More Planet Fitness Hilarity

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[quote]strangemeadow wrote:

[quote]kakno wrote:

[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
I am in complete disbelief that this promotional video for A GYM opens with them boasting about how they offer free pizza and tootsie rolls…WTF

I also like how the one employee says that they want to show that fitness isnt a “serious” thing, as if theres anyone on this site that looks good who isnt “serious.”

It angers me greatly that such a place is allowed to exist.

Anyone else notice that there was not a single person in that video who looked like they went to a gym?[/quote]
People have different goals. Most just want to be “not a fatass” and given the number of fatasses there are that’s not too bad. They’re open about what customers they want and while you’re not allowed to deadlift heavy in there at least it doesn’t come as a shock after you’ve signed up for a year.

Putting the casual lifters in one place isn’t that bad either. If only good gyms were more common.[/quote]

Do people really have different goals? I hear this, but I’m not sure I believe it. Who doesn’t want to look awesome? You don’t want a wide back and big arms? What woman doesn’t want a smaller, tighter ass and to ditch her “bingo wings”?
How many guys don’t wanna be able to do a bunch of pull ups or bench 6 plates?
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There’s a difference between what we want and what our goals are. I wouldn’t mind being the best football player in the world but it’s not my goal, I’m not working towards it and I’d never do it. Some might pick Phil Heath if they could have any body they wanted but I think a lot of people genuinely don’t want to get “too big”.

[quote]I think different goals might mean “I don’t wanna work that hard”. I mean this in a general sense, not literal.
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Sure, a lot of times it does, but not always. And “I don’t wanna work that hard” can change your goal. But maybe not your dream.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

Yeah. People want awesome to be effortless…

People will happily eat chocolate or drink until they vomit, but if they even feel the slightest bit nauseous during exercise, they tap out. [/quote]

It’s crazy how dopamine works.

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[quote]Cuso wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

Yeah. People want awesome to be effortless…

People will happily eat chocolate or drink until they vomit, but if they even feel the slightest bit nauseous during exercise, they tap out. [/quote]

It’s crazy how dopamine works.[/quote]

Well physical exercise releases dopamine as well, but that requires more effort than the other two…

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Cuso wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

Yeah. People want awesome to be effortless…

People will happily eat chocolate or drink until they vomit, but if they even feel the slightest bit nauseous during exercise, they tap out. [/quote]

It’s crazy how dopamine works.[/quote]

Well physical exercise releases dopamine as well, but that requires more effort than the other two…[/quote]

Then I must be doing something right because I’m getting my dose more and more from working out.

I’d like to present a theory on the topic PF and their pizza/tootsie roll offer. I think they’re just using reverse psychology, in that they tell their customers that as long as they work out at PF, they can continue eating their junkfood.

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[quote]kakno wrote:

[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
I am in complete disbelief that this promotional video for A GYM opens with them boasting about how they offer free pizza and tootsie rolls…WTF

I also like how the one employee says that they want to show that fitness isnt a “serious” thing, as if theres anyone on this site that looks good who isnt “serious.”

It angers me greatly that such a place is allowed to exist.

Anyone else notice that there was not a single person in that video who looked like they went to a gym?[/quote]

People have different goals. Most just want to be “not a fatass” and given the number of fatasses there are that’s not too bad. They’re open about what customers they want and while you’re not allowed to deadlift heavy in there at least it doesn’t come as a shock after you’ve signed up for a year.

Putting the casual lifters in one place isn’t that bad either. If only good gyms were more common.[/quote]

I understand who the gym is marketed to, I still find it pathetic. From a business point of view i understand it, but from a gym goers point of view, its pathetic. Invite a bunch of out of shape people who have so little will power and motivation that they cant work out at a gym where they will actually see people who look good, and tell them its OK to half ass it and reward yourself after a workout with tootsie rolls and equate muscular people to ignorant bullies.

It is for the weak of will and and those who cant man up and check their ego at the door, and thats why i dont like it.

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[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:

[quote]kakno wrote:

[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
I am in complete disbelief that this promotional video for A GYM opens with them boasting about how they offer free pizza and tootsie rolls…WTF

I also like how the one employee says that they want to show that fitness isnt a “serious” thing, as if theres anyone on this site that looks good who isnt “serious.”

