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Who else lunk at the gym?
Share your best tips for lunking, judging, and other such lunk things.
Not allowed: alarms, women, children, pizza, bagels
>>35788221
Who the fuck brings pizza to the gym
Fucking amerifats I swear
>>35788229
>>35788229
Its a planet fitness thing
>pizza donut bagel fridays
>>35788238
Its like the sign is literally a warning
>you will make 0 gains turn back now
>>35788257
>Through me you enter into the city of woes,
>Through me you enter into eternal pain,
>Through me you enter the population of loss.
>Justice moved my high maker, in power divine,
>Wisdom supreme, love primal. No things were
>Before me not eternal; Eternal I remain.
>Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
>>35788238
>judgement free zone
>all subject to our judgement
Join us, anon!
>>35788221
Whats wrong with grunting? Isnt that normal with heavy weights?
>>35788302
if you can't lift the weight without grunting, then it's too heavy for you
t. planet fitness trainer
>>35788302
Filthy fucking lunk
>>35788308
Tell me what happens when the lunk alarm goes off. Do orderlies come to wrangle the lunk out of the building, or is that section of the gym closed off until they leave?
>>35788229
>>35788221
i typically work out in the middle of the night, so i never get to see daytime shenannigans or NYRs/DYELs doing weird shit. BUT, i finally decided to take a daytime vacation and went at 10pm, just to see the gym when its a little busier. it was weird seeing other people in the gym, especially someone else doing deadlifts - the guy was doing reps with about 450lbs.
right in the middle of the cable machine, taking up four spaces, was a DYEL doing cable flies on a bench that he had drug all the way across the gym, AWAY from the 15lb dumbbells that would be the equivalent of what he was doing with the cable machine. every time mr. deadlift grunted up the weight and dropped it, DYEL cablebro would shake his head and make angry sound effects. he soon remarked to his other DYELbro about how he wasnt going to get a membership past the free week, to which straightbrimmed hat DYELbro nodded in agreement.
wtf is wrong with people, and why doesnt anyone like having large guys moving huge weights around to show them what they could be if they work hard and eat right?
>tfw trying not to set off the alarm
>>35788370
I'm glad you asked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBb-8nWANA
Really though, any tips for getting /fit/ at planet fitness? I'm cheap as fuck and don't want to shell out a bunch of cash for a different gym.
Been doing squats/bench press on the smith machine, and I use dumbbells for everything else.
>>35788238
I never got what was wrong with do rags/skull caps/bandanas
>>35788538
gymtimidation
>>35788512
>squats/bench in Smith machine
Not gonna make it.
>>35788512
Just follow the bright purple van bro
>>35788396
You know an exercise is based if it is officially banned from PF
>>35788221
>see gym near where I work
>fuck it, its cheap, I'll take a look
>forced to take a tour with a guy
>"we don't care for 'bodybuilders' and other lunks"
>he literally says "lunk" unironically
>no bench press, no squat rack
>smith machines everywhere
>tiny free weight section
>wants me to sign up then and there
>"just wanted a tour bro"
it was like i was touring through hell with satan as my guide
>$10/month
but jesus it's fucking cheap
>>35788547
I won't lie... I'll squat in the Smith Machine if the alternative is to wait 20 minutes for the Power Rack.
>>35788471
Well, if it's clear he's not going to ask me out, why bother sticking around? Gotta keep moving.
here's their new logo
>>35788580
I think the dude who was forced to walk around with someone who calls people "bro" was the one truly in Hell that evening.
>>35788543
what if I took a towel and wore it like a bandana? is that breaking the rules?
>>35788596
You'll be warned and have your pizza privileges revoked.
>>35788471
Same reason hamplanet feminists hate men. 'Cant have it? better justify that by hating on it.'
>>35788370
>>35788510
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
This is actually a thing in America? How is this joke of a gym so successful?
>>35788538
No scary nogs.
>>35788580
It's only $10/mo because its the gym for people who just want to say they belong to a gym, not actually go to it.
>>35788510
> "Stop playing around!"
> Yes sir...
lol those must be true /fit/izens.
>>35788221
Is this some kind of joke or do they actually set off an alarm if you really exert yourself?
