About Dr. Shepard
 Dr. Greg Shepard CEO and Founder of Bigger Faster Stronger |
Coach Shepard has a Masters degree in exercise physiology from the U. of Oregon and a doctorate from BYU in the same field. He has been a strength coach at Oregon State, U. of Oregon, BYU and was with the Utah Jazz from 1981-1997. In 1981, when beginning his stint with the Jazz, Coach Shepard was the only strength coach in the NBA. Greg has been the Utah Football Coach of the Year and coached BYU's powerlifting team to the 1973 National Championship. Bigger Faster Stronger, of which Dr. Shepard is the CEO and Founder, is the most widely followed strength and conditioning program in the nation. He has given more than 500 all-day seminars and is the most widely published author in strength and conditioning. Coach Shepard got his competitive weightlifting start in 1962 by being on the Salzburg, Austria team. He received Olympic lifting medals from the Austrian government for certain levels of achievement. Recently, Coach Shepard's weightlifting team, TeamBFS, won a Utah State Weightlifting Championship. |
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Greg Shepard publishes the Bigger Faster Stronger magazine that has a readership of 500,000 coaches and athletes. Currently in 2009 Bigger Faster Stronger employs over 35 coaches who will do about 300 strength and conditioning seminars this year for tens of thousands of high school and college coaches and athletes throughout the nation. They will learn the secret of reaching one's athletic potential without using steroids. Dr. Shepard's organization also certifies coaches, graduating college seniors and personal trainers through a hands-on teaching experience to become Certified BFS Strength and Conditioning Coaches. In 2009, some 50 BFS Certification Clinics will be held covering every section of the United States. This means that several thousand coaches will know the secret of the highest level of training and then pass that knowledge on to their athletes.
Bigger Faster Stronger has been helping athletes succeed for over a quarter of a century and has enjoyed 28 consecutive years of growth. While working on his doctorate in exercise physiology in 1973, Coach Greg Shepard began compiling ideas he had been working on for years in the field of athletic weight training. These findings were incorporated into a movie called “Bigger Faster Stronger”. Many who saw this movie encouraged Greg to write a book explaining the principles demonstrated in the movie. Bigger Faster Stronger “The Total Program” book was first published in 1975. Since then Dr. Greg Shepard has produced many instructional videos, training manuals, books, magazines and more while doing hundreds of clinics and seminars across the country showing coaches and athletes the proper way to train. Many hundreds of thousands of Dr. Shepard’s books have been sold over the years. Bigger Faster Stronger, also known as BFS, now has a 70,000 square foot facility for its corporate headquarters with hundreds of quality strength and conditioning products. In addition, BFS also has its own manufacturing facility on over two acres. | |
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