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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

Also you spelled mouf wrong

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Cornwind Evil
Dec 14, 2004


The undisputed world champion of wrestling effortposting

I. M. Gei posted:

Jesus loving Christ remind me to never loving go to Planet Fitness ever.

The only things that should be on that list are judging and wearing tank tops, and that second one is only because I just personally hate it when guys wear tank tops at all (and because doing certain lifts in a tank top can be really unsafe due to there being more sweaty skin contact and less friction between you and the bar). Grunting and dropping weights are just unavoidable parts of weightlifting; sometimes you HAVE to drop a weight or grunt to perform a particularly heavy rep. And the water jug thing is just loving stupid as poo poo altogether. I drink from a gallon water jug at my gym all the loving time and I can't think of ANY reason why anyone else should give one single gently caress.

gently caress whoever wrote this.

It's not a rule that says "NO MAKING ANY NOISE OR EVER DROPPING ANY WEIGHTS EVER", it's "If you performatively make loud noises and drop your weights to show off how much you're doing, you're really not wanted here." The idea is that people avoid gyms because they feel like they're being judged.

The gallon water thing is odd though, maybe that's another performing thing that happened, LOOK AT HOW MUCH WATER I NEED. And they thought you were flaunting the rule. Seriously I would call them and politely but FIRMLY say you meant no harm and that your banning should be revoked immediately, or else they better give you a refund.

The Bible
May 8, 2010

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Will ppl deliver pizzas to planet fitness or does that trigger some kind of ethics alarm? :thunk:

No, Planet Fitness provides the pizza. Tootsie Rolls, too.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Cornwind Evil posted:

It's not a rule that says "NO MAKING ANY NOISE OR EVER DROPPING ANY WEIGHTS EVER", it's "If you performatively make loud noises and drop your weights to show off how much you're doing, you're really not wanted here." The idea is that people avoid gyms because they feel like they're being judged.

The gallon water thing is odd though, maybe that's another performing thing that happened, LOOK AT HOW MUCH WATER I NEED. And they thought you were flaunting the rule. Seriously I would call them and politely but FIRMLY say you meant no harm and that your banning should be revoked immediately, or else they better give you a refund.

This is endlessly discussed on youtube fitness channels. The :tinfoil: theory is that PF only wants the sort of people that train a few times month and not people that train 4/5 days a week because they are oversubscribed.

Haptical Sales Slut
Mar 15, 2010

Age 18 to 49

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

I pumped I jumped and I ran and now the won't let me back

What the gently caress but guess what the still charging me that $10 a month


Okay the gist of what I did was come in with a gallon water bottle, then I argued with a staff member who was complaining about me being a hunk or a chunk or Donald punk and I do t loving get it. I didn't do a goddamn thing.

Listen we all want to face plant into a gym-crotch but you just watch uporn after and avoid getting arrested like the lord says we should.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Htbh but not a huge fan of grunting and moaning in public. Society need to have some basic rules for us to not annoy each other and not doing random loud grunts and moans in public should be one of them(unless.you can't help it due to medical issues, the go ahead). Just my two cent, love gaba ghoul

Carlos Lantana
Oct 2, 2003

I'm really sorry, your avatar is giving me a boner and while that is perfectly OK and I don't want to kink shame anyone, its making me feel really weird getting a boner in a Trump thread.

Sincerely,

Jailbrekr
I grunt when i post

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Gonna open up a tennis academy next door and get a bunch of russian women to teach it

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Private Cumshoe posted:

Is it dirty? Seems like it'd be dirty

I only went for cardio cause I have weights at home so can't attest to everything, but from what I used the machines were always clean and you were supposed to sanitize what ever you used right after you finished in addition to employees coming around and cleaning stuff

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
I'm not sure if it is a case of poo poo just being left on and no one giving a poo poo to change the channel or because I live in the chuddiest part of the state, but on Sunday morning they always had a bunch of TV's on some religious show that bounced between shilling books about the assault on man/fatherhood and how the Nazis were best manly men and how to be like them, and also how it is the end times with tons of cool rear end drawings that looked straight out of a D&D monster manual

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

I work out at Curves op, maybe there's one near you

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odg2K25sLGg

AKZ
Nov 5, 2009

Do not eat corn on the cob at the gym.
Wrist wraps? Just go.
Ipod nano you're out.
No pigeons as spotters.
Bane mask? Why even ask.
Tekken moves get you banned.
This pizza fuels sleepy parkour.

