Planet Fitness’s Judgement Free Zone is bullsh!t. No judgement allowed unless of course they are the ones doing the judging. You’re too strong, training too hard, too fit, breathing too heavy. God forbid a fit person doing an intense workout is in your vicinity and may breathe heavily; can’t have someone making you feel guilty for being a fat, slazy slob while you walk on the treadmill for 5 mins thinking you just “earned” a baker’s dozen worth of donuts.
When I read about “Planet Fitness” I find it hard not to laugh. It is gym for people that are mediocre at best, looking to perpetuate their mediocrity while persecuting and mocking people who might be seeking improvement or excellence because it makes the sloths feel inadequate. Switch the word gymn with country and you’ve got a pretty good description of the US(S)A. It has to be the stupidest gymn in the US. Not coincidently it is also the the fastest growing.
Reminds me of another post a friend forwarded me on “Thin Privilege and Fat Logic”. If you are interested it can be found HERE.
Gym tells woman to cover up because her toned body ‘intimidated’ others
The Planet Fitness gym in Richmond, California is standing behind their dress code policy after one member claimed that she was told to put a shirt over her intimidatingly toned body.
As reported by KTVU Channel 2, Tiffany Austin was recovering from a car accident and getting back in shape with her first workout at the gym. However, her time exercising was cut short when a Planet Fitness employee stopped her. Austin explained, “She says, you know, ‘Excuse me, we’ve had some complaints. You’re intimidating people with your toned body. So can you put on a shirt?’”
Ms. Austin was wearing a spaghetti strap tank top and capri pants with her midriff exposed, and she doesn’t think her attire was out of line. “I don’t feel like it’s anything crazy, but I mean you tell me if it’s burning your eyes,” Austin said with a laugh. Reportedly she was only told that the gym dress code prohibited wearing string tank tops. The Planet Fitness customer agreed to wear one of the shirts the gym provides patrons for free, but while she waited for the tee, another employee approached her with objections to her clothing. Feeling harassed and intimidated herself, Austin decided to get her money back and cancel her membership at the gym advertised as the “Judgement Free Zone” whose policy bans “gymtimidation.” McCall Gosselin, Planet Fitness spokesperson, said that criticizing Austin for being toned, “…is not in line with the Planet Fitness policy whatsoever.”
Planet Fitness in Richmond, CA (KTVU)
According to their website, Planet Fitness’ philosophy of a Judgement Free Zone, “means members can relax, get in shape, and have fun without being subjected to the hard-core, look-at-me attitude that exists in too many gyms.” It’s a policy that is attractive to many Americans. With over 5million members, Chris Rondeau, the co-founder and chief executive, says the gym chain is the fastest growing in the U.S. “It’s unfair to like, show off your body and that’s what they don’t want,” said a gym-goer to KTVU. Yahoo! Odd News made a call to the Richmond, California Planet Fitness and was told that while the dress code is not available on the gym’s website, signs within the gym explain the policy.
Director of the Athletic Studies Center at UC Berkeley, Derek Van Rheenen, told the station, “In a lot of ways I actually think what Planet Fitness is doing is a positive thing. I think they obviously need to iron out some of these issues. But you know, sport in the United States is by nature discriminatory. It is selective. It is elitist.”
The Planet Fitness website (Planet Fitness)
Planet Fitness does have its detractors who say that some of their policies go too far. In November 2006 Albert Argibay was removed by police from the Planet Fitness in Wappingers Falls, NY. Reportedly, Argibay had broken the gym’s rule of no grunting, though he says that he was just breathing heavily. The no grunting policy may be what Planet Fitness is most known for. The gym sounds its “lunk alarm,” a siren and flashing lights, whenever a gym-goer is found displaying lunk-like behavior. Posters are said to define a lunk as “one who grunts, drops weights, or judges.”
Albert Argibay (Susan Stava/The New York Times)
With membership rates that start at just $10 per month, and monthly pizza nights and bagel breakfasts, the gym chain is likely to keep attracting their target demographic of occasional exercisers.
Again, you get what you pay for. If you pay $10 a month then you will get the treatment you deserve and, lets face it, it isn’t like the gym really wants anyone to show up.
I knew a guy that ran a gym and he told me that only about 5% of the members ever show up on any given month. It is an incredible scam – almost as good as religion.
nigazz be trippin.
I work out three times a week at Anytime Fitness that’s located about 2.5 miles down the road. It’s a nice place, super clean, free trainer if you need it and you can get in (with a digital key) 24 hours a day.
There are about 1,000 of these Anytime Fitness franchises available across the country and you can wear whatever you want – nudity is not really approved of but there are some really great skin tight outfits to admire as you work out.
A little expensive but I’ve found it worthwhile. I tend to do better when I pay for the workout in that it forces me out of the house, down the highway a bit and because I pay for it, I make sure I get what I pay for and make it worthwhile. It’s way more than $10 a month – but worth it to me.
If you need to take a break (travel, illness or whatever) they freeze your paid for time on the spot and they will not start the clock until you return to workout.
Pretty damn good compared to the YMCA or any other competition.
MA
Yawn. You can’t go ten miles in any large city without encountering a gym. What’s wrong with one that caters to fatties? Most of them are without doubt intimidated by all the gym rats at the majority of them.
