JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?9 U׊C$TޣlFs(=z@J"!5a ,&jEԪh` =ANNhbѮ$qpx(Ł'*;}+ŞkInY#ew˶^$!FPGOʔ֚3JI_S$y1c9d2;w5(vcnm8(l;h]#KQf2@]r>ڀ) m t:qib\☇d=ݚFLaij64zQM4PzR)Tɜy'Wje<4*{u8iὍ0wi Τ dG?mLs͸+nGz ocX^ M0I#ˌF=7q]KT\c)⚰@ `2ttβ#dɌNsZ:b64dǥ4BƐLb)4 an}hLQUud󴋸;qi[lm`AgwRbjLծ- ȉ EppO\VLrhz(a\Wc{^ǦOrǙ>4㹆a43z>l^OXz )a3Qwz@JB֥\b&\z xǠSRQʞZ&}.;~Tù(Ϧ1@wdp 'XWW ]J91J*r9I5$*u^qA&|fֽCŠV-3vM<Ҕ{<sJin(&h gLcJRiiQM4PQ3R4JFy1@NsF@ZqMd`!^u,o2:=kְ >xOS47r1忷~^=1 ^GhvQBy۠RU@9W}N%`e=)854ޥRxK}*n7V'+r轛~)~;b*ÃOy%73t2}sN[v>!"+7Aچt䀤&ܹ:ax-; @z4آYX4Trp3խ n`2ZʽICKt4Z#iV ֹv+b o+ gڳ\_H I?Z#gi6'nG5 sr\Sx}TMy(?)b=9`L(\C{/A%h+#x*{~4(x c v~q:)<vgp}Jr~9f<JO,Iz.EoaOR 8 iw2ud ?7h w8i2 8JƠW9N I}h`Jp?:e6.cRB '+*m~"Bd`q;grƩw{} 2e+}=Oi)Y$te=&$+"NW#b[񥵒9Q Z&;Qs$ HLv g}i CSqh#ހSzQ@Ĝ(R8A~)꣌A,iY21\V >#S|=1L9$`+`B3БVV<\duTIOr84Dw}igK|Jp׌R.NqOBKqH g@ $ In this exclusive BFS interview, Coach Brooks discusses his conditioning philosophies and the special challenges of working with so many sports and athletes.<br><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