[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
oh hai guyz sup?[/quote]
Troll!
I just posted this, but it got taken down… thank fuck.
I hate this gym, and would fight every member.
I just watched an 8 min video attached to that link, and at around the 2 minute mark, I just heard one chick say, "And they don't care that I'm fat!"
SO, I slowly began finding a way to burn this place down. And I live in Canada. I’m coming to the States.
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
oh hai guyz sup?[/quote]
Troll![/quote]
Oh good.
I thought I was going to have to post the three letters to summon you.
Dude… I gotta start training in an unbuttoned sleeveless flannel shirt.
Planet Fitness is aimed a the lazy, overweight, infomercial crowd who wants to piddle around for 45 minutes doing tricep extensions and calf raises without feeling intimidated by people who actually want to train hard and improve themselves.
I mean, I’m not a bodybuilder by any means, but I would gladly welcome a jacked up dude grunting while doing dumbbell presses in my gym… it would be a nice chance of pace from the housewives trying to “tone up” with a metro anorexic personal trainer.
Really? In 2011 we still have the “dumb meathead” stereotype? How much was that paycheck they gave him to do that?
How does Planet Fitness get a free pass to insult people like that?
If anyone dared do the same in reverse on national tv, every fat ass in the country would be protesting until they were out of breath…and that would be one long 5 minutes.
[quote]ZombieLover wrote:
If this is a repost, I apologize
My question is if they are so interested in a judgment free zone why do they judge bodybuilders, powerlifters, etc?[/quote]
B/c those people can take it
Bb’ers + power lifters depreciate the equipment b/c they actually use it
Fat, whinny, cowardly people need a place void of anyone who trains seriously
Bb’ers + pl don’t sign up for personal training
I wish I had customers who gave me money every month for basically a key card. That’s smart business.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
If anyone dared do the same in reverse on national tv, every fat ass in the country would be protesting until they were out of breath…and that would be one long 5 minutes.[/quote]
hahahahahahaah
That would be funny as shit!
You have to hand it to Planet Fitness. It is one efficient business model. Get all the people who will last 2 workouts in and get them to pay the year’s fee.
However, open flannel shirt, denim shorts, huge jug of ‘juice’ (nice pun advertisers). What is this, the 80s?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Really? In 2011 we still have the “dumb meathead” stereotype? How much was that paycheck they gave him to do that?
How does Planet Fitness get a free pass to insult people like that?
If anyone dared do the same in reverse on national tv, every fat ass in the country would be protesting until they were out of breath…and that would be one long 5 minutes.[/quote]
Seriously… didn’t that stereotype die out in the 90’s? I mean, today, it seems like every other dude is trying to get that “Brad Pitt” manorexic look so he can show off his abzzz… I think Planet Fitness is about 20 years too late for their anti-meathead ad campaign.
I did not listen to the commercial, just watched it, and do not see anything that ‘wrong’ with it. Basically, it said that Planet Fitness is for people who do not want to get big. That’s there MO and those who do want to get big know to avoid the place. If anything, the commercial just reinforced the notion that it is not a weight-room but an exercise facility.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
I did not listen to the commercial, just watched it, and do not see anything that ‘wrong’ with it. Basically, it said that Planet Fitness is for people who do not want to get big. That’s there MO and those who do want to get big know to avoid the place. If anything, the commercial just reinforced the notion that it is not a weight-room but an exercise facility.[/quote]
Dude, it is the personal attacks that bother me, not the fact that they cater to lazy people.
I look like the types of people they are constantly insulting, so yes, I take offense on some level even if I don’t lose any sleep over it.
If we did the same, they wouldn’t accept it.
How fucked up is a society that laughs at those who work hard and enforces the idea that being a lazy fat ass is what is acceptable?
I would MAYBE expect to see a portrayal like that on tv if this were 1983…and even then being a “dumb jock” was the stereotype for mostly high school aged kids.