>>35788238
This is clear overt racism
>>35788370
The text under that sign is no different from slut shaming.
>Becky is shaking her butt, wearing a low cut top, and drinking a giant Starbucks...what a slut!
>>35788385
>implying you can't be low body fat while natty
Classy
>>35788510
>its actually real
Well fuck me.
Why is it okay to shame people who actually work out?
Lets start a class action lawsuit against Planet Fitness. We could legitimately win. The culture of animosity and shaming they promote is both emotionally damaging and detrimental to ones mental as well as physical health.
One just opened up near me. Closest gym by far. Rest are miles away.
I just need a place to do cardio like treadmills. I have a home gym.
Worth it?
>>35788665
Cause the people who pay them will never make it. Therefore PF has unlimited money.
>>35788745
>I just need a place to do cardio like treadmills.
It's called running outside
>>35788732
>Planet Fitness was featured on THE TALK today in a fun game called "Dunk-A-Lunk" that the hosts and some audience members participated in.
There's a place for people like you
>>35788588
Thanks doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohviIf2Cn5E
Every time
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>>35788582
>>35788547
>tfw no squat rack and don't want to use the smith so I end up putting the bar across the top of this thing and low bar squat the thing out from atg so I can move somewhere else to do my sets
>>35788804
>>Planet Fitness was featured on THE TALK today in a fun game called "Dunk-A-Lunk" that the hosts and some audience members participated in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9xD-T_FsWg
I don't know why everyone here hates Planet Fitness so much. You bros don't remember the dark days before PF got popular and it was like January 2nd forever. When I used to go to Bally's there was always a steady stream of pudgy nevergonnamakeitass motherfuckers doing infinite reps on 10lbs. dumbbells in front of the racks or doing weird exercises with the plates in the free weight area. PF is a failure magnet, just don't go there and appreciate that they soak up 90% of the people you don't want to see at the gym.
>>35788238
Planet Puss
>>35789019
this is my fucking gf
trying to get her to lift, but all she does is infinite reps of 10 lbs dumbbell press, and infinite squats with the 20 pound fixed barbell.
If I tell her to go even 5 pounds heavier she thinks it's too heavy
why, /fit/
why
>>35789005
>being so desperate for money you betray your hobby like that
Honestly I'd respect that guy for his gains, but fuck him for doing this
>>35789056
Just low key drop a hint that she's fat or unfit or something, and make sure she knows she has to increase the weight to fix this.
Even better have another woman tell her this, preferably a girl that looks much better than her
>>35788238
>all subject to our judgement
"we at planet fitness don't jugde anyone"
>>35788238
What if I tie the bandana like a karate headband?
>>35789056
Woman instinctively do absolutely everything wrong when working out. They make sure to do as little work as possible in their "work out."
>bicep curls?
>2lbs will do it
>cardio?
>I'll sit on one of the recumbent bikes and peddle 1mph while paging through a magazine
>push ups?
>5 reps from the knees aught to do it
>time to take another selfie *duck face& and peace sign while casually rolling eyes*
>>35788238
>no skull caps
>>35789005
>american television
>>35789005
goddamnit I fucking HATE the talk
>>35789134
then you have the fucking crossshitters acting like they're the shit and calling themselves powerlifters because they have a big ass, wear yoga pants, and finally after 3 years hit lmao2pl8 diddly doo.
Check out this video
I fucking lifted more than her in highschool, but the fucking arrogance is what gets me pissed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNxeRBi1KvM
I would honest to god swing at her BF on sight for posting something that caused me so much frustration, fuck him, fuck her.
>be me
>hyped up on coke and hyphy juice
>go to punching bag
>punch the shit out of the bag while cussing out its mother telling the bag to go fuck itself
>run to the deadlift station while pile driving manlets that get in my way
>get to deadlift station
>take knife out
>cut hands to coat hands in blood for grip strengh
>get ready to deadlift 8 pl8s
>start hyper ventalating breathing really heavy while yelling the whole time
>pray to lord zyzz while at bottom of deadlift
>exert motion while screaming at the top of my lungs, mouth foaming, sweat dropping, shitting pants, and cussing out the faggot whose stairing
>I yell out to him
>"YOU MORTAL, WHY DOES THOU STARE"
>he blinks
>drop deadlift and hurl barbell with plates on it at his face
>he dies on impact
>some manlet is by me
>he is hlf assing deadlifting
>pick him up and crack his spine
>take his station and up the weight to lmao 10 pl8
>at this point my hair and eye is glowing and my final power level is revealed
>moment has arrived
>entire gym is running out before...
