Easy ways to stay fit at HOME!

Hey everyone, my name is Marco Lavia, I attend Humber College and I am
enrolled in the Sports Management program. I am currently in my second of
third year, and an intern at Victory Volleyball.

My interests are sports, I've been playing various types of sports my
whole life, and my favorite sport is soccer. Soccer has been a big part of
my life, and because of soccer I really believe in healthy living for
everyone!.

Being healthy is so important for us, being healthy makes us live longer.
Being healthy makes not only feel good but makes us LOOK GOOD!. Now I know
its hard for everyone to be on a healthy diet, or go to the gym with our
busy life styles, but I would love to share to everyone that you can do a
great work out in your OWN HOME! These will be 4 easy exercises you can do
around your own home that will guide you to a healthy living life style.
Stair climbing - Easy way to get a quick work out going.
Laundry lifts - Fill the laundry basket with cloths, make sure not to
heavy, lift over your head, or do some crunches with it.
Commercial break exercise - during commercials, move a round, stretch and
grab a lightweight.
Rolling chair presses - If you have an office chair with wheels hold onto
the edge of your desk while you are seated use your arm muscles to pull
yourself close to the desk, and then push yourself back away.
Follow these simple steps and you will feel fit, and it's a great way to
start a living healthy life style in your OWN HOME! 

Thanks everyone hope these little things help out, getting healthy is
start as well try to eat healthy, gets your veggies,and fruit servings
you need for the day, as well STAY MOTIVATED THROUGH THE PROCESS!

Marco Lavia 

Getting In Shape - A Victory Or Not?

As I began my journey at Victory on January 2^nd, 2012, I was fresh off of two weeks of over eating, zero exercise and some very casual alcohol consumption.   As I began my first week of work, there was much discussion around the office about the holidays, and how devastatingly out of shape everyone felt.  Having such a dynamic and motivated staff (minus Jimmy), we decided that it was time to sweat out the excess cargo we picked up over the Christmas holidays.  It became a necessity that everyone brought their gym clothes to work every day, and we began our workouts doing the Beach Body Insanity Cardio circuits.  We did this fairly consistently for a few weeks, but eventually began to find new workouts and methods of getting in shape.  We brought in a chin up bar and an ab wheel, and developed a quota for how many chin-ups and sit-ups needed to be done every day.  We managed to meet the quota every day, while doing some p90x workouts intermittently.  About a month had gone by, and everyone was feeling great and looking great!  We had done it – we were skinny and healthy again! Sounds like a Fairy tale ending, right? Wrong.  If staying in shape and exercising all the time were that easy, everyone would find time to look healthy and feel great.  However, life gets in the way.  With the inaugural Healthy Hearts Tournament coming up, working out suddenly got thrown onto the back burner.  Just one week off can’t hurt though right? Wrong again.  Just as our Healthy Hearts tournament concluded, our inspiration and guiding light, Rachelle, decided she deserved a vacation!  With her gone, we attempted to do some work-outs, but we were missing the motivation to really push ourselves! So now here we are, two weeks after Healthy Hearts, fresh off another week of eating poorly and not exercising enough. However, we have just made new quotas for our daily workouts and consciously turned down a Burger King lunch!  Will today be the day that Victory turns it around? Stay Tuned for my next blog and find out if we are looking great or gaining weight!

Shawn Lowry