No one really gives a shit about this being a place to fat people.
Also, apparently to look like that, you can’t hold down a real job.
Who knew.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
I did not listen to the commercial, just watched it, and do not see anything that ‘wrong’ with it. Basically, it said that Planet Fitness is for people who do not want to get big. That’s there MO and those who do want to get big know to avoid the place. If anything, the commercial just reinforced the notion that it is not a weight-room but an exercise facility.[/quote]
LOL, without the sound you’re missing like 99% of the effect.
I ashamed to say I worked out there on my girlfriends guest pass once a week for a couple months. Those were dark, dark days.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
I did not listen to the commercial, just watched it, and do not see anything that ‘wrong’ with it. Basically, it said that Planet Fitness is for people who do not want to get big. That’s there MO and those who do want to get big know to avoid the place. If anything, the commercial just reinforced the notion that it is not a weight-room but an exercise facility.[/quote]
Dude, it is the personal attacks that bother me, not the fact that they cater to lazy people.
I look like the types of people they are constantly insulting, so yes, I take offense on some level even if I don’t lose any sleep over it.
If we did the same, they wouldn’t accept it.
How fucked up is a society that laughs at those who work hard and enforces the idea that being a lazy fat ass is what is acceptable?
I would MAYBE expect to see a portrayal like that on tv if this were 1983…and even then being a “dumb jock” was the stereotype for mostly high school aged kids.
No one really gives a shit about this being a place to fat people.[/quote]
I do not think this commercial is presenting any new stereotypes, and in fact, might just be counter-productive given the current fitness craze. I guess I just saw it as being, in a word, stupid.
I can empathize with how it feels as a personal attack. I think you do more positive for big guys in the eyes of the public with your interaction through your job than this commercial does negative.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Also, apparently to look like that, you can’t hold down a real job.
Who knew.[/quote]
So picking things up and putting them down isn’t a real job? Fuck!
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Also, apparently to look like that, you can’t hold down a real job.
Who knew.[/quote]
So picking things up and putting them down isn’t a real job? Fuck! [/quote]
What if you’re a forklift operator?
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
I do not think this commercial is presenting any new stereotypes, and in fact, might just be counter-productive given the current fitness craze. I guess I just saw it as being, in a word, stupid.
I can empathize with how it feels as a personal attack. I think you do more positive for big guys in the eyes of the public with your interaction through your job than this commercial does negative.
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That would be nice if average people started asking why they are attacking a population of serious gym goers like this…but I doubt that will happen. Those types of people get off on insulting more hardcore types. Laughing at them makes them feel better for their own shortcomings.
It must make them feel all warm and snugly to think every big guy they see is an idiot too stupid to hold a conversation. That is why I get a shocked look in response if I ever mention what I do. From what I understand, the first assumption is “bouncer”…not “college educated”.
In fact, some of the people right here are the same when you hear some rank newbie talking shit about some huge bodybuilder because he didn’t write out a peer reviewed abstract in response to a question in the gym.
Average people want to believe that anyone doing better than them in any way is coming up short in more important matters.
That is why so many of them log in and write about how they value their personal life more than weight lifting so they can only train once a week…as if lifting weights means you have no life.
I’ve seen it personally. If people realize you really are doing better than them on many fronts, they will only hate you for it, not congratulate you.
Bouncers (not all but many) are a big part of furthering this myth.
A lot of them will treat you like shit and herd you like cattle if you aren’t getting bottle service. Especially at bars and clubs targeted toward the college crowd.
People see some big bouncers act like “meatheads” and apply this stereotype to all big muscled people.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
How fucked up is a society that laughs at those who work hard and enforces the idea that being a lazy fat ass is what is acceptable?
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This is the fucking shit I deal with everyday. I’ve had clients almost vomit after a warm up during their first session. What are you doing with your life that you can’t even foam roll and do some mobility drills without seeing stars?
I love what I do, but I’m sorry, this gym caters to the people that I hate.