Issue
May/June 2008.
13 articles
The May/June 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 Football, Safety, Speed, and Squat. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss and Jessica Snyder Sachs. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Dark Side of Sports: The Legal Dictionary Part 1
The Legal Dictionary: Part 1 Legal terms you need to know: A-J For this issue’s column, Dr. Rabinoff put together the following list of important legal terms that will be used in future articles about safety and liability. affidavit: A written statement made or taken under oath b
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Beyond Calf Raises: A Few Words with Dr. Michael Ripley
BY KIM GOSS In every profession there is always a group of experts, gurus if you will, who are a step ahead of everyone else. There are the computer hackers who see algorithms and matrixes that are invisible to others, musicians and artists who find unique ways to express the hum
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Developing Power, (and Much More!) with the Plyo Bar
BY KIM GOSS When I was serving in the Air Force in the ’80s, I was approached by one of the best tennis players in the military who wanted to know more about plyometrics. I happened to have a videotape on the subject that demonstrated many box jumping exercises, and I loaned it t
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Run Faster, Jump Higher with the Reverse Hyper
The next generation of reverse hyper machines makes this great exercise even easier to perform BY KIM GOSS One of the latest trends in the world of strength and conditioning is “training the posterior chain” – that is, working on the major muscles located on the backside of the b
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Jeff Scurran Receives National Coaching Award
Jeff Scurran Receives Scurran preparing his Santa Rita team before a big game, and then joining the team in a post-game celebration. National Coaching Award BFS clinician is honored for his amazing coaching accomplishments with young athletes Bthree football coaching DVDs: Buildi
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The Final Exam: 2008 NFL Combine
Photo: East Carolina University SID Once again the best college football players faced off in Indianapolis to determine the biggest, fastest and strongest The fastest 40-yard dash at the 2008 NFL Combine was 4.24 by running back Chris Johnson of the University of East Carolina. Jo
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Smart Talk about Super Germs
An expert on germs answers important questions about a growing concern among athletes most troubling threats facing humans today are indeed coming from the world of germs. Today’s news headlines are full of true-life horror stories about germs, specifically the antibiotic-resista
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A Closer Look at Advanced Box Jumping
ADVANCED BOX JUMPING The next level of plyometric training One of the most effective methods to improve explosiveness is plyometric box jumps, as applied in the third phase of the BFS Plyometric Program. And the most advanced form of box jumping is called depth jumps. The Russian
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2008 BFS Female High School Athlete of the Year
There are some who believe that it’s not possible to achieve the highest levels of athletic and academic achievement at the same time. After all, there are only so many hours in the day, so you have to focus on one or the other. Proving this theory wrong is DeAnn Pertz, a senior
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A Closer Look at the Power Snatch
BFS PROGRAM The power snatch works the same muscles as the power clean, but does so through a greater range of motion. Shown with great form in this exercise is Utah State University gymnast Maegan Snodgrass, who represented Team BFS when she broke the School Age American record
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28-0! Eden Prairie High School
The Eagles are proving that With 3,100 students, Eden Prairie High School is the largest high school in Minnesota. Last year the school was ranked by Newsweek in its list of the top 1,200 high schools, and 71 percent of the school’s teaching staff hold master’s degrees or higher.
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Back to Basics at Newman Catholic High
Mthis made us realize that we were not following the BFS program exactly. We had gradually made some changes to the program that we thought would work better. As a result, we were getting athletes who were lifting too Mason City Globe Gazette photo ike Dirksen is the head footbal
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