Victoria Kalina teaches a workout class—in her two-piece workout outfit. In a new social media post, the former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader shows off her insanely fit figure during a fitness class at Eve, a “Women Only Luxury Studio” that promotes “elevated movements intentionally designed for the strong and fierce female mind and body.” How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here’s everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.
In the hit Netflix series America’s Sweethearts, Victoria opens up about how she didn’t feel comfortable sharing her eating disorder with many DCCs. “I never wanted to bring it up because I feel like it’s such a conversation bomb,” she reveals to Vanity Fair“So I never let it come up unless it happened organically.” She did discuss it in the doc, though. “It’s a big battle that I’ll probably always have to fight. So it’s always been close to the surface,” she says, adding that sharing the secret “was almost a therapeutic release because it’s such a deep thing that I try to hide. But it’s part of who I am, and it’s part of what I struggle with. So it’s almost harder to hide it than to just be open and honest about it.”
During the COVID lockdown, when Kalina was robbed of her therapeutic escapes to the dance hall, her eating disorder worsened. “That’s when it got really bad and really serious,” she says. Eventually, she took a gap year during her DCC term and started seeing a therapist, sometimes twice a week. “She helped me find exercises or techniques that helped me find that strength within myself,” she says.
Victoria recently took up cycling. “Fitness is one of my many passions and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I enjoy cycling!” she wrote in a post. “Highly recommended: in these busy times, you can get a quick endorphin burst with a quick spin💕🤩💗.” Cleveland Clinic explains that cycling, a low-impact aerobic exercise, is great for building muscle, improving strength and flexibility, and improving balance. It can also improve mental health and help other health conditions, including arthritis.
Victoria loves reading. “I’m a huge bookworm,” she revealed during an Instagram Q&A. A Harvard Study A study published in Social Science & Medicine found that people who regularly read books were 20 percent less likely to die in the next 12 years, compared to people who didn’t read or read magazines.
Now that she’s no longer a cheerleader, Victoria plans to audition for the Rockettes. She currently lives in New York City and trains with a precision dance coach. “I didn’t want to [lose my] “I think I have a lot of momentum,” she explains. “Everyone has seen or noticed a different glow that New York has put on me.” Dancing is a great workout for many reasons. Not only does it build strength and improve flexibility, it also helps you lose weight and even improves cardiovascular function. A 2016 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that people who did moderate-intensity dancing were 46 percent less likely to develop or die from heart disease than non-dancers. In comparison, moderate-intensity walkers were only 25 percent less likely to have heart problems.