Issue
March/April 2010.
12 articles
The March/April 2010 issue of BFS Magazine collects 12 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Safety, Squat, and Power Clean. Coaches and writers featured here include Dr. Marc Rabinoff, Kim Goss, MS, and Beau Johnson. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
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ne of the problems we have had in the past is hearing that a coach was using the BFS program at their school and had poor results. What we often find is that the coach never attended a BFS clinic, but simply read some of our materials and thought that was enough to get started. W
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The Dark Side of Sports: Taking it to the Courts
Taking it to the Courts Insight into the forensic expert’s report BY DR. MARC RABINOFF formal report is required in federal court unless the court has opted out of such a requirement, and many state courts have adopted federal rules. Further, in most states there are specific dea
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A Closer Look at the Half Rack
The Half Rack with Platform is a basic piece of equipment for any strength and conditioning program. Half Rack How to pick the half rack that is perfect for you ower racks and lifting platforms are the heart of any weightroom. You can always tell if an athletic program is serious
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Pro Football Training with Mike Bystol
t’s always been a bit of a mystery what pro football players actually do to strength train. An occasional demo from a strength coach showing some unique exercise that he or she used in training a pro doesn’t provide much evidence. Is the current training of these athletes simply
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Meet the Clinician: Tom Sullivan
Coach Tom Sullivan with his wife, Courtney, their son, Mason, age eight, and their daughter, Emma, age five. always wanted to be a teacher and a coach,” says Tom Sullivan, a BFS clinician who has given more than 100 clinics. “I played multiple sports beginning in the third grade,
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Six Absolutes Overview
isit the office of any high school coach who handles the strength training program of his or her athletes and often you’ll find basic concepts of biomechanics and feels no need for an occasional review, but more often it’s that the material is presented in a complex manner with S
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BFS Position Paper: The Box Squat
The Box Squat The BFS perspective on this valuable lower body exercise BFS clinician Roger Freeborn (red shirt) and Erich Mach (back spotter) teaching proper box squat form at a BFS clinic. he box squat is the most controversial lift in the BFS program and, for that matter, in we
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Mortimer Jordan HS: Softball Powerhouse
3KRWRV 'HQQLV9LFWRU\.'36SRUWVSKRWRVFRP 100-6 t’s not often you see a win-loss record such as this, but that’s exactly what Mortimer Jordan High School accomplished in winning their past two state 5A championships in softball and being ranked in the top ten in the country by U
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Accepting the Challenge at Reedsburg High
#52 Keith Craker, #56 Tyler Keele, #28 Lucas Gudenschwager, #5 Jared Park, #62 Seth Brandt, #65 Colton Brott Reedsburg High The inspirational story of how a 0-33 team became state champions #5 Jared Park, #30 Shane Rockweiler, #42 Mike Hayes or his first head coaching position, B
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The BFS Difference
BY BEAU JOHNSON ead football coach David Bell knew something was missing at Southwest Georgia Academy in Damascus, Georgia. This private high school has a wonderful football tradition; they’ve won six state championships, with the last coming in 1998. But then the Warriors starte
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State Champs! Heritage High School
or the past 28 years Mike Griebel has been coaching football at Heritage High School in Littleton, Colorado. His football program has had its ups and downs, but after winning only three games in the 2004 and 2005 seasons, and four games in 2006, Coach Griebel knew he had better m
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