To clarify, while we are in school everything is done at the campus facilities under the supervision of the coaches. The only times that lifting/conditioning is done on our own is the summer. We are given an exact program to follow.
[quote]JonEightPackGuy wrote:
Lol if one of those damn fucking gyms open in Minnesota I am going to burn the place down. [/quote]
I’ll bring the gasoline.
When I first came back to the states I went to a PF near my house. I’d never heard of the place before. The guy working there was huge. He’d obviously been lifting for years. I remember thinking I could probably learn a lot from the guy. I remember talking with him a bit about lifting heavy and he seemed cool. So I was pretty surprised when I read all this PF stuff here. I guess each PF is different.
Anyway, for $10 a month sacrifices could be made. I ended up going to another gym, but I might end up back there one day. I guess I don’t make that much sound when I lift so I don’t really care much.
lol so wait…can OTHER people in the gym set the alarm on you? hahah that’d be fuckin hilarious if true…or is it just the people who work there?
I wish I could lift there…muahaha.
[quote]Papa Nick wrote:
A buddy of mine who works out there invited me, i wanted to see what every one was talking about so i went.
I walk in the doors, first thing I see written on the wall in letters a s big as my torso… “LEAVE YOUR EGO AT THE DOOR”. Wearing a shorts and a beater and a little bit aof muscle on me, grandma and her chubby grandaughter stare me down.
Its chest shoulder and tri day so we head to the back to the …smith machines. While heading back I pass endless machines that all say “Judgement Free”, and the weight rack from 5lbs to a whopping 75lbs. Above the weight racks was the infamous Lunk Alarm, Abanner that said “NO GRUNTING, NO WEIGHT DROPPING, and NO JUDGING” with a purple siren underneither ready to go off at any given moment.
Are all PF’s that way? There are two in Austin and all I know is that their big deal having $10/month dues…
They’re a little far away from my house to reasonably go there anyway. Just curious.
Anyways we walked to the back and pumped out our sets of bench. With everyone looking at me struggling and … grunting to push the weight, I felt as if I was being (dare I say) Judged.
The place was so quiet my voiced stress was literally echoing throught out the gym. I kept looking at the purple alarm waiting for it go off.
Chest complete shoulders complete and on the last set of skull crushers, I am pretty beat and I aint holding back.
An over wieght lady wearing a purple Planet Fitness shirt (a fitness coach maybe?) came up tp me and said “You are going to half to let out another way because you are making way too much noise, or you will get in trouble”. To be honest I was hoping someone would say something to me.
I wasnt mean about it. I just told her I cant hold it in or i might pop a blood vessel , and it was my last set anyway. She thanked me then returned behind the desk with 3 other chubby employees. On my way out I was half tempted to dip into the jar of tootie rolls, but I resisted.
To sum up, I was judged by those who dont wanna be judged. I lifted like normal, wasnt being an ass but wasnt being an old lady. They dont like me.
Not an exciting story I know but just thought I would share it with you guys. Needless to say I aint going back.
Whose next?[/quote]
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
Blasphemy HolyMac!
Anyways, you should have gone to the fat lady and told her “I’m being stared at, feeling I’m being judged. can you tell them to stop please?”
So they don’t have music playing? How does anyone actually make progress in that gym? Just so sad. [/quote]
They don’t make progress, which probably explains why the employees are all chubby.
[quote]Therizza wrote:
[quote]JonEightPackGuy wrote:
Lol if one of those damn fucking gyms open in Minnesota I am going to burn the place down. [/quote]
Burn down the gym or Minnesota?[/quote]
Maybe both? LOL!
Were you gripped with fear the whole time? I sure would be. With people starring and judging me and the like.
OLD THREAD.
You better give me some videos. God Damn this time come through for me. If you do…I luv u long time mista
I’m telling you guys that not all Planet Fitness are the way described here. Though from what I’ve read I guess mine is the exception. I’ve only been to two and the other one was so bad I left. They didn’t have any barbells at all. I asked at the front desk and they said all they have are machines, dumbbells, and smith rack.
I’ll film my planet fitness tomorrow when I work out so you all can see that some are decent. I actually filmed it last week but way to fast and its not worth me posting.
I felt weird doing this so didn’t really walk around just stood in a corner filming the free weight section. I probably should’ve picked the other corner cause its a bit hard to see with the glare from the windows.
I’ve never once seen the Lunk Alarm go off even though people grunt all the time and lift heavy. There’s at least 5 male body builders that train there and 3 female bodybuilders and then a sleuth of other people of varying sizes. I’ve seen people squat 8 plates and leg press 24 plates and nobody really cared…
Here’s an approximate list of what my PF has:
2 squat racks
2 smith racks
2 bench press stations
2 incline press stations
2 double cable stations (4 sided with the middle area in range for two handed stuff)
1 single cable station (4 sided)
3 free benches
3 free decline benches
3 free incline benches
2 sets of dumbbells up to 75 lb
those smaller bars with the plates built on i think it goes from 25 lb to 220 lb.
1 leg press (there’s 2 other horizontal machine leg presses)
1 preacher curl station but 2 ez-curl bars
Then I went to some other Planet Fitness one time and it didn’t even have barbells, it made me sad 
^ That actually sounds pretty good. Sounds like theres more stuff in that ‘shitty’ planet fitness than my gym. Except for the dumbbells.
So hows teh pizza and bagels?
Never seen either of them but I usually train lunch time so I guess I wouldn’t.
I don’t get the thing ‘No Judging’ how do they know whether or not I am judging? If I’m a hooge BB lifting in the gym with my tank top am I all of a sudden ‘Judging’ people? Arn’t they ‘Judging’ me for thinking that im ‘Judging’ people?
In an unrelated note, there was a guy at my gym working out with gardening gloves on today.
I guess if you’re superior to someone, you’re judging them. Gay.
Every planet fitness is independently owned… so some way have more or less stuff then others… everyone will have a different experience for the most part at each one. When I went to one no one ever said anything to me but I did set off the lunk alarm… I thought it was decoration etc… but I set it off 3 in the same day… just by putting a 45lb db down a little to hard. The sensitivity on this lunk alarm must have been on max or something… its super loud and obnoxious as well.
WTF is a sleuth of people?
[quote]Humbert wrote:
WTF is a sleuth of people?[/quote]
I think Sherlock Holmes works out there. But not Mr. Watson. He caught teh Ghey.
I’m in the security industry, I sell cameras, intrusion, access control etc. to businesses. Today I was in the office getting a remote demonstration from one of my engineers in the midwest of some video surveillance. He pulled up some cameras within his office and he went to one of our customers, PLANET FITNESS (one location somewhere in the US). I almost fell out of my chair.
He deleted their cameras from my software once the demo was over. But, I can obtain the IP address once we do the demo for my customer. I’m tempted to view their cameras when ever I want to thus getting some good laughs out of it. I know it’s a total breach of the client/ vendor relationship and I can get into a lot of trouble.
Thoughts?