[quote]MikeyKBiatch wrote:
step 1. find person with downs to be your training partner.
step 2. teach them to powerlift
step 3. bring them to planet fitness.
step 4. give them ammonia
step 5. videotape them setting off the link alarm and getting yelled at and then the
resulting tears that are sure to come.
step 6. send tape to 20/20.
step 7. profit[/quote]
This has potential.[/quote]
For a nominal fee I’m willing to accompany a fellow T-Nationer to Planet Fitness and pretend that I have cerebral palsy. I’m even willing to “involuntarily” shit myself…
My goal: To post a lunk alarm video before Holy Mac. I’ll be taking requests for various lunk alarm inducing activities. The two koleah mentioned should be good enough though.
[quote]Haavik wrote:
Well you see, Planet Fitness is a judgment free zone, where people are free to exercise as they want without fear of being judged or intimidated by others. Having the lunk alarm is just a way to ensure that if anyone grunts, performs deadlifts, or does anything else that violates their code of etiquette they can be effectively singled out from everyone else in the gym and ostracized as a lunkhead who is intimidating others. After the lunk alarm is sounded, the person who caused it to go off is usually kicked out of the gym, though there are some cases where gym personnel have called the police to escort the person off the premises.[/quote]
What a stupid fucking Gym. I still don’t understand why you can’t perform dead lifts? Are they intimidating to others? wtf stupic cunt of a company is that!
I don’t get why people would find deadlifts and Olympic lifts intimidating. I can understand why newbs might find grunting etc shocking at first, but if they really are that intimidated by someone who shows no interest in them and is getting on with their own thing they should probably be attending a fucking mental institution instead of a gym.
It’s kinda like that. People here stories about someone slipping a disc or injuring their back in some other way, and all of a sudden that’s what will happen to you if you deadlift, regardless of how good your form is or how long you’ve been doing it. Either that or they don’t like the noise the bar makes when you put it on the floor. Come to think of it, I’ve actually been told to try to be more quiet when setting down the bar when deadlifting at my university’s gym.
[quote]Haavik wrote:
Well you see, Planet Fitness is a judgment free zone, where people are free to exercise as they want without fear of being judged or intimidated by others. Having the lunk alarm is just a way to ensure that if anyone grunts, performs deadlifts, or does anything else that violates their code of etiquette they can be effectively singled out from everyone else in the gym and ostracized as a lunkhead who is intimidating others. After the lunk alarm is sounded, the person who caused it to go off is usually kicked out of the gym, though there are some cases where gym personnel have called the police to escort the person off the premises.[/quote]
That’s when you go into the bathroom pack your ass crack full of creamy peanut butter, when the cops show up stick your hand down the back of your pants get yourself a finger full of peanut butter lick it off your finger and ask who’s wants to go first. [/quote]
This is pretty obvious but I was just thinking…tmuscle is like the natural enemy of planet fitness. They’re like a goat or a rabbit and we’re like a god damn eagle. I wouldnt like us either if I was always getting thrown off cliffs and eaten.
The issue here is that we all think they ( PF ) play by their own rules. I don’t believe they make any bones about the fact that they are a hypocritical organization, nor have they ever.
This is the funniest article I’ve seen bashing PF to date.
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
My goal: To post a lunk alarm video before Holy Mac. [/quote]
Should we start taking bets on this?
I’d personally like to see a couple of Ronnie-Coleman-esque “Whooo! Light weight baby!”'s thrown out in a crowded room. Should elicit a good reaction, and I don’t think its technically against their rules.
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
My goal: To post a lunk alarm video before Holy Mac. [/quote]
Should we start taking bets on this?
I’d personally like to see a couple of Ronnie-Coleman-esque “Whooo! Light weight baby!”'s thrown out in a crowded room. Should elicit a good reaction, and I don’t think its technically against their rules.[/quote]
AndrewLive should go in there dressed like the Gimp from Pulp Fiction and head straight to the water fountain, get some water, and then head straight to the front desk and complain that everyone in the gym is looking at him in an extremely judgmental way.
