The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced me to a lot more options for body weight exercise (washing machine bench presses not included). I'm not too proud to admit that although I've always exercised, these new ones are really challenging me on the beginner difficulty level. That middle row of panels is actually autobiographical (except for the name of the last one). By the way - what's up with all these exercises with names that have "widow" involved? Isn't muscle gain enough? Do we need really need to talk about how many "torture twists" we've done in order to impress people?
Panel One -
Ian at his home desk, looking at a video website. The Unfed Artist logo is set behind him
Website: With this simple home based workout, you have no excuses to not get ripped!
Panel Two -
Ian is flexing his left arm and pulling back the sleeve with his right hand to show off an arm that isn't very big.
Ian: You hear that biceps? The internet says the python exhibit and the gun show are about to get some expansions.
Panel Three -
Ian performing an exercise called "Black Widow Knee Slides", he is in a pushup position and sliding one knee up along his elbow.
Ian: ...three, four, five...
Panel Four -
Ian performing an exercise called "Back Widows", he is pushing his chest up by lifting up from the floor by pushing down on his elbows.
Ian: ...twenty-six, twenty-sev...
Panel Five -
Ian performing an exercise called "Wall Widows" - probably incorrectly or having given up. His body is propped awkwardly against the wall with his chest and face pressed to the floor by the weight of his body. His legs are dangling uselessly above his head because his back is arched.
Ian: ...mmmph, mmphrr, mmphrrm...
Panel Six -
Ian performing an exercise called "Table Stretch", which looks more like a torture involving four dining room chairs. Somehow Ian is suspending himself, spread eagle, by using only the top back rests of the chairs, with a hand or foot for each chair.
Ian: (speaking in unintelligible curse words shown as dingbats)
Panel Seven -
Ian performing an exercise called Spin Cycles. He's bench pressing a washing machine from underneath it, and it looks like soapy water is inside of it. Ian isn't saying anything.
Panel Eight -
Ian looking into the mirror. He is much more athletically built, with more defined muscles.
Ian: I know exercise is healthy, but I think being fat was safer.