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A big thank you to @joellegarguilo from @abc7ny for highlighting the Conbody founders @cossmarte story.

The mission has always remained the same; help improve people’s health and provide second chances to the formerly incarcerated. ❤️💪🏽

Here are some great quotes from both Coss and Joelle:

“A fitness empire built on second chances.” - Joelle

“In the confines of solitary confinement, what seemed like an ending would become his beginning.” - Joelle

“How do you start from ground zero and give some one a humanistic opportunity?” - Coss

“We have seen the rates of recidivism drop after employment.” - Coss

Lastly, should Mark Wahlberg play Coss in the biopic of his life story? 🎞️ 🎥 Who would you cast?

We hire formerly incarcerated individuals to teach prison-style bootcamp classes in efforts to give this community a second chance in life. 🙌🏽 Chose from 50+ On- Demand cardio strength training classes using just your own bodyweight and show us how you #DOTHETIME

#prisonreform #prisonreformmovement #fitnessjourney #fitnessstudio #socialimpactbusiness #changingperceptions #socialjustice #positivereinforcement #dontsettle #businessideas #believeinyourself #focusonyourself #successstory #reinventyourself #reentry #workoutonline #fitnessonline #onlineworkout#zoomworkout #fitnessondemand

😅 Watch the full interview and see @theellenshow sweat with CONBODY 💪🏽 Today @ 3pm EST on @nbc

#ellenshow #theellenshow

May is Mental Health Awareness month and we are starting it off with a personal mini portrait of @mikericehealth .

Listen in as Mike shares some of his struggles after being released.

Stay tuned for more episodes. Remember to take care of yourself. ❤️

#mentalhealthawarenessmonth

A story of resilience and persistence highlighted by THE GUARDIAN. We’ve have an incredible 2 weeks engaging with our community in person over the screenings of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY.

We have a few more screenings today. Stop by the DCTV FIREHOUSE and joins us for the evening. LINK IN BIO.

A story of resilience and persistence highlighted by THE GUARDIAN. We’ve have an incredible 2 weeks engaging with our community in person over the screenings of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY.

We have a few more screenings today. Stop by the DCTV FIREHOUSE and joins us for the evening. LINK IN BIO.

A story of resilience and persistence highlighted by THE GUARDIAN. We’ve have an incredible 2 weeks engaging with our community in person over the screenings of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY.

We have a few more screenings today. Stop by the DCTV FIREHOUSE and joins us for the evening. LINK IN BIO.

A story of resilience and persistence highlighted by THE GUARDIAN. We’ve have an incredible 2 weeks engaging with our community in person over the screenings of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY.

We have a few more screenings today. Stop by the DCTV FIREHOUSE and joins us for the evening. LINK IN BIO.

A story of resilience and persistence highlighted by THE GUARDIAN. We’ve have an incredible 2 weeks engaging with our community in person over the screenings of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY.

We have a few more screenings today. Stop by the DCTV FIREHOUSE and joins us for the evening. LINK IN BIO.

A story of resilience and persistence highlighted by THE GUARDIAN. We’ve have an incredible 2 weeks engaging with our community in person over the screenings of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY.

We have a few more screenings today. Stop by the DCTV FIREHOUSE and joins us for the evening. LINK IN BIO.

A story of resilience and persistence highlighted by THE GUARDIAN. We’ve have an incredible 2 weeks engaging with our community in person over the screenings of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY.

We have a few more screenings today. Stop by the DCTV FIREHOUSE and joins us for the evening. LINK IN BIO.

We are screening our documentary at DCTV FIREHOUSE CINEMA. Seats are filling up fast. This was an 8+ year journey documenting the @conbody journey and all the incredible people involved.

GRAB A TICKET NOW 🎟️ LINK IN BIO

DATES: The series will be shown across three nights: 6:30pm Tuesday, April 28th, Wednesday, April 29th, and Friday, May 1st.

WHERE: DCTV Firehouse Cinema - 87 Lafayette Street, entrance around the corner on White Street (nearest subway: Canal)

NYC Theatrical Premiere of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY - Sunday, April 26! Please join us at
12:30 pm on April 26 for an immersive special screening of CONBODY VS EVERYBODY followed
by a Q&A with filmmaker Debra Granik and Conbody Founder, Coss Marte. Shown in two parts
with an intermission.
Screening location:
@metrograph
7 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002
Link to tickets in bio
Meerkats @eric_phhhh and @seen.hanley served as Co-DPS!!
Directed by Debra Granik, Conbody vs Everybody is an immersive portrait of life after prison, and
the steep obstacles that ex-cons face as they try to reenter a society that does not welcome them.
If you can’t make this screening, the series will be screened over three nights at @dctvny on April
28, 29, & May 1.
We hope to see you there!
#conbodyvseverybody #metrograph

Thank you for celebrating on 4/18 with us. A memorable day with the community ❤️.

Join us for a FREE outdoor yoga class as part of @conbudny Infuse the Block block party. Led by @nucellf and sponsored by @purebeautypurebeauty , we’re shutting down the streets and bringing the energy outside.

Flow with us, then stay for an epic block party—live performances, activations, and nonstop vibes all day.

📍 Outside 102 Orchard St.
🕒 2-3PM
🧘‍♂️ Mats provided. Good energy required.

Sign up with link in bio.

The room laughed when he said it.
That's usually how it goes when the vision is bigger than the circumstances.

Coss Marte got out and built exactly what they said couldn't be done.

🎙️ REAL Mentors Podcast. Link in bio.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison every year. The vast majority of them—approximately two-thirds—will likely be rearrested within three years of their release. In many instances, these individuals find themselves becoming another recidivism statistic, as they exit prison to return to the same challenging conditions that led to their initial arrest and face discriminatory barriers to employment and housing that are imposed on ex-prisoners.

