To be in good physical condition is more than merely a matter of corporal aesthetics, it goes further than the simple vanity of one who wants to show off a good body. In reality it is a philosophy, a way of life and a way of understanding life, a form of identity and above all a way of feeling complete inside and out.
This is how Viviana Soldano lives fitness within and without.

I think what fitness is to Viviana Soldano can be summed up in her own words: “I have always believed that my health is the most important thing and that if you feel good inside, you can see it on the outside.”

But you’ll get a better idea of how she thinks when she adds, “To try to make yourself feel good by other means is only temporary and simply ends up destroying you later in life.”

In other words, fitness for Viviana is about inner health before outer beauty, and you would have to admit, judging by the photos accompanying this article, that she looks like she might be very healthy indeed.

Viviana was born in Genoa, Italy under the sign of Scorpio, and possesses an interior strength appreciable after only a few minutes conversation. It might clash with some women to don’t take care themselves so well or think that the cult of the body is merely egocentricity run wild, but Viviana finds it a spiritual experience and has no doubt that it has brought her closer to God, and that it is thanks to Him that she has the capacity to do what she does with her body.

Before she took up weight training Viviana was very small and thin, she never ate much, in fact as a baby her mother was always worried because she ate so little. She dreamed that when she grew up she would be a tall and slim fashion model parading haute couture on the catwalk for her designer father. “I grew up in that environment and that’s how I thought the bodies of the most beautiful women had to be, very, very tall and very, very thin. Well, that was because I had never seen anything else, because I remember the first time I saw a bikini special in a muscle magazine; then I saw how much better those girls looked and I changed my idea of how the feminine body should be.”