What's Happening at BFS and in the world of weight trainingWhat's Happening for July 21, 2008 -- Letter to the Editor -- Certification Power - Nick Brewer is the strength coach and assistant football coach at Jackson Preparatory School in Jackson, Mississippi. In February 2006 his school hosted a BFS Coaches Certification Clinic...
What's Happening for July 14, 2008 -- BFS Gets the Treatment, Soft-Tissue Style - On May 13 Dr. Peter Levy stopped by BFS headquarters in Salt Lake City for a visit. While here, he provided demonstrations of Neuromuscular ReeducationSM...
What's Happening - BFS Player Profile - Carson Knowlton - Carson Knowlton is a 6’1”, 210-pound senior at West Memphis High School in West Memphis, Arkansas. Playing defensive end, last year he had 79 tackles, 19 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, 25 QB pressures...
What's Happening - BFS Player Profiles - Check out these two tremendous high school athletes: Sara Sommerfield of Montague High School in Montague, MI, and Logan Aronhalt of Zanesville High School in Zanesville, Ohio. Both have been training using the BFS program and not only are they athletic record holders in their schools, but also maintain high academic standards.
What's Happening - Neuromuscular Reeducationsm - Neuromuscular Reeducationsm is a hand-on soft tissue treatment that is amazingly effective for resolving many forms of acute and chronic injuries. While there are other methods of soft tissue treatment that are difficult to learn and extremely expensive...
What's Happenning - Pull DOWNs instead of Pull Ups - We recently got a nice letter and some photos from Mark Garrett, who enjoyed the article on high pulls (March/April 2008) and wrote, "I’ve been saying that we Americans overemphasize the UPs (pull) of the sport and underemphasize the DOWNs (pull under)." Garrett certainly knows what he is talking about...
What's Happening - The Strongest Man in the World? - In the Iron Game, there is always the debate as to who is stronger: Olympic lifters, powerlifters or strongman competitors. One man who might be able to settle the argument is Mikhail Koklyaev, 6’4” and 298 pounds, from Russia...
What's Happening - Takeo Spikes and Rick Tomberlin Reunite - Valdosta High School was featured in our March/April 2008 issue, and recently the team had their annual football awards banquet where Takeo Spikes was the keynote speaker...
What's Happening at BFS - Team USA, led by BFS clinician Jeff Scurran, fell short 24-14 in the GE Global Challenge Bowl, held March 22 in Kawasaki, Japan. “We gave ourselves a mountain to climb and never fully recovered, but I am proud of the way we showed spirit and came back...
What's Happening for April 2008 - One of the most exciting basketball players in college is University of North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough (pronounced hands-bro). Only a junior, Hansbrough has made the covers of the major sports magazines and is one of the most decorated athletes in the ACC.
What's Happening - Constant Innovation at BFS - One of the latest trends in the world of strength and conditioning is "training the posterior chain" that is, working on the major muscles located on the backside of the body, such as the hamstrings, glutes and erector spinae. Why the recent interest? Because research has shown that strengthening these muscles is one of the best ways to make athletes run faster and jump higher.
What's Happening for April 2008 - Developing Power (and Much More!) with the Plyo Bar
A revolutionary way to safely incorporate plyometrics and other great exercises into your athletic program
In the next issue of BFS Magazine: Athlete of the Year! - Kiley Allosso, our 2007 BFS Female High School Athlete of the Year, led Frank Cox High School in Virginia Beach to a second state championship in two years...
What's Happening - The Ultimate Resource for Lower Back Pain - Stuart McGill is one of the foremost, internationally recognized experts on lower back disorders. He has written over 200 articles on topics related to back pain, and the results of his results are summarized in his book, Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation, 2nd ed., (humankinetics.com). Although the book includes a lot of technical information for the health care practitioner, Low Back Disorders provides detailed descriptions of rehabilitation techniques, postural assessment and other information that coaches would find of value.
Two growing health concerns: fast food and lead-based paint - BFS addresses a five-fold increase in fast food consumption, and concerns about lead-based paint.
