Chris Lewarne, Esq.

Tomorrow, I’m 1 year, 9 months sober. My son is 6 months (in age, 2 years in size🦍). And my business is 5 days open. Come celebrate Saturday 11:20 in my INSANITY class cause I still can’t believe it all happened so fast and I’m insanely grateful…🙏

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Could not have said it any better than my brother in 🦾s, 🥹

DM if you want to try his class at 5:30pm tonight or mine at 6:45 for@soft open..

Today Mama’s on her PAKT walk so this guy “helped” Papa chair his morning AA meeting by blowing fart noises from his mouth (new trick) every time someone started sharing in the group then having a HUGE blowout💩 all over daddy’s shirt that made us have to go off camera for a sink shower. Then he decided to cut his nap time to only 30 min to free up room for fussy time on his schedule📆… (but still one of my favourite Saturday mornings..🩶)

Dear Lenny,
On your first Mother’s Day, I wanted you to know some things…

A little note to my Son on his first Mother’s Day.

𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄’𝙢 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙎𝙤 𝙄 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙. 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨.

( To The Future. Can’t wait for this encore…)

“The Hustle”

When my best friend Adrian died, I drifted away from law into boxing and bartending, and eventually touched down and took root in studio fitness. I felt like I belonged for the first time in a long time.

My favourite slogan was written at the entrance to the NOHO redroom. “The Dream is Free; But The Hustle’s Sold Separately.” And man I hustled. Teaching 25-35 classes a week (8 in a day, once), taking every media request that reached out to me, chasing a dream I didn’t know I was already living.

Admittedly, it was super ego-endorsing to see myself in the New York Post and on the morning shows, and have to get off dating apps because random stalkers would show up outside different studios around the city. Life was prideful as a z-list “celebrity” in NYC. And it was all about me at first. My visibility. My popularity. My following. My waitlists. My Self, capital S.

I know some may think this sounds like a long-winded humble-brag, but what’s important—and what took me time to learn—was that I was never about following. It was about BELONGING. Doing well in this game doesn’t make you a rockstar. It’s more like a conductor. I can’t play the notes for the orchestra any more than I can do your workout for you or “make you” sweat. (I’m lucky if I can keep the beat and time your sprints properly). And it certainly wasn’t me that made me happy, it was YOU. From the fuel bar to the front desk to the facilities staff I joke around with before and after class, to every client, not just allowing me—but PAYING me—to stand at the center of a room and watch you do incredible, beautiful things in front of me.

The fitness community that has spanned two countries for me, that embraced me at a really hard time in my life, that SUSTAINS me to this day—that’s the dream. It’s a place where I found my people where I found my life, where I found my wife (and we even made a little fitness BABY!). We are about to launch our own community-first brand in . It’s scary. It’s exciting. But I know it’s the right thing so long as we keep living the dream. Together.

I’m my high-viz/dusty-chic era.

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I’m 518 days sober today.

That’s 518 ‘just for todays’.

518 ‘one day at a times’.

518 mornings to wake up knowing I’m not a lot alone, that when my shoulders grow weary from pushing the boulder up that hill, I’m hefted by my community and my higher power — by shoulders far broader than my own.

518 nights where I go to sleep in the comfort of my wife’s love (and now my son’s), in the knowledge that I treated the world, not with conflict, but with kindness that day, and it was returned in kind.

518 days has brought me a new life, a renewed strength from faith in the people around me, the people I love and that love me. And even a new chance to share that strength with others in the venture I’m building with Karina.

518 days ago I was barely able to scrape myself off of my workshop floor to walk my dogs. Today we are putting out our first job posting to hire our first employee with .

518 days can go by in a flash when you really love them. And I thank God and all of you for each and every one.

Leo me. .