Issue
November/December 1987.
21 articles
The November/December 1987 issue of BFS Magazine collects 21 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Speed, Squat, and Safety. Coaches and writers featured here include Dr. Greg Shepard, Len Onken, Football Coach, and Greg Shepard. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
Plyometrics
Should we teach elementary and junior high kids how to jump correctly? Absolutely! But do we? [ don't think we do. [ work with the Utah Jazz and have been a consultant with the Sacramento Kings. It's amazing that I have never had any player in rookie tryouts tell me that he'd bee
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Speed
STRENGTH . 1. You Must Squat Parallel. 2. You Must Power Clean. 3. You Must Do Light Straight Leg Dead Lifts. FLEXIBILITY You Must Stretch Correctly and Hard Everyday. THE START PLYOMETRICS You Must Do Jumping and Bounding Plyometrics hvice per week. You Must Start low, explode o
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Catch the Vision
.. .. 7th Grade Football Team Stretching on the 1-2-3-4 BFS Flexibility Program. Same Team doing Agilities with the BFS Dot Drill. 7th Graders Pr,lcticing the Technique Svstem. The theme for this years special edition of the BFS Journal is "Catch the Vision," I urge everyone to r
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Chris Spielman All-American
CHRIS SPIELMAN “T Want To Be The ‘Best Football | J Player Ever. Want To Be In the Of Fame. Don’t Do Something To Meet That Goal. ALL-AMERICAN OHIO STATE LINEBACKER When Chris Spielman was in the 8th grade at Massillon, Ohio, he began weight training with Nautilus equipment. He d
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Porta Power
By Len Onken, FB Coach PORTA High School Eric Jones, QB for PORTA High School in Petersburg, Illinois led team to playoffs. Here at PORTA High School in Petersburg, Illinois my staff and I are convinced that the BFS set rep program was an important key to the success we experienc
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About BFS Clinics
Bob Rowbotham having fun with the famous QuarterReaction Contest. You get a BFS Shirt if you win! Greg Shepard teaching the sta te-of-the-art BFS 1-2-3-4 Flexibility Program. Rick Anderson doing a BFS Upper Limit Clinic with Stefan. Many video and overhead aides are used to instr
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66 State Champions
SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL IN IDAHO #66 Editor's Note: BFS has an extraordinary record with high school football teams after their BFS clinics. Sixty-six teams have won a state football championship or gone as far as their state allows after their BFS clinic. Everyone (coaches, athletes
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Squat Correctly
GREAT VARIATIONS Two great variations to the parallel squat are the box squat and the front squat. I recommend very highly these variations be used. An athlete should only have two heavy squat workouts per week. It is a big mistake to squat heavy three times per week, especially
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Mark McGuire
RUN POWER "I lift weights six days a week in the off season. That's something ballplayers once were told never to do." FINAL 87 STATISTICS HOME RUNS 49 RBIS 118 BAT AVERAGE .289 6-5 When rookie Mark McGwire was asked about why the major leagues hit a record number of home runs in
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LSU's Eric Andolsek
282 ALL AMERICAN "If I Could, Ifd Train Everyday! I Enjoy It!!" LSU played a prominent role in the history of strength training. Alvin Roy instituted the first recognized program for athletes in the 1950's and the results proved to be dramatic. LSU became national champs in footb
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1986-87 All-Americas
XAll-State 1st team off a del. All-State 1036 yd. XCapt.-NHS Prin. Award Excel!. XAll District Both Pas. AII-Dist. Bsktbl Pres. of Class Shot Put, Discu XTop 50 in US. 1st Team All ConI. off & del. XCaptain, holds all school wt 1ft records MVP in Dist.
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Quest for Greatness
Continuing Story by Greg Shepard QUICK REVIEW Chapters 1-8 Quest for Greatness is based on true stories. Travis Drake has just been hired as the new head football coach at Hamilton High School. Hamilton has had a history of losing seasons but the challenge was exciting for Coach
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Kami Keshmiri
Kamy Keshmiri caught the vision at the proper time. Fortunately, Kamy had a loving father who had the knowledge. Kamy's father, Joe, has participated in four Olympics and has himself thrown the discus 200 feet and the shot 62 feet. Joe Keshmiri won the Asian Games in Iran in 1975
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Jason Buck
FROM WALK-ON JUNIOR COLLEGE 18 REJECT TO OUTLAND TROPHY WINNER!' Jason Buck is this year's Outland Trophy winner. The significance is not that Jason won it but the tremendous obstacles he overcame to receive a lineman's highest honor. Coaches' Make sure every player reads Jason's
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Training at Early Ages
By Boyd Epley CHILDREN HAVE A STRONG FUTURE Coaches have learned that a good strength training program will increase performance in athletic competition more than any other factor. Strength training increases not only strength for athletes, but also their power, flexibility, and
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Stefan Fernholm
It has been quite a year for our BFS staff member Stefan Fernhohn. He worked out tremendously hard for the discus and still managed to do 18 BFS clinics. Stefan also had an extraordinary NFL tryout with the Indianapolis Colts. Last April, head football coach Ron Meyer got a chanc
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Jeff Keith
JEFF KIETH TEXAS TECH RED RAIDER 6-3 282 ALL-AMERICAN GUARD Dumbbell Benches give Jeff better balance when handling Pass Rushers Continued on Page 83 JEFF KIETH TEXAS TECH RED RAIDER Continued From Page 80 Jeff doing close grips for additional power when blocking. . . . ". Jeff h
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Daniel Cole
Daniel's Great Strength IS meet verified! Daniel Cole 5-9 230 Guilford College Linebacker The title "College's Strongest Football Player" is awarded by Biggger Faster Stronger to Daniel Cole of Guilford College. I think Daniel is most deserving of this selection. There may be som
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Dalton Young
BFS H.S. of the Year. He becomes our eighth annual recipient of this most pretigious award since we began in 1980. The award is based on athletic achievement in sports, the ability to overcome obstacles, scholarship, leadership, general character and the ability to put things in
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Gordon Lockbaum
"Gordon (left) is an outstanding individual who has an extreme sensitivity to all about him and especially his teammates," says Mark Duffner, Head Football CoachHoly Cross. Gordon is a tremendously well conditioned athlete. One test we do is the mile run. He's won it the last two
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