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FROM THE EDITOR A Message from BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss, MS The Voice of Reason the standard by which you are measured professionally – it’s ne of the best things about being the editor of BFS your behavior in your profession. Let me put it another way: magazine is chatting with Dr. Marc Rabinoff and An ethical person is a person who makes the right decision publishing his amazing articles about legal matters in the areas of sports and fitness. His column for BFS – “The for the right reasons, or after making a wrong decision for Dark Side of Sports” – has been running for several years and the right reason makes an effort to correct it.
An unethical person is one who makes the wrong decision for the wrong has become very popular among a wide demographic that reason and therefore cannot correct includes coaches, administrators and it.” I then asked him for a real-world parents. Dr. Rabinoff writes a reguexample. He continued: lar column only for BFS, and we feel “Let’s say you are a coach of a extremely fortunate to have access to boys baseball team. At some point his amazing body of work. in the game you put one kid in as We decided on the title of “The a pitcher, and that pitcher is not Dark Side of Sports” because Dr. nearly as good as the other pitchers.
Rabinoff discusses topics that other But for some reason you want to professional organizations have chosen impress that kid’s mom or dad, or to ignore. It seems there is considerable you owe someone a favor – your reluctance within the field of strength decision is based on any reason and conditioning to discuss the countless injuries that occur to athletes Dr. Marc Rabinoff and his new bride, Diana, at except skill level. In that case, when you put the kid in, that is unethical as a result of ignorance and often just their wedding behavior. Eventually you are going plain laziness. Sorry, but we believe to be called on it.
You can’t correct it, you lose your job, that the first step in resolving a problem is to admit there is everyone is angry and the team falls apart. In contrast, a problem – and Dr. Rabinoff does his part by sharing his if you make a wrong decision for the right reason, it is experiences with the readers of BFS magazine. possible to remedy what you’ve done. Let’s say you put the A full professor in Human Performance at Metro State kid in – he’s one of three kids and you’re giving him a shot College in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Rabinoff has served as – and then after two innings you realize he can’t pitch as an expert witness in more than 400 litigations.
Many of well as the other players and you take him out; in this case these cases involved injuries that resulted in lifelong injuries, you’ve corrected your decision, because you made it for the including paralysis, or even death. I first met Dr. Rabinoff right reason in the first place – you thought he was a better more than 20 years ago while he was giving a seminar to pitcher than he turned out to be.” strength coaches in Denver, and I’ve followed his career ever Does Dr. Rabinoff sound like a voice of reason? We since. think so. If you want to learn more, check out his column Dr. Rabinoff’s articles frequently address the question in our Physical Education section. It contains many of Dr.
of ethics; specifically, knowing the difference between right Rabinoff’s best quotes from “The Dark Side of Sports” and and wrong. His expertise in this area is such that he has tells how to access our website to read all his previous BFS taught an ethics course for the American College of Forensic articles. Examiners, and he currently teaches ethics in his sports Kim Goss, MS liability class. Knowing his background, I once asked Dr. Editor in Chief, BFS magazine Rabinoff for his definition of ethics.
This was his reply: kim@bfsmail.com “Ethics is an offshoot of the study of philosophy and is OSEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011 ISSUE #140 3KRWR%UXFH.OHPHQV News and highlights from the world of athletic fitness How this Wisconsin school grew its great strength and conditioning program Q14 2011 BFS High School Male Athlete of the Year Q Parker Adams is this year’s winner of this prestigious award Kim Goss, MS Steve Kinslow WEBSITE PROGRAMMER QThe Research Confirms It – The Hex Bar Rules!
