Pete Hegseth struggles to bench 135 in Pentagon training clip
A Pentagon training clip shows Pete Hegseth wheezing through a Marine Corps-style circuit and failing to bench 135 pounds. In the video Hegseth struggles to complete a bench press with the bar loaded to 135 pounds, stumbling on form and breathing heavily after a series of bodyweight and dumbbell stations. The footage undercuts Hegseth's months-long effort to stage a tough-guy Pentagon fitness routine and matters because visible physical performance influences credibility when he speaks about military and defense issues.
Pete Hegseth wants to pretend to be a uber crusading warrior and proudly posts one of the most dogshit bench press clips I've ever seen. Look at the little weights he needs to use as a booster seat! Look at his flailing little legs! Look at this fucking loser!
Really Sean Smith57Imagine having a CIB and degrees from Harvard and Princeton and still being so insecure in every dimension of your existence that you constantly humiliate yourself trying to show off you masculinity attempting workouts you can't do. I assume the cocaine helps.
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 Horsie27Perfect form, this is not how you hurt yourself and look like a total dickhead
Tim Krochak22the actual crusaders, “we weren’t this cringe, honest!”
xNiiRUx16It's the raised foot that has me rolling...
regularguy828.bsky.social9We need a Hegseth training montage so badly…
OODad7135 lbs. Back in the day I could curl more than that. He’s a weenie.
dsixbass.bsky.social7Is he failing at 70kg? FML
A Shonda Rimes Für Die Goyim6Leg Drive: how does it work?
Don't look up5Your form suffers while inebriated....
Jess5Absolutely 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 Niño5Why are his legs doing that? Bro do you even lift? Do you even lift bro?
David Lovejoy4well, I guess I can confidently say I have better form than the secretary of defense
Gregk Foley3Dawg this is a catastrophe
アメリカ大失敗 (America’s#1Failure)🫡🖕3They are all weak cowards talking a big game who need their shit pushed in. This is why they bully women, pathetic men.
Abominable Intelligence3I don’t know the first thing about lifting weights but this looks embarrassing as hell
ItsEasyBeingGreen2That 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 Person2Dogshit Press - 8 reps, 4 sets. Repeat until failing upwards
Ham Roids2What the hell is that form? Plant your feet! Oh my God
Monty Blazar2Is it better or worse when you take into account how drunk he probably is?
Rye appreciator2That'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.
Um. Hey everyone reposting the deceptively edited @factpostnews.bsky.social post about Pete Hegseth benching, maybe don't. We all fall for clout farmers sooner or later, but just because it's edited to show you what you want to believe, doesn't mean it's real. "FactPost" is lying to you.
kevmo3.bsky.social10The real clip is bad enough. Those are all barely half a rep
The Spaceshipper 🚀5Why do this when we never have to lie to defend our ideas (unlike those people)? It's really lame.
Jeremy Schulman5This is particularly bad because the clout farmers are, literally, the DNC democrats.org/icymi-dnc-la...
Shatter 🅅 𓅃⭐3I don't even get what any of this is, all I see is him doing half reps.
Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board2Technically they're right. He is struggling with his first rep after 43 other... things.
Deb2I can't stand this crap, no matter who does it.
Teeklin2Can'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.
can you imagine how hegseth and his clapping seals would react if they saw a female officer doing "reps" like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKT...
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li57oh my god. how are you on this much gear and still so weak bsky.app/profile/subt...
josephzander.bsky.social5The camera operator chose to put the guy doing full reps next to him in the shot. Mogged.
Kerouac6663The 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.
There are plenty of real things to criticize Hegseth over without spreading misinformation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKT...
Tomato Szn95What information? He struggled and failed, also his form sucks. Its all on video.
heitz.bsky.social45Brother that is 0 reps
br◎seph36lol you can hear someone saying all the way down all the way up
Ronan McManus33TBF, on the evidence of that video he didn't fully complete a single rep.
Nick Case15There are zero reps completed here.
Austin Swafford15Could 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 McClellan14Tell 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.
MacDhomnuill11Dudes 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 Board10Here maybe this will help. Those are not reps.
Grace Monk8This 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. Crallo8Dude isn’t even getting the bar up the full way! Not one of those count.
Takanaka Time7I agree the context was important, but not a single one of those counts as a rep
¯\_(ツ)_/¯6that form is hilariously bad, zero reps. without a doubt he could do maybe 20 actual reps, but dude is a fucking joker.
Broken Caveman6Or, and hear me out on this, fuck that guy and everything he does until the heat death of the universe.
Karrid 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️5Follow 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!
Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board5Buddy don't post stuff that shows you've never lifted
Jason Aycock5Uh 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 Broma5Those arent reps. This man, and you, clearly have never lifted in your life.
colorscolor5We should be spreading way more misinformation about Pete Hegseth actually
Pat Cavanaugh5Someone 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!!
Lord Moose4Watching him, I counted. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero.... Every single one is a no-rep.
Darren Ridgley4Every 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.
Sheldon3No 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 Alot3He did limp wrist duckface raises right after bsky.app/profile/subt...
himham2He 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' teeth2of all the falsehoods surrounding/emanating from this man i dont think his ability to lift a shitty weight shittily is debunking priority #1
CityofTrees22He's not doing a complete rep. The soldier next to him is.
DaftPodunk2It is not misinformation to point out Hegseth is a fraud and a bitch
