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The Importance of Safety Posters in Weight Rooms
Weight rooms are dynamic environments where individuals and teams engage in strength training and physical conditioning exercises. While these spaces offer numerous benefits for health and fitness, they also come with inherent risks if proper precautions are not taken. This is where safety posters play a crucial role in promoting a safe and injury-free environment. Education and Awareness: Safety posters in weight rooms serve as visual reminders of essential safety practices. They educate gym-goers about proper lifting techniques, equipment us....READ MORE
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5 Reasons to Dot Drill every training day!
The BFS Dot Drill, also known as the “Bigger Faster Stronger Dot Drill," is a training exercise designed to improve agility, coordination, and footwork. Here are five reasons to incorporate the BFS Dot Drill into your training regimen: Agility Enhancement: The Dot Drill is highly effective in improving agility, as it requires rapid changes in direction and foot placement. Regular practice can help athletes become more nimble and respons
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The King of Execises
The parallel squat is regarded highly in the fitness community for several reasons: Muscle Engagement: Functional Strength: Increased Hormonal Response: Joint Health: and MORE...
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Organization is Key to Weight Room Excellence
An organized weight room provides several benefits for individuals engaging in weight training. Here are some reasons why organization is crucial for an effective weight training environment: Efficient Workouts: An organized weight room allows individuals to move seamlessly between exercises and equipment. With a designated place for each piece of equipment,...
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MONTANA STRONG AND TEXAS DYNASTIES! Did you miss these BFS summer issues? Free digital mags available now!
BFS Clinician and Coach, Jim Brown was in Texas and was honored to meet with Steve Wood, Head Football Coach of the 6 time, 5A Texas State Champions, Aledo Bearcats. After running the table at 16 - 0 The Aledo Texas Bearcats have been recognized by MaxPreps as one of the top 25 varsity football programs out of more than 1700 programs across the country and have received the National Guard National Ranking Trophy.
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Keys to Progress: Training Logbooks
BFS Program A key component of the BFS Total Program is record keeping, and the BFS Set/Rep Logbook is an effective tool for ensuring accountability and motivating athletes to break records. Keys to Progress: Training Logbooks The mental and physical benefits of managing progress
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Balance of Power
In this remarkable sequence of photos taken by Pam Tabone, Myles McKinney demonstrates tremendous jumping power. McKinney is the starting tailback and leading receiver at Churchville-Chili, a high school near Rochester, New York, which was featured in our September/October 2007 i
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More Than a Game
A Message from BFS Editor Kim Goss, MS for that award, but he got back on track in the NFL. In his rookie season Peterson set the NFL single-game rushing record (296 yards), and the records kept coming, including his becoming the third-fastest player to reach 10,000 rushing yards
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THE BFS NUTRITION SYSTEM QUICK OVERVIEW
RULE #1: Stay away from the Five Lethal Foods: Soda, French Fries, Potato Chips, Pastries/cookies and Candy. RULE #2: Make water, juice or milk your drink of choice. During competition, make water your drink of choice. We do not endorse sport drinks. RULE #3: Use the 40-point BFS
ReadThe Total Program - A Quick Overview
The Bigger Faster Stronger Total Program is a weightlifting program which allows every athlete regardless of sport, age or gender to make great gains and break many personal weightlifting records during each week of the sport season. The Total Program involves lifting all year ro
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The Quick Lifts - A Quick Overview
The Quick Lifts are similar to a Power Clean in benefit and technique. They produce variation which is desirable. The Power Snatch, High Pulls and Power Pulls are directly related to the Power Clean. The Jerk Press and Push Press are related because explosive movement is required
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The Hex Bar Dead Lift - A Quick Overview
The Hex Bar Dead Lift is halfway between a Dead Lift and a Squat. It develops the lower back, trunk, hips, glutes, hamstrings and quadricep area. When you combine shrugs, the trapezius area is also strengthened. It is considered a Core Lift exercise to be done once per week. The
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Unify Your Programs for Success!
This is a time of year many educators and coaches assess their athletic programs and explore ideas on what could make a difference in the future. Few teams make the playoffs, even fewer are division champions and only one is state champion. Is your team in this elite group? How can your school crack the code to improving from year to year - season to season?
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The Straight Leg Dead Lift for Athletic Success
In addition to advising athletes to use the BFS 1-2-3-4 stretching program, we recommend all athletes perform the straight-leg deadlift as an auxiliary exercise. Unlike the Hex bar deadlift, which develops strength and requires the use of heavy weights, we think of the straightleg deadlift as a stretching exercise, and therefore only very light weights are used. And we can’t emphasize this point enough.
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Getting Young Athletes Ready to Win!
Weight training is a key aspect of the BFS Readiness program, but it is performed with light weights as its purpose is to teach athletes perfect technique. That way, when they are physically mature enough to lift heavy weights, they can do so safely. The BFS Readiness program is a quick, easy-to-administer workout. With nearly four decades of enthusiastic results, BFS is convinced that this is the optimal workout program to give young people a head start on a lifetime of safe physical and athletic performance.
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Keep Students Invested in Their Own Success
Teaching proper attitude is a simple task and takes very little time. Before students ever touch a weight they should listen to what BFS calls, a pride and safety talk. First students need to know that your strength program is "special" and that it is a privilege, not a right, to work-out in the weight room. The students need to feel that the strength program is a place for them to improve themselves and in effect is "theirs," not the coaches.
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SIGNS OF A SAFE WEIGHTROOM
Sign Subject Matter Colors and shapes are important, but even more important is the information that these signs convey. Use only simple words, phrases or graphics that are easy to understand. Use only internationally accepted graphics. Remember that simple words are better than complex graphics. However, symbol signs may be more helpful to multi-cultured users than words...
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Prepare for a Championship Season
Start Now for Second Semester Success! Sometime this coming month your football playoffs will be firing up. Are you still in the mix? If so - Go Get Em! If not - NOW is the time to think about what your programs can do to find success in the spring! Booking early give you and your coaches the time to implement a total program that leads ATHLETIC development. A BFS Total Program clinic will be exceptionally valuable for high school athletes looking to excel in spring sports for several important reasons...
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