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‘Pete and Bobby’ Fitness Challenge Expands as Duffy, Will Cain Log Times After Pentagon Launch

The cabinet-led push ties a viral workout to Trump's revived Presidential Fitness Test to advance MAHA priorities across schools, the services, the public.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, left, and Pete Hegseth and are hoping their “Pete and Bobby Challenge” will go viral
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Overview

  • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Fox News host Will Cain posted their attempts after being challenged, with Cain finishing in 5:12 and Duffy in 12:25.
  • The Pentagon Athletic Center video set the routine at 100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups, with five minutes described as the top standard and ten minutes as the cutoff.
  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth finished in 5:25 and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 5:48, while several service members went faster, including a Marine sergeant reported at 2:43.
  • Kennedy described the workout as the start of a tour urging Americans to exercise and improve diet under the Make America Healthy Again banner.
  • The campaign follows Trump's July order restoring the Presidential Fitness Test and the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition as Hegseth advances stricter military fitness benchmarks.