The manager said the man’s behaviour was intimidating. Isn’t it odd that big, strong, healthy lifters make people feel that way, when the sentiment one would expect is admiration, even envy?
I have seen a report about some education establishments(I cringe when they’re called schools)which eschew testing and grading, because each child is “unique”, and they don’t wish to foster competition.
How is competition detrimental to a child’s well-being and future? How can they be taught to embrace mediocrity? What is wrong with seeing someone who is bigger, faster, stronger, or smarter and wishing to improve yourself?
Is it going to be illegal in the future to ride in a Ferrari, or even just a Range Rover, in order not to intimidate the guys in the Honda?
[quote]Dirty Gerdy wrote:
I’d stab somebody with an olympic bar
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ROFLMAO! That be some funny shit! Like cutting someones heart out with a spoon! Walk into they to see the forensic crew around some poor sap with an olympic bar harpooned into his chest. Sound the lunk alarm!
I’m curious to how this lunk alarm works. Are there buttons, or levers throughout the gym and the person offended just presses the buttons and points out the “offender?”
LOL this is ridiculous. To each their own though, and they market towards that clientele so that’s what they get.
[quote]desertdevil wrote:
I’m curious to how this lunk alarm works. Are there buttons, or levers throughout the gym and the person offended just presses the buttons and points out the “offender?”
LOL this is ridiculous. To each their own though, and they market towards that clientele so that’s what they get.
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Turns out the lunk alarm is a god damn siren
There is no possible way dropping weights, grunting, or gasp deadlifting could possibly be more distracting than that hellacious contraption
I wonder if anyone has hurt themselves because of that thing. It sounds like its really loud and I can picture people w/out ipods getting startled during the middle of an overhead lift being disastrous.
I hate the smirk on that bitch’s face. Seems like the people working there must enjoy turning that thing on.
Give them time and I’m sure they’ll start putting up “No lifting weights” signs too, since that’s so intimidating. Just look at weights on the floor. Maybe roll them around a bit. Maybe the better centres will provide a “weight lowering” environment for advanced trainees, complete with automatic weight raising machinery.
And we’ll need motion sensors and a “too big” alarm at the front door too. Only those inferior attention seeking creatine injecting stupid meathead lunks want to build muscle anyway.
You have got to be kidding me. There is a separate wall dedicated for the lunk alarm. And in big letters, LUNK ALARM.
What is this about “meat head behavior?” No “meat head behavior allowed?” What’s that supposed to mean? And then the body builder figurine X’d out, as if it’s illegal? No “judging?” Good grief.
Clearly, this is a social club, a place for people to prance around on stair masters. Serious lifters would be better off going somewhere else anyways, without bumping into stair masters all over the place with Brittney Spears blaring.
While I find the idea of a lunk alarm as stupid as the guy next to me, I would agree with Roman on this one. In fact that alarm is 100x worse then somebody fucking grunting.
Most people don’t want to be heavier, and while I find the fact that people are intimidated by people lifting heavy pretty absurb the business model is successful, and thats all that matters.
If smaller gyms go out of business, tough luck. That’s the business world.
This story is a few years old, so hopefully not a re-post.
Damn straight the guy swore and yelled at the woman upon being confronted right after squatting 500!
A lunk alarm??? Seriously? I hope someone has hurled a DB at it by now. A prime example of blatant discrimination against the swole.
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I would have kicked the fucker out for using the Smith Machine. I would have kicked out the Smith Machine. After I read their rules I would have kicked myself out. In all fairness some 135 lb twat was probably doing arm curls in the squat rack. And he wasn’t grunting!
I joined a planet fatness a couple of years ago and one the day I joined they said I could’nt go inside of the place because they werent done with the construction inside. Two days later I go in and to surprise surprise its a satellite gym. No free weights at all. The dumbbells don’t go past 60 lbs and they had one side of a pulley station pushed right up against the wall. Guess which side… The tricep pulldown station. It was right up against the f@ckin wall. I was getting angrier and angrier. I saw atleast twenty treadmills and twenty elliptical machines each in their own separate rows and then I turn around and I see the sign on the wall that says “Lunk Alarm” and I did’nt really lose it as much as I should have but I walked over to the douchebag behind the counter and let him know that if that alarm ever went off on me I would shove one of those sixty lb dumbbells up his ass and then I left. I went home, got online and wrote some nasty stuff about the gym on their website and the next day the guy called and told me they would be pulling my membership. F@ckin Planet weakness
Next time one of you guys go in there, you should stand gazing at the sign, and when an employee asks you what’s up, looking around the place puzzled and say “Where do you hide your gas chambers?”, see how they like that lol
