Issue
March/April 2007.
13 articles
The March/April 2007 issue of BFS Magazine collects 13 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Safety, Baseball, and Power Clean. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss and Robin Jennings. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Case Against Stability Training
Stability Training Research is exposing many fallacies about the value of Swiss balls and other types of unstable exercise equipment In one of his trips to Moscow, the late sports scientist Dr. Mel Siff visited the Sport Psychology Institute. Having done his master’s thesis on br
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ABCs of Weight Room Design
Practical tips on designing safe and effective weightrooms f you fail to plan, you plan to fail” is an axiom by Benjamin Franklin that applies to many different aspects of sports and physical fitness training. If a football coach does not scout the competition and devise the appro
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How to Develop the Lower Abdominals: Part II
Lower Abdominals Simple but powerful exercises to achieve abdominal strength and coordination BY KIM GOSS Do you know someone who suffers from “The Britney Spears Syndrome?” Do you know what causes this condition, how many Americans are affected by it, and how it can be successfu
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Beyond Bats and Baseballs: The BFS Total Hitting Program
Beyond Bats and Baseballs: Teaching young hitters the proven mechanics of today’s MLB players ear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.” Although this Chinese proverb was written many centuries ago, its wisdom describes the best way to teach baseball player
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Pros Crack Down on Tainted Supplements
Pros on Tainted Supplements Sophisticated drug testing is forcing professional sports to crack down hard on tainted supplements. Let’s face facts. Food supplements will not make up for poor training or practice habits. They will not compensate for nutritional deficiencies or toxi
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America's Strongest Girl
Weightlifter Kelly Lynch is proving that there’s more to life than sports, even if you are the best Kelly winning the 2004 School Age Nationals, one of her many titles. Kelly Lynch is a typical teenager who likes to hang out with friends, go to movies and listen to music. She com
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College Football Recap
College Football Who won what is the question answered in our annual review of college football awards he 2006 college season will go down as one of the most entertaining ever with an amazing assortment of last-minute heroics, unexpected upsets and surprising blowouts. Oklahoma r
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Small-Time School with Big-Time Results
however, as with the football team, the volleyball team was in a different class. They finished the year 20-11. “This season we played and won begun implementing aspects of the in the regional finals, which we hadn’t BFS program at Greenwood, he felt done in six years,” says Maye
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Breaking Tradition at Heber Springs High
Leaping into Glory: Heber Springs High The BFS program helped the Panthers capture their first playoff victory in 27 years A4-6 season may not seem like the kind of success that a football coach ordinarily would want to talk about, but Coach Steve Janski’s first season with the Heb
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Private School, Public Victory: Shiloh Christian High School
Private School, Public Victory: There is a common misperception that private-school athletes can’t compete with public schools – that the kids in private school don’t have the necessary toughness to work through pain and become good athletes. Anyone who thinks that all that priva
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Winning Beyond the Scoreboard
When Coach Ronnie Peacock took over as head coach for Rogers High School, he knew he was in for a challenge, as the school didn’t have a recent history of winning. That prediction was confirmed when his Mountaineers finished 2-8 that first year and 1-9 the next. “I’d known I was
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State Champs: Wayland High School
Ben Sherry, Division 1A Player of the Year State Champs: Wayland High School Sometimes winning just doesn’t get better than this Aday in November 1973 was the high point for students that year at Wayland High School in Wayland, Massachusetts. That was the day Tom Hamilton, the ba
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