Goss Kim - Bigger Faster Stronger, 3E

Third Edition

Greg Shepard, EdD

Kim Goss

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shepard, Greg, 1942- author. | Goss, Kim, 1956- author.

Title: Bigger, faster, stronger / Greg Shepard, EdD, Kim Goss.

Description: Third Edition. | Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2017] | Second

edition: 2009. | Includes webography. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016052501 (print) | LCCN 2017000862 (ebook) | ISBN

9781492545811 (print) | ISBN 9781492545828 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: High school athletes--Training of. | School sports. |

Physical education and training--Study and teaching (Secondary)

Classification: LCC GV346 .S55 2017 (print) | LCC GV346 (ebook) | DDC

613.7/11--dc23

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ISBN: 978-1-4925-4581-1 (print)

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Copyright 2004 by Greg Shepard

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Forty years ago the Bigger Faster Stronger program was developed by Dr. Greg Shepard, who worked as a high school, college, and professional strength coach. In 1979 Bob Rowbotham joined the Bigger Faster Stronger team as a clinician, and he eventually took over the company as president and later CEO. Although there have been many advances in the fields of athletic and physical fitness since Coach Shepard began sharing his training methods with coaches and athletes, the principles BFS was founded on have not changed. Coach Rowbotham has made certain of that.

The BFS program originated from working with world-class track and field athletes, athletes who often displayed exceptional levels of strength, power, and explosiveness, says Rowbotham. When the company started, the only athletes who were using the weight room were football players and the throwers in track and field. Consequently, BFS was perceived to be a football programits taken a long time to change that perception.