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From the Foreword by Frank Spellman, Olympic Middleweight Champion: "This book contains one of the most enlightening physical educating systems that will be your pleasure to read, practice, and enjoy. Carl has gone more thoroughly into the preliminary reasons for using weights and their results than has the author of any other book on weightlifting I have read. Many months and years of experimentation and coordinated college and American Athletic Union competitions have given Carl an insight as to what can be expected with the application of weights.
About the author
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.
