>Pete Hegseth mercilessly mocked for embarrassing pull-up as he joins RFK Jr's health drive
>Pete Hegseth has been slammed after a video of him emerged showing the controversial United States Secretary of Defense trying to complete a pull-up.
>Former marine and current political commentator Ron Filipkowski shared the clip, slamming Hegseth's style of pull-up. He wrote: "The Pete Hegseth pull-up is a bit different than the ones we did at Parris Island. Maybe it’s an Army thing."
>Parris Island is the site of a massive Marine training camp.
>Another former marine chimed in. Paul Hardy commented on the video, saying: "Ron, Retired Sergeant Major here — Army type. I’ve always had the highest respect for the US Marine corps and hope we can still be friends.
>"At one point I was a Master Fitness Trainer at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, and watching Pete Hesgeth‘s [sic] cringeworthy 'pull-ups' was painful."
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/pete-hegseth-pullup-video-rfk-35755775
bruh look at this dude

>>513503352 (OP)
HAHAHAHAHAHQHAHQHAHQHQHQHQHAHAHA

>>513503352 (OP)
Big shocker.

They’re all pussies yeah

>>513503352 (OP)
90% of pol couldn’t do a single pull up but will larp as elite athletes.

Suspicious that the video doesn't start with him on the ground
Convenient

>>513503659
why do you post like this? Just blatant assumptions

>>513503819
The average American male cannot do a single pull up
Like factually

I can do 8 chinups in a row in decent form.

>>513503352 (OP)
MOOOAARRR

>>513503857
This video was about intelligence . If hagseth was intelligent, he would have known his pushups are wimpy shit and wouldn’t have publicly done them. He’s a fucking loser dude . If he was intelligent, he would know how to do a proper pull up . Athleticism is a form of intelligence

>>513503352 (OP)
>irishstar
>the quote just links back to the site
>obviously at the end of his set
retard

>>513503352 (OP)
Why isn't Donald working out with them?

>>513503947
Burn in JIDF bitch

>>513503659
No shit, right? And scream about MUH JEEEEWSSS when its whites that caused all the problems we have today.

>>513503883
I hate chinups, i always feel like my arms are going to pop out of my sockets when I do them.

Can we agree this is the worst poster on the board?

>>513503659
lolworthy projection

>>513503352 (OP)
>embarrassing pull-up
so he's the average /fit/ poster

Wait so that was like pull up number 50 in five and a half minutes?
Hegseth still should have known better, and there's another fucking kipper in the background too.
It's impressive though I do weighted pullups and don't train just bodyweight as many as I can, but it's kind of a lot of cardio and the muscles do get fatigured. I couldn't do 50 in under six minutes. Probably.

>>513503352 (OP)
1. that's a chinup
2. i highly doubt he can't perform a single chin up, that looks like him doing a cheat rep on the cusp of muscular failure

>>513503352 (OP)
Did they cut the video to the end of his set?

>>513504342
>Wait so that was like pull up number 50 in five and a half minutes?
no

>>513504044
I could easily do 12 pull ups right now. I will use my consequent authority to declare that it is and always has been the kikes.

>>513504440
That was the challenge in the article, Hegseth claimed to have completed it in 5:25, and the article said it was the last rep. I ASSUME that means he had done 49 pullups prior in the last 5 minutes and 20 seconds.
Got the full vid?

>>513504428
This. He isn't a fatass nor does he have twig arms, even the wuss kids could always do at least a few chin ups in gym class. They're the safety wheels arm work out after all .

>>513503659
Truth.
How many did based, pumped, AND jacked RFK do?

>>513504439
No. That was his first and only pull up attempt, ever.

>>513503352 (OP)
>Hibernian BVLL RFK vs nordsissy Hegseth

>>513503659
I can do 13 in a row, strict form, overhanded, while pausing at the top and bottom while doing an l-sit position. And I browse pol, I would manhandle you brother

>>513503352 (OP)
Underhand pull-ups are for legit faggots if they don't ever do over hand pullups. I do Underhand for biceps only

>>513505054
>Bragging to strangers on the internet about how athletic you are
You need to go back, you failed the test

>>513503352 (OP)
he can't get one done ?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

>>513503352 (OP)
>irishstar
Two postings of articles from there tonight with memeflags.

