Brandon Martinez is a former Professional Baseball Player in the Canadian American League as an outfielder, and currently one of the top Fitness Coaches in the country for Orangetheory Fitness.
New Jersey born and raised Brandon Martinez was an All American in High School, a JUCO and NCAA champion, and signed as a free agent to play professionally for the Canadian American Baseball League for 2 different teams in 2018 (Quebec Capitals and the Rockland Boulders). Once Brandon’s baseball career had finished he took his knowledge from the game and dedication to becoming involved within the world of fitness where he would currently be known as one of the top Orangetheory Fitness Coaches in the country
EARLY LIFE Brandon Martinez was born November 14th 1994, in the Ridgewood New Jersey Hospital and grew up in River Edge, New Jersey. Brandon being an only child had all the attention for learning and growing from his father Angelo and mother Deborah. Always involved with a constant work ethic to be set up for success. Angelo, Brandon’s father who was Brandon’s trainer and mentor throughout his athletic careers during Baseball, Football, Track & Field, Swimming, Wrestling, Karate, and Boxing. His mother Deborah was Brandon’s number supporter throughout his educational achievements and always being positive in pursuing what ultimately developed Brandon into a successful and great human being. Dominating in a majority of the sports Brandon was involved in he managed to mainly focus on his talents in Baseball. By the time Brandon was a sophomore in high school, high level divisions for college and some professional attention was being noticed through Brandon’s success on the field. Earning “All League, All County, All State, and All American” awards at River Dell High School in New Jersey along with many clutch performances and championship appearances in the playoffs would soon open doors for Brandon’s career to take off.
EARLY LIFE Brandon Martinez was born November 14th 1994, in the Ridgewood New Jersey Hospital and grew up in River Edge, New Jersey. Brandon being an only child had all the attention for learning and growing from his father Angelo and mother Deborah. Always involved with a constant work ethic to be set up for success. Angelo, Brandon’s father who was Brandon’s trainer and mentor throughout his athletic careers during Baseball, Football, Track & Field, Swimming, Wrestling, Karate, and Boxing. His mother Deborah was Brandon’s number supporter throughout his educational achievements and always being positive in pursuing what ultimately developed Brandon into a successful and great human being. Dominating in a majority of the sports Brandon was involved in he managed to mainly focus on his talents in Baseball. By the time Brandon was a sophomore in high school, high level divisions for college and some professional attention was being noticed through Brandon’s success on the field. Earning “All League, All County, All State, and All American” awards at River Dell High School in New Jersey along with many clutch performances and championship appearances in the playoffs would soon open doors for Brandon’s career to take off. 0
As the dream of playing for Coastal Carolina University which was the school Brandon worked so hard to have an opportunity to reaching another championship or the pro level, his dream was cut short and in the spring of 2016 Brandon would then transfer and finish the rest of his junior year, last 2 years of education and baseball at a local school Ramapo College in New Jersey with the hopes of still playing professionally. Brandon would be known as one of the most dominant players in the conference and country for their division during the 2016-17 season. In 2016 Brandon in his first year in the NJAC conference was able to help Ramapo win their first conference championship in over 15 years along with a regional tournament bid to play for yet another championship and trip to another college world series. Brandon’s senior year 2017, with 2 college championships under his belt would seem to be only missing now a contract to start his professional career. As Brandon dominated nearly every category of stats. Reaching a consecutive conference championship appearance in the playoffs Brandon’s team unfortunately lost in a heartbreaking finish and would not have a chance to continue playing in the playoffs where his final college season had ended. As the MLB draft went on and finished with all of the 2017 picks, Brandon’s name was not selected. Brandon, devastated, was lost in what his next chapter in life would be. Baseball was Brandon’s life and passion and now the dream of ever playing again was seeming to be finally over. This became very tough for him to accept the reality that this truly might be the end of the road. A year went by and Brandon still had some education to finish and would find himself involved in an acting job as an extra for the baseball movie “ Bottom of the 9th” starring Joe Manganiello and Sophia Vergara and in 2018 Brandon would earn his Bachelor’s degree at Ramapo College for Social Science. Brandon decided after a year without playing baseball he would go to a free agent tryout for the Canadian American Baseball League for the Rockland Boulders in the spring of 2018. Brandon was released by the Boulders after extended tryouts had ended and was contacted by another team in the league to play for them. Brandon had finally signed his first professional contract with the Quebec Capitals from Canada. His contract was only temporary, but Brandon took advantage of every moment he could being on the field.
After being released by the Capitals, Brandon was contacted by the team he originally tried out for and the Rockland Boulders out of Pomona, NY would now be the 2nd professional team Brandon would end up playing for. Brandon would finally end his baseball career all together with the Boulders and his next chapter of life would now begin.
Post Playing Career Brandon has always taken his physical fitness training very seriously. In the fall of 2018 Starting out with a local gym job with little education with how the body actually works under the certain stress levels before, during, after a workout Brandon would self educate and learn day by day how people’s body’s would change throughout time and which workouts were properly suited for some more than others. Orangetheory Fitness, being a group fitness heart rate zone based interval training system, was something that had caught Brandon’s attention. Besides the financial benefits of being an Orangetheory coach, Brandon loved the product itself which was the workout. Brandon when he was done with his clients at the local gym would spend time either taking Orangetheory classes or learning what they do from the coaches who taught there. Brandon finally made the jump and committed to becoming overall more educated through fitness certification studies, and on the job training itself. Brandon would go through a week of job training that involved learning terms used throughout a class, how to become comfortable applying your own personality and public speaking skills on the microphone to deliver a class, how to use the equipment, and overall coach a class. Brandon would complete his coaching training in the summer of 2019 and was sent to coach at the Hackensack studio in New Jersey, which has been one of the most successful studios in the world. Currently Brandon currently is still working for Orangetheory Fitness for the Hackensack studio in New Jersey as a coach. His skills have made drastic improvements from the beginning to where he is now which is a well known coach and looks to continue improving each and every day.