Stories of a Life

Carl Miller has a Master's degree in health, physical education and recreation with specialty in exercise physiology, biomechanics and nutrition. As a former United States Olympic and World Weightlifting coach, he is the author of over fifty articles and several books on Olympic Style weightlifting and athletic training. He has also worked with strength coaches for the Chicago Bulls, Chicago White Sox, Miami Heat, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots and the San Francisco 49ers. While in Colombia, he worked with their Olympic weightlifting track and field and swimming teams for two years. In Japan he worked with the women's Olympic volleyball team and the Honku Braves professional baseball team for three years. Back in the United States, he taught at Santa Fe Preparatory School and later led a physical education program at Carlos Gilbert Elementary School. As a community activist he won a seat on the Santa Fe City Council and was instrumental in the passing of an expansion of the Valdez Industrial Park. He was the founder and co-owner, along with his wife, Sandra Thomas, of Carl and Sandra's Physical Conditioning Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico for more than thirty years and has dedicated himself to analyzing and tweaking the techniques of Olympic lifting. He is the author of Stories of a Life, The Sport of Olympic Style Weightlifting, Olympic Lifting: A Training Manual, and The Miller Fitness Plan, all from Sunstone Press.