Buy an ad.

>>513503352 (OP)
>>513503446
>>513503470
>>513503515
>>513503936
>>513503986
Post today's workouts, nu males

>>513504150
certainly one of them. but take heart - he's either a loser paid shill or a loser with a two-time president haunting his dreams

>>513504428
Finally somebody in this thread with a brain.

>>513503659
I can do like 12-15

>>513503352 (OP)
WEAK PETE

>>513503352 (OP)
any pullup is better than no pullup

>>513503352 (OP)
That was clearly the last one of a set. Show me the entire video.

the fatty in the background lmao

its hard to do pull ups THOUGH

>>513504428
This. It's a nothing burger from seething fatties.

>>513505054
Have you tried incorporating a deadhang on your last rep? That really helped me build up my grip strength, which in turn added like 2 reps to my pullups.

>>513503809
Was my first thought too. I’m not going to look further and assume that everyone else here is retarded and the video is gay.

>>513507597
Just start by doing dead hangs, then try to do like a pullup but do a little jump so you're only doing like a halfsies pull up
The outdoor public gym by my house has rings so you can do like semi-pull up semi-chin up (your palms face in) which have helped me progress to do doing actual pullups.
Unfortunately my bitch ass forearms got sprained when I did like idk 5 at a time so now I just do those ring pull ups but I'm pretty sure those still count for something.
Anyway you can do it if you just work at it consistently. If you're super fat that's a problem but you can fix that too.
Hope you get in shape before father time catches up with you. It's a lot easier to stay fit than to try and catch up past your prime.

Haven't done them in awhile, but the outward facing palms a little more than shoulder width were my go to.

>>513503352 (OP)
I cant do better so

>>513504428
THATS THE FAILURE REP THE REP THAT MATTERS

ALL THE OTHER REPS ARE FOR THAT REP

>>513503352 (OP)
>bicycling his way up
lmaooo

>>513508459
the cheat machine at gyms is really good for training on dips and pull ups but your system is good too or you can get a doorway pull up bar and use bands to help work on them

I did the cheat machine at the gym for about 8 months and one day I tested to see if I could do it without them and I did like seven I felt like Goku taking off his training armor and I still weighed 220 pounds

>>513503659
i can do 25 straight

>>513503352 (OP)
That's not a good pull up.

>>513507201
Probably, he looks pretty swole. Obviously he should be able to do it unless he doesn't do any pull movements.

>>513506166
FCK you feminine jew faggot

>>513503659
I can do 20 pullups, but I wouldn't even call myself strong... This guy Newsom is like an invalid; weak, old, frail, good at lying and stealing and thats it. In other words, presidential material.

>>513510664
Anything more than 8 is better than 99% of the population. 20 puts you in advanced nearing elite status

zero
zero
zero
zero

>pull up
Thats not a pull up you fucking dumb bastard. And you're on here mocking him yet you cant even say what fucking exercise move it is. Ok. I think we know who the faggot is now.

>>513505207
its called a chin up drama queen

>>513509871
Yeah I wanna go to the gym but I don't wanna spend $100 a month to be crammed into a room with a ton of retards.
Can't shower at home in the morning either even if I go to the gym at like 5 AM, cannot for the life of me figure out how to shower at the gym (how do I handle my sandals without getting ringworm all over my hands? How do I keep all my soaking we clothes in my bag while Im at work all day) and if I go after work it's literally a madhouse packed with retards sitting in the squat racks and paranoid bitches telling you to fuck off for standing behind them and calling you a creep for asking to work in with them (and it costs $100 a month) So I just said fuck it and I go do my little routine of pullups, push ups, half dips, squats, and box jumps at the public gym
It's fine in the summer time but gonna be a bitch in the winter (I'll probably have to get the membership by then but if I'm still working out in 3-4 months thats a good problem to have)

>>513503352 (OP)
A very womanly display

if you can do more than 10 pull ups in a row you’re a skinny dyel .

>>513513666
Be gone, Satan!

Pete Hegseth is like 50 fucking years old and can do more pull-ups/chin-ups than 90 percent of 4chan.

