Isometric Stretching

Isometric Stretching
Kanji	静的ストレッチ
Romaji	Seiteki sutoretchi
Chapter Information
Volume	8
Chapter	66
Released Date	?
Chapter Guide
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Isometric Stretching is the sixty-sixth chapter of the manga Dumbbell Nan-Kilo Moteru?.

Characters

• Gina Boyd
• Tokita OhmaTokita Ohma (Movie)
• Yamashita KazuoYamashita Kazuo (Movie)
• Tachibana Satomi
• Machio Naruzo (Movie)
• Sekibayashi JunSekibayashi Jun (Movie)

Plot

Gina and Satomi head off to the cinemas to watch the new screening of "Kingan Asura"! During the screening, one of the characters explains about the benefits of isometric stretching. At the films end, the audience went wild while Satomi sat confused.

Exercise Learned

The focus of this chapter is the benefits of isometric stretching before and after exercise.

Trivia

• The Lifts of the North Star (北斗の筋, Hokuto no Kin), a parody of Fist of the North StarHokuto no Ken, is mentioned again, being noted to have been the world's first muscle manga.
• Tokita OhmaTokita Ohma, Yamashita KazuoYamashita Kazuo and Sekibayashi JunSekibayashi Jun make humorous cameo appearances as part of the cinematic screening (劇場版, Gekijō-ban) "Kingan Asura" (キンガンアシュテ, Kingan Ashura) that Gina and Satomi go to watch. The film parodies some of the elements featured in Kengan AshuraKengan Ashura:
  • Tokita Ohma becomes "Tokinma Ohmuscle" (筋馬 (きんま) , Kinma).
  • Yamashita Kazuo becomes "Kyazuo" (キャズヲ, Kyazuwo).
  • Sekibayashi Jun becomes "Mukibayashi" (ムキ林 (ばやし) , Mukibayashi).
  • The Niko StyleNiko Style becomes the "Niku Style" (肉流, Niku-ryū; lit. Meat Style).
  • The Kengan matchesKengan matches become the "Kingan Battle" (筋肉バトル, kin'niku batoru; lit. Muscle Battle).
• In this chapter's 4koma, Satomi re-visits the "Muscle" genre section of a manga store where she discovers almost a dozen muscle parodies of other manga series.