Edna Jackeline Vazquez and Jeff Lung are entrepreneurs
The couple has just officially launched Vive Healthy Sport and Nutrition on 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood, achieving a goal that the ultra marathon runner has taken as a significant victory in her life.
"Life is the most valuable jewel
of humanity." There is nothing more significant or important than life. For this
reason Vive Healthy Sport and Nutrition was born. Vive Healthy is the largest project
that my husband and I have created. We have done it all with the desire to
serve the community, to help them achieve their personal and professional
goals, to help them discover their talents through sports and other recreational
activities such as fitness classes and educating through workshops that promote
living a happy and healthy lifestyle.
Vive Healthy Sport and Nutrition
was created under a lean model-services business model, where we provide the
most value to our customers through innovation, integration and inspiration to live
a healthy lifestyle.
I have been blessed growing up in
sports since my childhood in my native Monterrey, Nuevo León México. That has
continued through to my adult life, helping me achieve personal, professional
and athletic goals. The discipline and philosophy I have learned through
ultramarathoning has helped me throughout.
This is evident in the groups we have created at Vive Healthy where we
have incorporated the dynamic and energy of the participants through sport,
music, culture and language to extend their relationships and further reach
the mission of Vive Healthy.
The mission of Vive Healthy Sport
and Nutrition is: to build a strong community based on physical activity and healthy
lifestyle education. We have built our foundation on integrity,
inspiration and innovation for the development of our services while sharing
our values: service, unity, dignity, love, hard work, commitment, compassion,
perseverance, experience and leadership.
For this reason I am convinced
that sports, besides being an instrument of physical training or development,
is a lifestyle that gives you the necessary elements to adapt, grow, socialize
and establish goals through hard work and dedication, ultimately leading to the
strength, harmony and recognition of our society.
These elements help us build
bridges and links between human beings, neighbors, friends, family, co-workers
or other institutions to establish a dynamic of growth as part of the evolution
in society and the world.
Vive Healthy Sport and Nutrition
has the precise recipe for students to experience social coexistence by providing
the opportunity to participate with different cultures and languages while learning
new ideologies, beliefs, skills and exploring new areas of interest through
sports, art, music and nutrition programs.
My husband, Jeff Lung, a native
of Quincy, Illinois found comfort through sports in his childhood and later, his
strength in boxing. A 2015 Chicago Golden Gloves champion, he has incorporated
boxing in the development of personal programs as well as in the design of
group classes. In these programs he uses the training regimen of boxers as the
main basis for the dynamics of class.
The results that Vive Healthy
provides to the community day by day is social coexistence, adaptation,
cultural participation of its members; the
practice of respect, tolerance, understanding, mutual assistance, compassion
and love for others. Here at Vive Healthy Sport and Nutrition we focus on
welcoming everyone in a space where love, fraternity, integration, hard work,
creativity, admiration and inspiring one another with everyone’s results and
achievements are promoted.
Not all of this happened
overnight in some magical way. Vive Healthy is the sum of a group of people who
heard the voice of Edna and Jeff expressing their vision and mission for Vive Healthy’s
place in the Pilsen community. Among those responsible for Vive Healthy’s
creation is Siamak Mostoufi, a Chicago architect and interior designer who also
runs ultramarathons; Mark Falanga, a knowledgeable man who heard the vision of
Vive Healthy in the spring of 2017 and helped us make this dream come true; and
Miguel Gómez of Wintrust Bank, who on that morning just before the winter
holidays heard the frustrations and financial complexities encountered by a new
business and did all that he could to help. There is no magic, just preparation meeting
opportunity.
We opened our doors on February 5
at 6 am with our first class "Super HIIT” instructed by Jeff Lung.
Life is a journey of stages. Sometimes
it advances quickly, sometimes it advances slowly; everything requires patience
and intelligence to lead the way.
"Move more, eat healthy"
965 West 18th Street
Pilsen, Chicago, IL 60608
www.vivehealthysport.com
Ph. 312.624.9947
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