Rio Ferdinand loves a workout.

If you follow him on social media, you're regularly treated to snapshots and videos of his routines, often conducted alongside his girlfriend, Kate Wright.

But eagle-eyed subscribers to his clips noticed something peculiar when he posted a '5am workout video' alongside Kate on Tuesday morning.

Ferdinand remains in training for his professional boxing debut, which is hoped will to take place at some point early this year.

He had initially claimed that a fight was going to take place in February, but that now looks unlikely.

Ferdinand works out alongside his girlfriend Kate (
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@rioferdy5/Twitter)
He was put through his paces... but was it 5am? (
Image:
@rioferdy5/Twitter)

Either way, former England and Manchester United defender Ferdinand is keeping himself fit in the personal gym space that he has set up at his luxury home.

On Monday morning, he conducted another workout with former The Only Way is Essex star Kate, with their personal trainer Mel Deane leading the session.

He wrote: "5am workout this morning... @meldeane getting us through it!"

But was it really 5am? His Twitter followers certainly didn't think so.

With the tweet being posted at 9:45am, we think Rio has been having his followers on!

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