I am glad that this gym exists and only wish those who subscribe to this philosophy would leave my gym.
This makes me very glad I work at a college and have access to a collegiate/athletic weight room, were I can grunt, fart and expel nasal propelled objects into the trash can at will. Feel bad for you guys and gals that have to pay for memberships and have to put up with these types of rules.
“There’s even a flashing light and siren on the wall, labeled a “lunk alarm,” which sounds if someone grunts or drops weights on the floor.”
Wow. Who joins a gym like this?
If you break the rules you are going to suffer the consequences, even if they are ridiculous.
This article makes me feel a little better about the gym I go to.
I joined a Planet Fitness once too.
The place sucked!
It was only $10/month, so you can’t really blame someone for going there. You see how cheap it is, and you know they have weights, so I can see why he would join.
I couldn’t take it after about a month.
I was also paying another $5/month for unlimited tanning, and figured for $15/month, unlimited tanning is a good price, so I might as well keep it. That got old quick too, and I just didn’t like walking through their doors.
Wasn’t worth their dirt cheap price.
Up until I recently moved I went to a Planet Fitness and watched it turn gayer and gayer, fortunately no one ever said anything to me because I was friendly and a regular. It did suck not using dumbells for much of anything because they were too light, but for 10 bucks whaddayawant.
Some people in there must have liked what I was doing though, because when I was back in town recently one of the women from the gym saw me out at the bar and took me home and fucked the shit out of me on the living room floor! Fuck those 80# dumbells though.
Who really wants to work out with the guy that barks like a seal with every rep?
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
mazilla wrote:
simon-hecubus wrote:
Grunting is a colossal waste of energy.
your trippin, grunting is scientifically proven to help get those few extra pounds up.
Thanks, Mr. Wizard!
I also heard that grunting and slamming plates together have a synergistic effect and can get you the attention that mommy and daddy never gave you!
Seriously though, I know what you’re talking about. A good grunt gets you past the sticking points, but some obnoxious assheads take it way too far and need to get their disruptive spectacle out the gym.[/quote]
i don’t grunt, maybe a dozen times in the last few years on a pr lift. it sure does help, and i agree that grunting on every rep of every set is as retarded as it is funny. there is a big mofo at my gym that does that. i always start to grunt when he’s there, especially when i pick up plates. he doesnt seem to think it’s too funny, everybody else does.
In the 70s we had “Health spas” with the chrome weights in the front and the heavy wt room in the back. PF is just the spa without the back room.
I have a membership at PF,the rules are posted everywhere and also on the back of the paperwork you have to sign.
I also have a second membership at a old school gym that anything goes. This gym save my sanity.
PF is cheap,well maintained and is all ways very clean and did I say cheap. I pay $35 a mo. for three memberships. Two of them have unlimited tanning. The location I use has a squat rack and 80# dbs.
Never been to pizza nite or bagle morning they have every month.
Anyone who joins should be aware of the rules going in. It took some adjusting the atmosphere(at least 12 tvs and a vast mix of music piped in).
No one is made to sign up.
Izzie
[quote]apayne wrote:
Some people in there must have liked what I was doing though, because when I was back in town recently one of the women from the gym saw me out at the bar and took me home and fucked the shit out of me on the living room floor! Fuck those 80# dumbells though.[/quote]
As an official representative of Planet Fitness, I take full credit for this. You’re welcome.
[quote]mazilla wrote:
BGB wrote:
I"m with those who said if you dont like then just find another gym instead of complaining.
I own a gym and guess what - no grunting allowed.
Why? Because it intimidates others, including most women. Do I want to lose a sale due to some guy unable to train hard without making some big noises?
Yes one grunt or noise here or there is not the issue, it’s those that grunt/make noise the entire time - is it really necessary? No.
It’s my gym and I’d rather not lose sales for your one membership - simple as that…
Get a home gym and grunt all you like…
no your a retard and i hope somebody smashes your ass with a barbell full of weight, then grunts over your crused wafer thin body.
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Y’know, if you’re gonna call someone a retard, you should probably use proper English when you do it. Otherwise, people tend to laugh at you.
You do know is a woman, right? So, the “wafer-thin” reference doesn’t really fly.
Ah, well: we can’t all be wannabe tough-guy pot dealing fat fucks.
[quote]BGB wrote:
I"m with those who said if you dont like then just find another gym instead of complaining.
I own a gym and guess what - no grunting allowed.
Why? Because it intimidates others, including most women. Do I want to lose a sale due to some guy unable to train hard without making some big noises?
Yes one grunt or noise here or there is not the issue, it’s those that grunt/make noise the entire time - is it really necessary? No.
It’s my gym and I’d rather not lose sales for your one membership - simple as that…
Get a home gym and grunt all you like…[/quote]
No grunting allowed?
Might as well say no gaining muscle allowed either.
Your motto could be: “Only people who’s goal is to look like a sack of bones are allowed to work out here”.
[quote]ALDurr wrote:
Damici wrote:
There’s reasonable, controlled, perfectly-normal-when-you’re-lifting-heavy grunting, and then there’s “I’m a big bad-ass tough guy, look at me” grunting, which is usually 5 times as loud as the first kind. If it was the latter, I’d have no probelm with him getting booted from my gym.
I can agree with this. It wasn’t that I felt that the “gym” was wrong in enforcing their rules. I just felt that it was sad that pussified rules like this were needed in a “gym” in the first place.
