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Nutrition & Recovery.
322 articles
Fueling performance and recovering to train again. The BFS Magazine archive holds 322 articles on Nutrition & Recovery, published from 1980 to 2020 — coaching how-tos, athlete profiles, and program stories drawn from five decades of the magazine.
Recurring themes include Nutrition, Football, Squat, and Speed. Coaches and writers featured here include Dr. Greg Shepard, Kim Goss, and Greg Shepard. Every story is free — read it online or open the original magazine layout as a PDF.
The Importance of Certified Nutrition
At BFS the safe and effective development of young students is our primary goal. As these young people mature and gain in strength and confidence through the BFS Total Program we recognize the importance off rest and nutrition to young minds and bodies. BFS is extremely proud to be announce we are working with BuiltByStrength. Built ByStrength is a protein company that has committed to NSF Certified for Sport certification. BuiltByStrength grass-fed whey protein is NSF Certified for Sport and contains only simple, scientifically backed ingredients. READ THE FULL STORY
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Why Plant-Based Diets are Not Game Changers
For endurance, offered for your consideration ultra-marathon runner Scott Jurek and eight-time national cycling champion Dotsie Bausch; for strength, world-recording breaking strongman Patrik Baboumian and weightlifter Kendrick Farris, a 3x Olympian; for the fighting sports, heavyweight boxer Bryant Jennings and MMA champ Nate Diaz; and for more mainstream sports fans, Tennessee Titans linebacker Derrick Morgan. Impressive!
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The BFS Online Learning Center, BFS at Home,
BFS at Home Safety and Strength Training BFS at Home is an initiative to help young athletes train train throughout the year. The BFS Total Program has built-in muscle confusion and recovery days that make it an ideal system for year-round development. The BFS Online Learning Cen
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Mr. Olympia Larry Scott: 1938-2014
The Iron Game lost a legend on March 8 when Larry Dee Scott passed away at the age of 75. In 1965 Scott won the inaugural competition of the most prestigious bodybuilding competition in the world, the Mr. Olympia. Scott competed at a bodyweight of 205 pounds, and his biceps were
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Power Clean Meet Enters 11th Year
If you like Las Vegas and you love power cleans, then this spring, you need to head to the Entertainment Capital of the World. That’s when the best high school athletes compete in the WK$QQXDO 1DWLRQDO+LJK6FKRRO3RZHU&OHDQ &KDPSLRQVKLSV The quality of competitors grows e
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Dollar by Dollar: Weightroom Upgrades
What’s the most satisfying aspect of coaching at the high school level? If you’re a coach, you know it’s not winning or even seeing your athletes move on to college and then the professional ranks. All that is exciting, but there is much more to coaching. Ultimately, the best par
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What's new with the BFS Online Learning Center
BFS Online Learning Center BFS’s ultimate social networking site for coaches BFS has a vast amount of information for coaches at all levels. In addition to presenting hands-on clinics and certifications, we supplement the learning process with books, study guides, posters, videos
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Running Faster: The Tools You Need
than if they eing able had tested to run fast their vertical is a key jump before athletic quality that squat that virtually all workout. athletes want to Here’s how it develop, especially works. those who play Let’s say field sports such as an athlete is football and soclifting
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Box Jumping: Do It Right!
