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Meet Our CEO

North Bridge Fitness Center is steered by owner and CEO Joseph E. Maresca, a fitness guru with 30+ years of expertise. His track record includes managing centers, crafting manuals, and leading in-depth training. His prowess extends to designing nutrition plans, exercise programs, and pioneering endurance strength training secrets.

"I have developed a training style and nutrition program that does the most important thing, getting the results my clients want to attain with my trademarked program of Endurance Strength Training."
Joseph E. Maresca

Leadership in Action

At the helm, Joseph guides his trainers with hands-on expertise, blending leadership by example with rigorous training. His commitment to excellence infuses every client interaction, offering a wealth of industry knowledge and a dedication to enhancing health and fitness for all.

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Bio

JEM Bio

There is no one that has more experience or is more dedicated to a Healthy Fitness Lifestyle then myself. With over 30 years’ experience in the fitness industry, I bring to the table “What No One Can”. I generate more income than any other trainer in south Florida. I also hold the record for the most people trained in one day (17), the most consecutive one-hour training sessions (13), and the most billable hours in one year (2750).  Managing and owning gyms, writing and developing training manuals, designing nutrition plans and exercise programs, editing and producing workout videos and websites; I am a true example of practicing what you preach. With more than 10,000 hours spent in the gym, I offer the professionalism and experience no one can. My level of consistency and commitment cannot be matched and or compared.

I have developed my own trademarked training style, “Endurance Strength Training” and my own nutrition program, “JEM LIFESTYLE Nutrition”, that have a direct correlation to my success.

I have developed a training style and nutrition program that does the most important thing:  Getting People the Results they want.  Most people do not want to run faster, jump higher, or be better athletes; they want to look and feel better.  Endurance Strength Training is the best, fastest, and safest way to accomplish that goal.

 

In this on-the-move, fast-paced modern-day society, who has the time to lift weights, let alone do cardiovascular training?  Both types of training are essential for a strong, lean, healthy body, but finding the time to do both is next to impossible.  Everyone wants to have a lean, muscular body, but very few people know how to accomplish that goal.  Endurance Strength Training combines the best of both worlds to give clients a simple but effective way of having the ever-desired lean, muscular, healthy body.

 

The emphasis has always been on cardiovascular training.  People believed that cardiovascular fitness meant total fitness.  While it is true that cardiovascular training has a lot of benefits, just recently the importance of strength training has been brought to the attention of the public.  Strength training will help the body and mind in many ways.  Strength training increases bone density, develops muscle strength, increases the metabolic rate, and improves one’s overall self-image.  The benefits of exercise are numerous.  The Surgeon General has released a report directly linking physical activity and overall health.  They have gone so far as to issue a warning label for people who are not physically active.  “The U.S. Surgeon General has determined that physical inactivity is hazardous to your health.”  Dr. Steven Blair, Chief Scientific Editor of the report, states, “In effect, the warning label will slap a warning on sedentary lifestyles – much like the warning found today on packs of cigarettes.”  The report states that exercise can benefit anyone at any age, strengthen the heart and lungs, lower blood pressure, protect against diabetes, build and tone muscle, keep joints and tendons flexible, provide more energy, improve sleep, lessen tension, and extend the overall quality and quantity of life.

 

Everyone wants to have a lean muscular body, but very few people know how to accomplish that goal.  Endurance Strength Training gives clients the results they desire.  Whether they are male, female, beginners, intermediates, or advanced individuals, Endurance Strength Training will change their lives and physiques.  Endurance Strength Training will also save them time, money, and unnecessary effort.  Over the past 25 years, Joseph Maresca has studied and researched fitness, health, and nutrition.  Through much time, effort, and trial and error, Joseph has developed Endurance Strength Training, the ultimate fitness program.  He is living proof that Endurance Strength Training really works.  Needless to say, with a lot of hard work he has attained his goal and dream of developing an incredible physique that stands out in a crowd.

About Us

Palm Beach Trainers will be providing a variety of high-end fitness services, with a strong focus on Personal Training.  The Company will pride itself on a lean business model based on the Owner’s fitness philosophies.  All Trainers at the JEM™Fitness locations will be trained and certified in Joseph E. Maresca’s training style, Endurance Strength Training.  As the Operational Manager, Joseph will oversee all the trainers, write all of the training programs, and ensure each client is getting the results they desire.

North Bridge Fitness Center will promote a high-energy atmosphere for its patrons, and its new concept will place it above and beyond other gyms in the area.  While most gyms have a single large dumbbell area, JEM™Fitness locations will have two smaller dumbbell areas thus creating a more centralized gym and allowing clients to work out wherever they want. Because many dedicated gym-goers are also busy professionals or parents and need their gyms to accommodate their schedules, North Bridge Fitness Center will offer 24-hour access for its Executive Members. As a luxurious extra, the location has a multimillion-dollar atrium and covered walkway from the free parking area.

