Superhuman two-year-old is viral sensation with unbelievable strength

By BUNMI ADIGUN: Videos of toddler Arat Hosseini show him swinging from a trapeze at nine months old and performing backflips before his second birthday.

The Iranian youngster, who turns two later this month, has taken social media by storm with his crazy stunts and impressive flexibility and has more than 18,000 followers on Instagram.

Arat’s parents Mohamad and Fatemeh, who live in Babol in the Mazandaran Province, say their son has had no professional training and practices for just 10 to 20 minutes daily.

Mohamad said: “One day when I returned home from work and put my finger in Arat’s hand, he got up slowly and, gripping my finger very tightly, pulled his legs off the ground.

“At that time I noticed the strength and power Arat had and was very surprised. “Arat’s favourite trick is performing a backwards somersault.

“He is very playful and does about 20 minutes of exercise a day. All the videos on our Instagram page show the first or second time he has performed a trick. “Usually he can do it easily after 10 minutes of practise.”

Arat has perfected yoga poses such as balancing splits as well as more traditional gymnastic moves like backwards walkovers and somersaults.

Many of his stunts are filmed in bizarre locations in the family’s home in Babol in the Mazandaran Province and show him balancing on top of televisions, kitchen counters and stairs and climbing up walls.

Other videos show the tiny tot performing press ups with 6.5kg of weights on his back and doing sit ups holding a large weight. “Arat is an extra special person and in sport he will be unattainable – he will succeed,” Mohamad said. “My wish is that Arat finds a lot of good friends in the world. Success is our goal and we can finish.”

(Agencies)