Garrett Miller

What’s up, Squad

I’m Garrett a former elite athlete turned performance driven creator, coach, and actor blending high-level fitness, real-life discipline, and on-camera storytelling into everything I do. After spending over 17 years competing in baseball and football I’ve built a deep foundation in athletic performance, body control, and mental resilience that now fuels both my training and my career in entertainment.

Today, I train like an athlete with a purpose focused on building lean muscle, staying explosive, and maintaining a physique that performs just as well as it looks. Whether it’s strength training, endurance work, or dialing in nutrition, I live the lifestyle daily not just preach it.

My approach is simple: train hard, move with intention, and show up like a pro whether that’s in the gym, on set, or in life.

If you’re here, you’re part of the squad. Let’s get to work.

What’s your approach to health and fitness? Is one more important than the other to you? Why?

For me, health comes first always. Fitness is how I express it.

After competing at a high level for so many years, I learned that you can look fit but not actually be healthy. Health is your mindset, your sleep, your relationship with food, your longevity. Fitness is the output.

When my health is aligned, the physique, the performance, and the confidence follow naturally. So I train hard but I recover harder.

If you could do one workout for the rest of your life, what would it be?

If I had to pick one, it would be a strength-based lift with athletic conditioning. Think compound lifts paired with explosive work.

There’s something powerful about moving weight with intention. It makes me feel strong, capable, and grounded. I love training that reminds me I’m an athlete, not just someone chasing aesthetics.

What was the defining moment that changed the way you look at health & fitness?

For me, it hasn’t been one single moment. it’s been the accumulation of injuries. I’ve had five major surgeries: my shoulder labrum, ACL and meniscus, and my Achilles. Each one forced me to slow down in a way I never would have chosen for myself.

When you go from competing at a high level to relearning how to walk without pain or lift your arm overhead, your perspective changes fast.

In the beginning, fitness was about performance. Then it became about proving I could come back. But after multiple setbacks, I realized something deeper health isn’t about how hard you can push, it’s about how well you can sustain.

Rehab taught me patience. It humbled me. It showed me that strength isn’t just PRs and aesthetics it’s rebuilding when no one is watching. It’s celebrating bending your knee another five degrees. It’s trusting your body again after it “failed” you.

Those injuries forced me to respect recovery, mobility, sleep, and fueling in a way I never had before. I stopped asking, “How much can I handle?” and started asking, “What does my body need?”

Now I train to be strong for life. To be durable. To feel capable. To move well decades from now.

If anything, those injuries didn’t take fitness away from me they gave me a healthier relationship with it.

You were a beginner once. Who did you rely on for information and inspiration?

I leaned heavily on my coaches growing up in football and baseball. They were the first ones who taught me discipline, structure, and what it really meant to commit to something bigger than yourself. I also looked up to pro athletes not just for their talent, but for their work ethic. As I got older and had to navigate injuries and surgeries, I relied more on mentors in the performance world, physical therapists, and strength coaches who understood longevity. Inspiration eventually shifted inward though. After multiple surgeries, it stopped being about idolizing someone else and started being about proving to myself what I was capable of.

What’s one thing you wish someone told you when you decided to get serious about your health & fitness?

I wish someone told me that setbacks are part of the process not a sign you’re off track. My career was cut short due to multiple major surgeries, and in those moments it felt like everything was being taken from me. But every single time I came back stronger. I had to rebuild from zero more than once. Nobody tells you that resilience is a muscle too. If you train it, it grows.

We’ve all had those moments where we wanted to cancel our alarm clock, rebel against our meal plan, or turn around once arriving at the gym. Can you tell us about the moment that comes to mind? How did you push through?

Post-surgery rehab. That’s the real test. Not the hype workouts. Not game day. It’s the 6 a.m. rehab sessions when nobody’s clapping for you. When you’re doing band work and single-leg balance drills while your teammates are competing. I remember walking into the facility after my ruptured Achilles surgery knowing I had months before I’d feel normal again.

I pushed through by focusing on one small win at a time. Not the season. Not the comeback story. Just: “Be better than yesterday.” Some days that meant one extra rep. Some days it meant just showing up. Consistency beats motivation every time.

What does it mean for you to be on the Dymatize Squad?

To me, being on the Dymatize Squad means everything! Aligning with a brand that stands for performance and longevity. I still train like a pro level athlete even though my playing career was cut short. It’s not about chasing a spotlight anymore. It’s about chasing progress.

Being part of a squad means accountability. It means fueling your body the right way so you can keep leveling up whether that’s on the field, in the gym, or in life.