Issue
Winter 1989.
14 articles
The Winter 1989 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 Squat, Basketball, Speed, and Bench Press. Coaches and writers featured here include Dr. Greg Shepard, Greg Shepard, and Michael F. Jelick, Milwaukee Bucks Strength and Conditioning Consultant. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
Tyrone Thurman
YARDAGE A RECORD 3,492 YARDS College Football's Smallest Player: Tyrone Thurman The story of Tyrone Thurman is one of the great Tyrone made a big splash, especially for a Smurf, in stories in college football. The Texas Tech program 1985 as a freshman at Texas Tech. He was sixth
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Acuvision Training System
ACUVISION 1000 VISION TRAINING SYSTEM IMPROVES VISUAL SKILLS AND OVERALL PERFORMANCE The AcuVision provides a coordinated workout which detects strengths and weaknesses in eye-hand coordination, reaction time, peripheral awareness and tracking ability. More importantly, the AcuVi
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Sets and Reps: Breaking Records
low power position. The athlete has his feet close to the The lower left photo on page 18 shows the perfect This new series on Breaking Records is designed to help the many coaches and athletes who are using our BFS Set-Rep System. The critical aspect in making the system work wi
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Ted Barrett
Story By Greg Shepard I was all set to introduce Ted Barrett as comebackplayer-of-the-year. He overcame a great deal and was at the peak of his football career. Ted was running a 4.42 forty and under a fine and caring strength coach Ian Pyka, Ted Parallel Squatted 450, Benched 37
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Trap Bar: Alternative BFS Core Lift
THE TRAP BAR A NEW BES CORE LIFT ALTERNATIVE TRAP BAR WORKOUTS ARE BFS SPOTTING TECHNIQUE By Dr. Greg Shepard We just keep getting more and more impressed with the Trap Bar. We would now like to recommend the Trap Bar as a BFS Core Lift alternative. Here’s how you could plug it i
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Craig Hodges
Story By Michael F. Jelick, Milwaukee Bucks Strength and Conditioning Consultant NBA‘S GENERAL OF LONG RANGE ARTILLERY As he steps behind the line, sets up, and launches a basketball with deadly accuracy, the wide-eyed crowd has already started to utter the word “three” in unison
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Quest for Greatness
way, he was always there for the students and seemed to be uniquely understanding in critical situations. The day was very interesting and inspiring for Coach Drake. A steady stream of students came to see Quest For Greatness is based on true stories. what was going on in the new
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Squat Correctly
SPart 17 In a Series By Dr. Greg Shepard Many coaches have remarked after our BFS Clinics that it’s amazing how we get young athletes to Squat perfect in just a minute or two even with no previous Squatting experience. The trick is to get each athlete into a perfect low power pos
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Plyometric Box Jumping
By Dr. Greg Shepard Plyometric Box Jumping can help your athletes become more explosive, quicker and faster. We recommend a 10 minute training session twice per week during the off-season and in-season. In the offseason, when weight training is done on Monday, Wednesday and Frida
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Bill Brooks
By Michael Boyle Strength and Conditioning Coach Greg Shepard loves to find and meet what he terms “Upper-Limit” athletes, those athletes that have paid the price and reached the highest level of potential. Bill Brooks, currently a starting wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colt
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Modifications -- Readiness Program
adjustments that can make the BFS Readiness Program flow more smoothly. One of the great strengths of our Readiness Program is that graduation depends on performance not age. The goal for graduation is to Parallel Squat 145 x 10, Hang Clean 105 x 5 and Bench 105 x 10. Obviously,
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Steve Durdan
GREATNESS LIES IN IT’S PEOPLE! THAT SPIRIT The Durdan farm consists of 500 acres of corn and beans with some livestock. so Steve and his older brother, Greg made a gym out of their Grain Storage facility. In the winter, the grain is stored and the weights are moved to the family’
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Pecatonica Football
On March 26th 1988, head football coach, Nick Moses, of | Pecatonica High School, in Illinois had a BFS Clinic. Coach Moses was tackling his first head coaching assignment. Friends had told him to stay away from Pecatonica and that it was a no-win situation. Indeed, things didn’t
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