>>513505054
OK goy hogan

>>513512232
Planet fitness is like 10 bucks a month. And it has all the shit 99 percent of people need. I still go there from time to time so fit girls can pose in front of me when I do incline DB press.

>>513503352 (OP)
He obviously just did many pull-ups and was trying to get one more in before his arms gave out.

>>513503659
i can btfo elite athletes while out of shape
my vertical leap is on par with michael jordans when adjusted for height WHILE IM SITTING ON MY ASS
you don't know what lurks here

i just realized there's going to be one retard autist who thinks im jumping from a seated position kek

>>513503352 (OP)
How is it even possible that a grown man can’t do a single chin up? What a massive pussy

>>513503659
i'm 110 kilo fat ass and even i can do 3 normal pull ups man

>>513507597
The key is negative pull ups fren. Get a box you can step on to help you get to the position where you are at your highest and you release. Eventually get pull up bands that help take your full bodyweight until you can do without. I made it a point to do pullups because I didnt want to look pathetic and not being sble to pull my own body weight would be concerning. Also it has helped my posture.

>>513503659
I do 3 sets of 20 pull ups then 3 sets of 20 chin ups then 3 sets of 20 hammer arm grip pull ups. I do that twice a week on back and bicep day along with all my other lifts. I’m legally disabled for the record. How the fuck can any man not do even a single one?

>>513514697
Most "Men" can't do a single fucking chin-up. I see girls in the gym busting their tight femtwink asses harder than a lot of guys who sit around and get fat as shit. Modern men aren't men. It's why are society has gone to shit.

>>513503659
this
nu/pol/ forgets its the trash of society.

>>513503352 (OP)
OP is a Jew and consequently a faggot. That was his 50th one as part of the challenge this video is about. You retard

>>513514871
Isn’t the fag in charge of the military? How did they pick the faggot that can’t do a chin up and say he was the guy for the job. We are fucked when ww3 kicks off

>>513515180
They had to do 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in 5 minutes for a challenge. That was at the end of the time. But yeah, our military is still a fucking joke as long as females and non-whites can serve.

>>513515326
That isn’t even a pull up tho that is a chin up the easiest of the pull exercises. If the challenge was pull ups why isn’t he doing that? Your story isn’t adding up

>>513503352 (OP)
looks edited
he probably did a few before that one

>>513504667
>Got the full vid?
it wasn't posted. because he couldn't do a single full chin-up

>>513515485
Look at other people in the video. They are all doing pull-ups. Hegseth switched to chin-ups, probably cuz he got tired from the pull-ups.

>>513515485
Shoulder width is dead easy either front or back facing.

50 shoulder width pull ups takes 1m. 100 push ups without a pause a minute. Maybe a minute rest.

It’s an easy challenge.

It's the same bullshit where they criticized RFK doing pushups at what was clearly the end of a workout while he is standing there jacked as fuck for his age and condition. Every journalist is a useless cunt

all you need to be able to do is 5-10. that will let you pull yourself up from death

>>513503352 (OP)
What was that last jerk? lmfao hahahahahaha holy fucking kek
These gymrats man, they only do dumbbell curls and benchpress, because that's all you need to "look buff" on camera and in suits, Also look at those fucking thighs, solid pajeet tier legs, Jesus.

>>513503352 (OP)
Attention seeking faggots. Hegseth was clearly on the ass-end of his set. He's the only SECDEF I know of that has ever done group PT.

Hegseth deserves scorn for being a faggotyass zionist and such a good goy, not his pullups.

Besides, WTF is pic related?

>>513515789
I’m gonna need the full video even if that is the case and that was his last one he would still be a pussy for having to switch
>>513515896
It’s not a hard challenge I have MS and even I could do it,

>>513503352 (OP)
Pathetic.