After serving six years for drug-related charges, Coss Marte was determined to break this cycle, not only for himself but to help as many of his fellow returning citizens as he could. His mission: to build ConBody, a fitness business based on the workout method he developed in prison, operated by people whose lives had been impacted by the criminal justice system.

Oscar-nominated director Debra Granik embedded with Coss over eight years after his release to follow his journey and that of the trainers who sustain ConBody as they find their footing in post-carceral life. The result is the compelling multi-part documentary CONBODY VS EVERYBODY, which presents a portrait of the daily lives, aspirations, and hardships of a community in search of a second chance and a fresh start.

Join us as we screen this over the course of three nights, followed by Q&As with Director Debra Granik + special guests. #DCTVFirehouse

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison every year. The vast majority of them—approximately two-thirds—will likely be rearrested within three years of their release. In many instances, these individuals find themselves becoming another recidivism statistic, as they exit prison to return to the same challenging conditions that led to their initial arrest and face discriminatory barriers to employment and housing that are imposed on ex-prisoners.

After serving six years for drug-related charges, Coss Marte was determined to break this cycle, not only for himself but to help as many of his fellow returning citizens as he could. His mission: to build ConBody, a fitness business based on the workout method he developed in prison, operated by people whose lives had been impacted by the criminal justice system.

Oscar-nominated director Debra Granik embedded with Coss over eight years after his release to follow his journey and that of the trainers who sustain ConBody as they find their footing in post-carceral life. The result is the compelling multi-part documentary CONBODY VS EVERYBODY, which presents a portrait of the daily lives, aspirations, and hardships of a community in search of a second chance and a fresh start.

Join us as we screen this over the course of three nights, followed by Q&As with Director Debra Granik + special guests. #DCTVFirehouse

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison every year. The vast majority of them—approximately two-thirds—will likely be rearrested within three years of their release. In many instances, these individuals find themselves becoming another recidivism statistic, as they exit prison to return to the same challenging conditions that led to their initial arrest and face discriminatory barriers to employment and housing that are imposed on ex-prisoners.

After serving six years for drug-related charges, Coss Marte was determined to break this cycle, not only for himself but to help as many of his fellow returning citizens as he could. His mission: to build ConBody, a fitness business based on the workout method he developed in prison, operated by people whose lives had been impacted by the criminal justice system.

Oscar-nominated director Debra Granik embedded with Coss over eight years after his release to follow his journey and that of the trainers who sustain ConBody as they find their footing in post-carceral life. The result is the compelling multi-part documentary CONBODY VS EVERYBODY, which presents a portrait of the daily lives, aspirations, and hardships of a community in search of a second chance and a fresh start.

Join us as we screen this over the course of three nights, followed by Q&As with Director Debra Granik + special guests. #DCTVFirehouse

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison every year. The vast majority of them—approximately two-thirds—will likely be rearrested within three years of their release. In many instances, these individuals find themselves becoming another recidivism statistic, as they exit prison to return to the same challenging conditions that led to their initial arrest and face discriminatory barriers to employment and housing that are imposed on ex-prisoners.

After serving six years for drug-related charges, Coss Marte was determined to break this cycle, not only for himself but to help as many of his fellow returning citizens as he could. His mission: to build ConBody, a fitness business based on the workout method he developed in prison, operated by people whose lives had been impacted by the criminal justice system.

Oscar-nominated director Debra Granik embedded with Coss over eight years after his release to follow his journey and that of the trainers who sustain ConBody as they find their footing in post-carceral life. The result is the compelling multi-part documentary CONBODY VS EVERYBODY, which presents a portrait of the daily lives, aspirations, and hardships of a community in search of a second chance and a fresh start.

Join us as we screen this over the course of three nights, followed by Q&As with Director Debra Granik + special guests. #DCTVFirehouse

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison every year. The vast majority of them—approximately two-thirds—will likely be rearrested within three years of their release. In many instances, these individuals find themselves becoming another recidivism statistic, as they exit prison to return to the same challenging conditions that led to their initial arrest and face discriminatory barriers to employment and housing that are imposed on ex-prisoners.

After serving six years for drug-related charges, Coss Marte was determined to break this cycle, not only for himself but to help as many of his fellow returning citizens as he could. His mission: to build ConBody, a fitness business based on the workout method he developed in prison, operated by people whose lives had been impacted by the criminal justice system.

Oscar-nominated director Debra Granik embedded with Coss over eight years after his release to follow his journey and that of the trainers who sustain ConBody as they find their footing in post-carceral life. The result is the compelling multi-part documentary CONBODY VS EVERYBODY, which presents a portrait of the daily lives, aspirations, and hardships of a community in search of a second chance and a fresh start.

Join us as we screen this over the course of three nights, followed by Q&As with Director Debra Granik + special guests. #DCTVFirehouse

CONBODY VS EVERYBODY — a new episodic documentary from Oscar-nominated director Debra Granik — premiering exclusively on the Criterion Channel on May 1.

Filmed over eight years, Granik's five-part series follows Coss Marte, the formerly incarcerated founder of Conbody, a Lower East Side gym with a unique social purpose: to employ formerly incarcerated people like himself in an attempt to combat the high rate of recidivism. As Marte wages an uphill battle against the stigma of incarceration and the realities of a relentlessly gentrifying city where second chances are hard to come by, what emerges is both an inspiring portrait of a man on a mission and a powerful examination of a system that continues to punish people even after they have served their time.

For those in New York, you can see CONBODY VS EVERYBODY on Sunday, April 26 at @metrograph with Granik and Marte + April 28–May 1 at @dctvny before its exclusive streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel.