Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 03, 2015

It’s going to be quite embarrassing to find out Mr. DeGroot can’t do ANY weight lifting.

New poll up: What can you press?

Have you participated in a mud run?1) 25 votes – No, and I never want to2) 17 votes – What’s a mud run?3) 7 votes – No, but I may want to try sometime4) 6 votes – Yes, and it was great!5) 5 votes – Other (various replies)6) 3 votes – Too tired from just watching youtube videos

“(♪)Oops, There It Went! (♪)”“Pumping Irony”“The Gravity Of The Situation”“Taking It All In Stride”“Far From A Pushover”“The V.I.P. Lunge”

“Chasing The Chaise”“A Wild Goose Chaise "“Mr. Sand Man, Bring Me A Disc….” (♪)“Conditional Surrender”“Lunge Lizard”“Meet The Press”“Don’t Stamina So Close To Me” (♫)or“He’s Got Legs, But He Doesn’t Know How To Use Them” (♪)

LOL!

Reality can be painful.

I’m 11 hours early & it’s time to find my bed! Everyone have a good day.

“Getting Down To De Groot Of The Matter”

Good one!

Maybe he should make plans for NEXT years mud run!

Mud run? Every rainy day on a farm is a mud run. I guess that’s why they have mud rooms on Midwest houses.

You’re going to be aching pretty badly for a few days, Franko!

I looked back to the beginning of this arc, and I can’t see where Brad actually ever volunteered to train his Dad. He said his Dad would need to get into shape if he wanted to do the mud run, and then the next day, he showed up, asking if Dad was ready to start a work out. When they reached the gym, he told his Dad he was going to show him the workout that the firefighters have to do. So I thought of this more as just a ‘buddy’ thing, where the son is saying to the Dad, ‘This is what I have to do’, not so much as a trainer saying ’Here’s what you need to do.’

Brad is trained as an EMT and firefighter, and as part of that, has to meet certain minimum physical standards. But that doesn’t mean he has a lick of training in teaching someone else how to do the routine.

More and more, I’m thinking this is a bad idea, and Frank is heading for heart attack city…

The first thing to do in a weight training regimen is to determine maximum lifts by starting at an easy weight and working up— not down. Brad should know better.

“In this corner weighing 190 pounds, I mean, 150 pounds, uh, 125 pounds, wouldja believe 85 pounds … ?”.I believe the Charles Atlas ads would say 98-pound-weakling.

Tsk, Tsk, Frank.

You Know, YOU could have SAVED Yourself a LOT of TROUBLE buy Staying Home, Pulling Out Nancy’s “Job Jar”and Doing Chores around the house. Then, when THAT was Done, Mowed the lawn with the old Push Mower.You would have Gotten Your “Exercise” FREE at Your OWN Pace, Nancy-Bot would have Been Pleasantly Surprised, and More Importantly She would Have had AB-SO-LUTELY NOTHING Gripe to About YOU Doing “Needed” Work around the Old Homestead. Well, NOT for a for a Couple of Weeks at least.

But Noooooooo, YOU Had to Go to the “GYM” for Pain and Public Humiliation. I Hope You ENJOY Waking Up at 3 AM with AGONIZING Leg Cramps, Franklin.

BAH!

I’m With, (Who was it, Pipe Tobacco?), on THIS One. I’ve Grown Weary of the Old “Poppa is a SAP,” Storyline. And Since Complaining has lately become the National Pastime,I Gleefully Join in the HOWLS of Protest!

Or even “Lighten Up”…

I suppose it is because your legs are supporting that weight not lifting it

Legs!!! Boy he won’t be able to walk for a week!

Because I won’t be able to sign in tomorrow—*Happy Independence Day, Everyone! Celebrate by exercising— your rights, not your abs. Even better, celebrate our freedom by helping other people become free (google “Anti-Slavery”)*Wasn’t it just a year ago that Lu hesitated to have Qu spend the holiday at the fireworks with her family?

But it isn’t going to take a rocket scientist to figure this one out, Mr. DeGroot! Loosely translated, your legs are used to carrying and supporting your own weight; as they do it all the time; but they are NOT used to pushing someone else’s weights, in addition to it!

Now we see why Dirk had to lift the bookcase off of Nancy.

Frank looks like he is positioned to lift more with his toes than his whole feet/legs. Properly aligned, he could lift more. I’m no expert, but have used gym equipment before.

I’m tired of this story arc already. The minute Frank showed up, with head and wrist bands, tight bike shorts and loose shirt tucked in them, fanny pack tightly fastened around ballooning waistline, I lost my enthusiasm. Comfortable workout clothes, Frank. Nothing wrong with that.Just seems like an overboard example of the stereotype person who thinks they have to look a certain way to work out, and immediately gives him/herself away. Sigh.I hope something happens quickly to help this make sense.

Who cares about all this?.What does it have to do with Luann or any story-line or plot here?.Are we supposedly in need of being educated about working out at a gym? .Or in need of learning the exact degree that Frank is out of shape? .Why do we need that or even care?

Are we now to waste the next couple weeks on back pain and the mud run?.Showing Frank as out of touch with reality is not needed. He is being Guntherized.

Okay, let’s just can this nonsense and go get a burger and coffee….

It’s such a good quotation, I think I’ll post it on FB right now. Thanks!

Love, love, love those books!!! It was my first intro to sci fi way back when. I’ve been a lifelong fan, I’m a true geek at heart, and my favorite movie is The Matrix :P

Try harder Frank!

Oh, to be 190 lbs again!

Good one!

“Blunder and Lightening”!^Ha ha ha!!!

“Morning after…or, Moaning after?”^Good one!!!