haha.
i’ve been at combatives 3 at ft. benning, GA. between that training and then taking care of work from back home i haven’t had much time to BS around on these boards.
video is soon man, don’t worry.
i think a lot of people underestimate the logistics of pulling off a funny PF video. backflip was so much easier
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The Planet Fitness in Astoria Queens serves Pizza on Fridays… I went on a tour before knowing what the place was. When they showed their “weights”, they only had up to 60lb dumbells and you could only do bench or squat on a smith machine. I think I violated their rules when i started laughing hysterically and walked out
Years ago when I was in college still (probably my first year) I joined a PF that used to be a golds gym. It was a great gym with a protein bar, plenty of free weights, benches, DB’s up to 130 or 150 IIRC, the works. About halfway through the year they started getting rid of all the good stuff. Replaced the iron DB’s with rubber ones, heaviest was 60 lbs. No more barbells/fixed EZ curl bars. No more racks, period.
Protein bar got replaced with a gatorade fridge, and the boxing/MMA area got turned into a tanning section.
Having long hair I sometimes wear a baseball hat or a ripped up sleeve over my head. This was never a problem until the “change”. I lost my membership for being an “intimidating gang member” for wearing a torn off t-shirt sleeve on my head.
Bright side? I got the rest of my money back, and my gf and all my friends who had joined because of me quit the gym.
Joined Powerhouse shortly afterward.
Man, what a fuckin’ nightmare. Fuck Planet Fitness.
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
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]
I would love to see some PF employees walk up to 20 plus serious T-Nationers to tell them to stop grunting…they wouldn’t…those pussies would just call the police…request the SWAT team.
[quote]benos4752 wrote:
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
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]
I would love to see some PF employees walk up to 20 plus serious T-Nationers to tell them to stop grunting…they wouldn’t…those pussies would just call the police…request the SWAT team.[/quote]
Better make it The A-Team instead.
[quote]dles91 wrote:
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.
AND NO GALLON WATER BOTTLES???
What the heck? Are they the hydration police?[/quote]
I’d get pissed if someone dropped a barbell I own with 585 lbs on it. And yes you can put it down properly. And no I’m not weak, I missed 585 close two weeks ago. Dropping a bar loaded with regular plates can be very hard on the bar. Bumper plates are different.
You can lift it, you can put it down under control. you’ll get flagged in a powerlifting meet for dropping the bar. I know it won’t be quiet, but under control is the rule.
[quote]tom63 wrote:
[quote]dles91 wrote:
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.
AND NO GALLON WATER BOTTLES???
What the heck? Are they the hydration police?[/quote]
I’d get pissed if someone dropped a barbell I own with 585 lbs on it. And yes you can put it down properly. And no I’m not weak, I missed 585 close two weeks ago. Dropping a bar loaded with regular plates can be very hard on the bar. Bumper plates are different.
You can lift it, you can put it down under control. you’ll get flagged in a powerlifting meet for dropping the bar. I know it won’t be quiet, but under control is the rule.[/quote]
Surely you can’t deny that sometimes it’s necessary. Sometimes it’s safer for the lifter to just drop the bar. It’s a rare circumstance, but if I thought it was safer for me to drop the bar than to set it down and then my gym told me to leave, they could go fuck themselves. Most good gym owners will understand this.
Obviously the best step is just to use bumper plates and chill out though. Or for the gym to buy better bars.
Ive been scolded for Setting down 140dbs from a decline bench by some fat dude who didnt work there. Id love to see someone do a 500lb situp.
Lunk Alarm = Testosterone alarm. Its quite obvious the gym was either created by a big vagina which bleeds daily, or a fat D bag who grew up as the weak, out of shape one and was picked on for it. That shit is absolutely ridiculous.
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
Lunk Alarm = Testosterone alarm.[/quote]
FTW. If I ever have my own gym I’ll install a T-Alarm. It will be the same as a Lunk Alarm except it will start playing Bodies by Drowning Pool really loud whenever anyone breaks the decibel barrier. Might still get annoying after a while.
[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
Lunk Alarm = Testosterone alarm.[/quote]
FTW. If I ever have my own gym I’ll install a T-Alarm. It will be the same as a Lunk Alarm except it will start playing Bodies by Drowning Pool really loud whenever anyone breaks the decibel barrier. Might still get annoying after a while.
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You should call it the Puss Alarm and use it whenever someone is acting like they are at PF.
Sad to say I think my best man is looking to rejoin a PF. Help!
Go with him one day on for a trial type deal. Do some pull-thrus, back raises, or some other similar lift to warm up your back, hammies, and glutes. Put an asinine amount of chalk on your hands, deadlift your 1RM, as loud as you can as you’re locking it out, and lower it with a bang. Shout “Fuck yeah, man!” or something similar after.
[quote]Haavik wrote:
Go with him one day on for a trial type deal. Do some pull-thrus, back raises, or some other similar lift to warm up your back, hammies, and glutes. Put an asinine amount of chalk on your hands, deadlift your 1RM, as loud as you can as you’re locking it out, and lower it with a bang. Shout “Fuck yeah, man!” or something similar after.[/quote]
x2.
You have nothing to lose. Go for it.
And videotape it.
[quote]bluefingas wrote:
[quote]Haavik wrote:
Go with him one day on for a trial type deal. Do some pull-thrus, back raises, or some other similar lift to warm up your back, hammies, and glutes. Put an asinine amount of chalk on your hands, deadlift your 1RM, as loud as you can as you’re locking it out, and lower it with a bang. Shout “Fuck yeah, man!” or something similar after.[/quote]
x2.
You have nothing to lose. Go for it.
And videotape it.[/quote]
Wow, I REALLY have to start proof reading my posts.
I got what ya meant, “on one day” perhaps? lol
This sounds like fun! Will definitely try to make it happen.
who has time to proof read? just click submit and have at her. Suffer the shame of your mistakes alter.
The internet awaits.
Back up for a sec… Is this lunk alarm real? I dont believe
^believe…