BFS PROGRAM Austin John Ryf is the 2010 BFS Male Athlete of the Year. He is a graduate of Winneconne High School in Winneconne, Wisconsin. In these photos Ryf shows how vertical jumping ability is an essential athletic quality in both basketball and football. Box Jumping: Do It R
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Protein Powder Gets an Upgrade
If you’re serious about playing on the gridiron, you need high-quality protein – and lots of it! A new protein powder that helps athletes achieve physical superiority ince BFS was founded in 1976 our focus has been on strength, conditioning and character education. It still is, b
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BFS Scholarship Athlete Presses On
Since winning the 2012 National High School Power Clean Championships, Brittanie Mastricola has been making great progress in the sport of Olympic-style weightlifting. A BFS-sponsored athlete, Mastricola has successfully made 50 out of 52 attempts in competition, and has exceeded
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A Closer Look at the Paleo Diet
3KRWRVE\%UXFH.OHPHQV Developing the muscle power needed to lift heavy weights requires sound, basic nutrition. Shown is Doug Young, who won the IPF World Powerlifting Championships in 1975-1977 in the 242-pound bodyweight class. His older brother, Bob Young, played 16 season
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The BFS-Swedish Connection
On May 18 BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss (right) attended an Olympic lifting seminar by Anders Lindsjö (left). Lindsjö competed in the 1992 Olympic Games and today is the head coach for the Swedish Olympic Weightlifting Team. Lindsjö says there are three main qualities to mastering
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Low Back Training for Athletes
TRAINING & EQUIPMENT %UXFH.OHPHQVSKRWR John Kuc was a three-time IPF world powerlifting champion (1974, 79, 80) in the 242-pound bodyweight class. He was the first man to deadlift 850 pounds and had a best of 870 pounds. Training for Athletes For a powerful core, bring the ere
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The BFS Rules of Engagement
FEATURE STORY 3KRWRE\-LP(OOLV0LDPL1HZV5HFRUG 2NODKRPD Rules of Engagement Three simple rules to ensure athletic superiority BY DR. PETER G. GORMAN, PRESIDENT, MICROGATE USA t’s summertime – ready, set, play! For many, the end of the school year means family vacations, fun
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BFS Goes to the Arnold
WHAT’S HAPPENING 3KRWRVE\6WHYH)DXHUZZZIDXHUSKRWRUHÁHFWFRP BFS Goes to the Arnold The Arnold Weightlifting Championships were held on March 1-3, and in attendance this year were BFS editor Kim Goss and BFS scholarship winner Brittanie Mastricola. Mastricola not only made
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Stop Hamstring Pulls
Now! Stop Hamstring Pulls 10 tips to prevent this frustrating injury BY KIM GOSS, MS t the Olympic Trials in track and field, an athlete must finish in the top three in their event to earn a spot on the Olympic Team – finishing fourth is essentially equivalent to placing last. At
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Coach Andrea Hudy's Path to Basketball Greatness
Coach Andrea Hudy’s Path to… Andrea Hudy is a hands-on strength coach whose collegiate basketball teams have played in two Final Fours. How this D1 strength coach produces champions at the University of Kansas BY LAANNA CARRASCO, MA desire to motivate and improve those around her
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Women as Personal Trainers: Strategies for Success
areers in fitness, physical education and coaching are some of the most satisfying and rewarding in the country today. They also are very fast-growing fields – the US Department of Labor projects there will be 24 percent more jobs for fitness workers and 30 percent more jobs for
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Body Image and the Female Athlete
BY LAANNA CARRASCO, MA leaner athlete is a better athlete.” Do you agree with this statement? It’s a common belief that is certainly true from a biomechanical perspective: The less mass an athlete has to move, the less force is required to move it at a given speed, meaning that e
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The Evolution of Athletic Training Programs
Editor’s note: Although this article on the origins of Coach Shepard’s training methods was written 16 years ago, the ideas are still relevant today.) op coaches who desire state-ofthe-art strength and conditioning programs must be acutely aware of the importance of a total progr
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The Look of a Champion
Team BFS athlete Chloe Van Tussenbroek, ready to train in customized athletic wear. ne thing is obvious from watching the Olympics – it’s not only important to perform well, you’ve got to look good while you’re doing it. With the eyes of the world watching, Olympians from every c
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A few Words with David Lawrence
David Lawrence A look at this young strength coach’s rapid rise to success Lawrence working with Nick Bellore, a linebacker for the New York Jets. At the Jets’ camp this year Bellore, who has deadlifted 605 pounds for 6 reps, received his team’s “Defensive Lifting Award” for his
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What is BFS
BFS? Here’s why the BFS program is so effective for young athletes ne statement BFS clinicians keep hearing over the years is “We did parts of your program and had some success, but it wasn’t until we decided to do the entire BFS Program that our program stepped up to the next le