It angers me greatly that such a place is allowed to exist.

Anyone else notice that there was not a single person in that video who looked like they went to a gym?[/quote]

People have different goals. Most just want to be “not a fatass” and given the number of fatasses there are that’s not too bad. They’re open about what customers they want and while you’re not allowed to deadlift heavy in there at least it doesn’t come as a shock after you’ve signed up for a year.

Putting the casual lifters in one place isn’t that bad either. If only good gyms were more common.[/quote]

I understand who the gym is marketed to, I still find it pathetic. From a business point of view i understand it, but from a gym goers point of view, its pathetic. Invite a bunch of out of shape people who have so little will power and motivation that they cant work out at a gym where they will actually see people who look good, and tell them its OK to half ass it and reward yourself after a workout with tootsie rolls and equate muscular people to ignorant bullies.

It is for the weak of will and and those who cant man up and check their ego at the door, and thats why i dont like it. [/quote]

X2

“Good business” is a subjective term. If one is describing the benefit to the public, PF is failing miserably. If one is describing creating a bogus market to be filled by customers conditioned with fear and insecurity in the name of profits, they’re a complete success.

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[quote]Cuso wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Cuso wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

Yeah. People want awesome to be effortless…

People will happily eat chocolate or drink until they vomit, but if they even feel the slightest bit nauseous during exercise, they tap out. [/quote]

It’s crazy how dopamine works.[/quote]

Well physical exercise releases dopamine as well, but that requires more effort than the other two…[/quote]

Then I must be doing something right because I’m getting my dose more and more from working out.

I’d like to present a theory on the topic PF and their pizza/tootsie roll offer. I think they’re just using reverse psychology, in that they tell their customers that as long as they work out at PF, they can continue eating their junkfood.[/quote]

That’s a solid theory. I see some positive reinforcement in there somewhere as well :

“well done, you weak-willed underachiever, you - have some more pizza and tootsie rolls”.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:

[quote]kakno wrote:

[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
I am in complete disbelief that this promotional video for A GYM opens with them boasting about how they offer free pizza and tootsie rolls…WTF

I also like how the one employee says that they want to show that fitness isnt a “serious” thing, as if theres anyone on this site that looks good who isnt “serious.”

It angers me greatly that such a place is allowed to exist.

Anyone else notice that there was not a single person in that video who looked like they went to a gym?[/quote]

People have different goals. Most just want to be “not a fatass” and given the number of fatasses there are that’s not too bad. They’re open about what customers they want and while you’re not allowed to deadlift heavy in there at least it doesn’t come as a shock after you’ve signed up for a year.

Putting the casual lifters in one place isn’t that bad either. If only good gyms were more common.[/quote]

I understand who the gym is marketed to, I still find it pathetic. From a business point of view i understand it, but from a gym goers point of view, its pathetic. Invite a bunch of out of shape people who have so little will power and motivation that they cant work out at a gym where they will actually see people who look good, and tell them its OK to half ass it and reward yourself after a workout with tootsie rolls and equate muscular people to ignorant bullies.

It is for the weak of will and and those who cant man up and check their ego at the door, and thats why i dont like it. [/quote]

X2

“Good business” is a subjective term. If one is describing the benefit to the public, PF is failing miserably. If one is describing creating a bogus market to be filled by customers conditioned with fear and insecurity in the name of profits, they’re a complete success.

[/quote]

Couldnt have said it any better.

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How is offering free pizza/bagels once a month… ONCE a month critically injuring their member’s goals? I use pizza as a cheat meal twice a month and it doesnt have me squalloring in fitness failure. That, and you’re only allowed two slices per member. (I was a member years ago)

And if we are being nit picky here, tons of gyms offer not so healthy choices on a regular basis that are worse than tootsie rolls (in my opinion). Like soda. Way more empty calories and sugar in that than in two or three tootsie rolls.

The lot of you are acting like eveytime these people step through these doors the staff is waiting to force feed people and pat them on the back telling them being fat is the way to go. Sheesh. You guys have got to be kidding me. If you don’t like to work out there go somewhere else…just like crossfit or monkey bar gyms or whatever. You find what works for you and forget the rest.

