Anyone Uses BFS?? Does it Work??

[BigDres]

I was wondering if anyone here has done the BFS Training Program... Which is the Bigger Faster Stronger Program.... It's mostly used amongst athletes, more so... football players.. I want see if anyone has opinons on it. Let me know and tell me if it works.

 

[rocuhfella07]

Just a generic program based around Cleans, Squats, and Presses...it's better than nothing but people respond differently to different training stimulus. To have an effective performance specific program, it should be catered to the athlete taking his weaknesses, muscle fiber make-up, and goals into consideration.

If you don't know much about training it will provide you with a starting point. However, I am not a big fan of the generic programs.

 

[BiggT]

It is a cookie-cutter and subject to all the drawbacks of cookie-cutters....it is a great teaching tool though, and it is 1,000,000 times better than what goes on in the majority of high school weightrooms. If done correctly, it'll work on most beginners most of the time. Most 8th and 9th graders as well as rank beginners do so well with cookie cutters because their whole body is a weakness and they just need to plain old get stronger at that point in their training, plus they (and unfortunately their coaches) often don't understand training theory enough to come up with anything more optimal on their own.

 

[Shades McCool]

I used it in high school and got to where I put up some pretty nice numbers.

 

[Protobuilder]

There's a write-up of it floating around from like 03, I think, done by Tom Treutlein (sp?) if you can search (which you can't b/c yo'ure not Plat, loL).

I don't know that it'd be any better than Rippetoe's 3x5 program linked in the Training Vault.

Also, I don't know that it'd be any better than Dan John's starter program that I posted about before and is included in his free PDF at danjohn.org. Long story short,

Power cleans - 8, 6, 4 (if you get all 18 reps, add weight next time)
Front squats -- 8, 6, 4 (same as above)
Military press or push press -- 8, 6, 4 (same as above)/

. . . all these programs mentioned above have exactly what BiggT mentioned: one push movement (overhead/military or bench), one squat (back or front squat), and one pulling movement (cleans, deads, rows, etc.), AND they all rely on "getting X number of reps" and then adding weight and repeating ad infinitum. Yes, I speak latin. LoL

 

[BigDres]

aight... thanks guys...i dont feel like paying for the shit myself... so im just going to stick with what i got.

 

[Cynical Simian]

Here's the write-up. I was going to post it before but wasn't sure if the OP wanted the routine itself or feedback from a couple years ago, including from some guy named "Shades McCool" .

 

[ChinkNasty]

agree with shades, it is a very solid high school football weightroom workout template...i made some nice gains on it when i was in HS

 

[BiggT]

I never mentioned it initially, but in HS, we also used a BFS template to get rolling. It is a quality program.

If anything, it is an insurance policy against the butt-headed training that kids, and sadly coaches, are prone to at the high school level.

 

[Protobuilder]

Here's something pretty solid oriented toward football players:

www.robertwmcadams.com