Joe is a fighter. Born 3 months premature, he was soon diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, a condition that can cause a loss of everything from vision to motor control of the arms and legs. He turned to fitness to help him overcome these issues, and he had to learn a wide range of fitness types, because traditional workouts and techniques did not work for him. After high school, he played basketball at Ulster County Community College for one season until an injury cut his time on the team short.
After that, he made it his mission to keep his fellow student athletes from the same fate. He began to study the science of exercise, first at the National Personal Training Institute in New Jersey and then at Long Island University. There, he volunteered with the head strength coach, Richard James, before interning at Iona College. After receiving an undergraduate degree in Exercise Science from LIU, he left New York for a summer to intern at Texas Christian University before returning to LIU as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach for the baseball and softball teams . For the next year and a half, he served as an assistant strength coach and in the summer of 2013 was the strength and conditioning coach for the Shelter Island Bucks in the Hampton summer league. Then, the following winter he was offered a job as a strength and conditioning coach for the Brooklyn cyclones a minor league affiliate of the New York Mets, where he spent three years working with legendary strength coach Mike Barawis, former Michigan Wolverine strength coach and owner of Barawis Methods.
Post-Mets, he worked at various performance centers before setting up his own business: Controlled Madness Human Performance, which he operates throughout NYC. Training everyone form youth athlete to professional He also teaches Exercise Science and is the strength coach for the baseball and softball teams at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University.