Pete Hegseth struggles to bench 135 in Pentagon training clip

Starshark50

"Now when you're lifting, it's important that your back. Is. Twisted! You wanna look like you're trying to use a hula-hoop, but you suck at it!"

Pale Horsie27

Perfect form, this is not how you hurt yourself and look like a total dickhead

Tim Krochak22

the actual crusaders, “we weren’t this cringe, honest!”

xNiiRUx16

It's the raised foot that has me rolling...

regularguy828.bsky.social9

We need a Hegseth training montage so badly…

OODad7

135 lbs. Back in the day I could curl more than that. He’s a weenie.

dsixbass.bsky.social7

Is he failing at 70kg? FML

A Shonda Rimes Für Die Goyim6

Leg Drive: how does it work?

Don't look up5

Your form suffers while inebriated....

Jess5

Absolutely dying at the legs sticking out. There is nothing good about that lift. The grip is probably sub-optimal as well, I can't tell from laughing too hard at the rest of him.

Spanish for The Niño5

Why are his legs doing that? Bro do you even lift? Do you even lift bro?

David Lovejoy4

well, I guess I can confidently say I have better form than the secretary of defense

アメリカ大失敗　(America’s#1Failure)🫡🖕3

They are all weak cowards talking a big game who need their shit pushed in. This is why they bully women, pathetic men.

Abominable Intelligence3

I don’t know the first thing about lifting weights but this looks embarrassing as hell

ItsEasyBeingGreen2

That video has other parts that are arguably even worse. Like barely lifting dumbbells over his shoulders in the tiniest range of motion imaginable.

The Third Person2

Dogshit Press - 8 reps, 4 sets. Repeat until failing upwards

Ham Roids2

What the hell is that form? Plant your feet! Oh my God

Monty Blazar2

Is it better or worse when you take into account how drunk he probably is?

Rye appreciator2

That's... there is so much wrong here it's hard to know where to start. He has to have a humiliation fetish; nothing else makes sense.

Jeremy Schulman5

This is particularly bad because the clout farmers are, literally, the DNC democrats.org/icymi-dnc-la...

The Spaceshipper 🚀4

Why do this when we never have to lie to defend our ideas (unlike those people)? It's really lame.

Shatter 🅅 𓅃⭐3

I don't even get what any of this is, all I see is him doing half reps.

Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board2

Technically they're right. He is struggling with his first rep after 43 other... things.

Deb2

I can't stand this crap, no matter who does it.

Teeklin2

Can't express enough how much damage this does. Every time I bring something up to my MAGA family they can point to one of the endless lies being pushed around and use that as justification to dismiss the truths they don't want to face. These people are horrible enough, we don't need to lie.

josephzander.bsky.social5

The camera operator chose to put the guy doing full reps next to him in the shot. Mogged.

Kerouac6663

The audio/captioning has someone off camera emphasizing to another participant “all the way down, all the way up!” and there’s no way they weren’t doing that to throw shade at Hegseth.

Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱7

Those are not actual reps. Only twice do I see something approaching a full extension to the top of the range.

heitz.bsky.social44

Brother that is 0 reps

br◎seph35

lol you can hear someone saying all the way down all the way up

Ronan McManus32

TBF, on the evidence of that video he didn't fully complete a single rep.

Austin Swafford15

Could I even do this? No. Am I inviting a video crew to document me pretending to be a badass for social media instead of doing my job leading the military? Also no.

Ollie McClellan14

Tell me you've never been in a weight room in your life without telling me you've never been in a weight room in your life.

Nick Case14

There are zero reps completed here.

MacDhomnuill11

Dudes form is trash, more than half the reps in the video weren’t to full extension and frankly thats some crossfit crap which doesn’t do anything for you in combat. Hes pressing 135lbs 44 times, thats a fucking warm up if you do it right in sets of 15.

Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board10

Here maybe this will help. Those are not reps.

Grace Monk8

This is pathetic and these aren’t really full presses.

Jim (Domestic Terroirist) Meyer8

"All the way down, all the way up!" are the instructions all the real soldiers have to follow... I didn't see a single rep where he went "all the way up."

J. Crallo8

Dude isn’t even getting the bar up the full way! Not one of those count.

Takanaka Time7

I agree the context was important, but not a single one of those counts as a rep

¯\_(ツ)_/¯6

that form is hilariously bad, zero reps. without a doubt he could do maybe 20 actual reps, but dude is a fucking joker.

Broken Caveman6

Or, and hear me out on this, fuck that guy and everything he does until the heat death of the universe.

Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board5

Buddy don't post stuff that shows you've never lifted

Jason Aycock5

Uh those aren't 44 reps ... looks like *2* reps total (just before last fail) went to lockout. The rest was wearing himself out with show-off half-reps. Dude probably kips every pull-up

Ninguna Broma5

Those arent reps. This man, and you, clearly have never lifted in your life.

Pat Cavanaugh5

Someone is shouting all the way down all the way up because he was not doing all the way down all the way up which means he didn’t do a rep hope that helps!!

Karrid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️4

Follow along as we count his reps! 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2! Wow! 2 reps! What a pinnacle of masculinity!

Lord Moose4

Watching him, I counted. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero.... Every single one is a no-rep.

Darren Ridgley4

Every single one of the reps sucked, the bar is dipping on one side from the beginning. He has zero control. Might as well have not done any of them. The last one is merely the most obvious failure.

colorscolor4

We should be spreading way more misinformation about Pete Hegseth actually

Sheldon3

No pun intended, but “Crush” is doing some heavy lifting. Pretty funny that someone in the background is cheering with “all the way down… all the way up” and Heggie is doing halfsies.

Sir Rants Alot3

He did limp wrist duckface raises right after bsky.app/profile/subt...

himham2

He doesn't lock out his arms for more than maybe a single rep and his form is dogshit. What did you think this disproved exactly? He's literally struggling to bench a single plate.

walton goggins' teeth2

of all the falsehoods surrounding/emanating from this man i dont think his ability to lift a shitty weight shittily is debunking priority #1

CityofTrees22

He's not doing a complete rep. The soldier next to him is.

DaftPodunk2

It is not misinformation to point out Hegseth is a fraud and a bitch

Joe2

Little known: Oppenheimer was chosen for the Manhattan Project because of his discus throwing ability.

John Annese2

Just one plate on each side, huh?