A MUST read!!!
WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y., Nov. 13 ? Albert Argibay, a bodybuilder and a state correction officer, was at a Planet Fitness gym with 500 pounds of weight on his shoulders one afternoon this month when the club manager walked over and told him it was time to leave. Mr. Argibay, the manager explained, had violated one of the club?s most sacred and strictly enforced rules: He was grunting.
Wait… they seriously set off an alarm?
Oh yeah… a flasking red freaking light. I thought it waqs a joke article originally.
And people say homicide isn’t justifiable!!!
I live in Wappingers Falls and was a member of that same gym (for a while), until they tried to throw me out one day for doing deadlfts. They want to have a “Judgment Free Zone”.
They don’t like people who are stronger and put up larger weights, because they think we intimidate the older fatasses running on treadmills and putting up little weights on Nautilus machines. They also have cartoon pictures of bodybuilders around the gym with X’s drawn through them. Needless to say, after the deadlift incident, I got a refund on my membership and switched to a real gym.
Oh, I almost forgot, they threw my friend out the other day because he forgot to bring shorts and had to wear jeans to workout. The “trainer” who threw him out said, “Sorry, bro. Its corporate policy. You need to leave.”
Fucking ridiculous.
Even though this topic has come up before, I truly hope they begin to eventually lose business based on this. Gyms attempting to get rid of people who actually take lifting weights seriously is pretty lame. He basically intimidated the manager so she called the police…because he was “grunting”. Of all of the things to call the police for…
[quote]hardwork wrote:
They also have cartoon pictures of bodybuilders around the gym with X’s drawn through them. [/quote]
Is that still part of the “Judgement Free Zone”?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
hardwork wrote:
They also have cartoon pictures of bodybuilders around the gym with X’s drawn through them.
Is that still part of the “Judgement Free Zone”?[/quote]
Yes it is. The basis of the “Judgement Free Zone” is the discrimination against serious lifters who make the average Joe lifters feel “intimidated” (this is a direct quote from their reading material). The “Judgement Free Zone” supposedly is supposed to let everyone lift together without being bothered or intimidated. I would think being “judgement free” would allow bodybuilders, powerlifters, average lifters, the unfit, etc. to lift together peacefully.
Or maybe I’m crazy.
[quote]hardwork wrote:
Professor X wrote:
hardwork wrote:
They also have cartoon pictures of bodybuilders around the gym with X’s drawn through them.
Is that still part of the “Judgement Free Zone”?
Yes it is. The basis of the “Judgement Free Zone” is the discrimination against serious lifters who make the average Joe lifters feel “intimidated” (this is a direct quote from their reading material). The “Judgement Free Zone” supposedly is supposed to let everyone lift together without being bothered or intimidated. I would think being “judgement free” would allow bodybuilders, powerlifters, average lifters, the unfit, etc. to lift together peacefully.
Or maybe I’m crazy.[/quote]
No you’re crazy, you are absolutely correct.
What hypocrisy. More like the sight of fit, strong people brings out all their insecurity - and rather than deal with that reality - they’ll just take the easy way out and excise it from their midst. You see to most of these people, it isn’t about the working out, it’s just getting to the gym that’s an accomplishment. Heaven forbid anyone is busting their ass or breaking a sweat in the gym in their presence.
The sad part of it is that there are way , way more of them than there are of us. When they decide to pull shit like that, they’ll always win.
Money talks - serious lifters walk. A sad reality in the modern “health” club /“gym” (and I use those terms very loosely these days)world.
The ironic thing is, the gym SHOULD be a place where you exert your 100% effort into lifting and getting stronger while letting out some emotion.
The gym shouldn’t be a place that caters to fat asses who half-ass, eat crap all day and would be out of shape regardless.
[quote]hardwork wrote:
Professor X wrote:
hardwork wrote:
They also have cartoon pictures of bodybuilders around the gym with X’s drawn through them.
Is that still part of the “Judgement Free Zone”?