>before it happens....
>take one breath
>grasp bar
>scream kaaaa maaaayyyy haaaa maaaayyyyy
>hhhaaaaas maaaaaaayyyyy
>hhhaaaaaaa maaaaayyyyy
>maaaayyyy haaaaaa
>next three episodes consists of me screaming ka may ha
>finally grab the bar while screaming at the top of my lungs
>lungs blow up
>entire city is destroyed from my voice
>local old people retirement can hear my screams and they become deaf again
>lift weight up to the top
>lock out
>spine snaps in half
>zyzz comes back from the dead
>grabs some creatine
>injects it right into my spine
>spine heals magically becoming reinforced with steel
>at the final moment
>drop the bar
>entire state is engulfed in nuclear explosion
>no survivors
>no big guys left
>no nothing
>>35789112
This ain't your gym, bub.
>>35788281
>I AM THE WAY INTO THE CITY OF WOE
>I AM THE WAY INTO A FORSAKEN PEOPLE
>I AM THE WAY INTO ETERNAL SORROW
>SACRED JUSTICE MOVED MY ARCHITECT
>I WAS RAISED HER BY DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE
>PRIMORDIAL LOVE AND ULTIMATE INTELLECT
>ONLY THOSE ELEMENTS TIME CANNOT WEAR
>WERE MADE BEFORE ME AND BEYOND TIME I STAND
>ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE
your pleb translation doesnt even have a rhyme scheme
>>35789005
That poor man, he's selling his soul on live on air. And those clueless women eating up that drivel.
That said, I now want to do filthy things with Julie Chen, which is a weird feel.
>>35789240
>>35788385
just curious, is referring to steroids as 'breakfast' actually a thing? if i wanted to get steroids at the gym would i loudly talk about how i have a mean craving for pancakes around the swolebros?
>>35789208
rip her rotator cuffs
>>35789208
Kekd at box jump city in the background, they all look like fucking idiots. Crossfit is a joke.
>>35789208
>outperforming professional athletes
what pro athletes is she outperforming?
wha??????/??
>>35788257
>>35788281
>>35789278
>I am the way into the gym of woe
>I am the way into skinnyfat people
>I am the way to where lunks feel eternal sorrow
>Abusing skellies moved my architect
>I was raised her by greedy sick cunts
>selling subscriptions to people with no intellect
>Only skullcaps and bandannas you cannot wear
>Fatasses eat pizza and can barely stand
>Abandon all gains ye who enter here
>>35789208
Is crossfit some sort of ego thing? It seems like it's just a bunch of people doing retarded things to one up one another.
>>35788471
Yeah, I belonged to a PF in university. I only went at night and the guys on the desk didn't give a shit about deadlifting.
Finally quit when I came back from Christmas break and they're removed almost all the freeweights to make room for more machines. This was probably four years ago now. Spent my final semester paying a friend of a friend ten bucks a month to work out in his garage. In addition to his power rack and weights, he also let us use the fridge and a communal industrial blender as long as we cleaned it out.
I honestly miss that garage a lot.
>>35789056
Because they don't want to get "big". Because then they'll look muscular, and not feminine. And if she's not feminine, then she loses her self-worth. Because for women, their worth is determined only by the man they can attract. Because our culture (and most others) see women as instinctively less valuable, for some bullshit reasons. And women only value each other by the quality of their mate; and shallow, ethereal standards of beauty and lifestyle. Which means most only care about being thin, delicate, and fragile like porcelain. Or they go full-retard and think being fat as is somehow the superior choice because is "defies society." Even thought they just become a different kind of obnoxious burden. So the few women who do break free and get strong as treated with contempt by those who followed the crowds. The best women of course don't give a fuck, and are cool for it.
And yes: I am mad.
