JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?b ʡAjvԌz D*d"(*EҚ{SBJxQVF7[s+tyolqP|PdX$n<kd%&)I8cGiBM 0Ɠ(ELEF4(J='ZSESJsQ!Jj5*5JޥZ]-/af{;bf'q=a_CruzVqf(hihmF)3L^ZkYtoE=q\]^ =9ʺ+x?{ަ2mե sE3#h?S[BHh'ޓ>1JZ@ lMDƀEN=*<Ԩi2 O"Ԋ٠ T+G?f{in85҆y(`O٭GӺll29) ;Vkj R=+j5Mf[f)|+N<.%tYofqȦUXqV x#K/)dRDƓ'R}G@Lf>54BIE03C8Nڤ ֜x#(`iA?F>q@nVACW,I໘DQyj4Tן)̚ü+,r*/ 1^j=6uX!'# xѵ HB!Cl+FqSHʯH7(8ڹi1isj$v:T],WsνTr;8GvH㵹DP2:QۋũqHA܁~Td{VLj.h'M& i CtE01WSTIYj<6z/F?Q׭QjO^-i͟OBpyqT jpaܼN2~GCʄ3Ҕ9>,}L˻-s +R.1Q`nx~޺"cڹUb+SHB`YGsm:z@P(\0٦sҷr?zS+GsUNFcSQa\u54}0!mҐڐ 'Kz)JL]8 4EHQ~#@đ0=N8=TY*ٵe]!Gz]J]]\lɒJʻ\EveojӹԟPwnO])#Iq[>H5; x[6H$ EOj{sv#baF_$I۷$W^Cz<br>BFS: Coach Brooks, where did you attend college? <br>Brooks: Allegheny College, Western PA. I majored in English, and played defensive end in football and was a thrower for the indoor and outdoor track teams. I received my masters in physical education from Springfield College in Massachusetts. <br><br>BFS: What is your athletic background?<br>Brooks: In high school I was on the football, basketball and track and field teams. In college I focused on track, primarily the shot put and discus, and football. After college I concentrated on the shot in the hopes of making the Olympic Trials. My personal best was 59 feet.<br><br>BFS: Did you make it to the Olympic Trials?<br>Brooks: No, I got pretty severe tendonitis in one of my knees. It got to the point where I had to take time off and that pretty much killed my chances.<br><br>BFS: You worked for strength coach Charles Poliquin last year in his facility in Tempe, Arizona. How did you get involved with Charles?<br>Brooks: We first met at a strength summit in Victoria, Canada. Charles was one of the primary speakers, and we got talking between sessions. That summer I had been working for a gentleman he knew out of Boston and he said,  Ah, you should work with me instead. So we got a dialogue going, and I went to some of his clinics, and last summer I ended up going out and working for him.<br>BFS: What was the main thing that Poliquin taught you? What distinguishes him from other strength coaches?<br>Brooks: What doesn t distinguish him! Charles has influenced me more than anyone out there, from truly understanding proper rest intervals, to tempo, to the pairing of exercises. A big part of what distinguishes him is his ability to truly analyze an athlete and figure out |$w92A3󢻂.fw;G/J4＄hb'7+w2BoIOSM~?