Annoyances at the gym!

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  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    edited December 2016
    DebSozo wrote: »
    rainbowbow wrote: »
    DebSozo wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »
    Guys, this thread is about annoyances at the gym. Why is planet fitness even in the discussion? They aren't a gym.

    Right. We go to a pretend gym. It's really just a "club".

    I think the term you're looking for is "health club franchise"

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    And what is your definition of a "gym"?

    Actually, that makes me wonder if many health clubs these days would be considered a true gym. The way I see the traditional use of "gym" would be a large multi-use room like a school has. A weight room probably doesn't qualify.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    Dano74 wrote: »
    I don't get the PF hate. But I do know chalk isn't a thing there.

    Most commercial gyms I've been too don't allow chalk either.
  • DebSozo
    DebSozo Posts: 2,578 Member
    edited December 2016
    Dano74 wrote: »
    I don't get the PF hate. But I do know chalk isn't a thing there.

    I don't get it either. There must be history on the threads we don't know about. If I say "I'm going to the gym," then it just means working out to me. I never thought much about it. I've never said, "I'm going to the health club to work out."
  • CorneliusPhoton
    CorneliusPhoton Posts: 965 Member
    edited December 2016
    This is why I had the question about how they enforced their policies -- i.e., how would a gym owner discourage a paying customer from behaving a certain way? I would assume that the gym owner does not wish to have confrontations and lose customers. Having an alarm takes away the face-to-face confrontation and takes away the possible subjectivity of when the rule has been broken. The fact that they have an alarm, and that it is called a 'lunk alarm' seems like it is a more passive type of enforcement via public shaming. I don't think that is a great way to do it, but I wouldn't shame people who have chosen to use PF facilities either.
  • DebSozo
    DebSozo Posts: 2,578 Member
    This is why I had the question about how they enforced their policies -- i.e., how would a gym owner discourage a paying customer from behaving a certain way? I would assume that the gym owner does not wish to have confrontations and lose customers. Having an alarm takes away the face-to-face confrontation and takes away the possible subjectivity of when the rule has been broken. The fact that they have an alarm, and that it is called a 'lunk alarm' seems like it is a more passive type of enforcement via public shaming. I don't think that is a great way to do it, but I wouldn't shame people who have chosen to use PF facilities either.

    Put like that, I can see your point.
  • DebSozo
    DebSozo Posts: 2,578 Member
    newmeadow wrote: »
    DebSozo wrote: »
    rainbowbow wrote: »
    DebSozo wrote: »
    rainbowbow wrote: »
    DebSozo wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »
    Guys, this thread is about annoyances at the gym. Why is planet fitness even in the discussion? They aren't a gym.

    Right. We go to a pretend gym. It's really just a "club".

    I think the term you're looking for is "health club franchise"

    8-things-we-learned-about-planet-fitness-from-its-ipo-filing-buzzfeed-news-1435093289535.png

    And what is your definition of a "gym"?

    i didn't make that up. they even have a commercial saying "we're not a gym, we're planet fitness". that's THEIR saying.

    just saying.

    Okay. Back to gyms. Nice to know I go to a "health club".

    I think it's for the best. According to the Gymmers on this thread, gyms and the people who use them are so terribly annoying for a variety of misanthropic reasons. :wink:

    Glad I don't go to one. Lol. Jk. o:)
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    Dano74 wrote: »
    I don't get the PF hate. But I do know chalk isn't a thing there.

    And that's not enough to hate it?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,690 Member
    My "gym" is technically a "health club". Always refer to it as a gym, as does anybody I've ever spoken with about the subject.
  • DebSozo
    DebSozo Posts: 2,578 Member
    Dano74 wrote: »
    I don't get the PF hate. But I do know chalk isn't a thing there.

    I'm not into it either.

    I am into making fun of their dumb policy of shaming fit people. You don't need to do that to make other people feel comfortable. It pits people against each other, and I think that's wrong. I also think it discourages people from progressing to the point where they'd achieve real progress with lifting.

    You can still progress. You just can't throw weights down hard or bellow.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    I get annoyed at the gym when I forget my hairtie, or my headphones, or my headphones die. :/

    I forgot my headphones once at my old gym. They really played the worst music. It felt like the longest workout ever.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    Dano74 wrote: »
    I don't get the PF hate. But I do know chalk isn't a thing there.

    Most commercial gyms I've been too don't allow chalk either.

    </3 I don't understand this. It makes such a huge difference in lifting. Do they just don't want to wipe off the bars and plates with a dry towel?
    I once tried the same weight deadlift without and with chalk on the same day. I managed 1 rep without chalk, 4 with. It's ridiculous how much it helps.
  • Bchlvr64
    Bchlvr64 Posts: 89 Member
    zyxst wrote: »
    Bookmarking this for the next time someone says "no one is paying attention to you" to a newbie worried about being judged at the gym.

    What bothers me are people. I workout at home and I still get bothered by people.

    I was thinking the same thing.
  • ogtmama
    ogtmama Posts: 1,403 Member
    Morgaen73 wrote: »
    ogtmama wrote: »
    People who throw the weights when they're done.

    lol my wife actually went up to a guy and said "look if you need to drop the damn weights then they are clearly too heavy for you. Use lighter weights"

    At my gym we had guys literally throwing them...like they broke the mirror and put a hole in the wall.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Dano74 wrote: »
    I don't get the PF hate. But I do know chalk isn't a thing there.

    Most commercial gyms I've been too don't allow chalk either.

    </3 I don't understand this. It makes such a huge difference in lifting. Do they just don't want to wipe off the bars and plates with a dry towel?
    I once tried the same weight deadlift without and with chalk on the same day. I managed 1 rep without chalk, 4 with. It's ridiculous how much it helps.

    I asked my gym manager about this. It's because some people fling chalk EVERYWHERE. One end of the weight room to the other, floor, benches, bars, etc. It's difficult to get out of the rubber matting and in general causes a headache for the workers.

    I have a small tube of Beasty Chalk (liquid) and try not to get it all over. They've never said anything to me about not using it.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    Yeah, I use liquid too.
    One worker in the gym I go to told me to not use it but the guy was just a temp worker I think. Everyone's on a first name basis with the owner and he never told me not to use it but I use it more or less covertly just in case anyway.
  • DebSozo
    DebSozo Posts: 2,578 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    Dano74 wrote: »
    I don't get the PF hate. But I do know chalk isn't a thing there.

    It's not hate at all from me. I just don't like hypocrisy.

    Lunk is a negative thing to call someone. It would be no different if I opened up my "gym" and put a "No Fatties" alarm next to the treadmills, but I still go on about "no judgement".

    They should remove "that word".
  • Baconk28
    Baconk28 Posts: 2 Member
    My big thing is people not putting weights/dumbbells away. Or leaving a stack of plates on a machine. If you can put them on and lift them you can take them off.

    Also when people put dumbbells back in the wrong spots because they are too lazy to walk 3 feet. That is more just my OCD but still.
  • JulieSHelms
    JulieSHelms Posts: 821 Member
    edited December 2016
    richln wrote: »
    When the first footman interrupts my cool-down stretching to request permission to halt the polishing of my fingerprints off of the silver dumbbells because the damn peasants are at the gate begging for food again.

    What? The solid gold ones were at the cleaners?
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    Dano74 wrote: »
    I don't get the PF hate. But I do know chalk isn't a thing there.

    Most commercial gyms I've been too don't allow chalk either.

    I guess I'm the only one who likes chalk (in moderation). My gym allows it.
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