#341 Coaching Cues That Change EVERYTHING | Curtis Miller
Dave Tate's Table Talk
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
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We welcome Curtis Miller to this episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast!
Curtis Miller is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with 17 years of experience in personal training, physical therapy, and athletic performance. He holds a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science and Athletic Coaching from Salisbury University and is the owner of IronboundStrength LLC, where he coaches powerlifters and general strength athletes both online and in person.
As a competitive powerlifter, Curtis has earned elite totals in the 198, 220, and 242lb weight classes, with best lifts of an 804LB squat (raw with wraps), 440LB bench press, 777LB deadlift, and a 2000LB total. His coaching is grounded in real-world lifting success and a deep understanding of strength development.
Curtis' IG: https://www.instagram.com/curtismiller_ironbound/
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes you can use the same weight for four weeks, but it gets more explosive. |
| 0:04.3 | It feels more explosive over the four weeks and it will get to a point to where now it feels |
| 0:08.9 | like it's too light. It doesn't have to be a week to week progression, but then after the |
| 0:14.4 | four weeks it's really good. Yeah, after I got through that initial feeling of like, what the |
| 0:19.0 | f f f f f did I just do? I was like, this is it. |
| 0:22.1 | It was the first thing that related to everything else that I had done in my life. |
| 0:26.0 | The things that I loved doing that weren't weight training, I love the power of it. |
| 0:30.4 | And that's when I was like, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:45.5 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:47.8 | All right, we're back with another episode of Table Talk today. |
| 0:50.1 | My guest is Curtis Miller, founder of inbound strength. |
| 0:53.6 | Over a decade as a competitive powerlifter with best lifts of 804, 440, 77, 2000 total. |
| 1:00.9 | But aside from that, you've competed in the 198's 220, 242, 275. |
| 1:06.3 | So there's a- |
| 1:06.6 | Not 275. |
| 1:07.6 | Not the 275? |
| 1:08.5 | I should have. |
| 1:09.6 | On open power lifting, it was that class, or was it not that class? Oh, no, no, no. You're right. You're right. My last meet that I did. But you weren't really 270. Yeah, yeah. I think I was 249. I went in there. I was injured, so I was just doing bench only. Yeah. And I was like, screw it. You know, let's let's get up to |
| 1:27.5 | 250 if we can. So yeah, I forgot about that way. Well, see, now I know more about your powerlifting |
| 1:32.0 | career than you do. Right. Right. You've been in this industry, the strength and fitness industry |
| 1:38.6 | for, I'm going to say close to 20 years, like 17 years, and have been the whole gamblet because you started out working |
| 1:45.7 | at a front desk. |
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