Kicked out of gym for doing renegage rows????
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So when you join a PF they never mention the 'lunk alarm' or what makes it go off? And then everyone is just shocked and embarrassed when they violate a rule that they had no idea even existed? I'm pretty surprised they're still in business.
When I hear things like deadlifts will make the alarm go off the party causing it should b proud, not embarrassed.
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I've never heard of any of this because there are no planet fitness gyms in my area but I found an article from Men's Health magazine talking about how a pf took out its only squat rack because someone complained it was intimidating.0
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Was he grunting or screaming? Slamming the weights hard on the floor? Everyone knows what the policy is at PF.
If you can't abide by it go to a grunt/slam/screaming friendly gym and pay your 100 dollars a month with a 5 year contract or w/e. I love PF. It pretty much saved my life fo 10 bucks a month no contract.
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menotyou56 wrote: »Was he grunting or screaming? Slamming the weights hard on the floor? Everyone knows what the policy is at PF.
If you can't abide by it go to a grunt/slam/screaming friendly gym and pay your 100 dollars a month with a 5 year contract or w/e. I love PF. It pretty much saved my life fo 10 bucks a month no contract.
I pay $5 more than you for a real gym. Just sayin'.0 -
Maybe they were just jealous0
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I've worked out with this guy many times before. While he might occasionally grunt at the end of a hard set (a perfectly reasonable response when one is working hard), he's not the type to go screaming about.menotyou56 wrote: »Was he grunting or screaming? Slamming the weights hard on the floor? Everyone knows what the policy is at PF.
As for slamming the weights down, I would challenge you to try doing that while doing renegade rows. It would be extremely difficult to slam them to the floor from that position.
This is what boggles my mind about many PF defenders. They just can't grasp how extreme PF's own policies can be, despite all the overwhelming evidence. Heck, as shown in the video below, their own representative said that even exhaling loudly is prohibited.
http://milkandcookies.com/link/267592
Newsflash: Most gyms do not consider screaming or slamming weights to be acceptable behavior. This is another one of those bogeymen that Planet Fitness likes to toss around. The result? PF lovers actually believe that this is commonplace behavior at such gyms, when in reality, it is rare and considered a mark of poor gym etiquette.If you can't abide by it go to a grunt/slam/screaming friendly gym and pay your 100 dollars a month with a 5 year contract or w/e. I love PF. It pretty much saved my life fo 10 bucks a month no contract.
Many also think that you have to spend a fortune if you don't go to PF. In some locations, that might be true. Typically though, you might have to go to a gym that costs more (Anytime Fitness, for example), but seldom would have to pay anywhere close to $100/month.
As for the whole "it saved my life schtick," good for you. Few people here would deny that you can lose weight or otherwise make progress at Planet Fitness. This doesn't mean that their policies are sensible or any less derogatory, though. Unfortunately, many people don't care as long as they're not one of the groups (bodybuilders, so-called "hot" women, other physically fit people) that comes under the PF umbrella of ridicule and slander.
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I've worked out with this guy many times before. While he might occasionally grunt at the end of a hard set (a perfectly reasonable response when one is working hard), he's not the type to go screaming about.
As for slamming the weights down, I would challenge you to try doing that while doing renegade rows. It would be extremely difficult to slam them to the floor from that position.
This is what boggles my mind about many PF defenders. They just can't grasp how extreme PF's own policies can be, despite all the overwhelming evidence. Heck, as shown in the video below, their own representative said that even exhaling loudly is prohibited.
http://milkandcookies.com/link/267592
Newsflash: Most gyms do not consider screaming or slamming weights to be acceptable behavior. This is another one of those bogeymen that Planet Fitness likes to toss around. The result? PF lovers actually believe that this is commonplace behavior at such gyms, when in reality, it is rare and considered a mark of poor gym etiquette.
Many also think that you have to spend a fortune if you don't go to PF. In some locations, that might be true. Typically though, you might have to go to a gym that costs more (Anytime Fitness, for example), but seldom would have to pay anywhere close to $100/month.
As for the whole "it saved my life schtick," good for you. Few people here would deny that you can lose weight or otherwise make progress at Planet Fitness. This doesn't mean that their policies are sensible or any less derogatory, though. Unfortunately, many people don't care as long as they're not one of the groups (bodybuilders, so-called "hot" women, other physically fit people) that comes under the PF umbrella of ridicule and slander.
The gym I go to now is across the street from pf. The basic membership there is also $10 pm.
