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8. How can I get BFS Certified? Click here for a Direct Link to request more information. You’ll need to sponsor or attend a BFS Clinic. With the help of their BFS Certifications, coaches often receive raises or job offers. Call us at 1-800-628-9737 to schedule a clinic at your school or to find out where you can go to attend another school’s cnic check our Web Calendar.

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9. My son is in Junior High School and has never lifted weights. Do you have a beginning program?

Yes, we call it the Readiness Program. This program focuses on perfect technique. Whether you decide to use our program or stay with your own, you should focus primarily on perfect technique. The strength will follow. Just remember not to allow even the slighte variation from perfect technique.

The Readiness Program also has graduation requirements to let you know when the athlete is ready for our high school program. Some kids develop faster than others, and these graduation requirements are a great standard to go by. To learn the program you will need the Readiness Program Video and a Readiness Program Record Book. The video will help you know what potential problems to look for and will also explain how to coach all the lifts.

You may also want to consider purchasing our 15-pound Aluma-Lite Olympic Style Bar, our 5-pound Training Plates, our 10-pound Bumper Plates and our Youth Hex Bar. Our 15-pound Olympic Bars with the 5-pound training plates are perfect for teaching the power clean.

We bring a set of these to every one of our clinics, and each time the coaches are sold on it. It makes teaching the power clean and power snatch a snap. The Hex Bar is great to have because it takes all of the risk out of doing deadlifts. Even beginning lifters can deadlift with perfect technique with the Hex Bar.

10. I am the Athletic Director at Northern Valley Regional High School, Old Tappan. I need the definitive answer to this question; Do your weightroom supervisors in the state of New Jersey have to be certified in strength and conditioning? Is this a law? Please advise. A lot of New Jersey Athletic Directors are very confused and do not know this ruling. Thanks for your help.

Do your weightroom supervisor