You guys also act like people don’t work out at these gyms. The ones in my area (there were a lot in Florida) were always packed, especially at night time, and the majority of the gym goers were not obese. ( a ton of high school kids to be honest.) You don’t have to like their business model or whatever but at least they have people in their gyms working out…that should be the end goal right? Even if they don’t want to be bodybuilders at least they are in the gym. Different strokes for different folks.

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[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:
How is offering free pizza/bagels once a month… ONCE a month critically injuring their member’s goals? I use pizza as a cheat meal twice a month and it doesnt have me squalloring in fitness failure. That, and you’re only allowed two slices per member. (I was a member years ago)

And if we are being nit picky here, tons of gyms offer not so healthy choices on a regular basis that are worse than tootsie rolls (in my opinion). Like soda. Way more empty calories and sugar in that than in two or three tootsie rolls.

The lot of you are acting like eveytime these people step through these doors the staff is waiting to force feed people and pat them on the back telling them being fat is the way to go. Sheesh. You guys have got to be kidding me. If you don’t like to work out there go somewhere else…just like crossfit or monkey bar gyms or whatever. You find what works for you and forget the rest.

You guys also act like people don’t work out at these gyms. The ones in my area (there were a lot in Florida) were always packed, especially at night time, and the majority of the gym goers were not obese. ( a ton of high school kids to be honest.) You don’t have to like their business model or whatever but at least they have people in their gyms working out…that should be the end goal right? Even if they don’t want to be bodybuilders at least they are in the gym. Different strokes for different folks.[/quote]

Are you really defending PF? I think what most people on this forum have a problem with is that they talk about a judgement free zone but then also have a lunk alarm ready be sounded for people they don’t want in their gym. Their only redeeming quality is that is offers a haven for not so serious gym goers away from where people like us would work out.

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I thought it was weekly pizza, either way… don’t you people go to the nutrition forum on here? CICO, IIFYM, pizza is just bread (carbs), cheese (protein and fat), apparently it’s close to being a health food.

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[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
I thought it was weekly pizza, either way… don’t you people go to the nutrition forum on here? CICO, IIFYM, pizza is just bread (carbs), cheese (protein and fat), apparently it’s close to being a health food.[/quote]

Never saw a problem with pizza. Too many calories are what should be avoided, not pepperoni.

As far as Planet Fitness, it may be a good business model, but it also a sign of our times. Going to the gym is now “in”…so naturally we have people doing it just to say they did it. I just avoid it. I don’t see much of a need to take it further than that even though the commercials are really ironic and degrading to anyone with real goals.

Hell, they are doing the same thing in schools now…giving you a gold star just for showing up.

In 100 years, the whole country will be successfully filled with gelatinous blobs who are really good at Call of Duty.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
I thought it was weekly pizza, either way… don’t you people go to the nutrition forum on here? CICO, IIFYM, pizza is just bread (carbs), cheese (protein and fat), apparently it’s close to being a health food.[/quote]

Never saw a problem with pizza. Too many calories are what should be avoided, not pepperoni.

As far as Planet Fitness, it may be a good business model, but it also a sign of our times. Going to the gym is now “in”…so naturally we have people doing it just to say they did it. I just avoid it. I don’t see much of a need to take it further than that even though the commercials are really ironic and degrading to anyone with real goals.

Hell, they are doing the same thing in schools now…giving you a gold star just for showing up.

In 100 years, the whole country will be successfully filled with gelatinous blobs who are really good at Call of Duty.[/quote]

I mostly agree with this. I guess my attitude is who cares. I mean when you have something that is widely popular…people are going to be into different variations of it. Take video games for example…not every one likes fighting games, or first person shooters. My take on fitness is as long as people are doing it, I could really care less. Some gyms cater to the froo froo fitness people, some to triathletes, some to bodybuilders…and yes some of their marketing is very adverse to their moto (Planet Fitness) but my opinion is just do you and show them who’s the better person. For the lot of us who are actually curteous to first time gym goers and obese gym goers, you still have the handful of douchebags who ruin the rep for all of us by snickering, teasing and being dicks to these people.

