Boycott Planet Fitness

[Board_SHERIF]

bitch deserves a roundhouse 

I would grunt and shoot a nice load on her.............

[pumpster]

I would grunt and shoot a nice load on her.............

heheheheheeh

[alexxx]

You know, as I read this stupid grunting bullshit over and over...I find myself getting angrier at the fact that if it wasn't for "grunting Muscleheads", this stupid bitch manager wouldn't have a gym to manage...boycott that fuckin place...its unacceptable!

I don't know the story behind that but I commend the manager for kicking out the grunting wonder.

[Bronx]

So to those that support the Planet Fitness arguement, what if its the only gym you can afford or go to? Then what? You lift light like the rest of the douche bags? What happens when you lift lighter, go high intensity and accidently let out a grunt, or a noise, or a peep...then they kick you out anyways?

I'm still for the boycott. And if anyone says then just don't go there...that's the point. We won't. However they still need to realize, if it wasn't for the grunting meatheads, there would be no gym industry and no way for planet fitness to take your money every month!

[Beener]

You know, as I read this stupid grunting bullshit over and over...I find myself getting angrier at the fact that if it wasn't for "grunting Muscleheads", this stupid bitch manager wouldn't have a gym to manage...boycott that fuckin place...its unacceptable!

Actually its not the muscleheads that give planet fitness its money, its the hundreds of fatties who buy memberships and then never use them.

[wes mantooth]

So to those that support the Planet Fitness arguement, what if its the only gym you can afford or go to? Then what? You lift light like the rest of the douche bags? What happens when you lift lighter, go high intensity and accidently let out a grunt, or a noise, or a peep...then they kick you out anyways?

I'm still for the boycott. And if anyone says then just don't go there...that's the point. We won't. However they still need to realize, if it wasn't for the grunting meatheads, there would be no gym industry and no way for planet fitness to take your money every month!

last weeks argument..but ill retort for the hell of it.

just because it would be the only gym you can afford, doesnt mean the facility needs to conform to standardized rituals and practices of "normal" gyms. ALL GYMS have rules and regulations for the comfort and safety of the MAJORITY. that is why there are different styles of gyms for people with different needs.

as far as "grunting meatheads" being the pivital point of the gym industry's existence, you are dead wrong. as stated before, bodybuilding is a niche market at best. gyms are built and run financially by overweight people, middle aged soccer moms, annoying aerobics people, etc.....ie: regular people, not competitors and meatheads.  if you think differently, then it is obvious that you are not in the industry...and thats fine. i understand the backlash and "boycott" threads...personally i think planet fitness is gayer than richard simmons...but they have the RIGHT to make and set their own rules regardless if a few think its right or wrong.

[wes mantooth]

Actually its not the muscleheads that give planet fitness its money, its the hundreds of fatties who buy memberships and then never use them.

so true

musclehead that goes everyday: membership cost....$200 a year

fat guy that only went 3 times a year:....membership cost...$200 a year


the only difference is that one takes up space, and needs to be cleaned up afterwards...actually costing money ie: paper towels, cleaners, toilet paper....


the argument makes no sense. the gym industry thrives on people who join and never show up.....and everyone should be happy about that. if everyone that was a member of their gyms actually showed up everydy to work out....they would quit and start a thread that said "my gym sucks...its too crowded......why do they let so many people join?...LOL

[Richard2004]

Of course, you could just have your own HOME GYM, like any DEDICATED, SERIOUS, weight-trainer should have(!), and then you can train 24/7 and not have to put up with this chicken-sh*t, bed-wetting, pansy-ass, "health-club" nonsense!!

And who needs spotters when you have power racks...why, in those f'ckin' health clubs I've found their that their dumb-ass PT's don't even know what a power rack is!??

Yeah, and in your own home gym you can grunt, scream, shout, fart...why, you druggies can even shoot-up between sets!

[shootfighter1]

From another board:

"I went to a Planet Shittness last winter when I was home for Xmas (it was close and a friend had a free pass). Never heard of them before that. I'll NEVER go back.

I go in and do a workset of db laterals with the 70s (which btw their heaviest db's were 75s) and I hear this f-in siren go off like the place was getting raided. I was wondering what was going on so I look and see this beacon on the wall going off - the "lunk alarm". Under it was a definition: "Lunk: anyone who drops weights, grunts, or judges others" (or something stupid like that). Anyway - apparently I breathed too hard or something during my set.


This is discrimination.  Some of these clubs are singling out people based on appearance and harassing them with this f'n alarm!

[shootfighter1]

Looks like Planet Fitness just bought Joe Gold's WORLD GYM franchise.  This is horrible.  Believe it, they don't give a shit about building a good physique or physical fitness in any way.  They will be changing World gyms to some degree now as well.  Its all about $. 

