Issue
January/February 2010.
11 articles
The January/February 2010 issue of BFS Magazine collects 11 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Squat, Safety, and Power Clean. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss, MS and Dr. Marc Rabinoff. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Dark Side of Sports: Taking Spotting Seriously
Taking Spotting Seriously A look at a growing safety problem in high school sports BY DR. MARC RABINOFF head, and is now brain damaged for life. technique. For example, if a gymnast an you give me a spot?” is a I saw a video of the accident, and it’s common question heard in any
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The Safety Squat Revisited
f there’s one universal truth about strength and conditioning coaches, it’s that they love new toys. Suspension cables, want them. Kettlebells, got to have them. Fiber optic knee ligament stabilizers – don’t know what the heck they are, but we need at least two. Some of these dev
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The Next Step in Speed Training
#24 Luke Ryba, McDonell Central High School Effective tools to improve acceleration and stay fast 3KRWR /LVD7HQROG ecause the basis of speed is strength, athletes need to perform multijoint core lifts such as squats and power cleans. That’s a given. Certainly, being stronger a
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The Education of a Strength Coach: Charles Ploiquin
Charles Poliquin A frank discussion with one of the world’s most accomplished strength coaches BY KIM GOSS, MS n outlier is someone who not only masters a certain skill or field of study but also makes us think in a different way about what they do. Examples of outliers in busine
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Meet the Clinician: Doug Kaufusi
Meet the Clinician: Doug with wife Amy, son Karson (age 2) and Bella (age 1). oug Kaufusi is one of the newest members of the BFS family, literally…and in a BIG way. Doug is married to Amy Rowbotham, a secretary at BFS and the daughter of BFS President Bob Rowbotham. And Bob is t
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How to Organize Plyometrics and Speed Workouts
Plyometrics and Speed Workouts Fine-tuning the Tuesday and Thursday off-season BFS workouts t’s been said that “All things being equal, the strongest athlete will always win.” True, and that’s why coaches place so much emphasis on the BFS Set-Rep weight training program, not just
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BFS Position Paper: Bench Press and Variations
Bench Press and Variations The BFS perspective on these important upper body exercises nquestionably, the bench press has become the most popular weight training exercise ever. Sure, the squat is rightfully called the king of lifts and will do more for athletic performance than a
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The Hunter High School Experiment
BY KIM GOSS, MS hen I moved to Salt Lake City in 2004 to work fulltime as the editor of BFS magazine, I eventually realized that in order to write competently about working with high school athletes, I would need to do some fieldwork. In 2007 I found the perfect learning environm
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Gridiron Rebels With a Cause
The 2009 season resulted in the Rebels’ best win-loss record in a decade. Berrien High School turned their team’s struggles to triumphs et’s get this straight from the start: Berrien High School in Nashville, Georgia, did not win one of its prestigious state championships this ye
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Staying Strong with BFS: McDonell Central High School
Staying Strong with BFS: McDonell Central High The Macks are on top of their game Quarterback Andy Davis hands off to Alex Hiess, who rushed for over 1,000 yards in the Macks’ 10-win season. hen you take over a program that is successful, major changes are usually the last thing
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