The more I learn about lifting,

Schwiggity
Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
the more Planet Fitness annoys the Hell out of me.

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  • Rompa_87
    Rompa_87 Posts: 291 Member
    Lol...
    I dread the day that gyms have signs saying "Please no compound movements. Machines only"
  • Schwiggity
    Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
    Lol...
    I dread the day that gyms have signs saying "Please no compound movements. Machines only"

    I can understand about clean and jerks because they can **** up the floors, but what exactly is the problem with T-rows and Overhead Presses? I swear if this gym wasn't so dirt cheap, I'd go somewhere else.
  • Rompa_87
    Rompa_87 Posts: 291 Member
    Any lift can **** up floors if the person lifting is a tool and uses a weight they cannot control. They should just have signs saying dropping heavy weights on floors will lose your membership.
  • MarieNevada
    MarieNevada Posts: 395 Member
    but but... look at the pretty purple and yellow machines. doesn't that distract you from the fact that you can't do anything good? They're purple. and yellow.
  • janet_pratt
    janet_pratt Posts: 747 Member
    Lol! What do you expect from a gym with purple equipment?
  • GypsyRose25
    GypsyRose25 Posts: 407
    but but... look at the pretty purple and yellow machines. doesn't that distract you from the fact that you can't do anything good? They're purple. and yellow.

    This. Lmao!!!
  • Larius
    Larius Posts: 507 Member
    I would be in there doing dumbbell front presses and single dumbbell rows next to the sign daily.

    Edit: Seriously, I think they are trying to avoid anything that might make you grunt like you're putting forth effort because it offends oversensitive people. If you start sweating, they may move you to a fan until you stop.
  • jillwaller
    jillwaller Posts: 82
    Haha I used to go to a PF but they closed down the one by my house... And still expected its members to pay for another 2 months. Not my best gym experience.
  • Schwiggity
    Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
    Any lift can **** up floors if the person lifting is a tool and uses a weight they cannot control. They should just have signs saying dropping heavy weights on floors will lose your membership.

    Yeah but from my understanding clean and jerks require you to drop the weight from the top of the lift, and if you're using metal weights, that's not so great.
  • kneeki
    kneeki Posts: 347 Member
    What do you expect from a gym that has "Pizza Friday's" and will ban if you if you take lifting seriously? :(
  • Schwiggity
    Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
    What do you expect from a gym that has "Pizza Friday's" and will ban if you if you take lifting seriously? :(

    Holy **** that's another thing. I'm glad I've never been there for that. I feel bad for the staff because they're pretty nice, but whoever makes corporate decisions needs to be shot.
  • hush7hush
    hush7hush Posts: 2,273 Member
    I hate that they have tootsie rolls sitting next to the check in.

    Thats a little ridiculous.

    And pizza days, and bagel days.
  • _gwen
    _gwen Posts: 501 Member
    Purple and yellow?!? Just looking at the picture makes me seasick.
  • MarieNevada
    MarieNevada Posts: 395 Member
    seriously??? they have pizza days? wtf. how is that going to help anyone in any way shape or form other than the pizza makers?
  • Athena413
    Athena413 Posts: 1,709 Member
    What the heck is wrong with overhead presses??
  • fiberartist219
    fiberartist219 Posts: 1,865 Member
    Any lift can **** up floors if the person lifting is a tool and uses a weight they cannot control. They should just have signs saying dropping heavy weights on floors will lose your membership.

    I wish every gym had a sign that said that. That's one of the reasons I never wandered in the weight area when I had a membership. I was terrified of all the dropped weights. You could hear loud thuds even in the locker rooms. That's the last noise I want to hear when I'm mostly naked.
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    Lol, that sign makes me giggle. People at X-Sport are always grunting, dropping weights and making a ton of noise even though there are signs that say not too.. because honestly, it's a gym. Weights will be dropped no matter what.

    X-Sport too has it's "customer appreciation days" and they have a huge food table with pizza, veggies and dips, cake, samples of muscle milk/sports drinks, etc. I've personally never indulged because honestly, you don't know how long that crap has been sitting out or what person touched it.
  • MarieNevada
    MarieNevada Posts: 395 Member
    Any lift can **** up floors if the person lifting is a tool and uses a weight they cannot control. They should just have signs saying dropping heavy weights on floors will lose your membership.

    I wish every gym had a sign that said that. That's one of the reasons I never wandered in the weight area when I had a membership. I was terrified of all the dropped weights. You could hear loud thuds even in the locker rooms. That's the last noise I want to hear when I'm mostly naked.

    I go to a hardcore gym with some serious lifters and not one of them ever drops the weights. One guy even has his own dumbells with his name on it because they ordered them especially for him because he could lift everything else. i think they're at least 200 lbs. he never drops them. All that dropping and grunting is, for the most part, from wannabe's who are allowing their ego to dictate how much they should lift rather than their ability. For the most part. I am not saying that everyone who drops them is like that. lol
  • kochany
    kochany Posts: 32
    The whole gym is contradiction, their motto is "no judgment" and yet they judge u and "call" u names"lunk" if u drop weights and grunt. No bandanas , jeans, boots ,muscle shirts,bags come on and u say no judgement zone, BULL. And yet at the PF I'm at i see ppl with forbidden clothing. Grunting is good in moderation, its not like ppl grunt every time they do a rep. Grunting is bad but inconsiderate ppl that talk laud that i can hear them thru my earphones is fine. One more month and I'm out of there.
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