Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 01, 2022

One step at a time.

Keep trying Pig!

Exercise goal for week after next: Find the snack bar.

Depends on how he’s getting to and from the gym If he’s walking there and back, then he is making progress.

Is the gym next door to a fast food place?

Pig is way ahead of me. Best I ever managed was to drive past a gym.

Quickly.

’Best thing I ever did was start calling our “John” by a new name: “Jim”.

Then ’most every day I can proudly announce, “I went to the Jim today!”

Pardon the senior citizen humor . . .

Baby steps Pig!

Exercise, week one: Use 10 lb. potato sacks as dumbells. Week 2: Put potatoes in the sacks.

I’ve always heard the hardest step in a running program is the one out the door.

Baby steps

Pig could also ease into one of a number of bars/pubs named The Gym.

I have done that. Drive to the gym, get there, sit in the car for a minute, then go to the restaurant down the street. Some days, I just wasn’t as motivated as I should have been. Thinking about joining a gym in the new city we moved to. All I have to do is find one near a decent restaurant.

One has to start somewhere.

Does it have an escalator?

Will that Pig’s new year’s resolution?

Baby steps, Pig.

I dunno… I think we might be pushing too hard, and moving too fast.

I went inside my seven-year-old granddaughter’s Krav Maga studio last week. Does that count?

Exercise Goal For Next Next Week: Actually use the equipment. Exercise Goal For Next Next Next Week: Use the equipment that isn’t the vending machine.

its not new years yet pig!

How about, figure out if there is a gym nearby…

Pig did the easy part first.

Just the thought sickens mell☺️☺️☺️

I don’t get the aversion to exercise? I like weightlifting and don’t like missing my gym time. I don’t like running, but I play pickleball for cardio.

What I do dislike about the gym is those inconsiderate twits who don’t wipe equipment down when they’re done.

Snack bars in bowling alleys—-how to cancel out exercise

Does anyone care to admit that they DIDN’T see this coming by Panel 2?

He’s way ahead of me!

Its all about “Baby Steps”, Pig!

I’m still on “occasionally think about joining a gym.”

Have the money.

Glad that Pig found a Pub called “The Gym”

Baby steps, Pig, baby steps. Heck, maybe even just hang around outside the gym for a day or two more….

The following week..Actually Go inside — check next week — take one step into the building

We need to fatten up pig for the holidays!

TO PLAY SANTA! Shame on you for thinking that…;)

I walk past the gym almost every day

How many times has Pig set ludicrously low exercise goals in a strip? I think the strip may be running out of ideas.