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Records fall at Power Clean Championships
Las Vegas has earned another nickname: Power Clean City! On May 12th, strong male and female high school athletes from across the country came to Bonanza High School in Las Vegas to compete in the 10th Annual National High School Power Clean Championships. As happens every year t
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How Olympians Train: US Skiing and Snowboarding
FOR WOMEN ONLY 0DOFROP&DUPLFKDHO$OSLQH&DQDGDSKRWR Stacey Cook finished last season ranked 10th in the world in downhill skiing. How Olympians Train: US Skiing and Snowboarding An exclusive interview with strength coach Ernie Rimer BY LAANNA CARRASCO, MA rnie Rimer is a stren
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Redefining Strength with Rob Adell
Rob Adell A look at one of America’s best hopes for iron game gold ne of the greatest venues for recruiting talent for the sport of weightlifting is the National High School Power Clean Championships in Las Vegas. Now in its eighth year, this meet has put several outstanding weig
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How Women Athletes Should Eat
An interview with body composition expert Francine Savard chieving an optimal bodyweight and bodyfat level is a major concern among young women athletes, as well as for young women in general. Unfortunately, there is so much misinformation circu- Savard was a national champion in
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Hoop Strong: Gator Basketball
BY KIM GOSS, MS he winningest coach in University of Florida’s history is Billy Donovan. His legacy includes three appearances in NCAA championships games, two of which were victorious. This year Donovan has another strong team – ranked sixth in preseason by Sports Illustrated –
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What's Happening
FROM THE EDITOR A Message from BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss, MS That’s Why They Play the Game! Every summer I head to the local bookstore and pick day this magazine reaches your mailbox, those predictions up several of the college football preview magazines might not hold up. One
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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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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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The Death of Food
Soylent Green is people! Soylent Green is people! his is the classic line from the 1973 science fiction classic Soylent Green. The story takes place in a future in which food is so scarce that society lives off processed foods, one being a high-energy wafer called Soylent Green.
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Whats Happening
FROM THE EDITOR A Message from BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss, MS The Public’s Right to Know f you’ve ever watched TMZ or visited their website, you players who had to be hospitalized after a workout. Because of this latter incident, Chris Doyle, the may wonder how these people can
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The Dark Side of Sports
Sports/liability consultant Dr. Marc Rabinoff has testified in two litigations involving rhabdomyolysis, one of which concerned an individual who had died. BY DR. MARC RABINOFF lthough sporting events happen through the efforts of numerous people, it’s the athletes and head coache
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Whats Happening
FROM THE EDITOR A Message from BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss, MS Are You a Philanthropist? t’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business,” is an expres- many times over. As a result, he donates up to 10 percent of his business profits to causes he believes are important. One sio
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The Dark Side of Sports
Certfications, such as the ones offered by BFS, are designed to enhance academic credentials, not to take the place of them. Shown teaching the latest ideas in their profession are BFS clinicians Jeff Scurran (below) and John Rowbotham (right). The Age of Arrogance The legal conse
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New Perspectives on Childhood Obesity
on Childhood Obesity Knowledge is key in the fight against this major health threat itness icon Jack LaLanne was best known for his television show, The Jack LaLanne Show, which debuted in 1951. Jack was lean, well-muscled and charismatic; his show was so popular that it went int
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The Evolution of Strength Coaching
BFS editor in chief Kim Goss began his education in strength coaching as a weightlifter, and is shown here competing in the 1977 Junior Olympics. Strength Coaching A personal look at the recent history of athletic and physical fitness BY KIM GOSS, MS ranted, there’s a lot of self
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Eight Tips to Make Weight Training Classes Run Smoothly
ailing to plan is planning to fail” is a quote from popular author and time management consultant Alan Lakein. This is especially true when trying to run a strength and conditioning program at the middle school or high school level. These programs face numerous challenges today,
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The Dark Side of Sports: Who Is an Expert?