BFS Magazine 1992 Issues added to our online archives - We have just finished adding another complete year of the Bigger Faster Stronger Magazine to our online archives. We now have every BFS Magazine article from 1992 to the present online and available to you free of charge. And we're always adding more, both old and new. We won’t stop until we have every single issue, all the way back to the very first one in 1980, ready for you to read.
Olympic Lifters Love BFS Too! - Gerald Willis sent us a picture of Gerry Ferrelli, Denis Reno of Weightlifter’s Newsletter, Bob Bednarski, and himself at a reunion they held of the legendary Central Falls Weightlifting Club.
Gerald also tells us:
"... a few of the football guys and I had a little contest to see who could actually lift this thing (a 230-pound tire!). They failed miserably. Old Olympic lifters never die; they just risk hurting themselves doing dumb things!"
National High School Power Clean Championship Set - Val Balison, former American record holder in the clean and jerk, is the meet director for the 4th Annual National High School Power Clean Championships, which will be held at Bonanza High School in Las Vegas on May 17, 2008...
Player Profile - Andrea Ruygrok - Andrea Ruygrok is 34 years old and did great on the BFS program in high school; but she felt she was terribly out of shape and signed up with a trainer. Here is how she explains what happened next. "I would bring in the BFS magazine articles to the trainer, telling him I wanted to be like other profiled female athletes. Initially he laughed at me"...
January/February 2008 issue of the BFS Magazine now available online in our Archives - The January/February 2008 issue of the BFS Magazine has been added to our online Magazine Archives.
Overcoming Obstacles - 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...
BFS Special Bulletin - PE Grant Competition Update - The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) is pleased to announce that Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) grant competition opens on February 15, 2008 and closes on March 24, 2008.
PEP grants support the initiation, expansion, and improvement of physical education programs...
Vince Helmuth - We Revisit the BFS Male High School Athlete of the Year for 2006 - We obviously had a great selection in Vince Helmuth as our 2006 BFS Male High School Athlete of the Year. Not only is he fulfilling his dream of playing varsity football at the University of Michigan, he has seen playing time as a freshman!
More Work on the Chain Gang - While taking a break during the photo shoot for the feature in this issue on vibration training, Canadian strength coach Paul Gagné lived up to his nickname of being the MacGyver of strength and conditioning.
This time he developed two new uses for BFS lifting chains.
No Cover Jinx Here - Our last two college covers features Adrian Peterson, Darren McFadden and Felix Jones. Looking back we at BFS are patting ourselves on the back for making some pretty good selections. Despite being only a rookie in 2007...
What's Happening for the week of January 28th, 2008 - NAVY STRONG
Bobby Doyle is the son of BFS clinician Bob Doyle; and despite being only a sophomore, he has already been contributing to the success of the Naval Academy's football team. This year against Duke, for example...
BFS High School of the Year, Who is next?
Titusville High School in Titusville, Pennsylvania, was selected as the 2007 BFS High School of the Year...
Keeping up with the bloggers - As noted in the previous entry, two things are still true: we are way behind on this blog, and we are still making changes on our web site...
Big Improvements coming to website - I've been way behind on this blog, but here's some great news. We've hired a full-time website programmer, Greg Minear, who is helping us make dramatic improvements in the website.
Female Weightlifting on CBS Early Show - Michelle Glasgow, a schoolage national champion in Olympic lifting who is also a competitive ballroom dancer, was featured on the CBS Early Show. Michelle is 15 years old.
Clarett in Trouble...Again! - Just when you thought Maurice Clarett's problems couldn't get worst, they have.
University of Oregon to be featured in BFS - One of the major feature stories for the September/October2006 issue is about the football team at the University of Oregon.
How to get in touch with the editorial department at BFS - A lot of our readers want to know how to get success stories published in BFS. The best way is to click on the Tools for Coaches...
Former University of Utah Strength Coach Joins BFS - Barry Johnson was featured in our Sep/Oct 2005 issue for this accomplishments as head strength coach for the University of Utah. Johnson, who has extensive experience working with high school athletes, has joined the BFS Team as a clinician.
BFS Mag about to hit the press - We are just about ready to hit to press with the next issue of BFS. There's an article about the legal aspects of having kids that is simply a must-read for coaches...