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32 Q The Shocking Truth About Inflammation Natural alternatives to drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT 36 Functional Training Revisited Q The evolution of the hottest trend in strength training QA look at great, but often overlooked, back extension exercises PHYSICAL EDUCATION 46 The Dark Side of Sports Q 15 commonsense quotes on sports liability Carl Miller: Still Going Strong Carl Miller was featured in our Fall 2003 issue. For those who are not familiar with Carl Miller was this amazing man’s body of work, Miller and his wife, Sandra Thomas, run Carl and the 1978 head coach of the Sandra’s Physical Conditioning Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
It is a popular gym, US Weightliftand several members have been with the club for more ing Team. than 25 years. The reason for the gym’s longevity and popularity is its professional, friendly coaching staff led by Carl Miller. As a weightlifter, Miller broke the national teenage record in the snatch at age 19. Jumping ahead 22 years, at age 41, despite being restricted by two spinal fusions, Miller snatched 281 pounds and clean and jerked 352 pounds at a bodyweight of 181 pounds. And 20 years after that, at age 61, he power cleaned 319 pounds and ran the 40 in 4.81 seconds.
Miller had a setback last year when a piece of metal from one of his previous surgeries poked an organ that shouldn’t have been poked, but he is back training and coaching and is as active as ever. As a coach, Miller earned a master’s degree in exercise science from the University of Arizona, and then went on to coach weightlifting overseas (three years in Japan and two in South America). In 1978 Miller was named head coach of the US Weightlifting Team at the World Championships. His best-known weightlifter was Luke Klaja, an alternate on the 1980 Olympic Team.
Miller also served as the national coaching coordinator of USA Weightlifting in the ’70s, and while serving had a private audience with Ivan Abadjiev, the head coach of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Team. Miller’s outstanding work served to introduce North America to a new paradigm of training that would revolutionize the sport. Carl Miller built his reputation with his knowledge of Olympic-style weightlifting, Carl with longtime friend and body comand he has written four books on his training methods. His most recent is The Sport position expert Clarence Bass, and with his son, Shane. of Olympic-Style Weightlifting: Training for the Connoisseur (Sunstone Press, 2011).
Canadian strength coach Charles Poliquin was so impressed with it that he purchased an entire case of the books to give out to his best students. Carl Miller has achieved remarkable success as an athlete and as a coach, and he has made significant contributions to the body of knowledge on strength and conditioning for athletic and physical fitness. We look forward to hearing about his next project.
Look Who’s Reading BFS:
Ben Pakulski BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss recently saw Ben Pakulski reading a copy of BFS magazine and just so happened to have a camera with him. Pakulski possesses a degree in honors kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario – he also possesses 22" calves, 21" arms and 32" thighs at a height of 5'10". A professional bodybuilder who competes in the International Federation of Bodybuilders, Pakulski weighs 300 pounds in the off-season and drops down to a ripped 255 with a 34"waist in the in-season.
BFS: 35 Years and Stronger Than Ever!
This issue’s cover highlights the 35 years that BFS has served as a leader, providing the highest standards in educational programs and equipment for athletic and physical fitness.
BOOK REVIEW:
Neuromechanics of Human Movement One of the best textbooks on the nervous system’s effects on muscles and motion is Roger M. Enoka’s Neuromechanical Basis of Kinesiology (Human Kinetics). If you are a serious student of biomechanics, you probably own a copy, as it differs from the traditional approach of biomechanics, which focuses on the mechanics of human motion without consideration of the sensory system. A fourth edition (2008) of this book is currently available, but the title has been changed to Neuromechanics of Human Movement.
This expanded edition contains more than 750 illustrations, many that have been upgraded from the previous edition, and includes the most current references – in fact, the text contains more than 1,500 citations! The new edition has updated discussions about The title of this great sport science textbook may have changed, but the content is better than ever. electromyography, research developments in rehabilitation, the effects of aging on the nervous system – and much, much more. Neuromechanics of Human Movement is certainly not light reading, and those without a physical science background will find most of the material too technical.
However, this book has its place as one of the most significant contributions to the field of physical education, biomechanics and neurophysiology.
