Kylie Kelce has a simple answer to whether husband Jason Kelce makes a good workout partner: “God, no.”
The mother of four joined Olympic rugby star Ilona Maher for the debut episode of Power Hour with Ilona Maher, where a conversation about exercise quickly turned into a story about what happened when Kylie once asked Jason for help with her form.
While performing Romanian deadlifts in their garage gym, Kylie asked the retired Philadelphia Eagles center to critique what she was doing. Instead of offering useful feedback, Jason admitted his attention was somewhere else, according to PEOPLE’s preview of the episode.
Kylie called him “useless,” but the exchange was clearly being told as a joke. When Maher teased that Kylie needed a workout partner who would not objectify her, Kylie grinned and admitted, “I actually kind of liked it.”
Jason Couldn’t Get Past Kylie’s Romanian Deadlift
Maher asked whether Kylie and Jason ever work out together, prompting an immediate response. “God, no. I don’t hate myself that much,” Kylie joked. She has, however, trained with Jason in their garage before. Kylie remembered doing a Romanian deadlift, or RDL, in front of him and eventually asking for an assessment of her technique.
“After a minute of me doing it, I was like, ‘Critique my form,’” she recalled. “And he was like, ‘I’m gonna be honest, I’m really distracted.’ And I was like, ‘You’re useless.’” Maher clarified what had apparently caught Jason’s attention, Kylie’s backside.
“You’ve gotta get a third party who’s not gonna objectify you,” Maher teased. “That’s tough to have somebody objectifying you like that in the gym.” Kylie was not exactly offended. “I actually kind of liked it,” she replied with a grin.
Maher then turned the question around and asked whether Kylie ever objectifies Jason. “1000%, I do,” Kylie answered. Maher jokingly framed the mutual appreciation as a matter of equality, declaring, “We’re feminists,” and Kylie went along with it. “Thank you. Yeah, we’re feminists,” she said before offering one reason Jason still gets her attention: “Have you seen his shoulders?”
Power Hour Put Kylie Through More Than a Normal Workout
The Aug. 20 episode launched Maher’s new digital series on the House of Maher YouTube channel. “Here we champion three things: strength, pushing boundaries, and looking good while doing it,” Maher explained at the beginning of the show.
As The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, Maher coached Kylie through exercises including incline bench presses and medicine-ball throws while their conversation moved through dating, sexism, social-media criticism and their experiences as female athletes.
The final challenge, called “The Motherhood,” reversed their roles and put Maher through a sequence inspired by the demands placed on mothers. She had to grab children, pick up toys and eventually push a weighted sled representing society’s expectations.
The exercise led into a discussion of the pressure women face to rapidly regain their pre-pregnancy bodies. “To put this pressure on moms, have your kid and get right back in shape,” Maher said. “That’s the dumbest part,” Kylie replied. “You just built a human being, and people are like, ‘You gonna bounce back?’”
Kylie Has Said Flirting Is Part of Keeping Their Marriage Strong
Kylie’s amused reaction to Jason being distracted at the gym also lines up with something she has previously said about their marriage. She expects the flirting to continue long after the wedding.
During an April episode of her Not Gonna Lie podcast, Kylie said couples in long-term relationships should keep “dating” one another, and she was not referring only to going out for dinner.n“I think the key is that you should always be dating your spouse,” she said.
Kylie then offered an example from her own marriage. “I actually give my husband s— if he walks past me in the kitchen, doesn’t, like, grab my ass,” she said, according to PEOPLE. “Imma flirt with you. You better flirt with me.”
She described that kind of playful affection as one way to keep the relationship from becoming entirely consumed by parenting and daily responsibilities. Kylie also recommended spending occasional time together without the children, even if the conversation inevitably returns to them.
Jason and Kylie Have Been Married Since 2018
Kylie and Jason met on Tinder before marrying in Philadelphia on April 14, 2018. They now share four daughters: Wyatt, Elliotte, Bennett and Finn.
Jason retired from the NFL in March 2024 after spending all 13 seasons of his professional career with the Philadelphia Eagles. Kylie, meanwhile, was also a college athlete, playing field hockey at Cabrini University.
Stories about their marriage have increasingly become part of Kylie’s public work through Not Gonna Lie, where she regularly discusses parenting, relationships and life inside one of football’s most recognizable families.