BFS Founder/CEO Dr. Greg Shepard started giving clinics over three decades ago to help coaches with the practical aspects of strength and conditioning. Who Is an Expert? Practical advice on determining whom you should listen to in athletic and physical fitness BY DR. MARC RABINOF
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Top 11 Ways to Build a Championship Program
or over three decades at BFS we’ve seen an amazing number of successful athletic programs, and among them we’ve noted underlying themes. Some of these ideas can be implemented immediately, and others may take a few seasons to fully establish. But if you’ve been reading all the hi
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Meet the Clinician: Rod Mergardt
Meet the Clinician: Gerard Mergardt A closer look at our newest BFS clinician convention for athletics that he decided education, I am extremely sensitive to lthough coaches often joke the fact that many of the individuals to take a closer look at BFS. It wasn’t that the only val
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Meet the Clinician: Beau Johnson
BFS PROGRAM Coach Johnson with members of the Southwest Georgia Academy coaching staff at the GISA All Star Game. Shown left to right are Max Evans, Austin Boyd, Beau Johnson, Parker Rentz and David Bell. Meet the Clinician: Beau Johnson A closer look at a new BFS coach eau Johns
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What's Happening
FROM THE EDITOR A Message from BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss The Power of Hope Reeve-Irvine Research Center at UC Irvine. When I first his story has special importance to me because I’ve wrote about Roman in our September/October 2006 issue, known Don Reed for 34 years and he was
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What's Happening
FROM THE EDITOR A Message from BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss The Age of Ego have been in previous decades. In one major study of college ’ve had the opportunity to interview many coaches and students, one out of four students tested as having narcisphysical education instructors w
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Structural Balance and Auxiliary Exercises
TRAINING & EQUIPMENT 3KRWRFRXUWHV\8QLYHUVLW\RI/RXLVYLOOH6SRUWV,QIRUPDWLRQ Structural balance training is required in sports such as field hockey, which requires exceptional levels of lateral quickness to reach the highest levels. Demonstrating her skills is Janelle Avila, w
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2010 National High School Power Clean Championships
Power Clean Championships Records continued to fall in this annual lifting competition at Bonanza High School BY VAL BALISON very year the National High School Power Clean Championships has been held, records have been broken, and on May 15 two more national standards fell and fi
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What's Happening
FROM THE EDITOR A Message from BFS Editor in Chief Kim Goss Meeting of the Minds “To be honest, they are in need of improvement,” says ne of the great aspects of my work with the Poliquin Depta. “There are not enough hours for the kids in physiStrength Institute is that I meet a
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Certification: A Strength Coach's Perspective
FEATURE STORY A multimedia classroom presentation is one part of the BFS certification program. Certification: A Strength Coach’s Perspective One coach’s journey through the maze of certification programs he number of certifications in the fields of athletic and physical fitness i
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BFS Position Paper: Squat Variations
The front squat is a great squat variation and is a key exercise for Olympic lifters. Shown here with great form is Lusia Angilau, a volleyball player from Hunter High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. Lucia has cleaned 150 pounds and vertical jumped 27.1 inches. The BFS perspectiv
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Pro Football Training with Mike Bystol
t’s always been a bit of a mystery what pro football players actually do to strength train. An occasional demo from a strength coach showing some unique exercise that he or she used in training a pro doesn’t provide much evidence. Is the current training of these athletes simply
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Meet the Clinician: Tom Sullivan
Coach Tom Sullivan with his wife, Courtney, their son, Mason, age eight, and their daughter, Emma, age five. always wanted to be a teacher and a coach,” says Tom Sullivan, a BFS clinician who has given more than 100 clinics. “I played multiple sports beginning in the third grade,
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The Education of a Strength Coach: Charles Ploiquin
Charles Poliquin A frank discussion with one of the world’s most accomplished strength coaches BY KIM GOSS, MS n outlier is someone who not only masters a certain skill or field of study but also makes us think in a different way about what they do. Examples of outliers in busine
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For Women Only: Hard-Core Fat Loss
TRAINING & EQUIPMENT Baylie Divino (left) and Makayla Betz (right) are Level 10 gymnasts posing in front of a hard-core training tool that can help make serious athletes lean, a BFS Push/Pull Sled. Alternative views on the fastest ways athletes can improve body composition BY KIM
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American Football, Italian Style
Italian Style The making of an overachiever: Brock Olivo Brock Olivo has always been an overachiever. Olivo attended St. Francis Borgia Regional High School in Washington, Missouri. From the first time he stepped onto a high school football field, Olivo realized he had neither th
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The Answer for the Busy Coach: Computer-Aided Workouts
is divided into three categories: The Based on an athlete’s current n our current economy, schools are Ironman Ranking shows the athlete’s being forced to downsize personnel, maxes for each exercise, Knowley’s performance in the core lifts, while the software program sets up chal
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Championship Weightrooms
A look at a progressive rehab and training facility for athletes In the past, talented athletes could often reach the highest levels of performance by just practicing their sport a few times a week – and throwing in some calisthenics and a bit of running at the end of practice. B
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Alabama Goes BFS!
