Escape Your Limits

Chris Luera has spent a lot of time behind bars, but now he swings from them. From gang life and drug abuse to competing for glory in fitness, he’s not only turned his life around to influence others with his positive change, but he’s also risen to the top of his fitness game as a world champion in calisthenics. It all starts with hope. Born into a family of drug addicted parents, Chris Luera was surrounded by social services and abuse from day one. His birth mother died when he was 18 months old, and he went into foster care aged two and a half. His biological father couldn’t cope.  Chris’ great aunt, aged 56, adopted Chris and took him in. His aunt and uncle became his mother and father. Despite this new loving environment, he’d began to experimented with drugs and was arrested by the age 11. He was smoking crack cocaine by 13, and descended into a life of gangs, crime and meth addiction between multiple prison sentences. What followed was an incredible turn around of positivity and giving back to the world