The Secret of the BFS Dot Drill
3. Stretch Before exercise, practice or games, athletes should their times improve. The BFS Dot Drill takes only one warm-up by raising the blood temperature and break minute but is it ever a power packed 60 seconds with out into a slight sweat. loads of benefits. reduce injuries. Obviously most athletes and coaches The BFS Dot Drill should be the very first thing would agree that warming-up before activity is just done. Don’t stretch first. You never stretch a cold good common sense. Thus our secret revolves around muscle, yet many, many coaches believe you should how to warm-up not whether you should or should not stretch to warm-up.
For example, a coach may bring his team or class out to the track to run forty yard dashes warm-up.
What's wrong with Jumping Jacks or Jogging Laps around a and say, “OK, stretch out men. field or gym? After all, isn’t that what most muscles.” The coach in this example should have done coaches do? The answer is yes that’s what most coaches something to raise the blood temperature. By stretching do and no there is nothing wrong with doing that kind first before any warm-up, this coach is unwittingly of warm-up. It does serve the purpose but let’s analyze putting his people at risk. what usually takes place. want to happen is now more likely to happen with both The coach has his class do some jumping jacks or jog.
Usually while this takes place, the coach will not observe or coach during this period.
The secret is do the BFS Dot Drill and then stretch, run, jump or perform any activity. will study lesson or practice plans. He may even visit with another coach or read the paper. In other words, it is not a very productive time. Not much is being accomplished. want my athletes or class mentally revved up to begin my activity. The BFS Dot Drill is perfect.
COMPLETE DOT DRILL INFO. Source: New Total Program Book See Page 82 You can’t measure jumping jacks or jogging nor are there standards of achievement. You can’t set goals. You can’t develop high degrees of agility and foot quickness How can you develop pride in being able to jog a lap successfully? You can measure the BFS Dot Drill with a stop watch, you can have contests, and you can set goals based on national standards. their quickness, they will also develop great pride as Y @ <— 2feet—> @ Dots are 3" in Diameter The BFS Dot Drill painted on BFS Mats at our new 10,000 square foot UPPER LIMIT Athletic Training Center.
From BFS Magazine — November/December 1990. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
