Even if he did pull-ups right, who cares? He’s not paid to be an athlete or first responder where you need a lot of upper body strength. Tired of politician workout videos.

C’mon let us just mock the cunt. You should join in too. It’s fun!

If Newsome can do even 1 perfect form pull-up, there’s a trolling opportunity here.

man why would you post this shit. i can't do a pull up either but you don't see me making videos about it

…how do I have a better chin up than the SecDef whose entire brand is personal fitness to increase “lethality”

Lethality reserved for a bottle of Jim Beam. It’s a bad bad day to be a bottle of mediocre whiskey when Hegseth is around.

I think he’s a gin guy? Which brings shame on to me, a gin guy.

this administration has taken so much from us (my favorite drug is ketamine)

Sad! Hopefully he never gets into my purple Canadian gin.

Gin guys unite!

Most embarrassing thing I have ever seen.

That's my kind of pull-up. I'm a grandma.

Zumba. He’s more fit for that.

Don’t insult CrossFit like that. Yikes.

Let’s celebrate with a room temperature glass of raw milk

Lots of crosses, lil’ fit.

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He’d be no-repped every single time. Then again, maybe Greg Glassman will give him an honorary degree

Please tell me that was like the 20th rep?

Quintessential example of a guy who doesn’t know the difference between “working out” and “training.”

Yeah I know I know they’re incapable of feeling shame

but like, come on. surely some DoD psyops unit could've made it look like pete hegseth can do a chin-up

Like how is he not embarrassed to post this?

That's what I did as a middle schooler before lifting enough in high school to do multiple reps. I was 100 lbs in 3rd grade.

My strongest gym opinion, even knowing the not-actually-terrible CrossFit reasoning behind using them, is that kipping pull-ups are bad, stupid, risky, and completely not useful

i do not understand the point of them?

higher numbers feel good, and the movement is over the top so you feel like you’re doing something really tough and athletic

Reps, most likely

Yeah that's how they end up getting used, to pump up numbers for workouts with rep targets, which is a horrible way to utilize them

For highly experienced athletes who can also do bar muscle-ups, the kipping pull-up is a decent test of that measure of strength. IMO, it doesn't actually build that strength in any meaningful way, so even that tiny segment of people probably shouldn't practice them often

Hey, don’t send him here…😤

The kipping pullups and the idea that rhabdomyolysis was funny ("Uncle Rhabdo") pretty much dispelled any impression that "Couch" (Glassman) knew what he was talking about or gave 2 shits about the safety of his trainees.

Kipping pull-ups make sense if this is all for performative masculinity and really fits in with the whole Hegseth-RFK Jr vibe.

kipping pullups are awful and only useful in demonstrating to people who observe someone who does them that the person doing kipping pullups is not to be trusted or listened to.

Yeah if you're a literal CrossFit Games athlete do them for your sport, I guess, but nobody else should

If the goal is "do kipping pullups" then sure, I guess, do kipping pullups. But if the goal is "exercise safely and effectively," or "don't look like a complete asshat for no reason other than to impress idiots" then do not, under any circumstances, do kipping pullups.

How to enrich your surgeon with one weird trick

Strong correlation between the emergence of CrossFit and the explosion of physical therapy providers

They call that the virtuous cycle

I'm thankful for this proliferation of practioners as a middle aged basketball enjoyer. Back to back years in PT!

He does it to get MTG horny

Jesus, kipping chin ups? He didn't even make it over the bar. How sad.

Hey! My suburban Chicago CrossFit coaches would have many correction notes for me if I looked liked this: first and foremost is you can’t kip on a chin up Also this isn’t a kip, it’s frog legs which is a classic CrossFit beginner’s mistake

Please I’m begging you. This city is enough of a dumpster fire. We don’t need that guy showing up and making it worse.

Please don’t send him here.😅

I showed this to my 11 year old girl and she said, "that is just sad"

Lmao

He's thinking to himself, "Do it for Erwin!"

God the old privileged white guy bro energy 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤮🤣🤮😂🤮🤮😂🤮

The loss of gym ego leads to the actual use of the assisted pull up machine. Max ROM, max squeeze at the top, max gains. Thing of beauty

Give me ten crisp assisted pull-ups over that kipping stuff anytime

Amen dude. I caught that insta vid before. Congrats on the PR!

You know they'd fire him when he kept showing up drunk. Even if they don't have standards, they've got an insurance policy they have to honor.

You can mess with a lot of things in this country but businesses avoiding risk of liability isn’t one of them

"Look, Pete, I like you. I do. And the ladies like you too. And I know you like the ladies. But look, man, I can't keep you -- I can smell the Jack from across the room, and our insurer has requirements. One lawsuit without them and I lose my house and the F350, man. Sorry, but you've got to go."

When RFK is the one going for hypertrophy training lmao

Me when I’m bombing the Presidential Fitness Test in fifth grade.

Ha yeah me too!

The little butterfly kick is such a classic hanging-on-for-dear-life move

I watched each person in the video and not a single one successfully completes a pull up. How can a not obese adult man not do one pull up? I’m not crazily fit and can knock out at least 8 pretty easily