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Travis DesLaurier: Meet the Alberta model who stays fit with his cat

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A video of a Canadian model using his pet cat as weights has gained more than 90,000 views in less than two days.

The video features Edmonton native Travis DesLaurier doing a series of exercises with his adorable ginger cat named Jacob.

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The fitness clip has been uploaded to Facebook and Instagram.

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The video begins with the tattooed DesLaurier performing bicep curls, with Jacob in his hands and Justin Timberlake’s Chop Me Up playing in the background.

He then gets down on the floor with the cat curled into a ball in his hands and completes some oblique twists, using his feline friend as a medicine ball.

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The model’s last exercise shows Jacob being used as a weight while DesLaurier performs a few shoulder presses, and proceeds to wipe the sweat off his forehead with his pet’s tail.

After the video went viral, many people started obsessing over the model and his pet.

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According to his Instagram page, Travis DesLaurier describes himself as “a goofy dude without a shirt and my fluffy companion Jacob.”

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