Issue
July/August 2011.
10 articles
The July/August 2011 issue of BFS Magazine collects 10 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Safety, Power Clean, Squat, and Football. Coaches and writers featured here include DR. MARC RABINOFF, DR. GREG SHEPARD, FOUNDER/CEO BFS, and KEVIN WERTH - Head softball coach, Piedra Vista High School. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Dark Side of Sports
We Can Do Better The legal consequences of slacking off in coaching recently worked on a case involving a high school football player who suffered multiple concussions during practice in 2006, a case that is just now coming to litigation. I wanted to share this case with you beca
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Barbell Basics: The Power Rack
Rediscover this versatile training tool trength coaching has evolved into a profession in which there are professional organizations, peer-reviewed journals, national conventions, and coaches who make sixfigure salaries. But along the way, the profession experienced a rough patch
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2011 National High School Power Clean Championships
Power Clean Championships It was another record-breaking day at this annual strength event Darryl Brown won the 187-pound bodyweight class and established a new national record. ord has gotten out about the National High School Power Clean Championships – every year the contestan
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The Death of Food
Soylent Green is people! Soylent Green is people! his is the classic line from the 1973 science fiction classic Soylent Green. The story takes place in a future in which food is so scarce that society lives off processed foods, one being a high-energy wafer called Soylent Green.
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Concussion: A Growing Concern
pproximately 1.2 million young men in the US play football in high school, and nearly three times that many are involved in youth football leagues. Football is here to stay, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore the growing health crisis of concussion. Just how bad is the problem?
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Working with the Six Absolutes
Pound-for-pound, the best lifter of the 2011 National High School Power Clean Championships was CJ Fort. At a bodyweight of just 169.5 pounds, Fort lifted 315 pounds. A commitment to achieving perfect technique enables athletes to achieve such remarkable results. Six Absolutes Pr
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The Three Rules of Speed Training
Speed Training Simple, proven methods to dramatically increase running speed arly in my career I spent my summers in the Los Angeles area training with track athletes. I was amazed at the size and speed of their throwers. There were about 30 of these men who weighed an average of
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Striving for SIXCESS: Panther Softball
BY KEVIN WERTH Head softball coach, Piedra Vista High School hen I took the job at Piedra Vista High School in the summer of 2004, I never imagined that seven years later we’d be six-time Class AAAA State Champions. Farmington, New Mexico, has a rich tradition of baseball and sof
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BFS High School Female Athlete of the Year
3KRWRE\'DYLG-HQQLQJVRI-HQQLQJV3KRWRJUDSK\ZZZMHQQLQJVURGHRSKRWRJUDSK\FRP Athlete of the Year Multi-talented cowgirl Megan White wins our most prestigious award hen we receive nominations for our male and female high school athletes of the year, coming down to a single w
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