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[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
I thought it was weekly pizza, either way… don’t you people go to the nutrition forum on here? CICO, IIFYM, pizza is just bread (carbs), cheese (protein and fat), apparently it’s close to being a health food.[/quote]

Never saw a problem with pizza. Too many calories are what should be avoided, not pepperoni.

As far as Planet Fitness, it may be a good business model, but it also a sign of our times. Going to the gym is now “in”…so naturally we have people doing it just to say they did it. I just avoid it. I don’t see much of a need to take it further than that even though the commercials are really ironic and degrading to anyone with real goals.

Hell, they are doing the same thing in schools now…giving you a gold star just for showing up.

In 100 years, the whole country will be successfully filled with gelatinous blobs who are really good at Call of Duty.[/quote]

I mostly agree with this. I guess my attitude is who cares. I mean when you have something that is widely popular…people are going to be into different variations of it. Take video games for example…not every one likes fighting games, or first person shooters. My take on fitness is as long as people are doing it, I could really care less. Some gyms cater to the froo froo fitness people, some to triathletes, some to bodybuilders…and yes some of their marketing is very adverse to their moto (Planet Fitness) but my opinion is just do you and show them who’s the better person. For the lot of us who are actually curteous to first time gym goers and obese gym goers, you still have the handful of douchebags who ruin the rep for all of us by snickering, teasing and being dicks to these people. [/quote]

My contention with the pizza thing is that it doesn’t help a lot of their members more than the profit margins of the company (honestly, who’s gonna turn down free food…?), but really I don’t care all that much since I don’t eat pizza at the gym I don’t go to PF, I go in for 90 minutes, kick ass – take names, and then leave… Now if they offered some Chipotle I’d be all over it but whatever lol.

As for the their marketing it’s pretty annoying, but I’ve got a couple hundred channels I can skip to in the 40 seconds on the ad so again who cares… yeah it makes people who are dedicated to goals look bad but haters gonna hate anyway. Be the better person for sure…

Just let people feel good about going to the gym and doing something rather than sitting down watching Fox and eating cheetos…

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[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
I thought it was weekly pizza, either way… don’t you people go to the nutrition forum on here? CICO, IIFYM, pizza is just bread (carbs), cheese (protein and fat), apparently it’s close to being a health food.[/quote]

Never saw a problem with pizza. Too many calories are what should be avoided, not pepperoni.

As far as Planet Fitness, it may be a good business model, but it also a sign of our times. Going to the gym is now “in”…so naturally we have people doing it just to say they did it. I just avoid it. I don’t see much of a need to take it further than that even though the commercials are really ironic and degrading to anyone with real goals.

Hell, they are doing the same thing in schools now…giving you a gold star just for showing up.

In 100 years, the whole country will be successfully filled with gelatinous blobs who are really good at Call of Duty.[/quote]

I mostly agree with this. I guess my attitude is who cares. I mean when you have something that is widely popular…people are going to be into different variations of it. Take video games for example…not every one likes fighting games, or first person shooters. My take on fitness is as long as people are doing it, I could really care less. Some gyms cater to the froo froo fitness people, some to triathletes, some to bodybuilders…and yes some of their marketing is very adverse to their moto (Planet Fitness) but my opinion is just do you and show them who’s the better person. For the lot of us who are actually curteous to first time gym goers and obese gym goers, you still have the handful of douchebags who ruin the rep for all of us by snickering, teasing and being dicks to these people. [/quote]

On the other side of the coin you’ve got PF actively undermining our lifestyle and reputations by perpetuating the steroid guzzling neanderthal stereotype every time they air a new commercial. I would say that people who join PF based on their publicity campaign are, without exception, buying into that negative stereotype and helping to propagate it…

The whole campaign is designed to set bodybuilders up as undesirables who somehow make Joe Gymgoer’s workout “experience” less enjoyable.

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my objection isn’t the limits on equipment; it’s not for me, but like you said, different strokes and all that. It’s the fact they play up the stereotypes of people that actually lift, and act like we’re out to make the gym scary. We’re not.

I think you absolutely can get into shape at planet fitness–you certainly won’t get to be a great powerlifter, but that isn’t the same thing. I just don’t like a company that uses negative stereotypes of people as their primary marketing tools.