The job of getting clients in shape is expected to grow by a staggering 27% through 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook; clearly, the market for personal training and fitness services is wide and lucrative.  More and more, fitness-minded consumers are rejecting the large, big-box atmosphere of traditional chain gyms and seeking out smaller fitness studios that offer personalized care, high-end amenities, and facilities tailored to clients’ specific needs.  JEM Enterprises will meet this demand, first in the Palm Beach area and then in expanded locations throughout major metropolitan centers like Miami, New York, and Los Angeles.

North Bridge Fitness will exist at the forefront of the fitness industry with its high-end, limited membership fitness centers located across the country.  Its first location in West Palm Beach sits directly on the waterfront, offering an exclusive, low-traffic location and beautiful views from inside the facility.

Training

Endurance Strength Training, Joseph E. Maresca’s exclusive training style, is one of the reasons he is so successful.  The main benefit of Endurance Strength Training is simple.  Client’s burn stored body fat while building lean sculpted muscle.  Endurance Strength Training is a unique resistance training style that is unlike any other program.  Endurance Strength Training develops overall strength, conditioning, and endurance, all while lowering one’s body fat percentage.  Endurance Strength Training accomplishes this by applying some very important training principles:

  1. High Set Count Requirement:  Most programs require 5-8 sets or less per body part.  Endurance strength Training requires at least double that amount.
  2. High Rep Count Requirement:  Endurance Strength Training requires 3-5 times more reps than any other program on the market (300 to 500 rep routines are common).
  3. Short Rest Duration:  There is only a 30-45 second rest between sets with Endurance Strength Training – minor body parts closer to 30 seconds and major body parts closer to 60 seconds.
  4. Uneven Pyramid to Sets:  There is always a drop set or a drop down set that is required at the end of the set count requirement.  Drop sets start at a certain weight and rep count and then the weight is dropped, and the rep count is repeated.  This is done at least three times – called a three-tier drop.  A drop-down set is a drop in weight, but the rep count requirement is raised considerably.
  5. Keep the Heart Rate Elevated in the FAT BURNING ZONE throughout the Session:  This is when the body burns fat for energy expenditure.  This is accomplished by short 30 second rest duration or by training a tertiary muscle group between sets.  Tertiary muscle groups include calves, abdominals, and trapezoids.
  6. Concentrate Workload on One Body Part at a Time:  This totally fatigues that body part before moving on, working the muscle to failure and to the point of being sore (Never Circuit Train).
  7. Training Variation:  Always vary the workload by changing exercises, set count, or rep count.  Clients who have been with Joseph for more than five years still have no idea what to expect.

Each client will be given what is called a training package. A training package consists of the following:

Training Package

  • Complete Needs and Goals Analysis
  • Body Fat Composition Testing
  • Photo Image Presentations
  • Personal Diet Consultation
  • Supplement Recommendation/Review
  • Individualized Training Program
  • Resistance Training Schedule
  • Cardiovascular Training Schedule
  • Training Tips
  • Dieting Tips

Costs

  • TRAINING PACKAGE           $150
  • TWELVE SESSIONS* (one month) $1,080 $90 per session
  • TWENTY-FOUR SESSIONS (two months) $2,040 $85 per session
  • THIRTY-SIX SESSIONS (three months)           $2,880        $80 per session
  • *12 SESSIONS MINIMAL PACKAGE PURCHASE
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JEM Nutrition

Dieting Principles

JEM Body Sculpting’s Lifestyle Nutrition Program is designed to show you how to lose just your BODY FAT, not your valuable MUSCLE TISSUE. This is the solution to maintain weight and body fat loss. Most diets are caloric restrictive and nutrition unspecific, so a good portion of the weight you lose is your muscle tissue. This loss of muscle tissue lowers your daily caloric needs and also lowers your metabolic rate. Your caloric needs and metabolic rate are lower so when normal nutrition is resumed the weight and body fat pours back on. The most important KEY to maintaining fat and weight loss is to sustain all muscle tissue while dieting. This leaves the daily caloric need high as well as your metabolic rate. The more lean muscle tissue we have the higher are daily caloric need and metabolic rate are. JEM Body Sculpting’s Lifestyle Nutrition Program will show you how to just lose your body fat and not your muscle tissue. This is the KEY in maintaining a LIFELONG Healthy Body Fat Percentage.

  • Change Your Taste Buds: When applied for a duration you will no longer be able to eat fatty, sugary, or sodium filled foods
  • Do not restrict Input-Increase Output: train your body to metabolize more food not less
  • Eat for Purpose not for pleasure: save your pleasure meals for when you reach your goals (Maintenance)
  • No Cheat Day or Cheat Meal: Until you get to Maintenance
  • Some carbohydrates are Good and Need to be eaten: especially when Endurance Strength Training
  • Eat More Protein: One gram of Protein per pound of bodyweight for Women and One and a half grams for men
  • Stay Out of the Nutrition Stress Mode: This is when the body breaks down muscle tissue for energy expenditure