Issue
March/April 2005.
15 articles
The March/April 2005 issue of BFS Magazine collects 15 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Safety, Bench Press, and Squat. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss, Dr. Greg Shepard, and Laura Dayton. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
Player Profiles
January-February 2005 March/April 2005 Year Height Weight GPA Squat Bench Deadlift Forty VJ 12th 6’3” 250 3.7 495 340 515 5.1 25.5” Year Height Weight GPA Squat Bench Clean Deadlift VJ 10th 5’7” 125 4.0 200 105 120 250 20” Year Height Weight GPA Squat Bench Deadlift Forty VJ 12th
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Improving Agility and Lateral Speed
Darren Sproles from Kansas State is a running back with amazing agility and lateral speed. At the NFL Combine this year he had the second best time for his position in the 20-yard shuttle with a time of 3.96 and tied for the best 40 with a time of 4.46. Although he only weighs 18
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Training Spaces
The future of weightroom design is here now with the BFS Elite Station If there is one universal truth about strength training it’s that there is no such thing as a weightroom that is too big. Whereas 20 or 30 years ago having a small weightroom with a few barbells and dumbbells
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Are You Neglecting Neck Training?
“Pencil neck geek, grit eatin’ freak, scum suckin’, pea head with a lousy physique. He’s a one man, no gut, losing streak. Nothin’ but a pencil neck geek.” t was 1977 when Pencil Neck Geek hit the airwaves. Written by the late pro wrestler Freddie Blassie, it was a novelty song a
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BFS Nutrition: Position Statement
Since when did it get so difficult to figure out what to have for lunch? Every time I go to a bookstore I see rows and rows of publications promoting the latest diet. There are low-carb diets, high-protein diets and even highfat diets. There are diets associated with universities
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The Best a Girl Can Be
Did you know that school athletic programs were not uniformly available to young women before the mid-1970s? But with congressional approval of Title IX in 1972, public schools had to provide equal opportunities, equipment, funding and facilities for athletic programs to both gen
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College Football Recap, Who Won What?
TAfter all, apart from the winners of the National Championships and the Heisman, do you know who got what in the post-season awards? Who won the Bronko Nagurski Award, given to the nation’s best defensive player? Or the Walter Payton Award, given to the nation’s best I-AA colleg
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The Shocking Truth About Supplements
Athletes, you know pressure: you’re expected to excel, win and keep on winning. So you train hard, you push yourself to your limits and you look for ways to give you an edge. You probably know athletes who are taking food supplements in the hopes of enhancing their performance. Y
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The Clean and Jerk
Biomechanics Made Simple: The Clean and Jerk How to apply the Six Absolutes of perfect technique to analyze the clean and jerk BFS has developed six training principles called “Absolutes” that are amazingly effective in teaching perfect technique, not only in the weightroom but a
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Spirit of the Crusaders
ASpirit of the Crusaders “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” —Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Although this quote is certainly amusing, there was nothing funny about the deadline facing the football program at Rob
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A Magic Season
If there’s a motto that could have summed up Spencer Henley’s coaching philosophy when he took over the Colon High School football program in 2000, it might have been “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again – and then give up. No use making a fool of yourself!” This team h
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BFS Clinician Jeff Scurran
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana in his 1905 book, The Life of Reason. Although Santayana’s philosophy certainly applies to our failures in history, it can also apply to learning from our successes. In this sense, it applies p
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Scheduling Success at Lapeer East High
apeer East High School wasn’t the worst performer in its football league, but it was far from the best. Head football coach Matt Topie decided it was time to kick it up a notch. The way he figured it, his program didn’t need a complete overhaul – just a little creative time manag
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The Perfect Tribute
The downside of taking over a championship program is that the only place to go is down. This was the problem facing head football coach Joe Parrish of Cambridge High School in Cambridge, Wisconsin. The previous coach, Bob Noldof, was the seventh winningest coach in Wisconsin and
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