How this Southern state is leading the field in coaching certification Strength and conditioning certifications are a relatively new educational offering in the United States that grew out of the demand for more specialized training in this field. While the college educational syst
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Certification: It's More Important than You Think
Quality education is key to becoming a successful instructor, whether it is in physical education, personal training or strength coaching. The rise and fall of continuing education for coaches If you ever have the good fortune to meet Glenn A. Morris or to take one of his weight
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What's Happening
High School Football Power Clean Record Breakers Because the power clean is one of the best total-body core lifts for football, BFS has developed a keen interest in those schools that have achieved the highest standards in this exercise. We look at the number of players on a team
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Sam Baker Goes Pro
Photo: USC Sports Information First-round draft pick Sam Baker is ready for the NFL The typical football player will end his playing career in high school – and that’s not such a bad thing. Playing as part of a football team, even if you never make it to the varsity level, can be
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What Athletes Need to Know about Protein
BFS: Why did you write this book? LM: I had written a fairly extensive series of articles on protein for a website, and it seemed logical to expand that series (which makes up most of the technical information in this book) into a more comprehensive book. BFS: Who is the book wri
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What's Happening
Overcoming Obstacles: Anthony Robles When it comes to overcoming obstacles, you can’t get much more inspirational than Anthony Robles, a freshman on the wrestling team at Arizona State. Anthony has only one leg, but he doesn’t let that hold him back. When he was five years old he
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The Evolution of Endurance Sports
Endurance Sports A world-class coach explains the best way for athletes to go the distance kids and 300 adults. Club in Aurora, Illinois, but he also n the ’80s there was a group of In regard to training methods, travels across the world to work indiendurance-sport athletes and Z
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Tradition of Excellence: Valdosta High School
Paul Leavy, The Valdosta Daily Times, valdostadailytimes.com Excellence: Valdosta High School The Wildcats are one of the nation’s premier football powerhouses Let’s talk numbers. The Wildcats of Valdosta High School have made 29 appearances in the Georgia State Championships, co
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The Case Against the Romanian Deadlift
Romanian weightlifter Nicu Vlad inspired many US coaches and weightlifters to perform a unique back exercise that has since been named the Romanian deadlift. Since Vlad was apparently the only lifter from his country performing it, perhaps it should have been called, a Romanian’s
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The BFS Coaches Who Help Coaches
When Dr. Greg Shepard founded BFS in 1976, being the only employee he was obviously the only clinician. But that situation changed quickly. In 1983 the company incorporated, and by then the number of clinicians had increased to a dozen. Now, with BFS presenting more than 400 semi
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What's Happening
The Music of Muscle! rved. involved converting brain waves into mathematical models, agreed. Here is what he had to say about the subject in his book Facts and Fallacies of Fitness: “Besides also producing impaired hearing among regular exercisers, music that is loud or discordan
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Inside Scoop: The Editor Spills the Beans
PHYSICAL EDUCATION INSIDE SCOOP: Here is BFS Editor Kim Goss when he was a sports editor in college. The device he is working with his fingers was called a typewriter. After three decades, this magazine editor has plenty to say about the world of fitness and bodybuilding publicat
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Wising Up: The Education of a Strength Coach
Tim Adams has gone where few professional strength coaches have gone before Tim Adams, a few years ago when he was the head strength coach of the Oakland Raiders. When we first visited Tim Adams in our Fall 2003 issue, he was very busy as the head strength coach of the Oakland Ra
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Razorbacks Looking Sharp
Darren McFadden Heisman Trophy Candidate Razorbacks Looking Sharp A closer look at the University of Arkansas’s unique and successful approach to becoming strong by KIM GOSS The Arkansas Razorbacks’ football team just kind of sneaks up on you. Last season all the attention went t
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Secrets of the Bentonville High School Girls
For the past three years Newsweek magazine has ranked Bentonville High School in Bentonville, Arkansas, as one of the best 1,000 high schools in the country. The school offers 19 advanced placement classes, and the class of 2007 received more than $3 million in scholarships. Bent
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Vertical-Jump Testing: Beyond 2007
Vertical-Jump Testing: A simple, super fast solution to sports fitness testing by Kim Goss WWhat better example of jumping power than this photo of 14-year-old Mary Beth Lofgren? Mary Beth, who represents the Olympus School of Gymnastics in Sandy, Utah, won the 2007 Utah State Cha
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A Look Back at Creatine
A Look Back at BY BOB ROWBOTHAM, BFS PRESIDENT The decision not to sell creatine at BFS may not have been popular, but it was the right one The decision about whether or not BFS would sell the amino acid creatine monohydrate was the hot topic at our Annual Clinic Convention seven
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Radical Energy System Training
BY KIM GOSS Innovative methods of losing body fat and developing sport-specific endurance From 1987 to 1994 I was a strength coach for the US Air Force Academy, and one of my primary duties was to design weight training and conditioning programs for the football team. What I obser
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Sugar Sense
In the ’80s and ’90s the nutrition news was all about fat; more specifically, why we need to eat less of it. Now the attention has focused on carbohydrates. And with government estimates indicating that one out of three children born today will develop diabetes, it’s important th
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Canada's Angus Reid Takes Off, Eh!
