Issue
Spring 2003.
14 articles
The Spring 2003 issue of BFS Magazine collects 14 articles, preserved here in full and free to read online or download as the original PDF.
Recurring themes include Football, Squat, Bench Press, and Speed. Coaches and writers featured here include Dr. Greg Shepard, Kim Goss, and Bonner Cunnings. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Panthers Path to Perfection: 45-0
One of the most predictable aspects of high school football is its unpredictability. Amazing comebacks, razzle-dazzle plays that win games in the final seconds and memories that last a lifetime are the reasons our families huddle together in the bleachers under those Friday night
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New BFS Total Program Concept Auxiliary Lifts
The BFS Program has evolved over the years and now offers coaches and athletes two choices when selecting auxiliary exercises to complement the core lifts. These two choices for auxiliaries are standard and advanced. In doing our BFS Clinics we found a wide variety among particip
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Bob's Basement
Bob Rowbotham and his son John trained in the basement of their home all through the years John played football in high school. When Johns teammates saw the quick results of the BFS program, they asked if they could train in Bobs basement too. Soon a group of about eight player
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Yosemite High School Valley Champs
The dream was 23 years in the making. Oakhurst, a small mountain community located just a few miles outside of Yosemite National Park in central California, has always been a town familiar with tourism. Only when the Yosemite High School football program began to dominate the loc
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Somerset High School
Snow filled the air as freshman wide receiver John Anderson raced to the huddle to deliver the most important message of the afternoon. The team broke the huddle as senior quarterback Talyor Germain surveyed the defense, junior halfback Shawn Walczak settled into a three-point st
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The Low Box Squat
The box squat is a BFS core lift that gives athletes and coaches a huge advantage over others who do not use it. Now I would like to introduce a variation of the box squat that will take your training to the next level. Before getting into the technique of this great exercise, le
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DeKalb Tigers are Grrrreat!
After two straight years of finishing the season with a 6-4 record, we seniors on the 2002 DeKalb High School football team were tired of mediocrity. Our dream since we were freshman was to win the Division 1A Missouri State Championships, and we committed ourselves to do whateve
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DeKalb High School
Our DeKalb football team had been experiencing relatively good success for the last few years, including a second-place state finish in 1998. However, that championship game was a 58-16 blowout-it was like boys playing men. The last two seasons DeKalb finished 6-4-not bad, but no
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Trading Places the Ethan Brooks Story
If you want a career in the NFL, here are five blunders you never want to make: One: Pursue your football career at a Division III College. Two: Divide your athletic life between track and football. Three: Train yourself in defense in college only to be drafted in the NFL for off
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A Few Words With America's Strongest Man
Its rare for a top athlete to master more than one sport. True, Deon Sanders and Bo Jackson reached the highest levels of play in both professional football and baseball, and Andre Ward went on to a successful career in professional basketball after winning the Heisman. But such
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A Little "Swett" Goes a Long Way
Seventeen helmets, a program in disarray, and a new league that surely would set his team up for failure. Those were the problems John Angell inherited three years ago when he took his first varsity head-coaching job at his alma mater, John Swett High School, in Crockett, Califor
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BFS Athlete of the Year
I have done a lot of interviews in my career of writing articles for the BFS Journal and only a handful of athletes at any level had perfect technique on every phase of strength and conditioning. Tom Busch is one of those athletes. - Dr. Greg Shepard Tom Busch of Park High Scho
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PRESEDENT'S MESSAGE: Spring 2003
Accountability for your actions is one of the very most important ingredients for success and should be of primary focus for those in leadership positions. Head coaches set the tone for accountability in sports. Mayors set the tone in city government, and a CEO sets accountabilit
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