Issue
November/December 1990.
24 articles
The November/December 1990 issue of BFS Magazine collects 24 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Squat, Speed, and Safety. Coaches and writers featured here include Dr. Greg Shepard, Jeff Hill, and Dr. Barry Brown. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
BFS Olympic Record Board
WEIGHT | 14&Under 123/110 "tarenur | 200 Stary, 00/143 Newderney (126 Seeupur (165° whee |127 newsercey | 140 “Panga, 120 st'ar.ni {165 Wow sersey 203 can sion )176 “aac” | 2 TAS = [126 EEF | 154 wenetene [154 neces (185 S: 160° naesionsy (190 vamaeste [200 Skew 1231 xis [275 tee
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Quest for Greatness
QUEST FOR GREATNES A Continuing Novel by Greg Shepard Quest For Greatness is based on true stories. Coach Travis Drake is the new football Coach at Hamilton High School. With energy, enthusiasm, charisma and hard work, positive changes have been taking place. The other major char
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Olympic Lifting Contests
DON’T MISS THE BOAT It’s Easy! Just do a Grip. Finger On The Line) Then pull slow toa great power position photo on right. Notice feet have popped out to an athletic stance. Honest. nationally ranked! like photo bottom left. NATIONALLY RANKED IN THE TOP TEN! feet from front to ba
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Powerlifting
GLEN MILLS H.S. POWERLIFTING 1990 “COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE" Spotannpwelehs Asiatenrsy Love 705 competition Squat Editor’s Note: Entering meets during the of season man team were captains Mike Peart, Demetrius Johnson, Anthony Love, Sidney George and Desmond Deal. These can add f
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Speed and Plyos
SPEED & PLYOS. CRITICAL MISTAKES 1. Leave Them Out Entirely. THE SECRET 1. 2. 2. Not Teaching Correct Running Form and Starts. Round. Jumping. Reactive Jumping All Year Round. 3. Using Video Analyzation. TOTAL SPEED APPROACH Developing speed, explosive power and jumping Plyometri
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Spotting Techniques
Palms under is how to spot the Bench. CRITICAL MISTAKES 1. Arms Folded. . Spotters should act as coaches, judges and 2. Hands on Hips. 3. Non-Attentive. . Spotters always pull the best from their Pema . Know specific guidelines for each lift. teammates. A BFS Spotting Rule states
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Sets and Reps
1. No Variation: Always do 3x10 or one set of 8-12. 1. Always Vary Workout. 2. No Record Keeping. 3. Only Record Maxes and Max out too often. 3. Take Advantage of Strong Days. Sets and reps can make or break a program. It is one BFS solves that problem by allowing the athlete to
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Core Lifts
1. Using Pimarily Machines. 2. Doing Mostly Benches & Curls. 3. Doing Same Workout 3x per Week. Parallel Squats and Power Cleans. 4, Making Squat & Clean Like Any Other Lift. The Core Lift concept is simply understanding some it doesn’t help significantly, I’ll gladly return your
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Warming-Up
3. Stretch Before exercise, practice or games, athletes should their times improve. The BFS Dot Drill takes only one warm-up by raising the blood temperature and break minute but is it ever a power packed 60 seconds with out into a slight sweat. loads of benefits. reduce injuries
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Flexibility
Stretching begins with a believing attitude. You most teams really want to win and reach their potential. must first truly believe that stretching is important. Therefore, we feel these athletes and teams can stretch Many Coaches skip over this valuable training tool. The on thei
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Learning the Secret
Example II. Example III. Curls in the off-season. And | perform one set of 8-12 reps} then only in the off-season. really Tragic. Our advice: secret. that many of his players are | totally missed the secret. The| of Schedule him, until he learns | doesn’t. That’s Tragic. Our doin
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The Secret is Safe
IS STILL SAFE! The Vast Majority of Coaches Have Not Taken Advantage of Knowledge Available. HOW YOU CAN TELL EVALUATE YOUR H.S. FOOTBALL The Enclosed Chart Illustrates the Number of Players That Should Attain These Minimum Achievements. 400 PLUS | 300 PLUS | 250 PLUS | UNDER5.0
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Top Jump
TOPJUMP! Editor's Note: Once in a rare while something new comes along that really has merit. Top Jump is brand new and actua lly pr oduces significa nt im provements in Verti cal Jump and Explosive Power. We highly endo rse Top [ump for high schools and colleges. It's expensive
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BFS All-Americas
John C. 64. 255, 48 3,96 500 345 550 295 LinemanofYr 12 655/245) 47 ‘277 500 387 600 GrifÏn All-State 15.10) 195. 4.45 2.75 | 550|315 650 | 300r All-Souther | ms /NG-LB. n Joe 12 625| 230 4.53 ES 630 | 370 675 228 | All-Area _Ferrainola E64 285 49 3.0 610 | 440 6.35 25 47 3.81 59
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Chris Zorich
THE MIRACLE OF NOTRE DAME’S CHRIS ZORICH By Greg Shepard Some say that Chris Zorich is the toughest and most vicious player in college football. He’s even been thrown out of several practices for overly aggressive conduct. What’s that you say? Perhaps Chris should not be featured
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Kerry Kyle
Kerry went to Valley View High School in Texas which has an enrollment of only 131 stude nts (9-12). Under Coach John Kassen . Valley View was ranked number one for most of th e year in the I-A Division during Kerry's senior yea r. They posted a 12-1 record . He averaged 22 point
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Steroids: What Really Happens
By Dr. Greg Shepard the steroids themselves. This last summer I sat in on a round table discussion Therefore, the junior college coach was correct in at the N.S.C.A. Convention on the topic of steroids questioning Coach Newton. Going from 270 to 350 is not Mike Burgener who coach
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Walt Palmer
By Greg Shepard Walt Palmer was the Utah Jazz #1 draft choice this year. After a holdout, the Jazz and Walt came to an agreement in Mid-Summer. The first thing the Jazz coaches require of all rookie hopefuls is to report to us for strength and conditioning workouts. Walt and 7-5
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Tijuana Connection
THE TIJUANA CONNECTION after his Jabs were closed down. Last summer my son and I were waiting patiently to supply steroids to the American smuggling ring, he also get back into the United States. After touring for one retail outlet in Tijuana where anyone could buy hour in Tijuan
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Ty Detmer
TY D'ETMER TO~ That extra year gave Ty some needed maturing time. When he became the Texas High School Football Player-ofthe- Year and Prep All-America, Ty was nineteen. He played freshman football for his dad at Southwest High School in San Antonio, Texas. There was a 30-minute
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David Henson
room. always soaking wet and totally exhausted upon sets the pace in the weight room, he has to work hard to stay at the top in all testing categories as we have several players at or near his strength level.” Mike Isom Head FB Coach Univ. of Central Arkansas David Henson is powe
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John Godina
OHN GODINA BES HLS. -_ John Godina 6-4 260: Wyoming Lineman-of-the-Year, Gatorade Wyoming Football Player-of-the-Year, Threw Discus 210-4 and Shot 63-1, Gatorade Regional Track Athlete-of-the-Year. In January of 1988, John Godina began our BFS Cheyenne Central Indians to two cons
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Popular Bluff High School
BFS Clinician Jim Brown has been at Poplar Bluff High School in Missouri for a little over one year. Naturally the BFS Total Program was begun immediately. The results were amazing. The photo below shows 19 Poplar Bluff kids who did the BFS Dot Drill in under 40 seconds before su
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