Issue
November/December 1984.
23 articles
The November/December 1984 issue of BFS Magazine collects 23 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Speed, Bench Press, and Squat. Coaches and writers featured here include Dr. Greg Shepard, Greg Shepard, and Kurt Mattison. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Right Track
money are offered to make sure the school has the best. I would like to make two points regarding this situation. First, some schools are getting so much equipment including free weights and machines that there is a danger of athletes doing too many things and not concentrating o
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Sets and Reps
Basic guidelines to BFS principles to Sets and Reps are as follows: The number of heavy sets should be three to five. Reps should be varied between one and ten with the concentration being between three and six reps. It is crucial to vary your set-rep system continually. No one s
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About BFS Clinics
BFS Clinician Rick Anderson and Deer Park High School Strength Coach David Elmore assisting Jr. Brian Kirk on the Towel Bench. and special. Strength Coach David Elmore from 5-A Deer Park High School in the Houston, Texas area has expressed his feelings after their clinic. This is
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The Dead Lift
Bobby Raynor Dead Lifted 600 pounds. It was a new national BF5 Clinic record for a 9th Grader' Bobby is from Idabel, Oklahoma and is coached by Fred Willis. llike the dead lift and will always include it in the BFS core lifts. I realize most college strength coaches do not includ
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Cleans are OK!
Chris Durand DT from East Carolina U. Cleaning319 I have recently read two articles on the clean which discourage this great lift on the grounds it is dangerous and does not develop explosive power. Since it is one of our core lifts in the BFS program, I want to reaffirm our posi
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The Readiness Program
THE BFS READINESS PROGRAM By Dr. Greg Shepard, Ed. D. Confidence, Pride and Potential are Goals of the BFS Readiness Program! The Readiness Program We used to tell coaches when your athlete can parallel squat 145 pounds 5 times with good form THEN he is ready to lift with the Big
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The Box Squat
Coach Rick Anderson with N.B.A. Block Shot Champion 7-4 Mark Eaton. Sit down under control and then drive forward and up. The Box Squat is one of the six BFS Core lifts. for the development of hip strength, hip explosive power and hip tendon strength, the box squat is superior to
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Jan Smith
II Love It All ... the association with the kids, the strategy, the preparation, the game day. But I'm sure there's life beyond coaching./I Story by Greg Shepard This is a very emotional article for me to write. Jan Smith is a very, very special man and is indeed a coaching legen
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Stefan Fernholm
Stefan's 750 squat developed. These powerful 31" thighs which. It was noon and I was talking with BYU's head football Coach Lavell Edwards in December 1983. Just then Clarence Robinson, BYU's long time track coach, comes by and excitedly states "You got a minute, I want you to se
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Squat Correctly
by Greg Shepard Problem I: Knees In Solution: Get In Low Power Position. Check Stance. Usually Widen Out. Solution: Drive Hips Forward Thrust Chest and HeJd Back In September's issue we emphasized that correct squatting techniques can actually strengthen the knee joint. We have m
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The Olympic Weightlifting Team
Greg Shepard on the Olympic platform preparing to do the Snatch. Rick Anderson doing Plyometrics in Olympic WeightJifting Gym. Veteran Olympic WeightJifting Coach Harvey Newton was at the helm again for the summer Olympic games at Los Angeles. He gave us the grand tour of the Wei
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History of Athletic Strength Training
The Nebraska Weight Room. "MOTIVATION IS THE BIGGEST PRIORITY FOR A STRENGTH COACH" Boyd Epley Any history of athletic strength training would not be complete without Boyd Epley. He has set the standard for strength training at the college level. Boyd Epley is living history. Whe
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AJAX: The Recruiter's Dream
AJAX: This 1800 pound Kodiak bear's head was twisted 180 degrees' Coach Shepard ran for his life and was saved by a US.F.L hopeful' The most bizarre recruiting effort of all time took place this spring by the US.F.L The new league has money and are willing to spend it to get the
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Steve Young
was a unanimous selection for first team All-American Quarterback. He finished second to Mike Rozier of Nebraska in the Heisman Trophy award. He broke all kinds of N.CAA records while at Brigham Young University. Young has also finished his first season with the U.S.F.L's Los Ang
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BFS All-Americas First Team
FIRST TEAM BFS FOOTBALL Rodney Peters Team Record Arwater, Calif. Lakeland Minocqua, Wis. l.insly Insriture Wheeling, W. Va. X6-! Trinity C;arfield Hts. Oh. XPerkins Sandusky,Oh. (,-! XVerbum Dei L,s Angeles Ca. Fountain Lake Hm Springs, Ark. Jack DULL! ) yrs. IHIGHSCHOOL ALL AME
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Danny Vranes
Partial Reprint for this Special Edition Vranes, the Strongest Supersonic, is shown Towel Benching with 260. BFS Vice President Bob Rowbotham is spotting. Early this summer, the Jazz Coaching Staff and Jazz Strength Coach, Greg Shepard, were talking about our overall training str
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Motivate Your Athletes
By Dr. Greg Shepard Part I in a Series In Conjunction with Part VI; Setting Your Goals All coaches would like to improve their abilities to motivate. Most coaches would agree that motivation is a key ingredient to success and one of the very most important factors in successful c
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Tab Thacker
NCAA Champ from North Carolina State. Tab Thacker completely dominated the heavyweight division enroute to a 31-0 record and the N.CA.A national championship. In his four years at North Carolina State Thacker was 92-11-1 and a four time conference champion and three time AIIAmeri
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Bill Fralic
ALL-AMERICAN BILL FRALIC "You've Got To Remember What Your Priorities Are!!" Bill "Bull" Fralic at 6-5, 280 pounds is a super talented football player. He nas been described by many as the absolute best to ever play in the offensive line. Many are saying Bull has a decent shot at
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Sean Miller
Sean is perhaps the best ball handler in the world. Sean started on the BFS Program last April. Shown Box Squatting. Sean Miller has been giving ball handling demonstrations with his dad, John Miller, for the last 10 years. At the tender age of five, Sean demonstrated an unusual
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Lakeland Union High School
By Dr. Greg Shepard (Reprint for this Special Edition) LAKELAND UNION HIGH SCHOOL Minoqua, Wisconsin Coach Shepard helping Coach Buckley at a BFS Clinic last Spring. "IT WAS UNANIMOUS" STATE CHAMPS AND 12-0! Last spring, Bob Robotham, vice president of BFS, and I arrived in the b
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John Rymiszewski
#66 John Rymiszewski: High School All-American in Football and Track. Rymiszewski's Awesome Power Enables Him to Clean 300 Pounds! John Rymiszewski is the 1984 Bigger Faster Stronger High School Athlete of the Year. He becomes our fifth recipient of this most prestigious award si
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