This baby doing push-ups with his mom is the most adorable workout inspiration
Six-months-old and already hitting the gym!
Six-months-old and already hitting the gym!
On Thursday, CrossFit posted a "fitspirational" video to its Instagram page showing a mom and her 6-month-old baby boy doing what looks like push-ups together — and the Internet is loving it.
Last Monday, Janzen Hall, a trainer at a CrossFit in Chanute, Kansas, says she was finishing up a workout while her sister, who owns the gym, played with Janzen's son, Dreiling Hall. When Janzen moved her son next to her as she stretched to cool down, Dreiling began lifting himself off the ground.
Janzen, 25, followed Dreiling's lead and did a push-up every time he muscled his way into the baby version of a plank. Her sister captured all the cuteness on video, which shows the little guy cranking out four push-ups in a row and holding each one for a few seconds.
When to its Instagram page, it racked up more than 470,000 views in 24 hours. The comments were overwhelmingly positive, although a few wondered if Janzen was forcing her son to work out. “That was a little hurtful,” she says. “I would never force my baby to do that. It was all in fun.”
The reports that at 6 months, most babies are able to rock back and forth on their hands and knees and sometimes crawl backwards before crawling forward. Although there's no mention of them being able to do push-ups or hold planks, Dr. Claire McCarthy, MD, a physician at Boston Children's Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School says what Dreiling is doing is similar to what babies might do as they learn to crawl.
“Crawling is a milestone that can start at around 6 months,” says Dr. McCarthy, adding that the baby boy does seem physically advanced for his age: "This is a bit earlier than I might expect a baby to be able to do this," she says.
Janzen says Dreiling has always been a fit baby, rolling all over the place. “I’m going to need to get baby gates soon because he’s getting too active,” she says. “We think he’ll be crawling by Halloween!"