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[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:

[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:
How is offering free pizza/bagels once a month… ONCE a month critically injuring their member’s goals? I use pizza as a cheat meal twice a month and it doesnt have me squalloring in fitness failure. That, and you’re only allowed two slices per member. (I was a member years ago)

And if we are being nit picky here, tons of gyms offer not so healthy choices on a regular basis that are worse than tootsie rolls (in my opinion). Like soda. Way more empty calories and sugar in that than in two or three tootsie rolls.

The lot of you are acting like eveytime these people step through these doors the staff is waiting to force feed people and pat them on the back telling them being fat is the way to go. Sheesh. You guys have got to be kidding me. If you don’t like to work out there go somewhere else…just like crossfit or monkey bar gyms or whatever. You find what works for you and forget the rest.

You guys also act like people don’t work out at these gyms. The ones in my area (there were a lot in Florida) were always packed, especially at night time, and the majority of the gym goers were not obese. ( a ton of high school kids to be honest.) You don’t have to like their business model or whatever but at least they have people in their gyms working out…that should be the end goal right? Even if they don’t want to be bodybuilders at least they are in the gym. Different strokes for different folks.[/quote]

Are you really defending PF? I think what most people on this forum have a problem with is that they talk about a judgement free zone but then also have a lunk alarm ready be sounded for people they don’t want in their gym. Their only redeeming quality is that is offers a haven for not so serious gym goers away from where people like us would work out.[/quote]

Planet Fitness is the PC gyms of all gyms. Their attitude is “Lets all workout without hurting each other’s feelings.” And their thought process is people who are bodybuilders who grunt scream yell and drop weights aren’t contributing to that because by doing those things you alienate others/make people feel uncomfortable. Like I said, I was a member so I understand their thought process, and while they might not have necessarily have gone about it the right way, other gyms are popping up just like em enforcing the “Corteous gym goer” attitude. Currently I workout at a classically set up bodybuilding type gym in Cali and they have similar signs up about not dropping weights, etc.

One day this dude just signed up for the gym and was doing his first workout, and a group of guys I jive with sometimes at the gym were approached by him. He asked them to show him some machines, some exercises and then asked who was the “Expert” around here. THey pointed to me. I was in the middle of doing behind the back shrugs and had an intense look on my face. The man told them “I don’t want to ask him a question! He looks like he’d punch me in the face if I interupted him!” Needless to say we all had a good laugh about it afterwards but long story short PF gives these types of people a place to feel comfortable.

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Planet Fitness is a successful business, taking advantage of snooty self concious women, and metrosexual male vaginas who are living in 2012.

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[quote]paulwhite959 wrote:
my objection isn’t the limits on equipment; it’s not for me, but like you said, different strokes and all that. It’s the fact they play up the stereotypes of people that actually lift, and act like we’re out to make the gym scary. We’re not.

I think you absolutely can get into shape at planet fitness–you certainly won’t get to be a great powerlifter, but that isn’t the same thing. I just don’t like a company that uses negative stereotypes of people as their primary marketing tools.[/quote]

Now this I agree with 100%. I for one do not care for the negative sterotypes shitting on reality but they are just doing what tons of companies do, not to say it’s right in the slightest…but many companies use sterotypes to market their product…KFC/Popeyes and black people predominantly in their commercials…etc lol

But then on the other side of the foot, like I said earlier, you have those jerks in the gym who spend over an hour on one machine, very discourteous to others in many ways and just exemplifing the whole “BULLY” attitude that America is recently very concerned about. Bullying is becoming very intorelable to the American public and a gym that doesn’t have Typical “gym bullies” is going to appeal to the masses. Like I said, IM NOT saying it’s right, it’s just the way it is.

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  1. PF is stereotyping just the same as a lot of you are stereotyping :wink:
  2. I’m actually all for pizza, but to offer that and bagels as part of the membership to me goes against the concept of a gym
  3. I’m with PX, if anyone has seen Wall-E, that is this country’s future, and IMO will be it’s downfall. when you have a society that becomes incaring of their health, productivity, intellect and ability to defend go down…