>>All of ((you)) faggots
Imagine being such a pathetic NPC that you have to make shit up to talk shit about. It's not the least bit humorous or witty. It's completely pointless. So why do it?
Bipolar miserable faggots should all blow noodles on your ceilings tonight. I can picture all of you retards' physiognomy. Bunch of weak skinny-fat mutts with giant wide mouths & psycho eyes that tell everyone else to avoid you. Do the world a favor and die.
37-IQ dumbfucks have zero substantial or thought-provoking contributions, so you just sit around & 'HYUCK HYUCK' circle jerk about made up bullshit. Go back to playing video games, manlet NEET failures.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/us-news/rfk-jr-challenges-pete-hegseth-to-friendly-exercise-competition-as-trump-admin-promotes-fit-over-fat/

>>513516372
>Autist-Fake-Laughing.webm

>>513503352 (OP)
>Take a video of guy doing pull-ups
>Cut out all but the last one
>Training to failure now just looks like failure

>>513516640
pajeet-legged coping hard

>>513506166
was tired from work so only spent about an hour in the gym:
Bench
squat
10 Pull ups
20 min Stair Master

>>513517353
>t. retard who's too oblivious to tell when an autist is blatantly fake laughing

>>513503352 (OP)
He was doing a mock PFT and had done 19 before that one. Being his last for a perfect score, he "kipped" to get 20. Which didn't count obviously so his score stayed at 19.

I don't know how many pull ups he did before this one. Maybe he performing pull ups until a failure and this was a last one.

>>513503352 (OP)
It was 50

>>513509534
Get back in the grave mike

>>513503352 (OP)
>https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/pete-hegseth-pullup-video-rfk-35755775

That isnt a pullup that is a chinup and they are easier to do.

>>513516696
THere is a longer video and he only does quarter reps.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377039949112

>>513505270
Being able to do a dozen pull-ups is cool. It's a good thing. Sharing with others can be inspiring to them, showing them it's achievable. Leave the man alone. dog01.jpg saved.

>>513503352 (OP)
That's a chin-up

>>513514871
I don't want to be in a gym after 10 hours of work, I want to play video games and relax.

>>513511611
Wait, you can't use your abs to push off! That's Cheating!

>>513513666
Lies. I'm 240lbs at 6' (overweight) and can do 12

>>513503659
polfaggots did NOT like this ahahahaha

>>513503659
I can do 20

Pullups occupy a weird niche where people think they can do them untrained. You could probably ask an untrained man to do 10 push-ups and he could do it, like he could do one set and his form would be grinding his joints at the end, but he could likely do it.

What people don't get is that these numbers don't carry to pullups. Untrained you will be lucky to do 1 pullup. That's if you're not overweight. If you are then it will be zero. What's funny is that this applies even to people you see online saying "yeah I can do 10 pullups". They probably can't, they probably don't even train them. They just think that sounds like a reasonable number.

>you're a skeleton fuck you fuck you fuck you it's easy if you're a skelly
Do it then.

Yeah but at the same time pullups are incredibly simple and useful calisthenics that borderline anyone with training can do. This is the literal secretary of defense whos entire credit rests on him being a former member of the military. He should be able to do this. A man cannot even graduate the marine corps without doing 20 pullups lol

>>513521745
>>513521173
I forgot to click the reply button

Also to any anons in this thread if you can do a pullup you can make any pussy wet that is watching

>>513521823
>if you can do a pullup you can make any pussy wet that is watching

honestly one of the best kept secrets in fitness

>>513504150
no

>>513505054
i don't understand why there are so many people in this thread bragging about doing 8-15 pull/chin ups? i can do 30 easily. i haven't done them in a while, the question is whether i can do 30-50, wouldn't know for sure. like I can't even imagine how any man in regular shape, such as Pete, couldn't do at least 10 pull ups. i'm not trying to brag here, i want to explain that if you can't do 10 pull ups and you're not fat, there is something wrong with you. being able to do 10-20 is not impressive, its average. maybe im doing it wrong, but i doubt. i could go as far down and up as you want me to go

i think most of you are just not trying hard enough. its not that hard, you can go further than you think. breathing is important, many go out of breath fast especially is you're a smoker. manage your breathing
>>513511165
nope, that makes you above average, not elite

>>513503809
>>513508342
It was literally a 50 pull-up challenge. In the video you can see him doing real pull-ups, albeit with less than perfect form. The whole thing is fake and gay.