BFS Scholarship Winner Update Chloe Van Tussenbroek is putting her BFS weightlifting scholarship to good use. This past May at the National High School Power Clean Championships she broke four national records and was, pound-for-pound, the strongest female lifter in the meet. In July she entered her first full weightlifting meet, the Bay State Games in Boston, and made all six lifts and personal records. One month later Chloe competed in the Connecticut Open Weightlifting Championships and made all six lifts and personal records. Chloe is on track to qualify for the American Open Championships in December, one of the most prestigious competitions in the country.
Pat Mendes: the Strongest There Is! Pat Mendes is a name familiar to readers of BFS magazine, as he is a two-time winner of the National High School Power Clean Championships (2008-2009). Now he has a new title, and that is 2011 Senior National Champion, Super Heavyweight Division. The meet was held in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on July 15-17, 2011. Although still hampered by a serious shoulder injury that occurred last October, Mendes snatched and clean and jerked more weight than anyone in the competition, hoisting 390 pounds in the snatch and 467 pounds in the clean and jerk. Mendes will be competing in the upcoming Pan American Championships and also the World Championships. Congratulations!
Are Football Combines a Waste of Time?
Arecent peer-reviewed study investigated the relationship between football players’ results in the NFL Combine and the way they were drafted into the NFL. The results were surprising. The study by Daniel W. Robbins is “The National Football League (NFL) Combine: Does Normalized Data Better Predict Performance in the NFL Draft?” It was published in the November 2010 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. This study involved 1,155 athletes who participated in NFL Combines between 2005 and 2009. Specifically, the author investigated the relationship between NFL draft order and the results of eight tests performed in the NFL Combine.
The NFL Combine is held every winter in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is covered by ESPN and all the major media outlets. The NFL Combine is considered an objective measure of a football player’s athletic fitness as it relates to their specific position, and the appeal is that all the athletes compete under the same conditions. As such, it’s possible that an athlete from a smaller college could earn the attention of pro scouts. One example is former NFL lineman Ethan Brooks, who graduated from a Division 3 college and was the cover story for the Spring 2003 issue of BFS. Brooks’ exceptional performance on these tests helped him earn a place in the NFL.
Says Brooks about his decision to attend a smaller college, “I had always dreamed of going to the NFL, but I didn’t know how realistic it was, so I just focused on getting the best education I could. I also wanted to participate in track and field, and a Division III football program wouldn’t be as demanding on my time.” The NFL Combine tests are divided into the following player positions: center, cornerback, defensive end, defensive tackle, free safety, fullback, inside linebacker, kicker, offensive guard, offensive tackle, outside linebacker, punter, quarterback, running back, strong safety, tight end and wide receiver.
Some positions do not require specific tests; for example, quarterbacks do not have to perform the bench press. And it’s also expected that some athletes will have to skip specific tests due to injury. According to the author of this study, the following are the NFL Combine tests and the physical qualities they are designed to evaluate.
s METER YARD SPRINT SPEED acceleration and power s METER YARD SPRINT SPEED acceleration and power s METER YARD SPRINT SPEED acceleration and power s 6ERTICAL JUMP LOWER BODY STRENGTH and power s 3TANDING BROAD JUMP LOWER BODY strength and power s METER YARD SHUTTLE power, acceleration and change of direction s CONE DRILL SPEED POWER AND change of direction s "ENCH PRESS UPPER BODY strength Partly because of the emphasis on performing well on these tests, absolute and overall results are continually improving in the NFL Combine.
In fact, many players will hire strength and conditioning coaches who specialize in preparing athletes for the NFL Combine with the goal of achieving the highest results in these tests. Here is what Robbins had to say about the results of his analysis: “It would appear that regardless of position, the current battery of physical tests undertaken at the combine holds little value in terms of predicting draft order.” However, Robbins added that the best predictors of success in the NFL draft appear to be “straight sprint times and jumping ability.” The NFL spends a lot of money holding the NFL Combine, and players invest considerable time and effort trying to prepare for these tests.
It will be interesting to see if the NFL re-evaluates its emphasis on the NFL Combine based upon these surprising conclusions.
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From BFS Magazine — September/October 2011. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
