Issue
May/June 2007.
15 articles
The May/June 2007 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 Safety, Speed, Football, and Basketball. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss and Dr. Marc Rabinoff. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
Player Profiles
Kathy Leither Kathy Leither is a very special senior at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minnesota. First, she’s smart, with a 3.71 GPA and career aspirations in sports medicine. Next, she is strong, able to bench press a school record 180, squat 275 for two reps, Hex bar deadl
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What's Happening
The Eyes Have It! BFS’s resident exercise guru Paul Gagné was featured in the April 2007 issue of Golf Digest, the largest golf magazine in the world, with a monthly circulation of 1.55 million. The article discussed how Gagné was able to help 2005 US Open champion Michael Campbe
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The Dark Side of Sports: Liability in Supervision
Lawsuits against weight training instructors happen all the time. That’s a fact. It’s also a fact that 80 percent of the litigations against weight training instructors involve injuries caused by inappropriate supervision. In other words, if you’re involved in a lawsuit, there is
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Nothing Motivates Like Success
BY RICK ANDERSON, BFS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Practical tips on how coaches can inspire greatness in all their athletes The most important principle that all coaches need to know about inspiring their athletes to achieve physical superiority and athletic success is that the greates
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Radical Energy System Training
BY KIM GOSS Innovative methods of losing body fat and developing sport-specific endurance From 1987 to 1994 I was a strength coach for the US Air Force Academy, and one of my primary duties was to design weight training and conditioning programs for the football team. What I obser
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BFS Baseball: The DVD Series
The best sports training DVDs for young baseball players have just arrived When Robin Jennings walked into our BFS offices in Salt Lake City last winter to discuss his approach to coaching baseball, we were impressed. First, Robin had played 12 years of Major League Baseball with
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Sugar Sense
In the ’80s and ’90s the nutrition news was all about fat; more specifically, why we need to eat less of it. Now the attention has focused on carbohydrates. And with government estimates indicating that one out of three children born today will develop diabetes, it’s important th
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Dr. Greg Shephard Receives President's Award
Each year the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society holds an annual awards banquet. This year’s event, on February 23 at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis, was especially meaningful to BFS: Founder and CEO Dr. Greg Shepard was presented the society’s Pres
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Still Going Strong: Adam Edwards
52 STILL GOING STRONG: Adam became a starting center for the Air Force Academy, and played in the 1995 Copper Bowl. Most athlete profiles that appear in BFS magazine are snapshots of a few years of an athlete’s life: an outstanding football season in which an athlete rushed for 2
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The Lady Dragons Heat Up the Court
The Heat Up the Court Cameron High School’s girls basketball team is proving that you can never be too strong In his first two seasons as head coach of the Cameron High School girls basketball team, Chad Clutter finished with a combined record of 28-19. Not bad, but this coach kn
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Canada's Angus Reid Takes Off, Eh!
Angus Reid Takes Off, Eh! Angus Reid of the British Columbia Lions celebrates winning the Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League’s version of the Super Bowl. How one of Canada’s professional football players beat the odds to become one of the best The creators of South Park have
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Marcus Hendren: 2007 BFS Male High School Athlete of the Year
Looking for a positive role model for young athletes? Consider Marcus Hendren, a senior at JohnstownMonroe High School in Johnstown, Ohio. We did, and we were so impressed with this young man that he was BFS’s unanimous choice for the 2007 BFS Male High School Athlete of the Year
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Accountability Training at Central High
Accountability Training at Jon Michael Krol How an Arizona coach turned around a football team on the field and in the classroom ith eight years’ experience as an assistant coach in successful high school football programs, Kevin Belcher thought he was ready to take his career to
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Thomas Jefferson High's Declaration of Victory
with back-to-back state titles 002 was a memorable year for the Jaguars of Thomas Jefferson Academy High School, but for all the wrong reasons. That year the football team didn’t win a single game, and neither did the basketball team or the baseball team! That just didn’t sit rig
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