>>35789408
kek
>>35789005
>they sentence him to the dunk tank
>he lunges his way over
fucking kek'd at that part
>>35789427
>tfw no bad bitch gf
how to into boss hoes who are also my gym partner
>tfw no megsquats gf
>>35789005
this guy reminds me of dom
>>35789208
>outperforms professional athletes
>>35789419
Sounds comfy brah
>>35788510
Wait so are people actually defending the guy throwing a temper tantrum like a 14 year old?
The whole lunk thing is retarded too, but if you react like that instead of calmly leaving and never doing business with them again, I think you need to go back to school instead of working out.
>>35789208
i like all those colorful plates
>>35788229
Perfect for my bulk.
>>35789097
underrated post
>>35788221
>have two protein shakes, a protein bar, and scrambled eggs for breakfast and lunch because I'm out of everything but whey, milk, and eggs
>get to planet fitness, stomach is gurgling like I just drank two protein shakes, a protein bar, and scrambled eggs
>warm up on the smith machine
>intestines feel like they're going to rupture
>bowels are doing the frantic post-coffee lurching outward, threatening to coat the floor with chocolate whey lumps
>oh god
>want to at least finish my warm-up set
>get to 10
>let out one of the nastiest, most gruesome-smelling and -sounding farts I've ever had the pleasure of birthing
>sounds oddly like a loud moaning, bordering on yelling
>few hamplanets nearby stop talking and give me the death stare
>start sweating and turning red
>then the smell hits and their nostrils flare, token "you killed everything good in the world" look
>a few more seconds pass
>the lunk alarm goes off
>mfw I set off the lunk alarm with my protein fart
I used to work at this shit hole.
I would get high af and go into work just to sit down, check people in, and watch fat people attempt to work out.
Not calling out those who are actually trying.
Just those fat fucks who would come in during pizza day with their fat family and eat a whole pizza to themselves, do the 30 min circuit, and then leave. Not coming back until next month.
I have so many horrible stories from that place.
P.s.
Since these businesses are usually privately owned the general digression of the owners is;
"I own this place therefore I get to decide who is judged and who isn't."
As this guy rakes in over 200k from each of his 5 locations every year.
>>35789881
>mfw i'm opening a new pf in my town and i'll be at front desk
>tfw we're not allowed to touch the lunk alarm
also why do I have to learn this gay ass script
>Join a newly opened Planet Fitness last year because I'm cheap and got tired of paying Anytime Fitness ass rape prices
>Everyone who works there are total bros and no one gives two shits about people grunting
>No dress code. I've literally lifted wearing jeans and sandals several times. No one gave a shit
>Huge free weight area
>Dumbbells go up to 80 lbs
>4 Smith Machines
>2 actual benches
>They've only had that dumb ass pizza Monday twice
>Once when they first opened and the Monday after New Years to lure the fatties and take their money I guess
The gym isn't bad at all. I really like it, actually. Only downer is that you have to make due with dead lifting and squatting in the smith machine. I guess it also depends on WHY you're lifting too. I'm not trying to get fuck huge on steroids, and am mainly lifting for aesthetics. Works perfectly for me. 10 bucks a month and it's 5 minutes from my house.
>>35789931
>also why do I have to learn this gay ass script
What script?
>>35789952
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-703bkSlJI
i have to do this to everyone that walks into a gym basically
>>35788238
Damn I wish I was an American right now how much pizza do you get? Can you just take a whole large for yourself?
>>35788396
so what you're saying is, if you're dumb enough to get roped into a PF contract (i'm assuming they do contracts, because gym) -- all you need to do is DL to get out from it?
>>35789999
PF generally doesn't do contracts, to my knowledge.
>>35789976
Good god what the fuck is that guy at 1:13 doing
>>35789999
there are no barbells in pf
smith machines only
>>35790019
lat curls bro
>>35789881
tell me about the lunks. why do they drop the weights?
>>35789208
Her deadlifting is hot.
>>35790093
Becuase they're big guys
>>35789208
>no arm activation with push ups
>all that kipping
>struggles everywhere
its like she wants to snap her shit
>>35789419
this really seems like the way to go and i wish i knew more guys thatd be willing to pitch on something like this. ten guys willing to rent a commercial garage and fill it with weights, a super private club where us richbros can lift in semi-homoerotic privacy.
