JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================X" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?b)1S,M#QOjOH15z(OɒܚrC976H%+c1RXB䁃i-8^-~v +sDK(70֊I#4'0//ba#3Zzn +uĊ=F>:8Ӌ}kQm7[ nJ5(/-#Iw,̙cM%n 'PӬ~yl`p  s\ǵPqI͝27(tu4@K?CW289v3Kցݦ!VT\aUY}l-%(-U2 +lh{1)>]cX<.m3>;UM]]ǒYӍAb[i1gQ`` Ұ\aF[nuK+ˎiWd0f XYBUjNr8Ek[āpT+E\NCV5dh_fw=j8ӱɦyY}:UV,AcXEy1My׌mb1%#inUdW'4"opH&dި#VWD6POyu-$ K}:YZf߻NduܟUF/WTgFl˺BOzTslwaiƊj^[PѓQ}9Vt]0BUx"ƒ{՟ ]Y&=C$BTZ~kFtGf$W8Oֺ ?0Yh3*?zĸhgTF C+'cW4tAҪC!E;v*c*%34K!DvQ=k0:xl5D&HD#(1xWJ׶L/qkCBAWGm;S٘\n#V,QÓJt^޶%$Ej5pGz+& UlINىy$WPqXkČkzNv2ʿ(e-ٞ<1~lzwڌ˒۳QUT%fRF>SVkCjkXwȧ I$QQIU7GV_zư.`Xpd zkY xzVsq[;K\ۀҟ#$}=+:}nMM,s]-IwKy]- (8WJ\͛VODű. 6z$Gfi{dfbNzgwIVCZT׊Y6q)8.TsiOZ+}5ЎfDlS+)xI# N;מ#}˖t=d>e=x+A1qI+haHAEdLsלgWBH斬Ö 6H(9=%k؄х]-`v蹩MFNiDʟeXUrs:;b1?M&XzAjwQBJUG=D[ܙA:[xaT,uZ kzů̹A\pzsPn[iR ]j]jYqEr:6m\+L@"C֖}6ݐ_n+5tGYW aW$tOB1󑸶=j-.V={RA8yv,@׽z;.,$%Iܷީi H 9F BviBzX.T #GyylJY?X*<0#Ci!S7痳rEVG eqP}^XnOtM AוyR].4죎5QJTj*9Y*A`!/WF玕L FpS]t/6Hw24 yk'r9&685u9WA- AV1~4:p*,׷Zu,f$s~#r˴Tgw:$szpUno# 9(~V* 6;ԍ/tE#osU|# A\x{:0`94T[ݱʊB ,pLa5,_.WV.[je縮F @(\Jl.RHױBˣ4w=8\nyz8`-҆&2R$칏>O_y.?U[@SV70[ykD@Vv {*n&lt2:N:Xq9 !p2;;\^\!/ >ӆS'AWgqO=H\ n9Om K,. 漫s62I=+kEԦ d 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 dist