The BFS In-Season Program
The second philosophy is one of maintaining strength during the season. You feel that with all that is going on during the season and with all the physical demands being placed on your athletes that all that can reasonably be asked is for them to maintain during the season. You have also heard that Division I schools maintain during the season and have read the NSCA’s philosophy which has also endorsed a maintenance philosophy. Therefore, it must be okay for your high school. Wrong!
The third philosophy is taking the position that athletes can actually gain strength during the season. It is amazingly easy for all high school athletes to gain strength during the season. disservice to have a maintenance pro m at that level. The BFS program affords each athlete a wonderful opportunity of making significant gains during each season. Typically. an athlete at the beginning of a high school season will be able to Bench 220 pounds The BFS concept of training athletes in-season will give your high school a great edge over any other system. detailed article carefully, you will see this statement is actually understated.
Let me put it this way: it will mean an average of two more football victories per year and a huge difference in all other sports as well. How can I make that statement? Pretty easy actually! We've been doing our tem for years and we have hundreds of high schools who have switched to BFS during that time. accurate handle on the difference.
Another monumental advantage of training hard and heavy in-season is the prevention of injuries. lege and pro level, we have some helpful information but I make no claim at these levels for differences in winning records. adopted. First, you don’t train at all. other core lifts. during the season. and as a team. on the skills of the sport. wait until the off-season to train. Here’s what will happen if you don’t train during the season: You of their athletes. minute you say. factor, that should be a non-issue. thing so interesting. minute workouts per week. ment compared to the competition. time and effort into increasing. could gain strength during the season. making gains. doing. season.
the importance of in-season training. which he started every game!
Iabsolute truth. should either try to maintain or as cirand prolong a lucrative career.
The college level has interesting Can you gain strength at the proJevel during the season? Well, yes and no. There are three deciding factors: Age, strength level and attitude.
If the athlete is 30 years old with a good strength base, it would be very difÏcult to do anything other than maintain during the season, especially in football. Naturally, you throw everything out the window, if an athat a clinic that’s what his athletes did. I will tell you flat out. All athletes workout. There are no exceptions! much could also work a little harder. makes these gains all year long every 27 sports at the college and pro levels. for the in-season is to maintain, I just and win!” sibly enter into this equation would be the super-developed high school trative challenges. even in this case, we have a little trick football. off-in; and four, FB-in-in.
final two months of the macrocycle.
Did you get all that? to go fly a kite if he suggests that the other players do the “Specific Phase” during the season. letes in all boys and girls sports train potential. possibilities: off-in-in, off-in-off,off- Distribution for each unit by phase.
HIGH SCHOOL 1 hope my good friends at the NSCA will forgive me if I have perwant to shout again?
Macrocycle. Oh, I almost forgot! What about summer baseball and/or the high school situation. track? Aaarrghhhh! To the NSCA’s credit another artitwo different in-season programs. unusually high incidence of injuries. out there for decades. first school has only won one game.
The last game was lost 56-15. stronger and had a lot Jess injuries.
| injuries. Both schools have an enrollment of about 2,000.
“The results were just short of unbelievable.” We have been trying to shout this message every year since 1977. The results were not unbelievable but entirely predictable. This is nearly an absolute rule with every team who has ever done the BFS program.
Milwaukee Bucks per week. Workout Day #1 consists of three core lifts: the Parallel Squat, away from the contest as possible. extremely fast recuperation. competition! What an advantage!
FOOTBALL could be as follows:
The BFS vital concept of in-season training is that all sports do the #2;(Friday-Game).
1994 Jazz Starting Forward David Benoit, racking a Power Clean #1.
“United Program”. All athletes will do two workouts Each core lift takes only 10 minutes. becomes a quick believer. strength going but Parallel Squats. up the juice. at the beginning. safe lift but wondrous in its effect. Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz states, would be a neck exercise and dips. because they are heavy practice days. an athlete is using his bip and hip tenthe legs are left totally fresh in about Squat an all out effort for 11 reps. justify it, then do it. before or after practice. I'd rather get Box Squat. to lift before or after practice. You'll OTHER TRAINING AREAS: get better results. off-season. drills for correct sprinting technique. file or let the kids take them home.
week to have spectacular results. basketball and his arms are going across his body rather than forward, we expect that coach to call time out continued from page 30 and correct his athlete. Granted this is the ideal and it doesn’t always happen but if all coaches would coordinate together helping kids to run correctly then you have a great chance to always have good team speed. We also encourage all coaches to do our BFS Plyometric Box Jumping Routine. It is safe, effective and takes less than 10 minutes per session. One or two sessions per week is sufÏcient.
Ex-Jazz Backup Center Al Bannister 7-5” 300 pounds implemented on a unified basis, marvelous improvements begin to hapweek our workout is 3 sets of 3 reps. son. just to say, “thanks, coach”.
SETS & REPS AND TESTING: even during the season. is for all sports both boys and girls to mend our brand new “In-Season” two more records!
Utah Jazz team members going through the before the clinic with the athletes.
From BFS Magazine — Winter 1994. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