Angus Reid Takes Off, Eh! Angus Reid of the British Columbia Lions celebrates winning the Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League’s version of the Super Bowl. How one of Canada’s professional football players beat the odds to become one of the best The creators of South Park have
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Pros Crack Down on Tainted Supplements
Pros on Tainted Supplements Sophisticated drug testing is forcing professional sports to crack down hard on tainted supplements. Let’s face facts. Food supplements will not make up for poor training or practice habits. They will not compensate for nutritional deficiencies or toxi
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New Directions in Sports Training and Rehabilitation
The amazing athletic fitness and rehabilitation discoveries of Guy Voyer, D.O. Every few years there emerges an individual whose work makes it imperative to reevaluate how we train and rehabilitate athletes. Among those who have contributed to such paradigm shifts are Dr. Yuri Ver
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The Fast-Food Snack Solution
Chloe Van Tussenbroek lectures Tasia Wuthrich (left) and Mary Beth Lofgren (center) about the importance of healthy eating. wenty years ago when I was an editor at Runner’s World, I interviewed a registered dietitian who had written several bestselling books on how to eat well. I
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Fat Loss Forever: The Flexible Diet
When is it OK to cheat? Never—unless you’re playing the diet game. ere’s a shocker: Most diets will fail. The National Institutes of Health did a 20-year study that concluded that 95 percent of people who lost weight gained all of it back within a few years, and many gained back
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Look What Computerized Coaching Can Do For You
Computerized C o a c h i n g Can Do For You Make your job as a coach easier with the BFS Beat the Computer and Athletic Achievement Software Our Summer 2004 issue featured the athletic achievements of Portage High School in Portage, Pennsylvania, a school that uses the Beat the C
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How to Crash Diet Without Getting Burned
BY KIM GOSS ention crash dieting to most health professionals and you can count on plenty of cynicism and warnings about the unhealthy nature of severely restricted-calorie diets. After all, in the 1970s there were 58 deaths associated with one such diet, a low-calorie plan based
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Everything You Need to Know about Nutrition...Sorta
After a television series has aired for several years, often it seems that the writers begin to run out of ideas. The result is easy-to-produce episodes that consist primarily of flashbacks from previous episodes. Hopefully the break from having to produce an entirely new episode
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The Power of Fish Oil
NUTRITION PHOTO COURTESY OF MARGARET CARDINAL Our friends from the sea hold the edge to better health and athletic performance 2004 Female High School Athlete of the Year Sarah Cardinal knows the power of fish oil. Make no mistake: Fish oil is no “snake oil.” It’s a great asset f
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Two for the Price of One at Weyauwega-Fremont High
at Weyauwega-Fremont High Unification takes on special significance when one high school athletic program serves two communities. A 32-1 record and the school’s first every state volleyball championships were the result of hard work on and off the court. “Every day, in every way,
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11 Ways to Help an Athlete Lose Bodyfat
11Ways A Level 9 gymnast who placed second in the School Age National Weightlifting Championships last year, Jessi Butterfield displays the type of athletic figure possible with sensible eating habits. Jessi is from Salt Lake City and represents Team BFS. A great example of the d
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Is Strongman Training for You?
