Issue
July/August 2008.
11 articles
The July/August 2008 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 Safety, Speed, Football, and Power Clean. Coaches and writers featured here include Lyle McDonald. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
What's Happening
Like Father Like Son Like Brother Thirty-five years ago while attending BYU, Anders Arrhenius put the shot over 65 feet and earned All-American honors for that event. At that time BFS founder/CEO Dr. Greg Shepard was the strength coach at BYU. Many years later, Anders’ son Nik se
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Inside a Be An 11 Seminar: Skyline High School
Be an 11 Seminar: Motivation keeps this Utah school on cloud nine Skyline High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a nice place to be a student – Newsweek named it as one of the top four percent of U.S. high schools. But it’s an even better place to be a football player. In the ’9
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What Athletes Need to Know about Protein
BFS: Why did you write this book? LM: I had written a fairly extensive series of articles on protein for a website, and it seemed logical to expand that series (which makes up most of the technical information in this book) into a more comprehensive book. BFS: Who is the book wri
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America's Strongest Kicker
Sorensen’s best official kick is 62 yards, and he will be wearing blue and white for another four years when he enrolls at BYU this fall. America’s 345! Justin Sorensen’s unique training methods have made him the best kicker in the country Ah, kickers… Nobody really knows what to
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2008 National High School Power Clean Championships
Pat Mendes was once again the King of the Power Clean. A football player from Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, Mendes broke his own national record with a lift of 350 pounds. Power Clean Championships The fourth edition of this popular event brought out the talent If the
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A Closer Look at the BFS Flexibility Program
BFS FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM Flexibility is as easy as 1-2-3-4 We’ve found, after giving thousands of BFS clinics over the past three decades, All athletes, not just gymnasts, need to stretch daily. Showing extreme flexibility is Mary Beth Lofgren, a Level 10 gymnast who represents the
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A Closer Look at Shoulder Shrugs
SHOULDER SHRUGS Tips on getting the most out of this valuable exercise The best alternative is to use a tends to limit the range of motion of he trapezius is probably the Hex bar, as the design of the bar posithe exercise. most underrated and neglected tions your hands at your si
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Strong Beginnings: Longhorn-Warrior Youth Lifting Program
Bill Gill is the type of coach that athletes remember, with a passion to help kids fulfill their physical potential and achieve their dreams. But after 20 years, the chronic pain of a degenerative disc disease became too much for him to safely instruct at this level. Although his
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The Utah Utes' Power Tennis Program
The days of champion tennis players such as John McEnroe dominating the court with their touch and ball placement are gone. To win today – at the professional level and the college level as well – tennis players need more than just good endurance. Case in point: world number two,
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Go Speed Racers
How a premier skiing academy makes its athletes strong for the slopes To excel in a sport such as skiing, you need to have good coaching and follow a good conditioning program. To compete with the best skiers in the world, you need to have great coaching and a great conditioning
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