India, March 23 -- A fitness influencer's morning routine is breaking the internet, having clocked more than 500 million views online in a matter of days. Ashton Hall cooked up a storm with the video where he wakes up at 3.50 am and goes through an elaborate set of actions, including dunking his face in ice-water multiple times and interspersing his workouts with meditation and journaling.

Some parts of the video, particularly his face-dunking and rubbing banana peel over his face, prompted people to wonder whether the video was meant to be satire.

Last month, fitness coach and social media personality Ashton Hall shared a YouTube video titled 'The morning routine that changed my life 3:50am to 9:30am'. The video has garnered 41 million...