PHOTOS COURTESY ALLEN HEDRICK, US AIR FORCE ACADEMY You? A look at the benefits and pitfalls of one of the latest fads by Kim Goss “Win or get fired!” is a motto that seems to have taken over the coaching profession. In the pros and in college a losing season is forgivable, but i
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Success at Last: Newark High School
A high school football program can recover from a couple of losing seasons; but if success evades them for too long, sometimes the athletes and even the coaches begin to believe they just don’t have the talent to win. Newark High School in Newark, Ohio, seemed destined for such a
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Talking About Food...for a Change
feature article” The answer to | nutrition cannot be found in pil s °: In 1987 when I was an editor at Runner's World Publications, [ interviewed two of the most celebrated experts on alternative medicine, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. They both bad earned several advanced degrees
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Rediscover the 3-Way Hip Sled
What is the best weight training exercise to help quadriceps, especially the outer quadriceps muscle places tremendous s ress on the lower back. you jump higher and run faster? To increase overcalled the vastus lateralus. It also works the hamin enough work on the legs at that le
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What's Happening
MacGyver Does It Again Paul “MacGyver” Gagné has come up with two innovative exercises todo withthe Hex bar. la these two photos he demonstrates Hex bar dips. which are brutally hard, and Hex bar pull-ups. For more exercises by Gagné. refer to our article about Hex bar training i
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Great Results Start with Great Nutrition
ionships| Wins, records and champ ing program in the world won't } are the sweet rewards of a great training program. But even the best condition enable athletes to reach their physical and mental potential if their nutrition falls short. If you are using the | BES program to ful
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How the Utes Get Strong
Although USC earned the national title, the University of Utah captured the hearts of the college football fans. The team’s undefeated season, a BCS bowl victory, the number-one draft pick — this was truly a Cinderella Whittingham says it’s unrealistic for the Utes to expect anot
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Have You Had Your Palm Read?
nutrition by Karin Ritzmann, J.D. ust to be clear, we're not talking about palmistry, the practice of examining the lines, marks and patterns of the palms of the hands to predict fortunes. Some people consider palmistry a novel form of carnival entertainment at best, whereas othe
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Veggie Power
Yeah, | know. You've heard “Eat your vegetables!" since you were a kid. We know there are ones you don't like, ranging from icky to downright disgust- It’s unfortunate that so few athletes treat their bodies like the fine examples of construction and workmanship that they are. Ho
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Coming on Strong: University of New Mexico
AST YEAR MOST OF THE NATIONAL MEDIA ATTEN- “We're going to be a very competitive football team and a very competi- TION REGARDING THE MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERtive league,” says head coach Rocky Long, a former Lobos quarterback ENCE WAS FOCUSED ON ALEX SMITH AND HIS. who became head c
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The Shocking Truth about Energy Drinks
ETS TALK NUMBERS &IFTEEN PERCENT OF KIDS BETWEEN THE AGES OF TO ARE OVER WEIGHTTHATS DOUBLE THE NUMBER SINCE 7HATS MORE OUT OF CHILDREN WHO ARE OVERWEIGHT WILL REMAIN OVERWEIGHT AS ADULTS 4HIS IS BAD NEWS BECAUSE OBESITY IS LINKED TO CHRONIC DISEASES )N F
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Trinity Christian High School
Q(OW A HUSBAND AND WIFE COACHING TEAM IS SPREADING SUCCESS THROUGH "&3 Q OR 3TEVE AND *ODIE 0RICE COACHING AT #HRISTIAN (IGH 3CHOOL IS LITERALLY A FAMILY AFFAIR %LEVEN YEARS AGO THE COUPLE STARTED COACHING AT ANOTHER PRIVATE SCHOOL !UGUSTA #HRISTIAN 3CHOOL IN !UGUSTA 'EORGIA 3
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Are You Neglecting Neck Training?
