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Rant: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
My wife came home excited about a gym that one of her girlfriends showed her. She was really excited and wanted me to see it so I offered to go back with her to see it.
As we walk in, I notice pizza boxes on the table inside the gym. The gym actually has a pizza night every first Monday of the month! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Now if someone wants to workout for an hour and then go home and have a whole pizza, that's on the individual. But for a gym to offer free pizza every month?
I did a little research and they do this as a "thank you" to their loyal customers? A "THANK YOU???" How about giving away protein bars or a free smoothie? A gym giving out pizza is about as productive as a dentist giving out suckers!
BTW, this gym also prides itself on not catering to bodybuilders. Seeing how I'm not "all swole up", I can get past the fact that the dumbells only go up to 75 lbs where most gyms may go to 100 or so. But the only barbell exercises you can do are in smith machines! So that means no unassisted barbell rows, squats, cleans, bench presses. GEEEEEESH!!! Where is the variety
This gym has also been known to kick members out for "grunting?" Again... ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I'm sorry but I've been in positions where a grunt makes the difference between me walking away and being carried away on a stretcher from the weight crashing down on my throat or head!
As for my wife, I'll keep this to myself! If she wants to join, I'll back her 100%. Don't know if I'll get to workout with her anymore though, I'd hate to be asked to leave because my sleeveless shirt was too revealing!
LOL I knew half way through your blog you were talking about a Planet Fitness.... tragic.
I knew the second you wrote that you saw pizza boxes that you were talking about Planet Fitness. Didn't you see the jar of Tootsie Rolls too?
Wow! Pizza...This gym seems to be sending all of the wrong signals. LOL! Back the wife if she joins and gets really serious about her fitness, I suspect that she will begin looking at other gyms. The positive is that she is looking at a gym. Perhaps encourage her to look a few more places. Keep up the great work and setting the example for the family to follow.
Holy ****! Thats nuts! ive heard of gyms asking to not grunt or having signs with "NO GRUNTING" on them but actually kicking people out for that! and free pizza day!! wow. crap gym. So Planet Fitness has pizza days and tootsi roll jars on the desk, huh....that just blows my mind! I wonder what the reasoning is for all that?
Lol, I went to a gym in Charlotte and it was very impressive. They had everything you can think of. The dumbbells went up to 150lbs and I was sold. Then all of a sudden as I sit down to go over the membership packages I smell Pappa Johns pizza, I know that weird that I know the smell but when im a diet my #1 craving is pizza, lol. Ok so I did think anything of it until they made an announcement saying "complimentary pizza is here" . I said oh no are you serious?? Lol. Lets just say I didnt join that day !!! Lol...
Oh WOW!!! That's so bad!!! I'd tell your wife not to go there personally....WOW!!!
Yet another Dupe for folks to feel 'healthy'...but it is a step better than nothing at all. Its like a halfway house, lol. :)PS
Grunting and lack of weight is an issue. Pizza is not because I control what I eat, not them. If your wife wants to join and is motivated by it, hold the door open for her and support her. Better she work out somewhere that she is jacked about than go somewhere that she feels uncomfortable and less likely to continue..
Note to self. Never ever go to Planet Fitness and tell everyone I know not to go there.
my wife and I simply go to different gyms for the last 3 years - I can't stand the gym she works out at because it is not clean enough and small - but she likes it - so we have simply resolved to work out at different places and we are both happy
best of luck
I've never been to a Planet Fitness but I have yet to hear anything good about those places in relation to fitness and health. That chain is a joke
Planet Fitness is in no way a place for anyone who is even remotely hardcore to train. I took a membership there because it's inexpensive ($10 a month) but you get what you pay for. I'm not a loud lifter but I have been told that I annoy other patrons because of the effort I put into my workouts. (Drop set, forced reps, etc.) They think I'm 'scary'.
LoL. I would be kicked out of that gym on the first day with all my grunting!! I'm not loud or anything...but still. And about the cheat day and pizza comment - it's not about cheat day at all. It's the fact that a gym would offer something like that!! Even if you're not on cheat day - you'd still be tempted!!!!
"Planet Insanity" should be their name. Bro, you must convince her to join elsewhere.
Yep pretty stupid. When I "unfortunately" trained at World Gym they did this every month. For the ones that hate the grunters, hold your breathe, shut up and have a pizza.
I would never go to Planet Fitness.What a waset of money
I do workout there as well, don't forget bagels and cream cheese every second tuesday of the month. Just need to have will power and stay away from the crap. I workout there because all the gyms in are area are expensive, but really can't stand the moto JUDGEMENT FREE ZONE all the above noted things in your post are pretty judgemental for a gym. But I still seem to get a great workout in I'VE LEARNED NOT TO GRUNT, haven't got the lunk alarm yet but have been told before to loud and that pissed me off. We have two in the area I go one and my wife goes to the other she enjoys her gym alot.