>>35790309
Thats all in line with the official Crossfit motto: Attack it until you snap it, walking is for pussies anyway
>>35790392
No-one does it because you've got to be willing to eat a significant month-to-month loss and a big upfront investment.
>>35788396
>no deadlifting warning
>on Smith machine area
> deadlifting on a smith
>>35788329
>that fucking highlighter looking ass board
You know who loves highlighter? Fat girls.
>>35789941
>wearing jeans and sandals
>>35789941
>lifted wearing jeans and sandals several times
pic related
>Huge free weight area
>Dumbbells go up to 80 lbs
>80 lbs
topkek
>4 Smith Machines
>Only downer is that you have to make due with dead lifting and squatting in the smith machine
Your gym sounds super shitty. Enjoy your nogains.
>>35790660
"Neon" or "fluorescent" was the word you were looking for anon
More like Planet Fagness
>>35789941
Not only must your routine be shit but you must be a bum if you can't afford $25 a month at Anytime
>>35788665
It's a gym for people who don't workout.
It's also just DIRT cheap. Free to sign up, $10 a month, open 24 hours. Honestly if you're doing basic lifts/maintenance its not a bad option. But if you want serious gains look elsewhere b/c lolnobarbells.
>>35789941
Your PF has actual benches?
Jealous
>>35788538
You don't live near blacks do you?
My PF has two benches and a squat rack. But you can't deadlift when the manager is lurking. 321 fl brahs.
>>35789208
can't argue she's pretty fit tho
>>35789427
>>35788282
my exact thought. I hopes it was some sort of sick joke but its real
>no grunting
this is the reason the fitness community hates women
>>35789988
Dub Dubs wasted on never gonna make it.
>>35789999
Quads Checkd
>>35790999
Hamplanet Bitchness
>aka irl tumblr
Also Checkd for trips bignig
>>35789208
you cant deny the things that dont require kipping are pretty good tho. if this is what it takes for women to not be fat then so be it.
i want me a crossfit qt nao
>>35789329
It comes from Arnold calling dbol the breakfast of champions while popping them like candy. Now some people like PF think people will eat actual steroids with milk in a bowl.
Talking about pancakes might get you actual pancakes if your lucky. Your new swole gym buddy could take you to Denny's to eat big.
>>35788588
their new promotion
>>35789382
golfers most likely.
>>35792109
Pls be shopped
>>35792199
It's not just shooped, its shooped really badly.
>>35792109
I don't get it??!
>>35789941
> I've literally lifted wearing jeans and sandals several times.
> Dead lifting and squatting in the smith machine
> I'm not trying to get fuck huge on steroids
You belong at PF you fucking dork.
You should never say shit like "I'm not trying to get fuck huge on steroids" unless you are retarded or have a vagina.
Don't get me started on lifting in sandals.
You shouldn't even be wearing sandals in Planet Fitness. Normally I would encourage sandals in the gym shower to prevent athlete's foot, but no real athlete has ever touched the shower at a Planet Fitness so that's probably not a real concern.
PF has already sealed your fate to never make it.
>>35792109
to be fair, I heard it's 10/month or 17/month with a one-time charge of $40 at the end of the year.
>>35792225
Are you retarded?
>>35792109
12 = 120 Dollars
18 = 180 Dollars
24 = 240 Dollars
How?!
>>35789408
Pretty shit desu
>>35788238
>no sandals
holy fuck they browse fit
>>35789816
QUESTION. What's the deal with no jeans? So they catch fire from friction or something?
>>35788301
>>35788281
A-Atleast the facility looks clean guys
>>35792225
BACK THE FUCK OFF?!
>>35788538
because they aren't allowed to say "no ghetto black people"
>>35788221
Wait, what the fuck?
Is all of this real?
>>35788596
>Mos def going to planet fitness.
>>35788665
>apeal to people who dont work out and are afraid of gyms
>make regular gyms seem like scary roid head hangouts
>promise that my gym is a nice place for normal ppl
>make membership cheap enough so mebers wont bother canceling if they dont come
>PROFIT
also PF is not gym aroding to their commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru5m1cbsGwY
>>35788547
I also have to use a smith for squats/bench because at he gym at the hospital I work at, some dyel weeb in finance deemed free barbells a liability.
