Why RFK Jr. Wears Jeans to the Gym | E! News

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is defending his fashion choices in the gym. After the Secretary of Health and Human Services filmed a fitness challenge alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, many were left scratching their heads when it came to his gym fit. In the video, the two cabinet members attempt to complete 100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups in 10 minutes or less, in what they are dubbing the Pete and Bobby Challenge. But we hope Americans will take this challenge and you'll pass it along so that we're ready to be fit the way we need to, to be healthy and to have a healthy fighting force. Go get it. Let's make America healthy. However, instead of focusing on RFK Jr.'s message of making America healthy again, viewers were distracted by the 71-year-old wearing jeans while working out, something the Secretary later addressed during an interview on Fox News August 19th. I have to ask you a question that everybody's wondering about. Why do you wear jeans when you work out? Well, I just started doing that a long time ago because I would go hiking in the morning and then I'd go straight to the gym. And I found it was convenient and now I'm used to it so I just do it. And if you take a look at RFK Jr.'s social media, it does in fact appear that the politician has long been a fan of wearing denim while he breaks a sweat, posting a video of himself doing an upside-down pull-up back in December, captioning the clip, practicing moves for my confirmation hearing.