From the heat of courtroom battles to the real heat: the 100-degree temperature in a room where Connecticut attorney Sergei Lemberg decided to get fit, avoid becoming “a little fat guy,” and find a sanctuary outside the rough-and-tumble world of law.

There, the managing attorney of Lemberg Law practices Bikram yoga and hot high-intensity interval training Pilates, when he’s not in court or traveling for his thriving consumer, class action and personal injury practice.