On Tuesday, during an appearance on Fox News, host Jesse Watters asked Kennedy what he called \u201cthe question that everybody is wondering about.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhy do you wear jeans when you work out?\u201d asked Watters.<\/a> <\/p>\n \u201cWell, I just started doing that a long time ago because I would go hiking in the morning, and then I\u2019d go straight to the gym, and I found it was convenient, and now I\u2019m used to it, so I just do it,\u201d said Kennedy. <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThere were a lot of theories, <\/a>but that makes perfect sense,\u201d said Watters. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n RFK Jr took part in a fitness challenge alongside Pete Hegseth, in a t-shirt and jeans (Department of Defense)<\/p>\n Kennedy was questioned about his exercise habits after taking part in a workout challenge alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>. <\/p>\n In a video, published by the Department of Defense Monday, the pair took part in what they called the \u201cPete and Bobby Challenge,\u201d in which they had to complete 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in under 10 minutes. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all about making America healthy again. We\u2019re gonna be fit, not fat,\u201d Hegseth said in the video. \u201cWe want recruits that are ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPete and I are going to do our part to encourage American youth to do this challenge,\u201d Kennedy added.<\/p>\n While Hegseth wore shorts and t-shirt, Kennedy was in a t-shirt with a pair of jeans. The video shows them completing the pull-up and push-up challenge in under six minutes. <\/p>\n Kennedy challenged Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to do the challenge next, while Hegseth called out the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/a>, Dan Caine, as well as his former Fox News colleague Will Cain. <\/p>\n \u201cWe hope Americans will take this challenge and you\u2019ll pass it along so that we\u2019re ready to be fit the way we need to be healthy and to have a healthy fighting force,\u201d said Hegseth. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Kennedy took part in the fitness challenge with Hegseth as he pushes his \u2018Make America Healthy Again\u2019 agenda (Department of Defense)<\/p>\n Kennedy took part in the fitness challenge as he pushes his \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d agenda, an echo of President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again<\/a>\u201d slogan. It includes a focus on public health issues, with the MAHA movement emphasizing reducing artificial additives in food and beverages and reassessing health choices for children, such as vaccines. <\/p>\n On Sunday, comedian John Oliver<\/a> dissected the MAHA movement on HBO<\/a>\u2019s Last Week Tonight<\/a>, noting that it\u2019s \u201cnot just Republicans<\/a>\u201d who have gotten caught up in the movement, with many parents looking to feed their children healthier foods. <\/p>\n Experts agree with Kennedy\u2019s claim that American children are getting sicker, with a U.S. child being 15 to 20 percent more likely to experience a chronic condition in 2023 compared to 2011.<\/p>\n However Oliver pointed out that even when Kennedy \u201cand his movement can be right about identifying a problem, their solutions can range from the superficial to the outright dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n Under the leadership of Kennedy, HHS has begun defunding mRNA vaccine research, with one expert calling it \u201cthe most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-84491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"RFK](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KennedyJeansGym.jpg\")
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