Interviews With Top Experts

I conducted this interview with Natalia Verkhoshansky last year via email. She took a lot of time over the interview and I am very grateful that she did. If you are not familiar with who she is, her father is Yuri Verkhoshansky. He passed away in 2010, but his legacy lives on. Natalia is the world's foremost expert in utilizing his methods, and probably the worlds foremost expert in explosive strength training. You can learn much more about Yuri at www.verkhoshansky.com which I highly recommend - you wont regret it. Hello Natalia. It is a pleasure to speak with you. Could you tell us a little about yourself?   I was born in a family dedicated to the sport and grew up on the Track-and-Field stadium, which was just next to where we lived, and where my mother and my father usually worked with their athletes. In 1972 I was student at the Moscow Central Institute of Physical Culture and Sport, where I also began my first scientific research at the Biochemistry department under