The "platinum" membership, which includes classes, tanning, yoga classes, and free bottled water every day, is $45 pm, for me AND my wife.0 -
The basic membership at my gym is $25 and includes working with a certified trainer. She has been great in helping me get started lifting (I just started in January after a year of almost exclusive cardio and not getting anywhere).
As for the "lunkheads" at my gym; I like them! They are some of the nicest, most supportive and helpful people. Unlike the catty girls that hog the elipticals. You call them 'cardio bunnies,' I have another name for them. I've only come across one guy that made an excessive amount of noise. It was on a Sunday, and the place was pretty quiet. I asked him if he had that kid yet and he shut up. One of the other guys laughed. LOL0 -
Soooo stupid. If this IS PF we're talkin about, I go there....unfortunately. My local recs equipment was so bad, it was barely usable, and that's if little kids weren't crowding all around there, so the next closest and affordable thing was the 10 bucks a month at PF. I HATE going here. It's such a counterproductive environment to me. Not to mention how annoying it is having to make these alternatives to my regimen because they don't have the weight or equipment for the big compound exercises or a *kitten* barbell bench. Judgement free, unless you take weight training serious.0
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rendash49221 wrote: »The basic membership at my gym is $25 and includes working with a certified trainer. She has been great in helping me get started lifting (I just started in January after a year of almost exclusive cardio and not getting anywhere).
As for the "lunkheads" at my gym; I like them! They are some of the nicest, most supportive and helpful people. Unlike the catty girls that hog the elipticals. You call them 'cardio bunnies,' I have another name for them. I've only come across one guy that made an excessive amount of noise. It was on a Sunday, and the place was pretty quiet. I asked him if he had that kid yet and he shut up. One of the other guys laughed. LOL
That's why I'm glad I workout at home. I get noisy sometimes on the last couple reps. My house I can be loud if I want to.
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LOL.
I was never kicked out, but I was told to stop doing the following exercises at different times at planet fitness:
Jump rope
Handstand pushups on the back corner wall
Treadmill sprints
Deadlifts with the bar
A couple of the people were apologetic, but the lady who told me to stop jumping rope spoke to me like I was skinning live kittens. I finally quit because *kitten* them.0 -
Oops didn't mean to quote.0
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I call *kitten*. I belong to a PF as my backup gym and while I don't lift there, I can't imagine getting kicked out for that particular exercise.0
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If I ever go to the states, I hope to go into a PF just to get the lunk alarm to go off for being too hardcore for that entire gym. Wouldnt take much, but damn that would be a proud NSV. 0 -
As mentioned more than once in this thread, different PF locations will tend to enforce the "no intimidation" rule with different degrees of passion and stridency.cwolfman13 wrote: »I call *kitten*. I belong to a PF as my backup gym and while I don't lift there, I can't imagine getting kicked out for that particular exercise.
Besides, if you can be kicked out for breathing hard (which is prohibited, according to the video linked to in this thread), then it's no stretch to suggest that one can get kicked out for doing renegade rows. Heck, we already know that deadlifting is prohibited because it makes some people feel bad about themselves. I can easily imagine people deciding that renegade rows should be prohibited as well.
Heck, someone was kicked out of a Planet Fitness because he wore a shirt that said "Pray to End Abortion." If such an innocuous statement can be considered so intimidating that it merits ejecting someone from the premises, then it's no stretch at all to suggest that a difficult exercise would merit the same treatment.0 -
Such harmless, unthreatening exercises... And yet some people here insist that Planet Fitness would never object to anyone doing renegade rows. Hmmm....pinkninjaattack wrote: »
I was never kicked out, but I was told to stop doing the following exercises at different times at planet fitness:
Jump rope
Handstand pushups on the back corner wall
Treadmill sprints
Deadlifts with the bar
A couple of the people were apologetic, but the lady who told me to stop jumping rope spoke to me like I was skinning live kittens. I finally quit because *kitten* them.0 -
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As mentioned more than once in this thread, different PF locations will tend to enforce the "no intimidation" rule with different degrees of passion and stridency.
Besides, if you can be kicked out for breathing hard (which is prohibited, according to the video linked to in this thread), then it's no stretch to suggest that one can get kicked out for doing renegade rows. Heck, we already know that deadlifting is prohibited because it makes some people feel bad about themselves. I can easily imagine people deciding that renegade rows should be prohibited as well.
