For real though deadlifts make you stand way more macho
January 14, 2018
11:15 pm
All I do anymore is work and lift weights so you get more gym jokes.
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All I do anymore is work and lift weights so you get more gym jokes.
How I wish my knees would let me get into that posture
Man, as a guy who messed up his back, I didn’t know that this was the way I was walking, this seems cooler than just saying I’m broken.
Jared looks like he is either trying to mimic Gollum, a gorilla, or is about to poop. Either way, it is funny.
Jared pulls off a decent “Gollum-stance,” but if you’re trying to walk like a gorilla, it works better if you have the physical bulk of a gorilla. The Commander has it, Jared don’t…
;)
To be fair, if he maintains that and lunge walks for fun. I would be intimidated. No workout hurt me more.
At this point, Commander should really expect to have his advice comedically misinterpreted. Not that this should ever stop him from giving advice, because he is best Team Dad.
Is that not how you’re suppose to walk confidently?
Well there’s the problem. Jared is only using one hand. You need to have both hands on the bar, brah, or you’ll never get swole.
Speaking of, I really wish I could include more deadlifts in my routine, but I fear for my knees.
That is a very odd concern, unless there’s something already wrong with your knees? Deadlifts aren’t associated with knee strain (that’s squats) and concerns about knee injury in weightlifting are highly misplaced, knee injury is inversely correlated to lower body strength to weight ratio, the stronger your legs are the less you’ll mess up your knees doing everything else.
They haven’t been injured AFAIK, but they get sore faster than I like with squats and deadlifts. Yeah, I’m working on my form, and trying to stretch more and warmup before workouts, but for now I’m doing squats and maybe the occasional deadlift, but not deadlifting regularly.
CorruptUser, look on t-nation dot com for an article named “Deconstructing the deadlift” by Mark Rippetoe. It’s that article that made me understand how to do a good deadlift and I’ve put 100lbs on my deadlift in about a month with 3 times a week, 5 reps for 3 sets.
I injured my knees during deadlifts, ironically.
I was spotting for someone much shorter than me, which wound up being a set of squats where I did not pay enough attention…
The art of looking like a gorilla ready to tear shit up.
He will be fine, i’m more worried about the rat
I’m sure it’s just taking a nap.
Look at its eyes…I can’t see it’s eyes from here. Are there X’s over the eyes? That’s how you can tell if it’s dead or not.
All my life people leave me alone, no-body ever sits next to me on public transport. It’s not something you learn, you just have to have the genetics. I have never lifted weights in my life.(it’s a lonely life).
At least you have the Funk.
And Bailey’s.
Have you tried taking a shower? It might help.
If confronted by muggers, shriek in an agitated fashion and beat your chest until they flee, intimidated by your gorilla tactics.
(or from Donkey Kong, who probably exists in this universe and is about to hurl barrels at the percieved rival)
When in mortal danger, when beset by doubt, run in little circles, wave your arms and shout.
Time-honored tradition of Imperial Comissars!
Too bad that Cain never got to use it.
“Gorilla” warfare…
So the posture of a gorilla is the way to go?
Jared, what you want to do is walk casually but somewhat quicker than you normally do, when passing suspicious looking people make short eye contact with one of them and do a “ghetto nod”, keep walking.
You’d think have a 20 ft Sea Monster following you around would be enough to intimidate most people…
Probably closer to 20 metres. Mr Fish is MASSIVE.
Is Jared still sparkling?
There is no shame in professing your membership in ye olde iron church. Go forth and get swole!
For he’s the mighty, mighty Deadlift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypHSprBCnB8
Mugger 1: What’s that guy doing in the alley?
Mugger 2: Looks like he’s pooping
Mugger 1: I don’t really need the cash.
His posture reminds me of a Team Skull grunt, haha
I just realized Jared has an old-fashioned flip-screen keypad cell phone, and Commander has a touchscreen smartphone. Hmmm. Is there an in-character reason? (Note to self: Feel old because I referred to a cell phone, any kind of cell phone, as “old-fashioned,” gah.)
Jared probably broke his trying to catch Pokemon Go critters and can’t afford to replace it.
The Commander is from the future. This touchscreen phone is probably old-fashioned to him.
What the hell is on Jared’s face? Is he sick? Do we need to alert the public of a new pandemic?
I put a rust overlay on the entire alley to make it more grungy.
I always suspected that Jared is way more metal than he lets on.
A typo found itself in Jared’s dialogue box. => “lave me alone”.
Keep up the good work but don’t burn yourself out, I love your comics!
do you think that rat is dying of laughter?
I’m wondering, the Commander’s jacket is having trouble fitting him; is it because of his current posture or has all the recent working out strips increased his muscle mass?
It’s an upshot and he’s got his chest up and his shoulders back like he’s doing deadlifts hahaha.
It just happens with that kind of leather jacket. They barely reach the waist, so if you stretch yourself a little, they go up and the lower belly becomes visible.
For a sec there I thought Jared was calling with his shoe (same color scheme and I’m tired) and it does sound like a thing Jared would have???
And now I want to watch old “Get smart” episodes again…
Me too! Me too! “Missed it by THAT much!”
“Ah yes, the old TV addiction trick.”
Is Jared in the slums of Snap City?
To be fair, if I was a mugger and I saw a guy crab walking or high stepping with his chest parallel to the ground, I wouldn’t bother him either. He might have rabies.
#MoreUpshotsofCommander2018
See Jared, this is why you shouldn’t go places without Mr. Fish. The Fish would have had the denizens of this skeevy place in line, and also probably could have cleaned it up a little.
Hopefully we get a follow up where Rocky corrects Jared (personally don’t like that cliché where misunderstandings never get cleared up, it’s fine for a one-off gag like this, butt more than once is just rubbish)
What happened to the gyrados?
I don’t know if you read Terminal Lance, but on of the recent strips reminded me of MGDMT.
https://terminallance.com/2018/01/12/terminal-lance-last-motivator/
I could have sworn Rock’s jacket actually covered his stomach. Or is he just getting even more swole?
Relatable.
>Jared makes his way through the streets
https://i.imgur.com/J4gbmv2.mp4
My favorite coaching cue for deadlifts is “angry gorilla” hella macho.
PS what’s mr. Fish been up to?
The operative word is ‘stand” like you’re dead lifts, not stoop.
I feel dumb for not realizing the joke was Jared should be standing like the Commander, and not a video game joke about crouch-walk = stealth mode like I thought.
I guess if this doesn’t work out Jared could try the Devilman Crybaby run all the cool kids are doing these days. He’s already halfway there.
I really Hope Team skull tries to recruit him cause he’s basically doing their pose.
this comic is my favorite thing on the internet, the series not just this particular one
does the commander ever catch his torso hair in his jacket zipper
To be fair he now looks like an addled druggy and no one wants to deal with that.
1st panel, “leave” is misspelled
Think Rock should have specified the END of the movement not the beginning :)
That Commander crop top tho.
Ok, question because most likely the author’s has at least second hand experienc:Would not use your regulares macho hacker without t least a Tank top give the itches? Cool, of course, but also properly leather Cate would be insane.
This is a BAD posture to take, Jared. It doesn’t scream “victim” so much as potential “date” to certain men.
Strip naked and run for it. No one wants to tackle a naked dude.
You know, I kinda want to see Jared get pose in Silent Hill now…
Dammit, “Lost in Silent Hill”, how the hell did I screw that up?
What Silent Hill horror are you expecting to end up in his pokedex?
This pose makes Jared look like he has Waluigi proportions.