1.Tell us about your work.  How long have you been in the fitness world and what has been your career path?
I started teaching fitness when I was 18 … in 1999
I remember doing the Isef, Higher Institute of Physical Education, and in the moments when I didn’t go to school I taught in a gym in Rapallo. My first work experience … if I think about it I laugh … in those times I used to write everything and I felt so clumsy … In 2001 I graduated, immediately after I attended the integrative year of motor sciences to the University of Turin and I started my career in several gyms.
Let’s say that it was becoming easier and easier to stay in a fitness room and teach, and I liked it so much that in 2004, after taking my degree, I decided to undertake the experience of entrepreneur of a gym called Everfit, which I had until  to 2007.
I taught fitness and continued to study, in the meantime I attended the fitness conventions that were all over Italy.  The most important in those times was Rimini wellness which for a couple of years was made in Florence;  There I went up on the Crunch stage (year 2004) … it was a big stage and I was so thrilled!  I had taught kardio kombat.  For me it was a small dream come true … to get on a stage and entertain people.
In addition to teaching in the gym, I liked organizing charity sporting events, for example for the earthquake victims in Emilia or in favor of the Sla. I always liked it and it seemed right to do what I did best, to help those who needed it most.  In 2004 I attended various training courses of various disciplines but always specializing in boxing … fitboxe.
In 2011 I met Luigi Roncaglio, who gave me the opportunity to get to know ironboxe (from the fitboxing family).  Kicks and punches to the sack to the rhythm of music!  Together with him I went on the stage of Rimini wellness and I was there for many years … until 2015.
I spent the winter season in various stages of Italy, I met many professionals and artists including the legendary Jill Cooper.  Professionals with a lot of humility.  I learned that only by turning could I open my mind and teach better and better.
In these years of fitness I was also assisting the trainees of physical sciences of the University of Genoa and I was an assistant to Professor Scotton Claudio of the University of Asti. Unique experiences that remain!

Years later (if I remember correctly June 2016) I started working with the movida fitness team! A wonderful discipline for me! I met the creator Sergio Gio Bandanas, with whom I grew up professionally, and together with him and his wife Elena Di Stefano (now a great friend) and the whole team, we turn the stages of Rimini wellness and high-level conventions. My great experience in fitness was this year that I was called on the stage of Bibione beach fitness 2019 … (another dream that came true). I taught  Reejam together with my friend Babi Fabbri. Reejam is a discipline of Laura Cristina and Ivan Robustelli.
It has opened another chapter in my life that I am really proud of. I seem to be a little girl of the times while I dance reejam, it opened my mind and I’m discovering things about myself that I didn’t know. I love to dance but hip hop in a particular way.
And so I started to study things unknown to me and now I can say that together with movida fitness is what I like most to do, after all we dance and have fun. The body comes to life and inspiration and becomes one with the music.

2. What was your greatest job satisfaction?
Having loved fitness and physical activity in general to those who didn’t even know it.  When you do what you love, you transmit it

3. How do you fight physical fatigue?
Good question.
Magnesium vitamin supplement
C vitamin
Amino acids
And a lot of training ….
The more you train, the less fatigue you feel.
Do you think I have a broken anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus …
The more I train the more I go on!

4. What are the main qualities that a fitness instructor must have in your opinion?
Enthusiasm
Humility
Carisma

5. Nutrition advice?
Eat lean …. because the less fat there is, the more comfortable you are with your body and the better you can move.
5 meals a day
A good breakfast first ..

6. What was the worst moment in your life?
The death of my father
It has destabilized me a lot but I admit that my work / passion has helped me to go beyond everything.
It is difficult to make other people smile when you are hurt inside, but it is a way to try to look beyond.  I mean, I love making those in need smile and so … my job has been to get myself over the pain

7. You have today and you have had many “pupils” over the years.  What teaching could you learn from them?
Yes, some have become fitness teachers and from whom I was able to take inspiration and learn new things.  And other students have become confidant friends

8. The 3 favorite songs?
Stupendo

Obviously by Vasco Rossi

9. Your dream in the drawer?
Look, I really fulfilled them all on a professional level
Now I would like to get married and have a son

10. How have you changed compared to twenty year old Valentina?
On a working level, obviously very …
Maybe I don’t have the same explosive charge anymore … (I can’t judge this) I try to be more moderator.  Before I demanded a lot from the students, now I try to make them understand that they must above all have fun and, if they want results, seek them by striving and working hard when we teach.
I have a lot more fun and so it’s much easier from a point of view …
But I’m definitely more tired … well I’m not 20 anymore

11. A person you feel you have to say thank you to?
My father.
All that is positive I owe to him.  He took me to Isef, helped me find out what I love to do, and his good heart passed it on to me.  And I’m proud of it

12. When you have tension to release, what do you do?
I train in the weight room with loud music in my ears.
I jump until my heart explodes.
Or I can have a nice whirlpool and sauna

13. You have always been a God  believer.  How does this help you in life?  Have you ever had moments when you questioned your faith?
It helps me get better
To believe that there is a reason for everything and that our destiny is already written … you just have to have a lot of trust.  This thought that I have never makes me question what I believe.  It gives me a hand in moments of difficulty, in the controversies that arise in the courses between the students.  In short, I think that thinking about the positive, good things come.

14. The most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?
I haven’t traveled much in my life but for that little I have in my heart Barcelona, ​​the magic fountains of the Spanish Steps.  I remember being amazed by such beauty.
Barcelona is a magical city.

15. How much grit does it take to keep doing your job after so many years?
Passion, love for what I do
I really like dancing so much that being able to do it makes me feel good.
It is an immense fortune to be able to wake up every morning smiling for what I do

16. Are men and women treated in the same way or have you ever experienced discrimination of any kind in your workplace?
No fortunately in my job we are treated all the same, in fact the males are often much better

17. Has the world of fitness changed over the years?
Absolutely yes!
Now a training weekend is enough to teach .. before you had to have experience in the sector and a qualification.
It is certainly easier to make yourself known to the beginner, because there are many gyms looking for economic teachers.

18. Now you work with children.  Can you tell us about it?  What are the positive and negative aspects of your new job?
I support children with a disability.  The only negative is that you never know enough to help them.  There are many positive aspects, to help them, to see them smile, to teach them to grow.
They are happiness made in person, they are pure and we should learn from them to see everything more easily.

19. What are you wearing right now?
Suit and shirt

20. What is your biggest fear?
Suffering for health

21. A happy memory of when you were a child?
Christmas
I remember my grandmother Iris playing the piano closed in a room and we singing around with her, then magically after midnight we found gifts under the tree with the window open …
It was a splendid magic for us children.  I was very excited

22. Do you remember a day when you realized you pushed your body too far?  How do you deal with those moments?
I stop and eat …
In conventions it happens that we don’t have time to eat and the body collapses.  The symptom is dizziness .. legs trembling … and eyesight lowering, so take supplements or eat something

23. Your worst flaw and your best value?
Worst defect is my character …
You always see what I think …
I would say my kindness …
I can’t feel a grudge

24. Good intentions for the new year?
Always grow inside and learn new things especially in working with children.

25. A phrase or quote that represents you?
Live every moment of life with the awareness that it will never return