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Jose's Story:

Jose Fuentes started his career as a personal trainer at the age of 16 at a local gym in
Veracruz, Mexico. He recalls, “I remember how excited I was when I received my first
paycheck. During the years that I worked at several small health clubs, I instructed
theirmembers on how to use the equipment. As my career progressed, I eventually
moved on to the larger health clubs/gyms. As an incentive, I conducted various
contests for their members. One of the contests consisted of monitoring and
measuring the members’ progress during specific exercise routines (bench press,
squats with barbells, push- ups, etc.). The ultimate prize was a free monthly
membership. This prize was quite impressive since most people in Mexico could not
afford a personal trainer. As a personal trainer, I found it most gratifying to see my
clients do so well”.

Among Jose’s numerous abilities and expertise is his ability to target muscle groups.
He uses all the modern techniques for maximum muscle fiber recruitment. By listening
carefully to his clients, he applies the techniques that best matches their needs and
achieves their goals. He teaches isokinetics, strength training, isotonics, hypertrophy
stimulation, isometrics and plyometric techniques. He is quite knowledgeable and
does body fat analysis, stretching and manipulating agonistic and antagonistic muscles.

Among his credentials, Jose recently earned his Master Certification from The
International Federation of Personal Trainers Association. Jose continues to expand
his knowledge and enhance his skills in advance sports nutrition weight management
and alternative medicine.
As an athlete and competitor, Jose has been a national competitor in body building. He
competed in the prestigious Natural Eastern Classic Body Building Contest and the
Natural Forever Amateur Body Building Association Event. He was also The Natural
Grand Spoken Person for the Experimental and Applied Sciences Supplements
Company. He has also competed in basketball, long-distance running and martial
arts.
In his leisure time, Jose enjoys reading a wide spectrum of topics. Among his favorite
topics are history, health and nutrition. He is also a health and nutrition writer on the
internet, health newsletters and several national magazines such as “Men’s Exercise”
and “Best Body”.
As for his athletic ambition, Jose is tasting for black belt 2nd Dan in Aiki-Jujitsu (A self-
defense martial art technique) at the end of 2009. He also hopes to do the “Iron Man
Triathlon” in the future. On a personal note, Jose was born and raised in Mexico City.
He is married and living with his lovely wife, Claudia, and pet boxer in Roxbury, New
Jersey.

"Morris County Business"

Business name: Shapes R In LLC
Type of business: Fitness and Weight Loss
Owner(s): Jose Fuentes
Address: 136 East main street Denville NJ
Phone: 973-586-3222
Web site: www.shapesrin.com
Hours of operation: 5:30 am 8 pm Monday through Friday and Saturdays 8am to 3 pm
Founded: 2003

Why did you start the business?
I built a lot of clients over the years and they encouraged me to continue on my own.

If you could do it again, what would you do differently?
I recently started a new program called 3rd dimension Fitness. It is a 40 minute 6 month
program that anybody can afford! With this program I am getting lots of members and I
don’t need personal trainers. I have created the program and it is on the process of
getting copy righted. So I regret that I didn’t think of it 5 years ago. But I guess, this is
part of what people call “business maturity” everything has a time and a place.

What's the best business advice your parents gave?
Do what you love to do and become the very best.

What personality trait helps you the most?
My creativity an my determination!

What's the hardest part of the job?
Meeting everybody’s needs and requirements on a
continues basis, while integrating new clients.

The easiest?
Make people lose tons of weight!

What's your least expensive product or service?
My new 40 minutes fitness for women called 3 rd Dimension Fitness.

The most expensive?
I believe my 12 week personal training fitness program.

Describe your worst customer or experience:
One day I wanted to attend the funeral of one of my clients. So I have to cancel a
training session with another client. Since this client did not believe my excuse. This
was a great disappointment to me because my relationships with my
clients is based on trust in meeting their goals.

When you leave the business, what will you do?

My hope is to become a writer on the fitness an business subjects.

In one sentence, tell us why customers should shop here.

Knowledge an expertise.