The story
The gym got him through it. Then it gave him a job to do.
Victor found training at 11, in his uncle T.C.’s trailer, on a single weight machine.
He came from a broken home. When things got bad, that machine was where he went.
He did not know much about lifting. He knew it made the noise stop.
That was 29 years ago. He has not stopped since. Through the worst stretch of his life,
years lost to drugs and alcohol, the gym was still the one thing that slowed everything
down. The longest he ever went without training was the 28 days he spent in rehab. He
walked out and went straight back to the bar.
Today Victor has been sober for almost 11 years. The physique, the strength and the
changes in the mirror came with the work. He will tell you plainly that none of it was
the point. The discipline, the habits and the mental strength he built in the gym are
what carried into the rest of his life.
The physical changes are the bonus. What you build inside yourself is what matters most.
He spent most of his working life in the oilfield and was content there until his body
gave out at 38 and that door closed. He could have called it the end of something.
Instead he took nearly three decades of experience and started giving it back.
That is where VV Training came from.
The VV is his initials. Turn the mark upside down and it reads as AA. That part is
his. It is on the logo because he does not hide where he came from, and because the
person walking in with a hard story is exactly who he knows how to coach.
