Issue
September/October 1988.
16 articles
The September/October 1988 issue of BFS Magazine collects 16 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Squat, Bench Press, and Power Clean. Coaches and writers featured here include Glen Fairclough, Dr. Greg Shepard, and Greg Shepard. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
Stephanie Armitage: Olympic Lifter
STEPHANIE ARMITAGE: Olympic Lifting only three months, Stephanie Armitage can Snatch 170 pounds! will compete in the 75-kilogram (165-pound) class in Stephanie Armitage is the assistant strength coach at what I can do yet. Olympic lifting is really fun. You can future meets. Step
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High School Olympic Lifting Team
SARASOTA H.S. TEAM AT THE JUNIOR OLYMPIC NATIONAL WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS Sarasota’s Team, kneeling, from left: George Lockett, Preston Last minute instructions from Coach Smithers to George Smithers, Jon Rissler, Paul Short. serves as an assistant football and strength coach
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The BFS 1-2-3-4 Flexibility Program
after the workout. “The package will work if you do it,” Coach Rowbotham said. “You should work on flexibility 10 to 15 minutes, six or seven days a week, particularly if you’re an athlete. An athlete has no excuse not to do flexibility training daily. It you’re going to be an up
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Clean and Jerk: College
By Kim Goss, C.S.C.S. seldom able to recruit any exceptionally large players Assistant Strength Coach « Air Force Academy (our average varsity football player last year weighed something like 205 pounds!), having 23 athletes Cleaning 250-plus was, we felt, a respectable number. a
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John Creek
OHN CREEK oo ncctince Life is filled with obstacles. Winners accept that challenge and set out to overcome whatever gets in their way. John Creek is a winner. Ten years ago, John Creek nearly died in a house fire that claimed the life of an older brother. Despite severe burns ove
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Squat Correctly
2c%.... $400.00-plus for a squat machine that has a bar moving up and down on a cylinder. A hook attached to the bar on each side is secured on pegs about four inches apart on a vertical shaft. So when | got ready to do the clinic, here was this squat machine. In our last issue,
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Peak Performance
PERFORMANCE About Protein Athletes and coaches have debated for years Editors Note: We are fortunate to have Dr. Fred. Hatfield share some of his insightful training ideas performance. Some athletes, especially weight lifters on achieving peak athletic performance without drugs.
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Clean and Jerk: High School
CLEAN & JERK CONTESTS! IN HIGH SCHOOL? YOU BET!! By Ollie Whaley M.A., C.S.C.S. Football Coach, Monument Valley H.S., Utah Last fall the BFS Journal article entitled “The Clean & Jerk in Track & Field, Why Not?” really caught my attention. At Monument Valley, on the Navajo Indian
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Quest for Greatness
by Greg Shepard everybody’s really fired up. We had a super meeting. QUICK REVIEW Chapters 1 ~ 12° Quest For Greatness is based on true stories. Coach Travis Drake is the new football coach at Hamilton High School. He has just assembled his staff of assistant coaches. The other m
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Olympic Meets: A Great Idea
A GREAT IDEA! BFS Clinician Jim Brown coaching Matt Shepard on the Power Snatch movements. We at BFS strongly recommend that all coaches get involved in Olympic Weightlifting. It's a fun and challenging sport. The Olympic Lifts also help build an athlete’s explosive power. The va
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Transition -- Readiness Program
MAKING THE TRANSITION GRADUATING FROM THE BFS READINESS PROGRAM By Dr. Greg Shepard My thirteen-year-old son Matt was on the BFS Readiness Program for about nine months during his 7th grade year. He began last fall with just the 45-pound bar. Matt benched, squatted, and cleaned w
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Anabolic Steriods and the USOC Drug Control Program
4. Give a urine sample. 5. Pour your sample into two bottles for sealing and sending to the lab. 6. Sign a statement that the test was done properly. 7. Then you can leave. 10. DOES “UNDER CONSTANT OBSERVATION” MEAN THAT SOMEONE WILL BE WATCHING ME EVEN WHEN GIVING MY URINE SAMPL
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Championship Power Volleyball
Marlo Stanley, of BYU-Hawaii Box Squats 505 and Parallel Squats 315. She is a member of the 1987-88 NAIA National Collegiate Volleyball Championship Team. Marlo is being spotted by BYU-Hawaii Campus Strength Coach John Farley, Jr. Editor’s Note: Last summer (1987) I took my wife
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BFS Clinic Brings Success to E.E. Smith
Visit E.E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, today and you'll see students infected with football fever. Golden Bulls players have pride—pride in what they do on the field and pride in a football program that has compiled a 27-13 record and one league cochampions
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Morrow High School
Morrow High School in Morrow, Georgia, has enjoyed a fine winning tradition in football. Coach Bud Theodocion has guided his Mustangs to the region playoffs eight out of the last ten years. In his years at MORROW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL “Home of the Mustangs 1987 AAAA STATE FOOTBALL M
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