrollment of 4,400 students. lower back. from which to recruit. this for over a decade. gram. they made their own luck.
It is doubtful that Coach Paterno said, “make my players bigger, faster, stronger and more explosive. Create a winning attitude and develop these tial.”
Washington Redskins. room. players left for home. of the short training periods. will effectively allow. mainstream-type program. pleased. iit. athletic department and by their exercise science people.
They know this, so when the strength job opened up a while ago, they invited three mainstream coaches and three HIT coaches. However, one other ofÏcial said they had a hard time finding three HIT coaches. The one high-ranking ofÏcial confided, “Those interviews were real eye-openers,”
(meaning they really knew they had a problem).
However, in the end, they stuck with the High Intensity program. “It was an expediency decision.
We were into the off-season and didn’t want to change and disrupt the players, plus the expense of new equipment to do the other type program wasa big factor.” Thus, John Thomas, from Army was hired four years ago.
This high ranking ofÏcial requested to remain anonymous for obvious reasons but as we parted company he asked, “Isn’t there a happy medium in all this?” In other words, some room for compromise. I looked him squarely in the eye and answered curtly, “No.”
és REBUTTAL TO AN OPPOSITE APPROACH (see page 46 on Power Clean Research). really say, “Man, we were unlucky.” time. to winning football. amount of missed games for a season (six out of a possible 984: that also includes sickness). We led the NBA eight out of nine years in least amount of injuries on one stretch. A have to thank him for that one, for just the injuries. It was predictable. school year: coaches using our BFS program, which consists of hundreds of EXPECT A MIRACLE! claims these ranges are “safe”. How different we are on this subject. It is my firm belief that poor technique causes safety problems not by how many reps you do or don’t do.
However, I do have an opposite point of view on higher reps on the Trap Bar Lift, Dead Lift or Power Cleans. Doing 7-15 reps on these lifts would be disastrous. Doing high reps with the demanding intensity required by Kelso would most teams, report back and say the same thing, “Injuries have been dramatibuilding but not in our program. each rep over 5 reps. making chart on injury prevention turn to page 50. sets clearly understands this reality. The BFS Set-Rep System allows an athlete to do one or more reps once a month in our 4-week cycle. minor. We never use the terms. nificance. injuries are well documented. We have the NBA record for least significance in mental development.
as Parallel Squats and Power Cleans. gfjf.
“Don’t expect miracles.” I have to thank him for that one, for just the opposite has become our theme for the 1995-1996 school year:
EXPECT A MIRACLE! If Southeast Missouri State University were to totally adopt a mainstream/BFS type program, with the WHAT, HOW and IMPLE- MENTATION done correctly, I would expect a dramatic decrease in injuries for 1996. I would expect a winning season. I would expect all sports to improve their records. I would expect good players to be developed into bonafide proprospects. I would expect a frenetic positive energy to flow rampant everyday. 1 would ELLER!
and easy to understand format The Total Program Squats Squat Variations The Power Clean The Trap Bar / Deadlift The Bench Press Auxiliary Lifts Speed and Plyometrics The BFS Readiness System on Book Other Any Unlike g nin itio nd Co d an Strength Bis an easy to understand master program.
Especially written for both athletes and coaches. For All sports at any age!!
From BFS Magazine — Winter 1995. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
