Chris Luera aka Tatted Strength - Episode 33

This weeks’ podcast is with Chris Luera, aka Tatted Strength. We first met Chris in 2017 when we were putting together the feature with him that appears in Issue 2. We hung out with him for an hour or so in the Sunshine of Muscle Beach LA listening to Chris’ incredible story. When we knew we would be back in that part of the world, we wanted to honour that story but putting it down on tape so to speak. We thought we knew what was coming, but we didn’t! We knew an outline of his story and not the fine details which is what you’re about to hear. To give you a slight inkling, Chris is now the 3 x middleweight WCO calisthenics world champion. Yet, he was born a drug addict from a mother who was also born to a drug addict. Chris himself was using drugs and in gangs in his early teenage years fed by the mindset of ‘I am who I am because of where I come from’. This led Chris by the time he was in his early 20’s to having already served 10 years in and out of various prison establishments. Listening to Chris talk at the time and re-listening to this podcast there are many subjects and tales that it’s simply hard to comprehend, yet one of the subjects that he comes back to time and time again is the love his adopted mother (his grand aunt by birth) showed him throughout his life, having adopted him as a three year old. It was ultimately that love that gave Chris the inspiration for getting to where he is today. And where Chris is today, is not only as a world champion, but also a man in service to the kid he once was, going into schools to connect and talk to those kids, to use his own words, ‘my mission is to help as many as I can’.