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Planet Fitness regularly touts how it’s not like all the other gyms and encourages soft people to indulge in its purple haze of mediocrity. And now they’re taking it one step further: Getting rid of squat racks for being “intimidating.”

Redditor Kalerad posted his problem with Planet Fitness’s overly all-inclusive philosophy on the site’s Fitness subsection.
“I walked in noticing the outline of dust on the floor where the squat rack once stood. I was heartbroken. Especially since I had just recently found a love for squatting.

“I of course had to ask an employee “WTF?” He regretfully told me that a few days prior corporate came in and removed it because ‘a customer complained that it was intimidating.’”

The move is one of many — along with offering free pizza and bagels and tanning beds — to lure in the casual gym goer who might be turned off by gyms being a little too “fitness oriented.”

Either way, if you want to do serious workouts at any point in your life, make sure to avoid Planet Fitness. And if you’re the type of person who’s intimidated by a series of metal rods that make people stronger and healthier, we’re probably all better off if you remove yourself from society’s gene pool.



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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2014, 09:24:42 AM »
hahahaha these fuckers should have had my old trainer, when I was 15 i was training at this old rusty gym and this 70 year old bodybuilder had me on the squat rack screaming at me while I did the sets.

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2014, 09:24:56 AM »
damn shame
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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2014, 09:28:35 AM »
Where the fuck are people supposed to shadow box and do biceps curls now?

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2014, 09:32:30 AM »
Where the fuck are people supposed to shadow box and do biceps curls now?


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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2014, 10:06:24 AM »

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2014, 11:31:04 AM »
Where the fuck are people supposed to shadow box and do biceps curls now?
Soon planet fitness will be one big indoor track, and on Mondays it will be Donut Day, Wednesdays will be Cupcake day. And Fridays will be Pizza Day...

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2014, 11:33:22 AM »
im surprised they even open their doors on the Weekends

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2014, 11:47:39 AM »
Planet Fatass

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2014, 11:53:12 AM »
From a business model perspective, it's pure genius. Imagine making sure that all of your members are so unmotivated that they never put one minute of wear on any piece of equipment. Your maintenance costs and ongoing CAPEX investment becomes effectively zero.

That, combined with with "friendly, unintimidating atmosphere" leads to a steady supply of said fatasses that won't ever adversely impact your bottom line.

Win/win.

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2014, 12:03:41 PM »
I think for the hardcore gym rat...this would be the perfect thing. Buy a franchise....put all the shit u want in the back....and then get a whole bunch of sloths to sign up, never show up...and subsidize your training and drugs. This is a microcosm of society. The gym where people are scared and never work out.
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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2014, 12:16:19 PM »
From a business model perspective, it's pure genius. Imagine making sure that all of your members are so unmotivated that they never put one minute of wear on any piece of equipment. Your maintenance costs and ongoing CAPEX investment becomes effectively zero.

That, combined with with "friendly, unintimidating atmosphere" leads to a steady supply of said fatasses that won't ever adversely impact your bottom line.

Win/win.

Nice analysis.  Do you do this for a living?... you should.

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2014, 12:28:00 PM »
Nice analysis.  Do you do this for a living?... you should.

No, but I have built and opened 3 data centers in the last 2 years, so ROI and CAPEX are always on my mind.

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2014, 12:40:43 PM »
Sounds like the perfect gym for anabolichalo

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2014, 01:01:28 PM »
Why?

Simple......Because the tire was there. ;D

When a crossfitter wearing vintage 70s socks sees an oversized tire, they mount it.  It's what they do.......

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2014, 01:08:53 PM »
From a business model perspective, it's pure genius. Imagine making sure that all of your members are so unmotivated that they never put one minute of wear on any piece of equipment. Your maintenance costs and ongoing CAPEX investment becomes effectively zero.

That, combined with with "friendly, unintimidating atmosphere" leads to a steady supply of said fatasses that won't ever adversely impact your bottom line.

Win/win.

Better yet, why even buy or elase equipment?  Just use holograms to make it look like equipement.  Set the indoor temp a little high. The fatties will sweat walking around and think they worked out then sell them a post workout smoothie with 3000 calories of sugar for $7.99 to refuel their glycogen levels

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2014, 01:11:55 PM »
Soon enough Planet Fitness will remove all the free weights and any difficult cardio equipment.

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2014, 02:01:30 PM »
HAHAHAHAHA..... ;D ;D ;D...I'm really having a ball laughing my ass off with these Planet fitness News.......

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2014, 02:06:44 PM »
Maybe the reason Coach fighters are always losing is because he is having them dick around on balls all day building "stability" and "core strength" with Planet Fatass routines oh brother
Instead of doing tried and true workouts like the bench press.

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2014, 04:50:28 PM »
Maybe the reason Coach fighters are always losing is because he is having them dick around on balls all day building "stability" and "core strength" with Planet Fatass routines oh brother
Instead of doing tried and true workouts like the bench press.

You sound like an off shoot gimmick of "the idol". I say this because of the same MO. Apparently you didn't get the hint the first time.

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2014, 04:56:57 PM »
Where the fuck are people supposed to shadow box and do biceps curls now?

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2014, 05:02:26 PM »
Why?

the tread of the tire really gets into those hard to reach muscle fibers in your flactoids......and your uvulous.  you didn't know that?

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2014, 05:21:01 PM »
WTF?  Where are people supposed to do curls? ???

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Re: Planet Fitness removes squat rack because its too intimidating.
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2014, 05:24:27 PM »
They must be following catabolichalos advise
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