P.F. is not a small chain, if it were, this wouldn't be much of an issue....people that have a passion for building their physiques could just go elsewhere.  But they are expanding rapidly across the country, buying out other gym chains to push their idea of economically driven passive restrictive fitness...and in some cases, descriminating on gym members based on looks.

People shouldn't be allowed to act intimidating or like assholes in other gyms either...but Planet fitness just goes way too far!

[The Squadfather]

i don't know why some of you guys complain so much, this is America if you don't like that gym go find another one, i personally wouldn't want to go somewhere where i wasn't wanted, they're making it clear that they don't want the musclehead crowd so give someone else your money.

[Saskbb]

You know, as I read this stupid grunting bullshit over and over...I find myself getting angrier at the fact that if it wasn't for "grunting Muscleheads", this stupid bitch manager wouldn't have a gym to manage...boycott that fuckin place...its unacceptable!

Planet Fitness has a smart biz plan.  Sell memberships for 6 months, 1 year, or even 2 years and after 3 weeks the client stops coming.  These members don't use the showers or cause wear on the equipement.  This way a guy could sign up 5000 members and still have enought room to have a workout.  Just think, what the hell would happen if all 5000 members showed up Sat. morning for a workout.

Real lifters do use the gym and will cause wear on the equipment.  

[shootfighter1]

Did you read my post?

The point is they are buying out other gyms and creating less options for people who want to workout elsewhere because of the size of the gym chain and possibly driving the cost up for the smaller gyms cause they loose out on people to planet fitness.

Absolutely, its a smart business plan but insulting to people who want to lift weights.  I can understand wanting to create an environment for as many people as possible and removing the real idiots, but they are over the line with their bullshit rules whereas it affects many regular lifters too.

People that truely love physical fitness should encourage them to loosen their rules or support a boycott.

[The Squadfather]

Did you read my post?

The point is they are buying out other gyms and creating less options for people who want to workout elsewhere because of the size of the gym chain and possibly driving the cost up for the smaller gyms cause they loose out on people to planet fitness.

People that truely love physical fitness should encourage them to loosen their rules or support a boycott.

gimme a break, you make it sound like they're Wal-Mart or something, they're not that big, if you live in a place that has a decent population there are a lot of gyms to choose from.

[shootfighter1]

There's not nearly as many choices in some regions man.  24hr fitness and Planet fitness are buying out so much.  If you don't believe me, look at their websites and locations.  Plus, do you want to be forced to join some small shithole gym that has minimal equipment?  Gyms like Worlds, Powerhouse and Golds had great equipment for all focuses of training and allowed everyone to lift there.  They even made it more mainstream and added to aerobics classes, trainers, and fitness classes for the beginners.  But now World's has been bought out and I have heard 24hr fitness is buying a lot of Golds gyms too.  Believe me, with the buyouts comes changes in philosophies, restrictions, equipment purchases, and programs.

As I posted above, they bought out the whole World Gym franchise, which was a serious lifter friendly gym!

[wes mantooth]

gimme a break, you make it sound like they're Wal-Mart or something, they're not that big, if you live in a place that has a decent population there are a lot of gyms to choose from.

true...

if you dont live within 20 miles of a golds gym.......MOVE OUT OF THE STICKS FOR CHRISTS SAKE!!!!

[Saskbb]

There's not nearly as many choices in some regions man.  24hr fitness and Planet fitness are buying out so much.  If you don't believe me, look at their websites and locations.  Plus, do you want to be forced to join some small shithole gym that has minimal equipment?  Gyms like Worlds, Powerhouse and Golds had great equipment for all focuses of training and allowed everyone to lift there.  They even made it more mainstream and added to aerobics classes, trainers, and fitness classes for the beginners.  But now World's has been bought out and I have heard 24hr fitness is buying a lot of Golds gyms too.  Believe me, with the buyouts comes changes in philosophies, restrictions, equipment purchases, and programs.

Want to hear something funny, our golds gym here also has a no grunt policy and dumbells only go up to 100's.  It happening everywere!  When I got shit for deadlifting a few months back all I said was sorry and told the owner he sould change his gyms name from Golds to curlves. And 2 weeks later I did it again!  This time no one said anything.

So I have 2 gym memberships, one is hard core gym and other is for the eye candy for those lobg pre-contest cardio workouts!


As I posted above, they bought out the whole World Gym franchise, which was a serious lifter friendly gym!

[shootfighter1]

That sucks man. 

On Milos' board there are recent pictures of Troy Alves after a brutal leg workout.  Talk about a difference in philosophies.  The Koloseum is the shit!!!

[WiseGuy]

That sucks man. 

On Milos' board there are recent pictures of Troy Alves after a brutal leg workout.  Talk about a difference in philosophies.  The Koloseum is the shit!!!

now thats a gym......... I say if ANYONE from Getbig goes to or is seen at a Planet Fitness to have their account deleted immediately ....anyway why go when they have ugly ass chicks like these going there........

no grunting AND you gotta look at this:




bullshit yo