Have to deadlift and row with a hexbar too.
>mfwihavenoface
>>35793129
it really is brilliant, strange that noone thought about it sooner. By catering to the lazy, unmotivated and timid they get a steady stream of income with little wear and tear on the equipment.
>>35793129
DEAR LORD battle gym has a choose your own adventure video series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1TgyF7fb8g&list=PLwqfEoyeQM9bqfk6ckxXdlMC5oOMpqMLH
As someone from germany I always laughed at Planet Fitness. Now that I am moving because of university I realized that it is really hard to find a gym with a big freeweights area, a powerrack and a bench and maybe a platform. I mean I would like bumperplates (preferably colorcoded because it looks cool) but that is just too much to ask. Most gyms have A LOT of cardiomachines, a lot of useless machines, TRX band area, "functional" area which is comparable to a kids playground, sunbath, wellness area, rehabilitation area (mostly focused on back injuries) and other shit. I swear they have so much meme shit it is not even funny but most of them don't even have a rack.
I mean seriously who the fuck goes to a gym to have a "functional" area where you throw around balls and do pushups ? Or who uses those TRX bands. Not even crossfit guys could use this fucking gym because they have no bumperplates and not even a fucking rack. And the best thing is they charge 30-60€ a month which is crazy. I am really frustrated right now I feel like there is not a single "hardcore" gym in my area.
>>35791943
I made it with your mom last night mate
>>35793168
who is this tit cow
>>35793197
>Not even crossfit guys could use this fucking gym
Crossfit gyms usually have great equipment actually, but they're expensive and you have to work around the times of all their classes and group bullshit
>>35789427
C U C K
U
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>no judgement
Would the alarm go off if someone did this?
>>35793197
People talk about PF like the weights aren't heavy there, but they're heavy. Especially if you travel a lot, they put PF in places near airports and shopping centers, they're rarely hard to find. And $20 a month. Fuck haters. My PF is all old folks and cardio kids.
>>35788370
> "ricky is drinking out of a gallon jug of water wow what a lunk"
>A JUG OF WATER
so you get judged for not wanting to keep refilling a bottle and just getting your daily intake of water the easiest way possible during sets, but its okay for fat cunts to show up 2 times a month to the gym they pay for only to eat free pizza and bagels.
And now I have to use this gym cause I just moved and its the only one nearby. Fuck
>>35793197
Join a strongman or power lifting gym
>>35789641
>calmly leaving and never doing business with them again
>implying they'll let you out of your contract without charging you
I kind of want to get a PF membership just to go in and set the alarm off repeatedly. Would I get kicked out for simply noticing all the lunks?
>>35788510
The people in this video are a bunch of children. If you don't respect the rules, you'll be asked to leave. "What the fuck, man?" You're a goddam adult, you know what the fuck. If you refuse to respect the rules of the gym, you can leave, that goes for any gym.
>>35788238
what's wrong with boots?
>>35788547
>Smith machines defy gravity, making the weights not heavy
Bro, pls.
>>35794390
It's behind the counter. Mine only sets it off when you drop weights because you were obviously lifting more than you can control. Otherwise, it's bad for the weights, it's bad for the floor, it's a meme.
>>35794480
Smith machines do not engage stabilizers the same way doing the actual lift does. I guarantee you'll squat one plate less when you hit a real rack.
Also, the weights are locked in a vertical line, which is sub-optimal for some compounds.
You are, in fact, weaker than somebody who lifts the same weight with a real rack. Just because the weight is static doesn't mean the way you bear the weight isn't dynamic, fuckwad.
>>35793129
>tfw I saw this shit during the commercials before a movie
Fuck that, it makes me want to get huge and then try to intimidate people on principle.
>>35788510
I didn't even know planet fitness had free weights
>>35794643
If that's all it takes for someone like you to give up and go home, that an exercise is for one reason or another suboptimal, then get the fuck out. "Not gonna make it" is bullshit, there are ways around every deficiency, and every process has deficiencies. Just because you're not smart enough to figure it out doesn't mean the rest of us aren't gonna make it.