Karma Comedian
Feb 2, 2012

Planet Fitness is the only acceptable gym near me and its right next door to a McDonald's and an Italian place.

Perfect.

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

Why do we want lunks posting on the forums
Can we just permaban all lunks on sight

Saalkin
Jun 29, 2008

Smugworth posted:

Why do we want lunks posting on the forums
Can we just permaban all lunks on sight

I'm going to drop the weight on your toes

Internet Old One
Dec 6, 2021

Coke Adds Life
I just remembered last weekend I was grunting doing resistance band abductor exercises. Probably the least lunk exercise you can do and I would have been booted out of Planet Fitness.

Pretty sure I grunt doing isometrics too.

Karma Comedian
Feb 2, 2012

*getting the police called on me for refusing to leave PF and arguing that everyone calling me a lunk is actually being judgemental*

Saalkin
Jun 29, 2008

Internet Old One posted:

I just remembered last weekend I was grunting doing resistance band abductor exercises. Probably the least lunk exercise you can do and I would have been booted out of Planet Fitness.

Pretty sure I grunt doing isometrics too.

Put in a ball gag

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

Karma Comedian posted:

*getting the police called on me for refusing to leave PF and arguing that everyone calling me a lunk is actually being judgemental*

just argue that ur a hunk not a lunk

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


only fools pay for a gym subscirption.

planet earth is my planet fitness and mother nature is my personal trainer

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Carlos Lantana posted:

I grunt when i post

Who doesn't?

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

Karma Comedian posted:

Planet Fitness is the only acceptable gym near me and its right next door to a McDonald's and an Italian place.

Perfect.

My Planet Fitness is next to a T-mobile and a new handjob store.

Chief McHeath
Apr 23, 2002

Jippa posted:

The :tinfoil: theory is that PF only wants the sort of people that train a few times month and not people that train 4/5 days a week because they are oversubscribed.

I’ve worked and worked out for years and years and years in gyms, corporate, local, large and small and I’m about to tell you a secret.

EVERY PROFIT MOTIVATED GYM ON EARTH wants those members. The best gym members, from a gyms perspective, are the people that come in once, give up their billing info, sign an auto-renewing membership agreement, get billed in perpetuity, and are never seen again.

And Planet Fitness is fine. Their whole MO is that they don’t want bodybuilding and powerlifting types in there, so they don’t have the type of equipment they use and have obnoxious policies like no gallon jugs.

If the staff is trained at all, they’re going to explain the “no loud grunting or dropping heavy weights from height” or gallon jug rule to someone’s face before doing the lunk alarm or asking them to leave. They’re all mostly staffed by 18-25 year olds so the alarm fires off more than it probably should.

The idea is to have a facility for people that otherwise would be too fearful to even start a fitness routine to feel comfortable and welcomed so that’s what they do and I’m okay with that. It’s fine.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

yeah but what about lunk's rights

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

A gallon is an absurd amount of water, nobody needs that much water

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
me @ planet fitness:

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


Costco Meatballs
Oct 21, 2022

Duck and Cover posted:

Maybe don't grab something so heavy if you're going to drop it and grunt? Yeah? Did you think about that? No? Yeah that's not surprising. *slams lunk alarm button*

ya I don't think op has considered how he makes this a very JUDGEMENTAL ENVIRONMENT

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



Cornwind Evil posted:

It's not a rule that says "NO MAKING ANY NOISE OR EVER DROPPING ANY WEIGHTS EVER", it's "If you performatively make loud noises and drop your weights to show off how much you're doing, you're really not wanted here." The idea is that people avoid gyms because they feel like they're being judged.

