Would you like to crawl in a park with these folks? This fitness group in eastern China’s Hangzhou province gathers at 5 a.m. every day just to practice an exercise called the crocodile crawl. Videos of people doing this fitness regime all over the country have lit up Chinese social media. Watch this video to find out what’s behind the craze.

0:00 What’s the crocodile crawl?
01:25 What’s behind the craze?
03:09 GT team tries it out
05:10 Does crawling really help?

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Producer: Yoyo Chow
Videographer: Wayne Han, Gavin Wong, Victor Peña
Editor: Nicholas Ko
Animation: Stella Yoo
Mastering: Victor Peña

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