Issue
March/April 2008.
13 articles
The March/April 2008 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 Safety, Speed, Squat, and Power Clean. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Dark Side of Sports: The Value of Certification
The Value of Certification What the legal system thinks about the value of certification QUESTION: Does having a strength coaching or personal training certification decrease your liability in the weightroom? ANSWER: First, to add some context to my answer, you should know I’ve bee
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The Case Against High Pulls
High Pulls Insight into a popular exercise that is, at best, worthless Former U.S. super heavyweight champion Shane Hamman performing high pulls in training. One of the most common story lines in fitness magazines is to warn readers about dangerous, or at least inferior, exercise
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What's Shaking with Vibration Training
The bottom line on a new type of exercise To boldly go where no one has gone before is the famous Star Trek motto and is one that we’ve informally adopted at BFS. Besides promoting a simple, sound training program for young athletes, we like to explore many of the exciting new ad
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The New Fight Against Bacteria
The locker room at the Washington Redskins’ training facility gets treated with a product that will help prevent staph infections for up to three years. The revolutionary, long-term answer to the growing microbial contamination problem It’s been said that extraordinary claims req
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The Evolution of Endurance Sports
Endurance Sports A world-class coach explains the best way for athletes to go the distance kids and 300 adults. Club in Aurora, Illinois, but he also n the ’80s there was a group of In regard to training methods, travels across the world to work indiendurance-sport athletes and Z
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A Closer Look at Box Jumping
It’s a given that speed and jumping are key components of athletic training, and it’s also a given that plyometrics is an effective way to develop both of these qualities. But how to implement a plyometric program, especially in a high school setting, is a bit of a mystery to man
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A Closer Look at the Glute-Ham Raise
GLUTEHAM RAISE The one-stop answer to training the posterior chain What would the field of strength and conditioning be without buzzwords? Core training, functional training – every few years someone invents some new term that coaches start bringing up in everyday conversation.
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A Closer Look at the Parallel Squat
BFS Vice President John Rowbotham teaches perfect squatting and spotting technique at a recent clinic he gave at Sickles High School in Tampa, Florida. PARALLEL SQUAT Answering the critics, once again, about this essential BFS core exercise When BFS started 32 years ago, one of t
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Staying Strong at Baker High School
Carole Bettenhausen Photos It’s very impressive to learn that the football team at Baker High School in Baker, Montana, took the state championship last year by winning 11 games, scoring over 50 points in three of those games, and having two shutouts. Impressive, yes, but to thos
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Tradition of Excellence: Valdosta High School
Paul Leavy, The Valdosta Daily Times, valdostadailytimes.com Excellence: Valdosta High School The Wildcats are one of the nation’s premier football powerhouses Let’s talk numbers. The Wildcats of Valdosta High School have made 29 appearances in the Georgia State Championships, co
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Success at Last at Sickles High
at Sickles High How this Tampa school turned around its football program It’s one thing for a team to have a slump, but it’s another to be a doormat. The student body and community don’t come to games, parents and administrators question the competency of the coaching staff and j
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2008 BFS Male High School Athlete of the Year
Athlete of the Year Multi-sport talent Colby Jackson wins our most prestigious award Last year Colby Jackson ran for 2,597 yards and 42 TDs, leading his Crusaders to 10 wins. If there’s a single word that best describes a BFS High School Athlete of the Year, it’s balance. Yes, th
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