Planet Fitness: Judge-Free zone?

lacurandera1

Shrug. You can think I'm ignorant, or a *****, or pretty much anything you want. Doesn't really faze me. But if you do a little research, I'm not off the mark. I might be blunt, or even rude, in my delivery. And as I've said all along, there are exceptions to the rule. But looking into research on gyms like PF, I'm not wrong about their business model.

If you've had success there, fantastic! I sincerely hope everyone succeeds. I spent way too many years fat and unhealthy (and unhappy as a result), and I know it sucks. But I don't think PF hopes everyone succeeds. In fact, if everyone did, they would fold.

I'm glad you've made improvements in your life and physical health. Maybe you should spend some time working on your inner-self, empathy towards others, and personality. There's a difference between being blunt and being a jerk.

There's a difference between disliking a business model and ad campaign and making sweeping statements about the people who choose to train there.

I think PF is off base with their marketing strategy. I'm offended by it and wouldn't give them my money. (but I also wouldn't give another gym my money either and choose to train at home and outside). That said, I don't think anything negative about the people who choose to go there, and I realize for a lot of people, it's a money issue. 120 a year is a lot easier to give up than 400 or 600.

LetsTryThisAgain54

Shrug. You can think I'm ignorant, or a *****, or pretty much anything you want. Doesn't really faze me. But if you do a little research, I'm not off the mark. I might be blunt, or even rude, in my delivery. And as I've said all along, there are exceptions to the rule. But looking into research on gyms like PF, I'm not wrong about their business model.

If you've had success there, fantastic! I sincerely hope everyone succeeds. I spent way too many years fat and unhealthy (and unhappy as a result), and I know it sucks. But I don't think PF hopes everyone succeeds. In fact, if everyone did, they would fold.

I'm glad you've made improvements in your life and physical health. Maybe you should spend some time working on your inner-self, empathy towards others, and personality. There's a difference between being blunt and being a jerk.

Very well written post and I couldn't agree with you more.

summertime_girl

Shrug. You can think I'm ignorant, or a *****, or pretty much anything you want. Doesn't really faze me. But if you do a little research, I'm not off the mark. I might be blunt, or even rude, in my delivery. And as I've said all along, there are exceptions to the rule. But looking into research on gyms like PF, I'm not wrong about their business model.

If you've had success there, fantastic! I sincerely hope everyone succeeds. I spent way too many years fat and unhealthy (and unhappy as a result), and I know it sucks. But I don't think PF hopes everyone succeeds. In fact, if everyone did, they would fold.

I'm glad you've made improvements in your life and physical health. Maybe you should spend some time working on your inner-self, empathy towards others, and personality. There's a difference between being blunt and being a jerk.

Hmmm....I make comments -- giving caveats, and not directed at a single person -- based on information widely disseminated across the web, and through research. And you attack my character and personality. I guess you win the internet today. :flowerforyou:

bd0027

How are they going to have an issue with grunt? I have to "grunt" just to make it through certain workouts. :grumble:

LetsTryThisAgain54

Shrug. You can think I'm ignorant, or a *****, or pretty much anything you want. Doesn't really faze me. But if you do a little research, I'm not off the mark. I might be blunt, or even rude, in my delivery. And as I've said all along, there are exceptions to the rule. But looking into research on gyms like PF, I'm not wrong about their business model.

If you've had success there, fantastic! I sincerely hope everyone succeeds. I spent way too many years fat and unhealthy (and unhappy as a result), and I know it sucks. But I don't think PF hopes everyone succeeds. In fact, if everyone did, they would fold.

I'm glad you've made improvements in your life and physical health. Maybe you should spend some time working on your inner-self, empathy towards others, and personality. There's a difference between being blunt and being a jerk.

Hmmm....I make comments -- giving caveats, and not directed at a single person -- based on information widely disseminated across the web, and through research. And you attack my character and personality. I guess you win the internet today. :flowerforyou:

Everyone is arguing over a gym! If you enjoy working out at PF, fine, if people don't like it, they go somewhere else. What is so bad with that? It's the frigging weekend. Everyone get off the internet and go outside and enjoy yourselves, me included.

belle_of_the_bar

If being good at a workout you enjoy makes you a lunk, then I will wear that title with pride. As to the facilities and business model of PF, if you don't workout there, who cares? Get your sweat on wherever you feel comfy.

craftywitch_63

I only lift weights under protest (because it's BOOOOORRRING!) so I'm hardly a "Lunkhead" but I just watched two Planet Fitness commercials and I'm . . . I don't even KNOW what I am! It's a mixture of insulted and bemused. I'm insulted because they think I'm so stupid I don't know that a "no Lunkhead" policy contradicts a "no judgement" zone and bemused because they are still in business. I live in the Las Vegas area and there are three or four there (I belong to a gym that LOVES Lunkheads and I know several professional bodybuilders).

squiggyflop

Why is everyone insulting the free pizza? I joined planet fitness because I could not afford anywhere else. They have the same machines as the gym I used last year to gear up for busy season.

First off, I asked where they get the pizza, and it is from a local place where the slices are ~275 calories a slice. I lost a lot of weight eating that pizzeria's pizza. In fact I once ate nothing but that pizza for days as an experiment, and I lost 3lbs that week. Yes it has carbs and fatty cheese, but 275 calories is not such a huge amount of calories that it cant be a nice treat to have once in a while.

I must have very different goals than these "serious" people. I will use the treadmills to build up endurance so I can sprint across the megamart in which I work (it is magnificently enormous, in the most horrific sense possible) without having to stop and catch my breath after. I want to use the machines to get strong enough so I am able to load 20 water logged (~70lb) bags of mulch into cars without my arms giving out halfway through getting that first bag across the 12 foot distance from the stack to the car trunk. I want to be able to slide a 200lb grill off of a pallet, onto a ladder cart all by myself (because for some reason people buy grills at 10pm when I am the only one working). I want to be able to carry ALL of the groceries to the house in a single trip with my arms loaded with bags like a pack mule. I want to be able to scoot the heaviest furniture in the house across a room so that I can paint the wall behind it. I guess these goals arent serious enough for the rest of you.