Political correct mind control has reached the gym. For fuck sake, don’t make some fat fuck feel bad, so make yourself feel bad for not being a fat fuck. Try to tell somebody they are a fat pile of shit, and it’s worse than calling them the “N” word. I hate this country more every day.
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They already have a gym for fat chicks, it’s called “curves”. Each one has curtains/drapes so nobody can see inside. It’s where fat chicks go to pretend they’re exercising and losing weight.
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I used to go to the gym a few yrs ago. I stopped bc I got bored. There is almost nothing I can do there that I can’t do at home with little equipment. I do miss seeing people do exercises wrong or too heavy. That was entertaining. I also miss the sauna and steam room, it was amazing after a hard workout. In restrospect, I think I paid my membership mostly for that.
What a glorious day
Wouldn’t you say?
For being pretty and lovely
and gay.
Spinolator says:
“I used to go to the gym a few yrs ago. I stopped bc I got bored.”
I always look in the ass factory for this one chick. She does spinning class all the time but once in a great while she is out with us plebes on the elliptical. I don’t do the elliptical but the treadmills are behind these. I don’t have to go to a strip joint or club to check out a variety of asses; young, old, tired, droopy, plump, toned, jutting, flat, big, magilla, narrow, offensive, tiny-narrow, artificial, depressing, enchanting, did I say young?…
I have iron free weights and a treadmill. Paid about 800 dollars for them 10 years ago. Still work. Still paid for. Going to a gym is for the apartment dweller. I suppose if you live in a Amerikan city, it is a good investment.
You will need to be able to run for your life.
You mean …… I can go to a place where they won’t make fun of my ………moobs?
Sign me the fuck up!!
First world problems. Meanwhile…
(don’t click this if you’re not ready to find more evil in the world)
Prosecutors say boyfriend killed toddler, set her on fire
Since 3/4 of the population of the USSA is morbidly obese, obese, or overweight, normal weight people are abnormal pariahs, freaks, and need to be controlled and eliminated. They need to be locked in cells and force fed Doritos, little debbies cakes and cokes until they are obese, like everybody else.
this story caught my eye because it is so analogous to the US
the thing that gets in my craw is the blatant hypocrisy. the idea that
serious lifters are making fun of the fat guys working out is
bull. when i was relatively weak and started lifting heavy in college with my roomate at a gold’s gym
the gigantic and fit guys were the nicest, willing to spot, ask if you
wanted suggestions. they wanted to teach and help just for the sake
of it, true altruism in this respect was almost universal. i have had
my ups and downs fitness-wise and never (and i mean NEVER) felt judged
or ridiculed in these environments. the idea that scrawny or fat
people are constantly being actively mocked and made to feel
uncomfortable at the gymn by the body builders and power lifters is a
hollywood/tv fantasy. the vast majority of the time it is the fat
sloths own insecurity that’s making them feel bad, no one is
projecting it on them, they are projecting it onto themselves.
If I walked into planet fitness for a trial membership and then showed
up at 5am in my smelly ass vibrams, beat-up sweatpants and faded
deadpool tshirt and did heavy squats, pull-ups, bench press and
clean/presses intensely for 45 mins
I would be stared at, their lunk alarm would go off, i would be
ridiculed and deserve the equivalent of the Scarlet Letter in their eyes. They
would engage me to try and make me feel bad so that they could feel
better about their own insecurities. This is the equivalent of people
being made fun of in HS for getting good grades, being polite/nice,
fit and athletic while driving a nice car that you worked to pay for
yourself. It is straight-up bizzarro world shit to me.
It is very synomous with the welfare state where people expect
handouts and think suckers work hard and try to improve their
situation. they jsut want everyone to lower themselves to their
level.
it’s the same mentality progladyte libtards spout on a regular basis,
we all need to be “equal”, which ends up meaning we all need to be
fat, stupid, lazy failures because those that succeed embarass the
rest of society.
Planet Fitness is to fitness/health as Univ of Phoenix Online is to
university/college/education.
stucky,
i might hate their rules but i can’t deny the owners brilliant plan, charge people less than almost any other gym so they will continue to pay but market it to people who are the least likely to use the equipment and show up. Then actively ridicule people who would actually show up for being “lunks” and intimidating the fatties.
it’s almost as if they don’t need facilities, they could just rent a building, put in a few
treadmills and ellipticals that might actually be used for 5 mins at a time and have the other equipment their typical clientele won’t use could be cardboard cutouts that look real.
and for $10/month these mcdonald’s munching elephants will forget that the $10 is being auto deducted each month. The only way it could be more heinously genius would be to get govt to mandate that people join a gym.
spinolator,
i know what you mean, over the winter my plan was to bulk up, squats, bpress, deadlifts etc… and the only good way to do squats and many of the other heavy lifts safely by yourself is a power-rack.
if i had the room i would have one in my garage or basement but i just don’t at the moment.
i am starting to get bored and which is why i will start moving to HIIT (in my basement with the limited weights i have at home), sprints and walks with the family because the weather is getting nice again. in 6-7 months I will be bored again and ready to lift heavy.
it is funny watching people do lifts wrong. i actually had a guy a few weeks ago doing squats next to me in the smith machine and not even getting his legs to 90 degress but with over 300lbs of weight. i was in the power-rack doing squats properly, in between sets he told me it wasn’t good to down as low as I was going and that i could probably be doing more weight. I replied that i was doing “squats”, not “power curtsies”. hahaha, boy did his face get red.