Planet fitness!!! After 1 year...im loving it!!! How bout u?

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  • MyIrishSpirit
    MyIrishSpirit Posts: 43 Member
    I love my local PF!! This one is also huge, large selection of free weights, benches etc. Never have to wait for anything and it's SO clean! I'm there at 3am every day and I don't feel nervous or anything, I don't mind showering there and no one bothers me. It's the only gym I have belonged to that I didn't feel like people were sneering at me. And the amenities are awesome! Really can't beat $20/month for a fully equipped, 24 hour, clean, safe and close to work/home gym.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    from reading this seems like PF is a nice cheap way for beginners to get started lifting but once you decide to get serious its best to move on to a real gym?

    I wouldn't say so - I lift 3 days a week and have been for almost a year now, and there's nothing I can't do there that I could do any where else. Like I said, it may depend on the location, but mine has a completely stocked free weight section. It definitely is a "real gym". I guarantee you the people there are working just as hard and get just as sweaty as whatever gym you attend!

    maybe it doesnt apply to women....but if dumbbells only go up to 80 lbs that is not nearly enough.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    and real gyms allow squats with squat racks and dead lifts.
  • ashlielinn
    ashlielinn Posts: 920
    and real gyms allow squats with squat racks and dead lifts.

    Like we've all been saying - it must depend on the location. I graduated from dumbbells a lonnngggg time ago, champ. Every one I've been to has weights way higher than 80 pounds, has squat racks, and allow both squats and dead lifts. I'd know - since I do them - all at WAY over 80 pounds.
  • Metspride129
    Metspride129 Posts: 122 Member
    I hate it, but love it. I've been going 3 years now, and do my cardio there and when i feel like using machines. I'll go late at night to avoid crowds, and they are usually a lot cleaner then my other gym (Retro Fitness...which i use for serious lifting days). It is convienent that its open 24 hours (except weekends...DOH), and being $20 a month i bring friends with me every time i go, and take full advantage of the tanning.

    I have been thrown out by 3 different workers though for violating their policy. when i used to be big into lifting, i would throw up 375-440 on the Smiths machine, and would get yelled at for it. Not because I was slamming weights, or because I was yelling and grunting, but because i had too much weight on there and i guess other ppl got jelly.

    so yeah, now when i go, its usually for cardio and lower body only. occasionally i'll hit the dumbells for curls and tricep extensions, but the weights only going to 60lbs at my PF really kills it
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    from reading this seems like PF is a nice cheap way for beginners to get started lifting but once you decide to get serious its best to move on to a real gym?

    It is a real gym babycakes!!!......I was there yesterday!!! OR was I dreaming???
  • nharder1
    nharder1 Posts: 110 Member
    from reading this seems like PF is a nice cheap way for beginners to get started lifting but once you decide to get serious its best to move on to a real gym?

    It is a real gym babycakes!!!......I was there yesterday!!! OR was I dreaming???



    I went all weekend and I've been to three different PFs. They all have "real" weights and machinery. It so depends on the location. I was just at my third location and that one was completely different than the other two. It's great for virtually anyone.

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