FoxTrot by Bill Amend for June 19, 2022

so how many chin-ups in total has Peter stupidly done?

Geeze. Even I can do 1/17 th of a full pull up.

Xeno’s Paradox

Paradoxically

You are doing fractionally better than last time!

Peter has a chin?!?

Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/06/17

619/408

1.517 chinups. Keep it up!

He is doing pull-ups (palms facing away from body) not chin-up (palms facing body).

Hold on?! Oh, har-de-har! Very funny…

That’s 1.51715686275 chin-ups.

Jason is integral to Peter’s workout session.

Wait, this is a new strip and Jason is using paper?

I remember a Father’s Day strip where Jason tried to mow the lawn but couldn’t make the lawn mower move at all. On the last panel, he went and if I recall told Roger that to do that for him for Father’s Day, and Roger did thank him in an odd way. I thought that was nice.

Sounds like Zeno’s Paradox

He is strong

Exercise? If I had a bar, there would be several bottles of booze

I admit I was just as bad at that age, but I didn’t bother counting fractions.

1 3/28th … if anyone wanted to know.

I see that some here claim that chin-ups and pull-ups are different, while others say they are the same thing. I looked it up, and the article I found on chin-ups says: “It is a form of pull-up in which the range of motion is established in relation to a person’s chin.” The article I found on pull-ups says: "The term chin-up, traditionally referring to a pull-up with the chin brought over the top of a bar, was used in the 1980s to refer to a pronated, or overhand, grip, with a supinated, or underhand, grip being called a “reverse-grip” chin-up. In later decades, this usage has inverted, with some using “chin-up” to refer to a pull-up done with a supinated hand position, while “pull-up” refers specifically to the exercise done with a pronated hand position."

Sounds to me like they’re the same thing, but there has been a recent change in the teminology. I have a question for those of you who insist that these are two completely different things. I’ve seen people do pull-ups / chin-ups with one hand facing one way, and the other hand facing the other way. What do you call that?

Amend is an evil man. He threw that 1/17th in just to make the math a chore.

1.51715686275 pull ups

I have been reading the old ones for a month and I gotta say what happened to peters head!

He’s actually doing pull-ups