Dirt-cheap gym membership... and not going

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  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    spartan_d wrote: »
    kwtilbury wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    rybo wrote: »
    That's actually how those gyms want it. People who buy memberships and don't fully use them or go at all. If the cost of your membership determines your desire to work out, then you aren't working out for the right reasons and you're probably going to fail.
    bingo.
    It's the only reason Planet Fitness is still in business.

    Yep. That's their business model - market to people who don't normally go to gyms...because they don't normally go to gyms...collect $10 a month.

    AND they enact policies that are designed to discourage people who are seriously interested in becoming fit. No grunting, no heavy lifting, no deadlifts, no jumping rope, no "intimidating" exercises, no gallon jugs of water, etc.

    It's pretty bad.

    Now they have no jumping rope?
  • Alidecker
    Alidecker Posts: 1,262 Member
    yopeeps025 wrote: »
    spartan_d wrote: »
    kwtilbury wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    rybo wrote: »
    That's actually how those gyms want it. People who buy memberships and don't fully use them or go at all. If the cost of your membership determines your desire to work out, then you aren't working out for the right reasons and you're probably going to fail.
    bingo.
    It's the only reason Planet Fitness is still in business.

    Yep. That's their business model - market to people who don't normally go to gyms...because they don't normally go to gyms...collect $10 a month.

    AND they enact policies that are designed to discourage people who are seriously interested in becoming fit. No grunting, no heavy lifting, no deadlifts, no jumping rope, no "intimidating" exercises, no gallon jugs of water, etc.

    It's pretty bad.

    Now they have no jumping rope?

    I was thinking the same thing. When did jumping rope become intimidating....or is there a different reason for that one?

  • spartan_d
    spartan_d Posts: 727 Member
    One poster here reported that she was told to stop jumping rope. I've read similar stories elsewhere on the web.

    She was also taken to task for performing other exercises -- overhead presses, handstand pushups, and the like. Planet Fitness really is ridiculous in their policies. Ultimately, they treat adults as though they were babies... as though they need to be spared from the sight of other people performing exercises that might possibly make them feel bad about themselves.
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