gotta wonder if they also have an anti-flatulence policy .
my buddy emits an incredible stench from his ass every time he steps into the rack…cant believe nobody but us ever complained . I’d love to see him lift at one of these facilities .
[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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Holy Moly. That’s worth the modest membership fee right there. I wish they had one in Killingworth. I’d join. And for free Pizza, I let them grunt, except, of course, on Tuesday nights.
Not grunting is unhealthy - suppressing your breathing leads to faster way to get older !!!
Also grunting is the cousin of laughter and we all know how important laughter is for our health.
Now imagine suppressing grunting which counterbalance your workout.
So I personally wouldn’t go to a place where I have to chose between my health or follow ridiculous rules.
C_I
Opps
The YMCA i once worked out at as a teenager removed all dumbells 55# and heavier after a friend and I did dumbell presses with 80#ers. They said that dropping dumbells that heavy disrupted the floor foundation. Bullshit! I went back 2 years later from college to get a quick workout in, and found only one bench and a buch of exercise balls with old ladies talking on them. It was disgusting.
I can honest to god see them banning heavy lifting because of the ‘danger’ soon, very soon indeed. What a sad state of affairs.
[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]
Yes and the main character also lived on mercury for 20years in an upside down spaceship from mars.
The gym I go to is similar to this one (or it used to be), but what else would you expect out of a tennis and racquetball club. The gym wasn’t too important to them and everyone was quiet as a mouse, until I joined. I can cause a scene on pulling days.
Anyway, my gym is going in the opposite direction, getting new equipment, adding space, blah blah blah. but, apparently, the managers have received complaints about me and one of the personal trainers saying that we intimidate people (shit, that’s not hard being 6’4, 280, black, and bald in nortwest arkansas) and they are thinking of making a novice area for those intimidated little folks.
Planet Fitness recently acquired World Gym; has anyone who is a current member of a World Gym noticed a change?
The World Gym website certainly has changed, no muscular people and no gorilla logo. Some World Gyms websites in Chicago clearly state they don’t allow powerlifters to workout.
That ‘gym’ makes me want to throw up.
“make novices feel comfortable”
lmao