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This readable, easy-to-follow guide to physical fitness incorporates Olympic coach Carl Miller's lifetime of experience. The book discusses the benefits of the motions used in Olympic-style weight lifting that contribute to strength, endurance and flexibility and Miller has fine-tuned his approach with decades of hands-on work with clients, both men and women, from age 9 to 90. The Miller Fitness Plan works for everyone, from athletes training for competition to reformed couch potatoes and people with physical challenges. Athletic weight training movements serve as a core for sound physical fitness, enabling people of all ages and abilities to see long term benefit, and have fun while exercising. Complete with photo illustrations, testimonials for those who have used the Miller Plan and advice on motivation, this book is a unique, user-friendly manual for getting and staying in shape that can be done at any gym or at home.
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.
