Issue
September/October 2010.
10 articles
The September/October 2010 issue of BFS Magazine collects 10 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Track & Field, Safety, and Character. Coaches and writers featured here include Dr. Marc Rabinoff, Paul Gagne, and Jeff Scurran. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Dark Side of Sports - The Truth about Background Checks
Glenn A. Morris, an adjunct professor of strength at Metropolitan State College of Denver, teaching a young woman the finer points of a power clean. Metro State has an outstanding sports liability program run by Dr. Rabinoff that discusses issues such as screening individuals for
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The History of Kettlebells
FS is a company founded on basic principles that have proven successful in training young athletes for over 30 years. With such a tradition, we are naturally skeptical when a new product comes along that promises to give athletes an edge. In fact, many of the new items in our cat
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A Closer Look at the Crossfire Conquest
or many schools and military and service organizations such as police and fire departments, there are two major problems Fthat must be addressed when selecting fitness equipment. First is the issue of space, as often these facilities were originally built without a space designed
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The New Science of Training Female Athletes
Coach Paul Gagné working with Chloé Dufour-Lapointe. Chloé is only 18 and placed fifth at the Vancouver Olympics in freestyle mogul skiing. The important gender differences we must understand BY PAUL GAGNÉ STRENGTH COACH AND POSTUROLOGIST erhaps stemming from the belief that there
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Meet the Clinician: Peter Gregg
ust as Clark Kent has a secret identity, so does Peter Gregg. During the day he is a nurseryman, growing trees at a wholesale nursery, specializing in dwarf conifers and Japanese maples. But frequently on weekends Gregg transforms into an extremely inspiring individual by working
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BFS Position Paper - Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine The BFS perspective on how to deal with injuries to young athletes In January physical therapist Nick Liatsos gave a seminar at the Poliquin Strength Institute called “Accelerated Healing from Sports Injuries: The Lower Back.” At this seminar trainers and coaches
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A Closer Look at Absolute #3
Absolute #3 A key teaching cue to help protect the lower back he strength training community tends to jump on new trends, thus changing the way athletes are trained as well as how a particular Tcoach is perceived in terms of identity and reputation. In the ’70s, static stretching
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American Football Goes Global
Team Stars and Stripes in front of the Palace of Versailles near Paris. In Europe, there’s more to football than just soccer BY JEFF SCURRAN BFS DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND NATIONAL YOUTH COORDINATOR first heard about football being played in Europe from the legendary
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Winton Woods: A BFS Journey
Winton Woods: 2009 State Champions! inton Woods High School initiated its football program in 1991, under legendary coach Lou Cykar and trusted assistant Dan Bamonte, when Forest Park High School and Greenhills High School merged. Since 1991, this school in Cincinnati, Ohio, has
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