[quote]BigRagoo wrote:
And the pussification of America continues. [/quote]
If asked years ago, I bet you would have never thought extra pussy in America would be a bad thing!
[quote]Ruggerlife wrote:
BigRagoo wrote:
And the pussification of America continues.
If asked years ago, I bet you would have never thought extra pussy in America would be a bad thing![/quote]
Haha, if asked when I was 17, there couldn’t have been anything wrong with that.
Would anyone else pay to see Ronnie Coleman scream LIGHT WEIGHT BABY, LIGHT WEIGHT at a planet fitness?
i was laughing so hard when I saw this. all fat whining bitches complaining.
there are so many things I can say against this, but really dont want to waste my time
I agree about the good these gyms do by keeping “those types” in their own gym, and having more hard-core gyms for those who want to go there, but I don’t agree with them kicking people out who are different from who they want to serve.
That’s discrimination. Plain and simple. If a more “hard-core” lifter preferes Planet Fitness, and pays to go there weather it’s cheaper, or closer to his house, or open during better hours; he should be allowed to.
What should be done would be to find a middle aged, overweight lady, and have her work out next to a bodybuilder at a Planet Fitness. Have the bodybuilder make quiet grunts, and have the lady make more obvious grunts during their workout.
Who do you think will get kicked out?
Video tape THAT, and put it on the news.
Judgment free zone my ass!
I’ve found less judgment, and more people willing to help in the more “hard-core” gyms, and the most judgment from “fitness centers”.
I don’t think grunting is really necessary. I think that grunting shouldn’t be allowed for lifts under 405. If you had to separate your teeth to make the noise, and it sounds like a grunt, you grunted. Take a look at Max from Poland: whose won the worlds strongest man like 4 times. When he works out he doesn’t grunt. He lets out forceful bursts of air. Screaming is just silly. Closed teeth hisses, pants, and very quiet grunts are kinda unavoidable if intensity is high but if you really need to let out some air you can blow it out instead of caveman it out.
That said, places that don’t allow grunting suck. But they usually don’t have power racks anyway so where’s the grunting at?
Oh I just saw that video. Fuck those people. The real emergency in gyms around this nation is people holding their breath while benching.
Look at the guy they try to label as an evil bodybuilder. He’s not a bodybuilder. He’s a guy in good shape whose training to get into better shape. In fact, he’s the only person they showed with a good physique. I don’t understand why people feel the need to use gyms as places to jog in silence or watch tv. Trying to rationalize with those people seems like taking to a brick wall. Just look at the clips of them saying that olympic lifters are jerks and meatheads because they grunt and drop weights. They should apologize to the weightlifters they showed clips of.
The guy they labeled as a bodybuilder didn’t even looked like he trained and that trainer was just a straight up idiot.
[quote]IrishMarc wrote:
The guy they labeled as a bodybuilder didn’t even looked like he trained and that trainer was just a straight up idiot. [/quote]
Why don’t they just come straight out and ban all “intimidating” people who train hard. They then could get rid of those noisy weights, put in more tables, perhaps some more tv’s. Then remove any offensive reference to “gym” and just call it a coffee shop.
[quote]Joe D. wrote:
IrishMarc wrote:
The guy they labeled as a bodybuilder didn’t even looked like he trained and that trainer was just a straight up idiot.
Why don’t they just come straight out and ban all “intimidating” people who train hard. They then could get rid of those noisy weights, put in more tables, perhaps some more tv’s. Then remove any offensive reference to “gym” and just call it a coffee shop.[/quote]
LOL. I guess it’s just easier to pretend that the reason why they’ve gained 50lbs of lard and have been avoiding the gym is due to all of those “judgemental” scary people there who drop weights all over the place. I really don’t see a place like that lasting very long after the newness wears off of their campaign.
While I am sure gyms build most of their profit from people buying memberships and then hardly ever using the place, without at least some foundation of regulars who are serious, I just don’t see the long term appeal.
Even if those same couch potatoes complain, they all wish deep down that they could look something like those same people they are ringing alarms at.
It isn’t like getting rid of the in shape people provides them with motivation. It simply knocks out excuse number one. You still have a whole list of excuses after that to do deal with.
I’ll wait to see how they’re doing in 5 years.
I have to agree with dropping weights as a distraction. Dropping weights is lame.
[quote]PabloJuarez wrote:
I have to agree with dropping weights as a distraction. Dropping weights is lame. [/quote]
Weather it’s lame or not, do you really think it shouldn’t be allowed?
I mean, what about the guy lifting in the city, either in his house, or in a not-so-fancy gym, and there’s construction going on outside, or police sirens?
Are you going to go outside and ask them to quiet down because you’re losing your mind-muscle concentration, and do you really think someone’s weight dropping is going to negatively effect your overall progress?
If someone’s being a jackass, trying to get noticed, ignore him, or crank up your headphones.
If more people worried about themselves, and not what the next guy is doing at the gym, there wouldn’t be so much pressure for management to make such ridiculous rules like Planet Fitness has.
It’s a gym open to any member who pays, so you’re not getting exclusive members who behave the same way you do, or the way you want them to.
Unless they’re physically getting in the way of your lifting, or harassing you, ignoring them is the best thing you can do; not complaining to management so they impose more rules on everyone.
Well at my gym i acutally get concerned when weights are dropped mainly because i hope noone is hurt.
I was walking by not too long ago, not even that close, and some dude just dropped his 80lb dumbells, and they bounced, hitting my toe. No problem to me but i dont know, I just think that most of the time dropping weights is unecessary because, C’mon, you have to make sure nothing bad happens to them or the people around.
I’m sure most people here that drop weights know what they’re doing, its the others that give bad names.