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BFS Speed Program
The BFS Speed Program: perfect sprint technique first, faster times follow. Learning sessions by body area, practice starts, and the full progression.
BFS Student Acknowledgment Form
The BFS weight room safety acknowledgment form — students initial that they've seen the safety video, rules poster, safety posters, and Six Absolutes.
BFS Weight Room Design Questionnaire
The BFS weight room design questionnaire — the room, budget, and program questions that start a weight room design consultation.
BFS Women's Flexibility Program
The BFS 1-2-3-4 Flexibility Program edition for female athletes — the same bench, air, wall, floor sequence with every stretch illustrated.
Be An 11: Yes-No Card
The Be An 11 commitment card — 'I commit myself to being a True 11,' yes or no. The printable card that closes a seminar.
PDF · 27 pages
Free · sign upBuilding Athletes Outside the Weight Room
A 27-page guide to the work that happens away from the bar: nutrition, sleep and mindset. Fueling amounts before and after training, a recovery smoothie, creatine basics, sleep habits for teenagers and SMART goal-setting, written for high school athletes and the coaches who train them.
PDF · 19 pages
Free · sign upForce Plates for Everyone: A Guide to Implementing Force Plates in Every Training Setting
Force plates without a sport science degree. Explains strategy, driver and outcome metrics in plain terms, then covers braking velocity, the transition, and Dynamic Strength Index, and which of them are worth your attention at your level.
PDF · 21 pages
Free · sign upModified Triphasic Systems for the Tactical Athlete
Triphasic training adapted for tactical populations, organised by tenure rather than sport season. Four progressions from day-one novice to advanced, plus how to undulate the work around an unpredictable schedule.
PDF · 3 pages
Free · sign upReturn To Gym Checklist
The checklist many programs used to reopen in 2020, split for athletes and for staff into before, during and after a session. A record of the COVID-19 return to training rather than current guidance.
Interactive form
Free · sign upSample Grant Proposal for S&C Software
A complete, fillable grant proposal for strength and conditioning software and hardware. Five narrative sections are already written: your project, the problem, the timeline, who it reaches, and the budget. Change six details and it is yours.
PDF · 49 pages
Free · sign upSo You Want to Open a Gym
A 49-page guide to opening a facility, written by coaches who did it. Eight chapters take you from finding your identity and picking a location through pricing, hiring, the shift from coaching to owning, and knowing when to grow.
PDF · 44 pages
Free · sign upSummer of Speed
TeamBuildr's guide to speed and conditioning, with twelve embedded video breakdowns. Argues that speed development is most strength coaches' blind spot, then lays out what to do about it, including why the work has to leave the weight room.
PDF · 41 pages
Free · sign upThe Emerging Reality of the Tactical Strength Coach
What the tactical strength coach job actually looks like now: the populations, the constraints, and the gap between how these roles are described and how they are staffed and funded.
PDF · 16 pages
Free · sign upThe Intangibles of a National Championship Season
The parts of a championship season that never show up in the programming: buy-in, staff friction, managing a locker room through a long year, and the decisions that looked small at the time.
PDF · 2 pages
Free · sign upThe Ultimate Guide to Building Athletes: Nutrition, Recovery, & Nutrition
A two-page tip sheet for young athletes on the basics that drive recovery: sleep, eating around practice, hydration and simple work like foam rolling, stretching and cold tubs. Short enough to hand straight to a team.