Issue
Fall 2003.
12 articles
The Fall 2003 issue of BFS Magazine collects 12 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Power Clean, Squat, Speed, and Bench Press. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss, Dr. Greg Shepard, and By Kim Goss. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
Have Miracle Program Will Migrate
After a disappointing 2-8 season in 1998, which included a disastrous 0-62 loss, head football coach Tim Holt of Gregory Portland High School decided his school needed help. He turned to BFS clinician Jeff Scurran, who flew to Portland, Texas, to deliver a BFS clinic. "We wanted
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A Closer Look At BFS Chains
The BFS program has been building champions for 25 years. Over this time the basic BFS training principles have changed littleafter all, who would dispute the value of a respected program that produces hundreds of high school state championships in major sports? Thats why when
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The Evolution of the BFS Revolution
You can't argue with success. More than 9,000 high schools have implemented the Bigger Faster Stronger program, and of these schools, more than 300 have won state championships in football after having had BFS clinics. Many college teams and high-profile professional athletes are
ReadThe BFS Safety Package
BFS Safety Package Tools to help you avoid and win weight room lawsuits During the past decade BFS President Dr. Greg Shepard has been an expert witness in 10 lawsuits involving injuries that occurred in the weight room. These lawsuits were directed primarily against coaches, tea
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Inside The Raiders With Strength Coach Tim Adams
With a 42-year history and three Super Bowl titles, the Oakland Raiders are one of the most recognized and respected teams in the NFL. The team boasts the best winning percentage in pro football since 1963 and has produced numerous Hall of Fall inductees such as Jim Otto, George
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Weightlifting Champion Carl Miller
Just as every sport has its heroes, every form of physical conditioning has its champions. Sure, theres an endless parade of fitness celebrities who want you to stretch rubber bands, march on plastic boxes, electrocute your abdominals and even stand on giant rubber balls. The mo
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Morton Power - Morton High School
There is strength in numbers, and that explains a lot about the past record of Morton High School's football program. No numbers, no strength. In the ten years before head coach Anthony Grazzini took over the program two years ago, this Division 2A school in Berwyn-Cicero, Illino
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The Future of Youth Gymnastics
In the past, most gymnastic coaches believed the best wayperhaps the only wayto strength train their athletes was by using solely gymnastic movements. Countless reps of bodyweight-only exercises such as dips, push-ups and pull-ups were considered the standard training protocol
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Dee Olson Discovers the Be an Eleven Fast Track to Success
Dee Olson enrolled in our Be An 11 class in January of 2002, a frustrated, part-time, back-row volleyball player with a defeatist attitude. I discovered Olsons dream was to be an outside hitter on the volleyball team for her senior year, even though she had next-to-no chance bec
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Making Room For State Champions at Mt. Olive High School
We get letters! At BFS, one of the most satisfying aspects of our job is opening the mail and reading glowing reports of how BFS helps coaches turn losing programs into winning ones. At the end of the 2002 football season we received one such letter from Kevin Stansberry, the Dir
ReadPresidents Message Fall 2003
I always find this question strange. The BFS Program is designed and has always been designed to take an athlete to the very highest athletic performance level from junior high to high school to college and beyond. It has never been just a high school program and then when you go
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