Early life and career
Valentin George Bosioc was born on 13 January 1983 in the city of Reșița, and spent his childhood in Bocșa, Romania. [2] [10] [11] His father Iosif was a football player, while his brother Bogdan Ionuț is a handball instructor. [10] [12] Starting with the age of 13 Bosioc showed special interest in bodybuilding and began taking judo, mixed martial arts, boxing, calisthenics, football, rugby and aikido classes, among others. [2] [13] [14] While attending the Tata Oancea High School in Bocșa, Romanian boxer Francisc Vaștag desired to scout him, but he eventually refused the offer. [10]
Bosioc later graduated from the Politehnica University of Timișoara, receiving a degree in engineering. [2] He worked in this field for a short period of time, as well as in public relations and journalism, [2] [10] [15] [16] but gave up to pursue a career as a professional bodybuilder, fitness model, fitness instructor, personal trainer and nutritionist, for which he studied in Romania and the United Kingdom. [2] [3] [10] He's also certified at Nutritional Coaching Institute [17] with Nutrition L1 & L2, and also Hormone Specialist. Bosioc rose to prominence by winning Musclemania Paris and placing second in an IFBB Romania competition in November 2015, among other prizes. [2] [10] [12] [18] [19] In 2018, he also appeared on the first season of Ninja Warrior România, [20] managing to reach the semi-finals. [21]
A master trainer at Fitness Education School in Bucharest, Romania as of December 2018, [2] [10] Bosioc has worked with several celebrities, most notably with Romanian singer Delia Matache and Cronica Cârcotașilor host Ioana Petric., [3] [10] [22] or Maria Popovici, [23] Puya, Corina, [24] or Cristina Huidu. [25] [26]
He has been credited as an influencer and is signed to Romanian agency Global Influencers. [27] Cotidianul and Biz labelled him one of the most influential fitness bloggers in Romania, [28] [29] with him also being the most followed Romanian sportsperson on Facebook (7th person overall in the country as of February 2019). [30] [31] [32] [33] He has written a few books, two of them were The Path to Perfect Abs and Get Guns, as well as developed his own training concept, Full Body Ignition (FBI). [2] [34] As of April 2020, he has been uploading workout videos to his YouTube channel for over eleven years and also uses his social media and Facebook page for similar scopes. [35]
Recently he appeared in SmartJob Podcast by EuropaLibera, [36] he's been invited to BZI Live [37] and he helped Maria Popovici with her fitness journey. [38] [39]
Recently Bosioc had Alan Aragon [40] invited as a guest in his podcast, where they talked [41] about real evidence-based nutrition, facts and myths in the fitness industry.
Since then he is helping Romanian women to achieve hormonal balance and to change their entire life through FullBodyIgnition (FBI) platform. [42]
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