I am a member of Planet Fitness and I have to say that for $10 a month it is a decent gym especially for beginners. As for the once a month free pizza & bagels I think it is up to the individual gym goer whether they take part of that or not. Planet Fitnes may have stupid mottos and an annoying lunk alarm but they do have a lot of members who need a place to go and can feel comfortable being there and feel good aboout what it is they are trying to accomplish. :)
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Now hang on folks. I went on a diet and joined Planet Fitness this past January. My goal was to lose 60 lbs, so I worked out there regularly and by June 30th I was at my goal. Yes, I did see the pizza boxes and people sitting around eating pizza the first Monday of each month, and I, too, thought it counterintuitive, but I didn't eat any, and it didn't stop me from reaching my goal. As far as the free weights only going up to 75 lbs, that's fine for me for now - but once this 56 yr old grandma gets strong enough to lift a couple 75 lb dumbells (and I will get there), I will find a more serious gym. Of course Planet Fitness is not for everyone, but its not intimidating for beginners, or people trying to stay healthy. At least it gets them up and moving, and after they start seeing results, they just might get hooked like me !
TxTenista(didn't feel like logging in)-ROFL! Wow, I hope this isn't a "chain" gym! Holy Cow, I hope that one goes out of business because the only variety they are going to start seeing is the variety in BMI indexes! ROFL! Wow, Pizza Night as a thank you....and I thought I had heard them all!:)
The judgement free zone that allows you top participate if you meet their passing judgements. This place has had pizza night for over one year in my area...
Was told that my bride and I were not welcomed there
When I mentioned discrimination they said well we just don't encourage it
Also it was a hot day and we had just come from our gym so we were wearing our BB stuff were told we could not dress that way there
Hate to tell you, but protein bars and smoothies are nothing more than health store junk food. They are just sugary foods dressed up so you feel less guilty about eating them. Might as well just have your pizza if you are going to rely on them.
HA HA so obvious its a planet fitness I go to one because it is cheap but I think its hilarious they do the pizza night and have a bowl of candy by the front door I made a joke to the girl at the front counter the other day and she got offended and started going on about how it is a judgment free zone....
Ha. My wife just came home from the gym (Planet Fitness is literally across the road from where we live), and asked me if I wanted a veggie pizza. Now there's a very good pizza place across the way from Planet Fitness in the shopping center, but I was like, "whoa. You got that at the GYM?!?" Very counterintuitive. I have a membership there too, but mainly for weekend cardio with my wife. I do my main lifting at Golds, where I can do squats and deadlifts and the like.
Ironically, on the original post, when I first moved here (NC), I was trying to find a dentist, and I went to one. They had a plate of chocolate chip cookies at the front desk.
Amen brother they have free pizza night, free bagel morning, that jar of tootsie rolls, and the one I go to now used to be a World Gym where there are no jump ropes, they removed the boxing room, a large number of unassisted bars, no swiss balls and removed the basketball court. I HATE planet fitness
The gym I go has "member appreciation" night where they closed down the whole basketball court area for a few hours and gave away free burritos from non other than CHIPOLTLE! Are you freaking kidding me??! I made sure the trainers and desk workers knew what I thought about their decision on that. Who says to themselves "hey, lets go to the gym to get fat??!" Sad thing is they had a big turn out for the thing. Like all the other dedicated out there, it is easy for me to see bad food and not even think twice about turning it down.
Say what?! I would only have it if it were Digorno!
LOL -- this makes me laugh - one time i was working out at PF and a staff member asked me to leave on the account that i was intimidating the other members .. he then made a comment about me being on the juice ... which i then replied "maybe if you stop giving your members pizza and bagels that would look more me" .. .needless to say he didn't like my comment
I think the solution is pretty simple - just don't eat it...
This may make no sense for weight loss or fitness but as a business plan it works...
BAHAHA! I know exactly which gym chain you are referring too....and you forgot to mention the once a month bagel morning and the tootsie rolls that sit at the front counter. I am obviously not a hard core bodybuilder but when they told me there was no scale in the gym because "they didn't want people to judge" or the fact that they handed me an XL tshirt (the only size they carry...again no judgements) I laughed all the way to the car.
At the time, I still joined because it was the only gym around but seriously, I felt like it was a joke every time I went.
And by the way...pizza night is their busiest night!
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Thats Crazy... Pizza is my favorite food, do you know how hard it would be for me to cut weight with the smell of pizza in the Gym.... what a bunch of idiots... glad we dont have stuff like that around here.
Planet Fitness! where are the bands, kettle bells, bosu balls, and jumpropes? there is NO room for walking lunges! Sooo, I breath really heavy and throw the weights just to see if I can get the lunk alarm to go off.LOL! this gym is the cheapest in the area (NC) and I am not going to let anything stop me from getting the best hitt and plyo training workout in, because you can do these moves anywhere. And I LOVE being the hottest in there!
you should not back your wife for this gym, she'll be downing pizza and putting on weight in no time, thats not fair to her
Well I'm no veteran but that sounds like a joke!. Although I am quite partical to pizza..... lol
