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24-05-2007, 06:30
"He could do the iron cross when he was 5 months old," said his adoptive mother, Dana Hoekstra, of Roosevelt Park. She was referring to a difficult gymnastics move in which a male athlete suspends himself by his arms between two hanging rings, forming the shape of a cross.
"I would hold him up by his hands and he would lift himself into an iron cross. That's when we were like, 'Whoa, this is weird,'" Hoekstra said.
Liam has a rare genetic condition called myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy, or muscle enlargement. The condition promotes above-normal growth of the skeletal muscles; it doesn't affect the heart and has no known negative side effects, according to experts.
"We call him the Hulk, Hercules, the Terminator," his mother said.
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"I would hold him up by his hands and he would lift himself into an iron cross. That's when we were like, 'Whoa, this is weird,'" Hoekstra said.
Liam has a rare genetic condition called myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy, or muscle enlargement. The condition promotes above-normal growth of the skeletal muscles; it doesn't affect the heart and has no known negative side effects, according to experts.
"We call him the Hulk, Hercules, the Terminator," his mother said.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-36/1179834902190990.xml&coll=6&thispage=1