Ah, okay yeah that's different. I wasn't trying to say people should grunt super loud or slam weights on the ground super hard. Any time I have to grunt during a lift I try to keep it quiet, and I've seen guys at my gym get reprimanded for dropping weights too hard.

But the way that rule is written makes it sound like they mean "No grunting or dropping weights of any kind ever, not even quietly", and I'm betting a lot of dumber Planet Fitness employees would read and enforce it that way without any concept of nuance.

Henry Lee Mucus
Dec 11, 2003

I slammed a dumbell directly onto my foot and screamed like a bear getting its cock torn off

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Saalkin posted:

Put in a ball gag

Just show up to lift in full gimp getup, that will show em!

Internet Old One
Dec 6, 2021

Coke Adds Life

Chief McHeath posted:


And Planet Fitness is fine. Their whole MO is that they don’t want bodybuilding and powerlifting types in there, so they don’t have the type of equipment they use and have obnoxious policies like no gallon jugs.

What do bodybuilders need that doesn’t exist at Planet Fitness? Steroids? I kid but I’m genuinely curious since you seem to be a trainer.

quote:

The idea is to have a facility for people that otherwise would be too fearful to even start a fitness routine to feel comfortable and welcomed so that’s what they do and I’m okay with that. It’s fine.

This is the message but it’s not the intent. They just want to cut out the 20% of customers who put 80% of the wear on their equipment. I suspect that providing carbs twice a week is a ploy to further thin out the news years crowds when they cheat day their way to zero progress and get discouraged.

Imagine having no idea what you’re doing, craving foods because you’re on a diet, seeing some beautiful woman scarf down three slices of pepperoni with zero understanding of how she can get away with it and you figure you earned a slice.

It’s easy to imagine this person deciding they have bad genetics and giving up, but not enough to cancel their $10 a month claim to self improvement.

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



Jillian poo poo posted:

I slammed a dumbell directly onto my foot and screamed like a bear getting its cock torn off

I once accidentally dropped a 45-lb weight on my middle finger. Hurt like a motherfucker. The whole underpart of the nail turned purple. I had to go to the ER and they burned a hole in the fingernail to squeeze out all of the blood just so I could bend that fingertip again. Ended up losing that whole nail.

Thank God the weights at my gym have handles on them.

I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 15:40 on May 26, 2023

Henry Lee Mucus
Dec 11, 2003

I. M. Gei posted:

I once accidentally dropped a 45-lb weight on my middle finger. Hurt like a motherfucker. The whole underpart of the nail turned purple. I had to go to the ER and they burned a hole in the fingernail to squeeze out all of the blood just so I could bend that fingertip again. Ended up losing that whole nail.

Thank God the weights at my gym have handles on them.

That was the one and only time I actually worked out. Never again! Now I just mack on the fly honeys :cool:

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Jillian poo poo posted:

I slammed a dumbell directly onto my foot and screamed like a bear getting its cock torn off

This is a legitimate use of grunting, moaning and screaming. Welll done

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




need a lunk alarm in the work toilets imo

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
https://youtu.be/ULjbIMvP6A0

JetSetGo
Jan 1, 2011

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022
I'm cheap so I go to Planet Fitness, but this one i go to doesn't follow the lunk bullshit. It accepts the Xport rejects from down the street who I think were chased away for probably eye loving people too much, cause there is a ton of it at mine. Or more likely too cheap too. And the typical holding machines cause its all part of their one workout. The community is mostly geriatrics so they let all the kids in who basically shame the poo poo out of everyone for being 17 and not having a lifetime of hard living yet.

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Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
I'm lunking right now and there's not a god drat thing any of you can do about it.

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