Issue
September/October 2011.
10 articles
The September/October 2011 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 Safety, Bench Press, Power Clean, and Track & Field. Coaches and writers featured here include KIM GOSS, MS, Kim Goss, and Kim Goss, MS. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Dark Side of Sports
on Sports Liability Informative, and sometimes shocking, statements r. Marc Rabinoff has been contributing to BFS for nearly a decade, and he has written dozens of articles on many aspects of liability in sports and fitness. He has discussed the value of waivers, the basics of we
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A New Slant on Back Training
TRAINING & EQUIPMENT The glute-ham raise combines a hip extension exercise with a knee extension exercise. A New Slant on Back Training A look at great, but often overlooked, back extension exercises WRegarding athletes, if you focus on the strength aspect of this theory, a weakn
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Functional Training Revisited
hen you think of the gyms of the past, what may come to mind are images of antiquated wall-mounted pulley devices – guys would grasp the handles and do horizontal presses. Those devices could be considered among the first functional trainers. We’ve come a long way since then. WWh
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The Shocking Truth About Inflammation
Inflammation The pros, cons and alternatives to taking popular drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen and Aleve ot a headache? Take an aspirin. Sprain your ankle? Pop a few Aleve. Is that chronic case of jumper’s knee acting up? Some ibuprofen may do the trick. Common advice, sure – but
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A Closer Look at the Opto Jump
Opto Jump The latest in a great testing and diagnostic tool t’s great to have a positive attitude and to expect that when a child participates in high school sports they will get excellent coaching – and that if an injury occurs, the staff will know exactly how to take care of it
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Bench Pressing for Athletes
here are barriers in sports that, when broken, establish the athlete’s name in history. In 1954 Roger Bannister of the United Kingdom was the first man to run a sub-four-minute mile, and Tin 1968 Jim Hines became the first man to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters. In
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The Research Confirms It The Hex Bar Rules!
The Hex Bar Rules! A new peer-reviewed study of deadlifts compares the hex bar to the straight bar ell, it took a while for the sport scientists to catch up to what we at BFS already knew, but the data is in: The hex bar deadlift is superior in just about every Wway to the straig
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2011 BFS High School Male Athlete of the Year
Male Athlete of the Year Parker Adams is this year’s winner of this prestigious award ne of the requirements of being eligible for the BFS High School Male Athlete of the Year award is being a good student as well as a great athlete. Parker Adams is great in both, excelling in mu
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Building Champions at Brodhead High
BY KIM GOSS, MS irty Jobs is a reality show hosted by Mike Rowe on the Discovery Channel. Rowe profiles jobs that most people would consider undesirable, but these jobs are necessary for us to maintain our lifestyle. Although athletic directors don’t have to dig ditches in worm-i
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