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Family Fitness and Sports Training Center
About Us
THE GYM MAPLEWOOD is a sports training center with a focus on family fitness. Our trainers and staff are committed to helping you achieve your fitness, health, and athletic goals.
We have lived in the SOMA area for more than a decade, we have kids who play sports, and we play sports ourselves. Our model is based on the needs of our families and the families we've gotten to know through our children, our teams, and our previous training facility, The Gym on Springfield.
Our training staff has more than 30 years of combined experience. We are on a mission to find the best trainers and coaches for our sports clinics and workshops. Our certified Functional Sports Therapy will provide healing therapy to balance your day to day stress and your fitness training.
Our Team
Timothy Reynolds
Managing Director
Personal Trainer
Tim Reynolds has been a personal trainer for the past 20 years. He has trained clients of all fitness levels, from beginners to professional athletes. Some of his clients have worked with him for a decade or more. Tim began is training career at Peter Anthony Fitness in Soho and Tribeca, and then moved on to Body Reserve and Harbor Fitness in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In 2005 Tim opened his first Maplewood, NJ facility, The gym on Springfield. He'll bring all that he's learned through these experience to THE GYM MAPLEWOOD.
As a result of his long-time training experience, Tim has developed his own system of assessing his clients and helping them understand their bodies. He calls it The Neuromuscular Imbalance Postural Assessment, NIPS for short.
Rafal Kazanecki
Fitness Director
Personal Trainer
Rafal Kazanecki has been a strength coach and a personal trainer for over 10 years, working with all levels of clients, from beginner, to advanced clients. He previously served as the Head Coach Consultant for a professional volleyball team in Poland and also has worked as a strength coach for basketball and volleyball players in the U.S. Over the past 10 years he has trained clients at Motion Fitness in Millburn and the Gym on Springfield, among other facilities.
Rafal's clients have recorded great progress through his guidance and their hard word, one achieving 100lbs of weight loss in one year while maintaining her muscle mass and significantly improving her strength. Others have gained strength, improved their game, stayed injury free throughout prevention techniques or recovered through rehabilitation, Rafa'ls favorite training methods involve kettlebell, sandbags, and Olympic lifting techniques.
Benjamin -Paul Velarde
CSCS, USAW
Sports Athletic Conditioning
Graduated with Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science and Concentration in Nutrition from The University of Scranton. During his time at the school, Ben assisted with the Strength and Conditioning Coach to help improve the performance for their Division III Athletic Department, and baseball/softball. Since his graduation, Ben specializes in strength/conditioning training and speed and agility movement patterns, for optimizing high level performance for each individual athlete he has worked with, whether through team and group trainings to 1-on-1 training. He has worked with young middle school, high school and college athletes from multiple sports background to professional athletes that play in the CFL, professional volleyball and soccer players that play overseas. Ben, who has a previous track of physical therapy, has used that experience with many of his athletes. He uses it to build programs for athletes to help bridge the gap between physical therapy and performance training.
Dan Bielitz
Baseball Trainer
Dan Bielitz is a dedicated baseball coach with over a decade of experience developing student-athletes and leading successful programs. Currently an Assistant Varsity Coach at Chatham High School, he helped guide the team to its first-ever Morris County Finals appearance in 2024. Bielitz has held coaching roles at multiple levels, including Head Coach for 13U travel baseball and both JV and Varsity programs at St. Mary High School, where he contributed to the 2019 NJ Non-Public B State Championship. A former NJCAA and NCAA DII player, he is NFHS Coaching Certified, CPR/AED certified, and skilled in player development, in-game strategy, and baseball analytics technologies.
Jesus Feliz
Baseball Trainer
Jesus Feliz is a former professional baseball player with six seasons in the Minnesota Twins organization, competing in the Dominican Summer League, Gulf Coast League, and U.S. minor leagues. Primarily an infielder, he appeared in 182 minor league games, recording 160 hits, 80 RBIs, and 20 stolen bases, with a career batting average of .245 and a .418 slugging percentage. A native of the Dominican Republic, Feliz now looks forward to continuing to share his baseball knowledge and passion through coaching, bringing first-hand professional experience and a deep love for the game to developing young athletes in fundamental skills, game strategy, and preparation for success on and off the field.
Sean Brown
Baseball Trainer
Sean Brown is a collegiate baseball player and youth baseball coach from West Orange, N.J., majoring in Sport Management at Caldwell University. A Montclair High School graduate and former Rowan South Jersey–Gloucester player, Sean has excelled at Caldwell, earning Academic Honor Roll honors in 2024 and 2025. Over two seasons, he posted a .280 batting average with 70 hits, 36 RBIs, and 20 stolen bases, while contributing defensively with 120 putouts and 178 assists. Since January 2023, Sean has coached with Untamed Baseball in Kenilworth, N.J., specializing in skill development, team building, and fostering a safe, positive environment for youth athletes
Alana works as a personal trainer, basketball coach, and teacher. She played soccer and basketball at Columbia High School and then walked on to the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Alana graduated from Rutgers with a master’s degree in elementary and special education and now teaches in Maplewood. She has coached basketball for the past seven years, coaching both youth girls and the high school team at Columbia. Alana has a strong passion for fitness and athletics and is so excited to be working at The Gym!
Alana Ferruggiaro
Personal Trainer
Keith Peters
Personal Trainer
Keith has over 25 years of personal training and health club management experience. Keith began his career at the Montclair YMCA over 25 years
ago where he trained individuals from 12-70 years of age. Keith was promoted to the Fitness coordinator position at the YMCA. In that role he
handled fitness testing for members as well as staff management responsibilities, and fund-raising efforts. Keith also served as the strength and conditioning coach for the YMCA swim team during that time. Keith has also been the manager of the Pritikin Longevity Center formerly in Santa Monica, California. Between 2009-2019 he built and managed the personal training program at East Side Fitness. During that time, he took
over as the manager of East Side Fitness in Maplewood, NJ. Keith has an extremely loyal client base. Keith currently trains clients at “The Gym” in Maplewood as well as in their homes throughout Morris, Union, and Essex counties. Keith loves being a part of the team at The Gym in Maplewood and looks forward to helping them grow for years to
come.
Andrea Partland
Trainer & Wellness Specialist
Andrea brings nearly 30 years of experience in fitness and wellness, helping people move with strength, confidence, and ease at every stage of life. For her, fitness goes beyond sets and reps—it’s about mental resilience, empowerment, and self-discovery as much as physical training. Certified as a Hatha Yoga Instructor, Personal Fitness Trainer, Health/Fitness Specialist, and Corrective Exercise Specialist, Andrea blends these disciplines to create personalized programs that honor the whole person, leaving clients not only fitter but more balanced, centered, and confident.
