He spent a considerable amount of time researching electromuscular stimulation (EMS), a method Reding believed helped him achieve his Scientists from around the world often came to South Africa to work with Siff. He reportedly squatted 880 pounds for 5 reps and performed multiple jumps a foot off the floor holding 286 pounds! Siff often trained with the Belgian behemoth Serge Reding, the first man to snatch 400 pounds and the second to perform a standing Olympic press of 500 pounds. He was a national coach in weightlifting and could perform a standing Olympic press of 275 pounds at a bodyweight of about 200 pounds. Siff competed in karate, trampolining, track and field, powerlifting, and weightlifting. He served many years as a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Siff is a native of South Africa who has a PhD in physiology and a masters in applied mathematics. Much of his work on plyometrics was translated into English, and his ideas were put into practice at first by American track coaches, and then expanded to other sports. In 1964 Verkhoshansky published his first research paper on plyometrics, but his body of work included over 500 scientific papers that were translated into 22 foreign languages.

Verkhoshansky is best known as the Russian track and field coach who developed plyometrics, specifically an advanced form that he referred to as the “Shock Method.” He developed this type of training out of necessity, as his attempts to overload the legs of his jumpers with heavy partial squats were causing lumbar spine injuries. To understand why “Supertraining” is such a remarkable book, you need to consider the background of the authors.

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