There was one nigger who apparently managed to do 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in under 3 minutes. doubt.exe

>>513503352 (OP)
that's not even a "style" of pullup
that's just a chinup
and he's kipping
>zero!
>zero!
>zero!

>>513504150
there's competition

>>513503352 (OP)
He is an old man. No one expects old people to be physically fit.

This is what I mean: >>513523823

Here is a man saying he "hasn't done pullups in a while" yet believes he can do somewhere between 30-50 pullups in a single set. This is the sort of bizarre delusion that pullups in particular seem to bring out in people.

Untrained people for some reason have a completely skewed view of what a sane number of pullups is. 30 pullups is in the realm of a professional competitive male rock climber. You would have to train weighted pullups and dedicate numerous training blocks just to pullups over several years to get your numbers anywhere near there. If you could do 30 pullups you'd fucking know it because you'd have been doing them every other day for the last several years.

If someone tells me they can "maybe do 30-50 pullups", in a single set, I know that person has never even touched a pullup bar. When they say "haha yeah I could probably do 30-50 dude haha it's been a while but yeah I could do it", it's like someone telling you "yeah I could probably run a sub 4-minute mile dude haha I've not been on a run in a few years but it never leaves you" or "haha yeah dude I could squat 280kg I take the stairs at work". They don't understand the figures they're lying about are insane because they have no frame of reference.

>>513503659
i couldnt
i do pulldowns now
58, sick, fat and nearly dead, doing some fun workouts on indoor trampoline and roadbike

>>513504044
>its whites that caused all the problems we have today.
moran
>says he, typing on a device produced by whites by a millenia of heroic effort

>>513503659
Everyone on pol is late 80s Dolph Lundgren

Any "male" who cannot do ONE SINGLE Pull up should instantly neck themselves

>>513507597
do only the pull downs, they're actually where your muscles get the best training as in all exercises, the resisting-work is better, the negative work, hence climbing down stairs is supreme, climbing up not so much for muscles (buit great for cardio)

>>513524980
He is a 45 year old former military man, everyone expects a person like that to be able to do several pull ups

>>513503659
Can't even complete a stand up.

>>513503659
I can do over ten pullups, how many exactly depends on the day. I can also do weighted pullups with 40kg hanging off a weight belt. I'm a centrist btw

>>513525824

>>513508459
>Hope you get in shape before father time catches up with you. It's a lot easier to stay fit than to try and catch up past your prime.
i must say at 58 i'm amazed at how powerful testosterone can be
just a little bit of exercize does wonders
and a lot does great wonders
women are built different but for us guys it's really easy to see and feel results
and yes you may have middle age sicknesses but exercize helps with them a lot too

Oh so leftists can body/ability shame right wingers now...got it

>>513526174
right wingers who can't do one pull up should be body shamed

>>513514531
>you don't know what lurks here

>>513503352 (OP)
Pete is a pathetic overcompensating shabbos goy weekend warrior faggot. But this is goyslop bullshit ie part of a 50 pull up challenge.

>>513521173
You are a hungry, hungry skeleton.

>>513525535
He's probably a twink that half asses them and counts it up to 30, but even that would be difficult. I've been doing pullups in my home gym at least 1-2 times a week for the past 4 years or so and I nowadays incorporate about 2-3 sets of 12-15 pullups into my weekly routine, but even then my form starts getting loose and incorrect by the 10th pullup. I could probably do 20 actual pullups, but I would get fatigued heavily after it. Getting to 30 would be nearly impossible even with the worst form.

His last pullup after like 50 pushups and 50 pullups or something
The left: AHHH LOOK AT THIS 50TH PULLUP WHAT A LOSER

Fuck off

>>513503659
i can't do a single push up with correct form
maybe i can after doing barbell training

>>513503352 (OP)
>the guy behind him on the left doing a "push-up'
>the other guy behind him on the right also doing a "pull-up"
just mart sharting things

>>513526895
Unless you're morbidly obese you should be able to do pushups prior to using a barbell.

>>513526099
>erm you did this to yourself goy

>>513526813
And this is what the people look like who make this shit up.

>>513503352 (OP)
If you do reps to failure. That's how it looks. Only someone who has never trained a day in their life doesn't understand this.