Heck, someone was kicked out of a Planet Fitness because he wore a shirt that said "Pray to End Abortion." If such an innocuous statement can be considered so intimidating that it merits ejecting someone from the premises, then it's no stretch at all to suggest that a difficult exercise would merit the same treatment.
religion AND abortion together can be part of an innocuous statement?0 -
pinkninjaattack wrote: »
I was never kicked out, but I was told to stop doing the following exercises at different times at planet fitness:
Jump rope
Handstand pushups on the back corner wall
Treadmill sprints
Deadlifts with the bar
A couple of the people were apologetic, but the lady who told me to stop jumping rope spoke to me like I was skinning live kittens. I finally quit because *kitten* them.
Well it isn't a CrossFit box….0 -
religion AND abortion together can be part of an innocuous statement?
I am atheist and pro-abortion (just for context) and it would never cross my mind that that statement is not innocuous. It does not call for any action other than prayer, it does not contain hate speech elements. It's their opinion, their religion, and their T-shirt. I would much rather they can wear their opinion proudly and I can wear mine and we prove the merit of our positions in the appropriate venues and ways.
However this Fitness Gestapo establishment is private and in their right to set rules and boundaries, be they ever so ridiculous. It is more concerning not that they do it, but that apparently it pays to do it since they're still in business, and that when the pendulum of public opinion swings too far in the effort to avoid one type of intimidation/repression, that usually takes it into the territory of another type of oppression.
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Th3Ph03n1x wrote: »
That's why I'm glad I workout at home. I get noisy sometimes on the last couple reps. My house I can be loud if I want to.
This wasn't just a little bit of grunting on the last couple of reps! He was also slamming all of the weights down; I pretty sure it was just for attention.0 -
prattiger65 wrote: »
Dude, he was just using this picture to illustrate just how wrong you were about " no one ever gets kicked out of ANY gym first time" besides, you have no idea what happened.
Im sorry. I tried to blame it on the poor public education system. Now I'm back to he got kicked out because he was a jackhole.
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rendash49221 wrote: »
This wasn't just a little bit of grunting on the last couple of reps! He was also slamming all of the weights down; I pretty sure it was just for attention.
How do you slam weights down doing renegade rows?
For the short time I used Planet Fitness, I did them a few times as part of a circuit that included squat thrusts with dumbbells, push-ups, and renegade rows. I never had anyone say anything to me, and I doubt I could have made any noise if I would have wanted to. They don't have enough weight on their dumbbells or barbells to make one have to grunt or slam anything.
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I've seen offensive at the gym and that isn't it! Are you sure it wasn't a liability thing as maybe he was doing it wrong and he could have injured himself and they asked him to stop? Because if he would've got injured in their gym after he was asked to stop they could have been held liable.0
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If it's a question of liability, then the correct response is to instruct the offender on how to do the exercise properly. Kicking them out is absolutely NOT the proper response.
Some of you folks are clearly trying WAY too hard to defend PF on this issue. Heck, we see that after his objections were shot down, cliffodom1 is now back to saying "He got kicked out because he was a jackhole." No, it can't possibly be because PF was being completely unreasonable in its "no intimidating exercises allowed policy," despite video and photographic evidence (not to mention numerous accounts in this thread!) of how extreme their policy is, In the eyes of some PF lovers, that can't possibly be true, so this fella MUST have been behaving like a "jackhole."
I repeat: We have a video that shows, using testimony from PF's own representative, that even a bit of loud breathing can be enough to set off their alarm. We have a news account wherein somebody was kicked out for something as intimidating as wearing a pro-life shirt. We have a photo which says that any sort of deadlifting -- no matter what the weight -- can be enough to get someone's membership terminated on the very first offense. We have an account from someone who says that she was disciplined for such harmless activities as jumping rope and doing barbell rows.
In light of this, is it really so hard to believe that a PF franchise would punish someone for doing renegade rows as well? I have absolutely no trouble believing such a thing.0 -
Re: liability, this blog post does a pretty good job of explaining the liability waivers in the average US gym contract. A person doing exercises on their own with equipment that is not known by the gym to be faulty is not going to in a case against the gym. The gym doesn't even have to explain how to properly do the exercise--the client has assumed all of the risk in that situation.0
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MrBiggiesworth wrote: »I feel like there is more to the story than what is being revealed.
I do too. And as for the liability issue… If there isn't anyone qualified in the gym as a trainer, as the trainers aren't always present, and the only personal there are front desk, and janitorial they aren't going to correct your form on the equipment. They'll just ask you to stop using it if they see fit.
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