Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 05, 2025

What happened to those belts that ‘stimulated your muscles with electrcity’, so they would be exercising while you were sat down reading a book?

She should try a treadmill. If she isn’t getting any exercise it throws her off.

Remember these things? A vibrating belt machine is a device that was promoted to passively reduce body fat through the use of an oscillating or vibrating belt around the exercise subject’s waist, without active exercise by the user. The device was widely promoted in the 1950s and 1960s as a way to break up abdominal fat through vibration.

I love that the cinnamon roll she’s eating matches her cinnamon roll hair bun!

She could walk her dog more.

She has a point. I may buy two exercise machines.

Yeah, but my pool table won’t shoot itself.

She knows that but it is an apt comparison. It the one, why not the other?

yeah, I know. what gives? :L

and the stupid machines require you to be a healthy weight to even use it, which is lame! :L

There is always a downside.

He should spray and then wipe her glasses. Maybe then she will see the light of the truth. Have a blessed day my friends.

Good point.

I’m thinking her first exercise should be to put the cinnamon bun down. After that it doesn’t much matter what you do, just so long as you move. You can roll around the floor if you want, or swim to support your weight…just as long as you’re moving more than you you’re used to doing. Best thing for her to do is start very slowly so as not to get sore and discourage yourself from continuing….then slowly and gradually increase your efforts. Good luck Mrs. Olsen!

Another person unclear on the concept.

I remember when they had machines that vibrated a big belt that was supposed to shake the fat off you. Or at least watching TV shows and movies that showed them.

I recall a gym teacher once telling me that the best form of exercise wasn’t the push UP, it was the push OFF (as in “away from the dinner table”).

Douglas Adams said a VCR does the watching for you.

If I bought one of every device advertised as helping with knee, hip, back, shoulder or foot pain in just the last five years, how much profit would I get at the garage sale?

Last panel, good one Mrs O.

I seem to recall at least one of the staff doing well on some walking last year; perhaps she could join in on that activity.