Two senior officials launched a 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups fitness challenge intended to spur a nationwide push for Americans to get fit. Multiple fitness experts judged the challenge daunting and impractical for many everyday Americans. A gym owner and former sergeant from Denmark criticized the two participants' pull-up form as falling short of military standards. Television hosts defended the challenge, argued criticism discourages striving, and suggested the participants may have cheated on the final chin-ups. The campaign used a public social-media video to issue the challenge and to invite others to participate.
If it seems like a daunting task, that's because it is, according to Times reporter Calum Marsh, who spoke with multiple fitness experts to find out just how practical the challenge is for the everyday American. And the experts agreed, saying the Pete & Bobby Challenge is not something to just jump into. In addition, Jess Hviid Skov, a gym owner and former sergeant in the Danish army, criticized Hegseth and Kennedy for their form on the pull-ups, which he says falls short of military standards.
Kilmeade said Marsh's article was like, If you're a baseball player, don't watch the Dodgers. They're too good. Yeah, you don't want people to strive, Kilmeade said in a rebuke of the Times piece. If you are not good at something, don't try it and don't set goals. If you can't achieve, it if you are not at the top of your game, don't even get in the game. That's the new American slogan: We don't try.'
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