The last time Coss Marte was locked up, he knew he never wanted to go back to prison. Now, he’s back in his old neighborhood with a good kind of hustle: a no-equipment, high-intensity workout program.
Marte, 34, was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. When he was growing up, the neighborhood was marred with drugs, violence, and prostitution, before it became a trendy place to live. He vividly remembers the long lines of people on the block waiting to buy drugs.
