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When personal trainer Danielle Jones had her first daughter, Honor, two years ago, working out became a totally new ballgame. Joneswho goes by Ms. Boston on Instagramdidn't have a problem motivating herself to hit the gym. But the new mom didn't want to leave her newborn behind while she worked to shed her baby weight. Her solution: Incorporate Honor into her workouts.

She started working out at home with Honor, doing things like push-ups down to her level, giving her kisses after each rep. She'd do sit-ups, too, with Honor sitting on her stomach, getting a kiss each time she crunched her core. And she'd do squats, holding Honor as a weight . For Jones, it was a game changer.

"It became part of our playtime so I didnt have to feel like I was depriving my child and neglecting her just to work out and worry about myself," Jones tells SELF. "I included her in it. It was like, Hey, you helped me gain this weight, so youre going to help me lose it. Were in this together."

Jones did these mini at-home workouts with Honor exclusively for the first ten months following her pregnancy. And Honor loved it. "It made it a lot easier seeing how much she enjoyed it, because she loved it," Jones says. "When I used her as a weight even when she was two months old, she would laugh."

Even after Jones got back into the gym for her regular workouts, she and Honor kept at their home workouts , too. Honor quickly progressed from watching her momand serving as a handy weightto mirroring the workouts alongside her. "The older she got the more she started copying me, and now I look over and see her trying to do the same thing," Jones says.

Today, Jones shares photos and videos of the duo working out on her Instagram, @ msboston . And it's pretty cute stuff. While Jones breaks a sweat, Honor does toowith her own flair added to the moves, of course. "Well be doing push-ups and half the time shes not doing a push-up shes doing a plank," Jones says. "But hey, she thinks shes doing it and one day she will be able to do it. Practice makes perfect."

Jones is working on a fitness calendar featuring her and Honor, and she one day hopes to open a mommy-and-me gym. If she does, Honor seems like she'd make a pretty good fitness coach. "Now it's to the point where shes like, Mom, we didnt work out today! Are we going to work out?" Jones says. "Its something she knows is a part of her life."

Check out more adorable photos of Ms. Boston and Honor working out below.

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