If you haven’t seen lifestyle coach and fitness influencer Ashton Hall’s viral morning routine video, you might live under a rock—or be stuck in a digital dead zone. The 29-year-old’s routine has taken the internet by storm, racking up nearly a billion views across X and Instagram. The clip has inspired hundreds of hilarious spin-off videos, but the burning question for us running aficionados remains: just how fast is this guy?
Hall’s routine features an alleged 14 minutes of sprinting on the treadmill from 6:38 a.m. to 6:52 a.m. in a pair of Brooks Hyperions. As it turns out, Hall had a short sprinting career in high school before he became a fitness influencer.
During his senior year at First Coast High School in Jacksonville, Fla., Hall was a running back for the school’s football team and was a 100m sprinter on the men’s track team. Hall competed in the men’s 100m, and ran on the second leg of the 4x100m relay.
Despite all the buzz around Hall’s sprint sessions, his track record (pun intended) reveals he wasn’t exactly a standout sprinter. Hall’s best time in the 100m was 11.33 seconds, set in 2014. This time would have placed him ahead of only eight of the 102 competitors at the Paris 2024 Olympics. With some clever video editing and maybe his broad, muscular build, it’s a case of someone looking faster than they actually are, the Instagram version.
After high school, Hall had a brief football career as a running back with Alcorn State University in Mississippi before transitioning to his current profession as a lifestyle coach and influencer.
His viral video has spawned an avalanche of morning routine memes, with some parodying his 3 a.m. wake-up schedule to accomplish seemingly nothing, and others poking fun at the six-hour ritual, which appears to consist solely of banana-peel exfoliation and dunking his face into lemon-infused mineral water.
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Even if he isn’t breaking a sweat on these 14-minute treadmill sprints, his video has shattered the Internet and propelled him to almost 10 million followers in a matter of weeks.