Proceed to lift, but don’t drop any weight and don’t even come close to grunting. In short, don’t break any of their fucking rules, but take a break between every set to complain about the highly judgmental attitude that everyone else is subjecting you to.
Here’s the list of rules that I could see on that one youtube video:
No Jeans, Workboots, Sandals
No Do-rags, Skull-caps, Bandanas
No Gallon Water Jugs
No Gym Bags on Gym Floor
No Cursing
No Children Under Age of 14
No Cell Phones On Gym Floor…
No Picture Cell Phones…
No Grunting or Screaming…
No weight or Dumbbell…something
No Deadlifting or …
How many of those do you think you could find a loophole to and exploit before they throw you out?
Go in in a black hoodie with a black beanie on, unload all the stuff that you normally carry in your gym bag straight on to the floor in a nice size pile, start drinking out of one of several 2-liter bottles of water, start yelling gibberish to get pumped up or maybe just growling, and make sure to have someone filming all this on a non-cell-phone-camera.
And don’t forget to make a big ol’ chalk cloud right before you do your deadli… er, rack pulls
I can in noway lift 585. But a guy at my gym at college was doing it and was hitting his 3rd rep. Locked it out and dropped it. Made a huge bang, but it was in the olympic rack. They told him to leave, “he needed to set his weight down and not drop it” I’m sorry but I wanna meet a guy who can hit a 3rd rep of 585 deadlifting and just gracefully put the weight on the ground.
[quote]koleah wrote:
I wonder what would happen if you went into Planet Fitness and tried to exploit their “No Judgment” rule.
Say if you were to set the power rack pins in the lowest hole (if they even have a power rack) and do rack pulls, and when they come to tell you you can’t deadlift, tell them you’re not deadlifting, and that they need to stop judging your exercises.
Or when they tell you to stop grunting, tell them you’re not grunting but counting, and that they need to stop judging the way you count.[/quote]
I’d say that person would be no different than those people trying to exploit the law to make police officers look bad, or trying to pay a towing company in pennies for your car(since it’s legal tender), etc, etc…
I belonged to PF for a year. There was one lady about 40 who did the DL thing, no one ever said a peep to her. She was tough looking and probably rolled her own tampons and kick started her vibrator, if you catch my drift.
I have never heard the lunk alarm go off, the grunting is minimal since most of the “lifters” are zit-faced teens who pick their nose in the squat racks.
[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
I have never heard the lunk alarm go off, the grunting is minimal since most of the “lifters” are zit-faced teens who pick their nose in the squat racks.
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Ok tahts it. Why not jsut get 20-30 of us T-Nationers to all drop by a PF at teh same time. We all start doing powerlifting, grunting, Olympic lifts. Start yelling in such a way that we’ll put Ronnie Coleman to shame. Film the shit outa that too.
ok, so 4:00pm?
oh yeah, when the personal trainers or w.e. set the alarm off and come tell us to stop we chain them to the lunk alarm.
[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
I belonged to PF for a year. There was one lady about 40 who did the DL thing, no one ever said a peep to her. She was tough looking and probably rolled her own tampons and kick started her vibrator, if you catch my drift.
I have never heard the lunk alarm go off, the grunting is minimal since most of the “lifters” are zit-faced teens who pick their nose in the squat racks.
BG[/quote]
Every planet fitness is privately owned and a little bit different… I went to one for 2 weeks and set the lunk alarm off by dropping 35dbls 2 inches… Set it off 3 times in a 2 week period. If anyone wants to set a lunk alarm off I know the planet fitness in austin has a working one haven’t been there in 2 years so I’m not sure if its still on a “high setting?”
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
andrewlive will have nothing on me[/quote]
Holy shit…Holy Mac makes an appearance. Havent seen you in any threads I’ve been posting in. The nearest PF to me is about 5 hours away. When I go I’ll call first to make sure they area ‘jugement free zone’ and have a working lunk alarm.
haven’t been there in 2 years so I’m not sure if its still on a “high setting?”