Issue
November/December 2007.
12 articles
The November/December 2007 issue of BFS Magazine collects 12 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Power Clean, Safety, Character, and Squat. Coaches and writers featured here include Kim Goss. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
Inside Scoop: The Editor Spills the Beans
PHYSICAL EDUCATION INSIDE SCOOP: Here is BFS Editor Kim Goss when he was a sports editor in college. The device he is working with his fingers was called a typewriter. After three decades, this magazine editor has plenty to say about the world of fitness and bodybuilding publicat
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The Dark Side of Sports: Working Out During Class
Working Out During Class Coaches and PE instructors must focus on doing their job when they are on the job working out and not supervising. You might argue that you did your own workout between the sets of your students that you were supervising, but it doesn’t matter – it’s irre
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A New Look at Squatting: Part II
Melanie Roach is a mother-of-three who placed 12th at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships with a 6-for-6 performance that included a 174-pound snatch and a 242-pound clean and jerk. In training Melanie has done a front squat of 292 pounds and a back squat of 352 pounds. Th
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Squaring Round Shoulders
About 10 years ago I attended a weeklong seminar on evaluating and correcting posture. One of the interesting “tools” we were shown for correcting round-shouldered posture was a harness that strapped across the torso and had an electronic device positioned between the shoulder bl
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Wising Up: The Education of a Strength Coach
Tim Adams has gone where few professional strength coaches have gone before Tim Adams, a few years ago when he was the head strength coach of the Oakland Raiders. When we first visited Tim Adams in our Fall 2003 issue, he was very busy as the head strength coach of the Oakland Ra
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Great Team Websites Made Easy (and Cheap!)
BY KIM GOSS Our full-time Webmaster Greg Minear is so busy perfecting our website that our IT Director Richard Knowley empties Greg’s trash for him! Also pictured is Art Director Steve Kinslow and a sneak peek of what our new home page looks like. If you don’t like what your chil
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The New War on Germs: Part II
“But mom – what about staph?” Stopping staph in its tracks BY KIM GOSS Resident Evil 6: Infection “In a world where no one was safe from the undead carrying the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium, scientists worked frantically to find a cure. But because the bacterium was resistant
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Razorbacks Looking Sharp
Darren McFadden Heisman Trophy Candidate Razorbacks Looking Sharp A closer look at the University of Arkansas’s unique and successful approach to becoming strong by KIM GOSS The Arkansas Razorbacks’ football team just kind of sneaks up on you. Last season all the attention went t
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Secrets of the Bentonville High School Girls
For the past three years Newsweek magazine has ranked Bentonville High School in Bentonville, Arkansas, as one of the best 1,000 high schools in the country. The school offers 19 advanced placement classes, and the class of 2007 received more than $3 million in scholarships. Bent
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Developing Character at Canyon State Academy
Developing at Canyon State Academy Lifting up troubled youths through the power of sports Canyon State Academy is a division 2A school for at-risk young men, located in Queen Creek, Arizona. The teachers here operate from the premise that although some of their students may have
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2007 BFS High School of the Year
Titusville High School: A Lifting Family High School of the Year Titusville High School’s BIG commitment to unification has earned this small Pennsylvania school our respect and admiration High school coaches today are faced with ever-increasing challenges, even more so than their
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