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KNO W WHO Y OU ARE AND
WHAT Y OU WANT
TONY GREC O // GREC O FITNES S
Tony Greco is Canada’s leading fitness specialist Rangers) and Mike Fisher (Nashville Predators), to
and the founder of Greco Fitness. In the early name a few. Tony has also created programs for and
1990s, Tony along with his friend Paolo took a personally trained country star Carrie Underwood
$10,000 venture loan to begin what has now and former supermodel Carol Alt.
grown into the leading boutique-fitness gym
in Canada and will soon expand to the U.S. He is a top graduate of the Sports Performance
Starting a business from scratch is not easy. Institute, and his certification exceeded the
Everything Tony has learned about business guidelines established by the National Fitness
and wellness came from passion, dedication, Leaders Advisory Council in personal training,
and hard work. He doesn’t give up, and his strength training, and aerobics instruction. Tony
record shows it. Tony won the IAKSA World Kick continues to go above and beyond with each
Boxing Championship title in 1995. In 2016, Greco aspect of his amazing fitness program, in which
Fitness merged with a team of successful Ottawa franchisees and clients alike reap the benefits.
business investors and the well-established New-
York-based Integrity Square, an early-stage- None of this would have been possible without
growth investor in the HALO (health, active his determination, passion, and discipline. His
lifestyle and outdoors) sector. motto, “Know who you are and what you want,”
has always guided him through his business
Tony is frequently sought out by some of the career, relationships, financial decisions, and
biggest names in the NHL. He has trained Claude health choices.
Giroux (Philadelphia Flyers), Dan Boyle (New York
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