This 9-Year-Old Has Beat You in the Gym (and at Life)

This 9-Year-Old Has Beat You in the Gym (and at Life)

The spotlight is on the National Weightlifting Masters Championships this weekend, but on the other side of the millennium, nine-year-old Milla Bizzotto com

Apr 1, 2016 by Paige Bayer
This 9-Year-Old Has Beat You in the Gym (and at Life)
The spotlight is on the National Weightlifting Masters Championships this weekend, but on the other side of the millennium, nine-year-old Milla Bizzotto completed a 24-hour obstacle course designed by Navy SEALs. And she was the only one under 18 to do so.

Try working this into your programming: a 36-mile run, 8-kilometer swim, and 25 obstacles (you know, the usual rope-climbing, barbed wire-crawling, and wall-scaling type). For 6 laps.

Her father (and coach) runs Focused Movement Academy out of Miami, where she spends three hours a day, five days a week training.

… Before the child protective services alarms go off, rest assured she's allegedly kept under the watchful eye of a sports medicine doctor.

The heart wrencher-turned-warmer part of the story: Milla was bullied in second grade and told by classmates she wasn't a good player. After the event, Milla said she competed in the BattleFrog to "inspire kids to get off the couch, and show that they have a special side of them, and tell the people who don't believe in them who they really are." Hashtag child of the year.

Oh yeah. And she has 23.6K followers on Instagram, including three-time CrossFit Games competitor and friend, Jackie Perez.

That's one feel-good Friday story. And one badass little girl. Or maybe it's the kind of story that makes you feel inadequate about anything you ever did as a nine-year-old. Or ever. But she's still badass.

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