Yes it is. The basis of the “Judgement Free Zone” is the discrimination against serious lifters who make the average Joe lifters feel “intimidated” (this is a direct quote from their reading material). The “Judgement Free Zone” supposedly is supposed to let everyone lift together without being bothered or intimidated. I would think being “judgement free” would allow bodybuilders, powerlifters, average lifters, the unfit, etc. to lift together peacefully.
Or maybe I’m crazy.[/quote]
You have to love the hypocrisy behind discriminating against people who have actually built up their bodies because you fear they may discriminate against people who don’t seem to give a shit how they look until it is too late. Apparently, the motto is “judge lest ye be judged”. I wonder how business is going and if this is truly translating into a paradise for fat people.
Perhaps they’ll start expelling bright students for concentrating too hard on tests now.
“You’re making Timmy feel bad when you make A’s and he makes C’s. Stop doing so well.”
Vonnegut wrote of a future where people wore “handicaps” to equalize society. If you were particularly pretty, you wore a mask; if you could run fast, you had weights attached to you.
Life imitates art.
Soon they’ll be banning going heavy all together in that gym , As the sight of a 400 lb bench 500 lb squat is just to intimidating to the weaker gym members .
[quote]tigerak02 wrote:
The ironic thing is, the gym SHOULD be a place where you exert your 100% effort into lifting and getting stronger while letting out some emotion.
The gym shouldn’t be a place that caters to fat asses who half-ass, eat crap all day and would be out of shape regardless.[/quote]
Would You want someone making progress and exceding your facilities ability to provide a service, thus losing valuable clientelle?
They don’t!
I cant believe that. When i visit USA im gona remember not to train at that chain of gyms. Typical fitness gym attitude.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I wonder how business is going and if this is truly translating into a paradise for fat people.[/quote]
Unfortunately it is turning into a paradise for the unfit. Planet Fitness offers ridiculously low membership rates ($9.99 per month for adults, and for students like myself you can get 9 months for $99 with no registration fee). I believe that Times article said the average member here only uses the gym once a month so that is how they can charge so low. All Planet Fitnesses have brand new equipment and the facility is very clean so it does attract members. Business has never been better for this gym, unfortunately.
They also have a free pizza night after you workout every Tuesday night. LOL
(yes I’m serious)
[quote]hardwork wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I wonder how business is going and if this is truly translating into a paradise for fat people.
Unfortunately it is turning into a paradise for the unfit. Planet Fitness offers ridiculously low membership rates ($9.99 per month for adults, and for students like myself you can get 9 months for $99 with no registration fee). I believe that Times article said the average member here only uses the gym once a month so that is how they can charge so low. All Planet Fitnesses have brand new equipment and the facility is very clean so it does attract members. Business has never been better for this gym, unfortunately.
They also have a free pizza night after you workout every Tuesday night. LOL
(yes I’m serious)
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That’s not a gym. It’s a nightclub with a “gym theme” like they used to do at high school dances. They should go the extra mile and make all of the equipment just cardboard cut-outs so they can spend more money on strobe lights and a house band.
[quote]TShaw wrote:
Vonnegut wrote of a future where people wore “handicaps” to equalize society. If you were particularly pretty, you wore a mask; if you could run fast, you had weights attached to you.
Life imitates art.[/quote]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? Or at least in that book?
[quote]
TShaw wrote:
Vonnegut wrote of a future where people wore “handicaps” to equalize society. If you were particularly pretty, you wore a mask; if you could run fast, you had weights attached to you.
Life imitates art.
MetalMikeXVI wrote:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? Or at least in that book?[/quote]
The short story “Harrison Bergeron.”
“Cuckoo’s Nest” was written by Ken Kesey.
o.k…I gotta ask…
why did a serious power lifter join a gym with anti-meathead propaganda splattered all around the facility ?
hey , I wouldnt go to a Cheryl Crow concert expecting to make friends in a moshpit…know what I mean ??