“Pencil neck geek, grit eatin’ freak, scum suckin’, pea head with a lousy physique. He’s a one man, no gut, losing streak. Nothin’ but a pencil neck geek.” t was 1977 when Pencil Neck Geek hit the airwaves. Written by the late pro wrestler Freddie Blassie, it was a novelty song a
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BFS Nutrition: Position Statement
Since when did it get so difficult to figure out what to have for lunch? Every time I go to a bookstore I see rows and rows of publications promoting the latest diet. There are low-carb diets, high-protein diets and even highfat diets. There are diets associated with universities
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The Shocking Truth About Supplements
Athletes, you know pressure: you’re expected to excel, win and keep on winning. So you train hard, you push yourself to your limits and you look for ways to give you an edge. You probably know athletes who are taking food supplements in the hopes of enhancing their performance. Y
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Spirit of the Crusaders
ASpirit of the Crusaders “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” —Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Although this quote is certainly amusing, there was nothing funny about the deadline facing the football program at Rob
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What's Happening
CLEANING UP Michale Spicer was a linebacker for Western Carolina University in 2003 and signed with the Buffalo Bills. We wanted to publish his photo because he accomplished what few college football players have: a 400-pound power clean. Congrats to Michale, and his college stre
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BFS Helps Women of All Ages
of All Ages Lady of America, Napa, brings BFS protocols and equipment to a new generation of women wo worlds have collided at Lady of America ( health club in Napa, California. While we carry members an endless variety of new angles and intensities to keep their workouts progress
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Assessing Progress in Grant-Funded Programs
“assessment requirement to obtain a grant n grant writing, there's no greater disappointment interesting? To cut through the confusion, you'll need than missing out on badly needed funds because of one crucial omission in your application. Teachers, school ofÏcials and children's
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Drink to Win
by Dr. Sonja Pettersen, N.M.D. Dr. Sonja Pettersen is the staff physician at the Poliquin Performance Center in Tempe, Arizona. She is licensed in Arizona and Oregon to practice primary care medicine specializing in natural therapies. D espite the claims of advertisers that drink
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Starting From Scratch
Revs: a program with a n't deter Gobble. Erie Gobble. Gobble left a promising law practice after two years to pursue his dream of coaching football. Although some believe letes to field a junior varsity team and scheduling a season of opponents for the following year. Not an case
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BFS in the Classroom
s the bodyfat levels of Americans continue to se and create havoc with our health and “The weight training class has become so popular that last year about one-third of the entire school quality of life, most high schools are concerned about tried to enroll,” says Mick Roberts, a
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The PEP Rally
by Karin Alexander, J.D. The PEP Rally Savvy ways to win a PEP Grant to fund new student-athlete programs Do you have enough money allotted for fitness activities at your school? Not likely: it’s just a fact of life that there will always be greater need for worthy programs than
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Dwight Phillip's Leap of Faith
by Kim Goss JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images Dwight Phillips overcame major obstacles, including gravity, to become the best long jumper in the world Arizona. Charles said that Phillips had poor upperdid: Just three weeks before the Olympics, Phillips body strength and was relativ
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Bellevue Beats De La Salle
High school football teams seldom get the attention of the national media, but De La Salle High School in Concord, California, is not your typical high school football team. With 12 straight undefeated seasons, a 151-game winning streak that dates back to December 7, 1991, the Sp
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Preventing ACL Injuries
A lthough there is no such thing as a “good” knee injury, one of the most devastating is an injury to the anterior crucial ligament (ACL). In the past this was often a “kiss of death” injury, and those who did recover faced a recovery period that could often take as much as a yea
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Extreme Makeover, Southern-Style
A new attitude, along with a new weightroom, has given H.V. Jenkins High School a bright future One of the most popular themes in TV reality shows is “the makeover.” In the past, most of these transformations consisted of changing hairstyles, using make-up wisely, and (listen up,
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Lawsuits, Give Yourself a Sporting Chance
here is a belief that when it health clubs and equipment manufaccomes to the possibility of getturers. He has represented both plainting sued, coaches have little to worry tiffs and defendants, and as such has about. After all, most coaches are developed valuable insight into ide
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A Ridiculously Easy Guide to Nutrition
When Loren Cordain was growing up, his father gave him books about how our Stone Age ancestors lived off the land, while his mother encouraged him to eat fruits and vegetables. Those early influences, plus Cordain’s later desire to eat well to improve his athletic endeavors, insp
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How to Win a Grant
At BFS we understand that one of the biggest issues in improving your athletic program, and thus your winning record, is the budget. Despite exhausting fundraising efforts, there just never seems to be enough money for the ideal equipment setup and to bring in all the training pr
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One Heartbeat, One Soul
Bob Turner didn’t set out to be the savior of the Aces’ football program, but success happens Bob Turner’s ultimate goal was to become a head coach of a high school baseball team. But as is often the case with ultimate goals, unforeseen circumstances caused Turner to postpone tha
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Fitness, She Wrote
aura Dayton is one of the most prolific writers in the field of fitness. For the past three decades she has written literally thousands of articles for magazines dealing with health and fitness, including BFS magazine, along with several books and numerous chapters for books. Cur
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