Although, I am glad that there is a place where all of these namby-pamby, whimpy, punk-ass metrosexual wannabes can all hang out in one large group. Keep all of those asshats in one place and out of the real gyms. That way I don’t have to worry about the “Squat-Rack” curlers anymore. They have a place to feel superior and they are out of rack and out of my way![/quote]
This is out of hand. The guy in this picture:
http://img.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_sizedimage_306093038/xl
isn’t tiny. He is probably bigger than most of the people on this site and was squatting a claimed 500lbs. For someone to kick him out for grunting is ridiculous and it is pretty damn sad that anyone supports it happening regardless of whether they are making it a comfortable place for near-sedentary individuals. I personally wouldn’t train there and I hate the way many gyms are going on these same terms. The “Q” fitness facility was the same way, going even more overboard by requiring you either wear a large tee-shirt when training (because tank tops made the fat people feel inadequate) or they would make you rent one…either that or leave. They are no longer open in Houston. I can’t say I’m sorry it didn’t work out.
Gyms aren’t supposed to be places for people to hang out, relax and barely train. The Gold’s gym near me is becoming the same way. They have a juice bar and serve coffee. Every time I go in, people I have seen for over two years now look exactly the same or worse and stand around talking instead of lifting weights. I get stared at like a circus freak just by walking in the front door because so few people there actually look like they lift weights.
I could care less about fat people “finally” moving just to go to a gym like that. In the long run, all they are doing is alienating those who do take this seriously when it should be the other way around. I don’t go to Nascar in a go cart that only goes 20mph and expect them to tone it down and allow people in go carts to race.
[quote]harris447 wrote:
mazilla wrote:
BGB wrote:
I"m with those who said if you dont like then just find another gym instead of complaining.
I own a gym and guess what - no grunting allowed.
Why? Because it intimidates others, including most women. Do I want to lose a sale due to some guy unable to train hard without making some big noises?
Yes one grunt or noise here or there is not the issue, it’s those that grunt/make noise the entire time - is it really necessary? No.
It’s my gym and I’d rather not lose sales for your one membership - simple as that…
Get a home gym and grunt all you like…
no your a retard and i hope somebody smashes your ass with a barbell full of weight, then grunts over your crused wafer thin body.
Y’know, if you’re gonna call someone a retard, you should probably use proper English when you do it. Otherwise, people tend to laugh at you.
You do know is a woman, right? So, the “wafer-thin” reference doesn’t really fly.
Ah, well: we can’t all be wannabe tough-guy pot dealing fat fucks.
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hey, i’m no wannabe. and yes i knew it was a woman, your a woman and i still beat your silly ass. oh, and those pics are pretty old(pre 2003). except the ones where i’m wearing two jackets and a sweater and sweat pants in the -30 in alaska, but yea i’m fat. fat enough to pull 600lbs on the deadlift, but whatever.
[quote]harris447 wrote:
Ah, well: we can’t all be wannabe tough-guy pot dealing fat fucks.
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oops, i forgot the recent pics arent even up there. the newest pic is from jan of 04, when i just started to lift again.
harris harris harris, will your douchebaggery ever cease? at least i’m man enougfh to put a pic up, mr 5’9" 214lbs @14%. that would make you a tubby little fucker, wouldnt it?
talk to me when your in the 240+ “big guy”.
[quote]EmperialChina wrote:
Planet Fitness should remove their mirrors also, this is supposed to be a no judgment zone, but when some of those people look in the mirrors they may judge themselves, and this is bad for business.[/quote]
No, they need fun-house mirrors to make everyone look thinner to feel good.
I hate it when people grunt I have seen people do it with preacher curls
ban grunting!
I wonder if grunting is allowed in their restrooms?
[quote]storeydp wrote:
No grunting allowed?
Might as well say no gaining muscle allowed either.
Your motto could be: “Only people who’s goal is to look like a sack of bones are allowed to work out here”.[/quote]
Lol we have a pretty good crowd here compared to most gyms, world champion bodybuilders, athletes, ect.
Our equipment is more condusive to muscle building than any other gym in the city in fact.
We have equipment that can’t be found elsewhere, those that know anything really appreciate it.
We focus on strength training and less cardio here, the reverse of all other gyms it seems.
I love the article comment “he was grunting to bring attention to himself”…eeeee-yah. It had nothing to do with the 500lb or whatever squat…
Heck, I know that’s why I grunt…cuz I know I make the most prettiest faces when I’m pushing a big load…kinda like when I’m taking a crap, and yhat’s EXACTLY when I want to bring attention to myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah!!
These people are MORONS. I agree that EXCESSIVE grunting is annoying, but wtf…a grunt here or there isn’t bad… I used to work at a SportsClub/LA facility in Boston. I was training there one day and I went looking for a dip belt. They told me that that was inappropriate equipment for their facility…and then I was asked why I would want to ADD WEIGHT TO MY PULL-UPS…I almost pee-d my pants laughing.
All this “P.C.” crap is getting way out of hand… Judgement free zone? Puh-lease. If you don’t want to be judged, don’t walk out of your house.
[quote]mazilla wrote:
harris447 wrote:
Ah, well: we can’t all be wannabe tough-guy pot dealing fat fucks.
oops, i forgot the recent pics arent even up there. the newest pic is from jan of 04, when i just started to lift again.
harris harris harris, will your douchebaggery ever cease? at least i’m man enougfh to put a pic up, mr 5’9" 214lbs @14%. that would make you a tubby little fucker, wouldnt it?
talk to me when your in the 240+ “big guy”.
[/quote]
You insult a lady who’s doing nothing more than expressing her opinion but you’re (note correct spelling!) a “man” because you post some pic? Who’s the douchebag???
BTW, nice response BGB. Sounds like you’re as beautiful inside as out (no small feat).
Personally, I do Oly and PL and never grunt or drop weights. Controlled breathing is one thing but true intensity is internal. Only children who lack mental or emotional control need to scream and grunt in order to generate maximum physical force. You’re just fooling yourself.