"Healthy bodies" were one of the central ideas driving eugenics and fascism. Modern gymnastics arose from gyms created by Germans while under Napoleonic occupation who used physical fitness as a way to promote German nationalism. Mussolini considered the perfect state to be a perfect body.
Daniel HarperThe lib "he's obsessed with men's bodies, so he must be gay as hell" is homophobic, of course, and utterly cringe, but also just misses the point. Hegseth may or may not be gay. I'm not here to say. But his obsession with the male physique is because he's just a fascist.