>fuckwad
turbo-millennial
>>35789382
League players
>>35792562
They limit flexibility, you can't squat Low in jeans
>>35793420
How heavy is heavy? The heaviest I've heard is 80 pound dumbbells, and that just won't cut it for me. I've also heard most of them lack power racks and bench press benches with a bar. Is that the case in your experience? Because I would call those pieces of equipment essential, and without them it wouldn't be worth joining a PF.
>>35794807
If you're lifting at that level then what are you doing at a Planet Fitness? There are also powerlifter gyms, you know.
>>35793320
Reverse Google Image Search: Emily Barry, she has an instagram
>>35794807
What I mean is, you wouldn't be happy at 70% of the gyms in my city, no sense singling out PF.
>>35794822
I'm not, but you said that the weights are heavy. I wouldn't say I require a powerlifting gym, either, my 1rms are only 325 for bench, 415 for squat and 525 for deadlift. I'm not pulling 600, I'm not benching 400, I'm doing weights, for the most part, that I've seen others do in every gym I've ever been a member of (two university gyms, Goodlife Fitness and my current public municipal government gym). I'm a bodybuilder, but I'm not a powerlifter, and I would say that while my weights are great for the average person, they're not extremely impressive for anybody who's serious at all about lifting.
If you're defending PF as a convenient casual gym for somebody to get their doctor recommended physical activity, then I agree entirely that this might be the case, but what was said was that the weights are heavy, and based on what I had heard, they're not heavy, and they omit important pieces of equipment. Is that true or false? I ask because, as I stated above, I haven't been in one before, and have only heard what these gyms are like.
>>35794892
There's a fair bit of stuff they don't have. My PF goes up to 80lb dumbbells, for example, and there are four Smith machines and plenty of flat and incline benches, but one decline bench and no bars. But if you walk into other gyms here at twice the price, you'll find a lot of similar shit you don't like at your level. Categorically disregarding Planet Fitness is a meme in that case, you should be disregarding all casual gyms, which make up about 70% of the market here.
>>35794852
Ah, that makes more sense. I find it surprising though, to be honest. Maybe because I'm Canadian, and it's an American thing, but all the gyms I've been a member of, and all gyms I can recall even visiting, have had dumbbells that go to 110, with the highest in a commercial gym (non powerlifting) was 140. Almost all the gyms have had power racks and benches and free bars (one gym I visited several years ago in Dundee in Scotland only had a smith machine). So would you say it's normal for most American gyms to forego power racks and to only have dumbbells that go up to say 60 or 80 pounds?
>>35794930
I'm a retired guy now, but I used to travel a LOT in the US and Canada for work, and I can tell you that the only US place you'll find gyms like the one you're describing making up any more than like 50% of the market, between national chains and local gyms, are cities with a big university (like K/W Ontario) and Texas. Lifting at an advanced level, not even a competitive level, is a niche in most places.
>>35794960
That sounds reasonable. I can definitely see the utility in Planet Fitness in that case. And it's funny, right now I live in Newfoundland, which has a pretty huge fitness community proportional to our population, but the other place I lived in Canada for a long time was Kingston, so you hit the nail on the head with that one. I wonder if the university gym I visited in Scotland is representative of most gyms in the UK as well.
>>35794699
Stay mad, weakling.
>le millennial
>>35795025
Different culture, Canadabro. I know a kid in Nottingham who has a bitch of a time finding a place to work out. His gym for years had most of what he needed, but topped out at 30kg barbells, and when he needed to go up, the owner just told him it was time for him to find another gym. It wasn't like when Scott Herman threw a Youtube tantrum outside of his old gym, but he was pretty pissed. This is a kid that fought through years of rehab and setbacks and PT and shit to even get up to 30kg and he loved that place. In my Planet Fitness, I'm there right now waiting for the wife, there are 40 treadmills, about the same number of ellipticals, but not one adaptive motion trainer. Six about machines, no free bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbK3wWpWNto
This bitch hates us /fit/
>>35793177
would go to a gym with that attitude
>>35789941
>deadlifting in the smith machine
what
>>35788370
They really set off a loud ass buzzer (like at a basketball game) and then everyone stops to look at whoever was the offender. It's pretty hilarious
>>35795330
Is this the fat IT guy from the Jurassic Park who steals the eggs and then dies as he's running away in the car but it's raining and so he goes open the gate and then shit happens and a dinosaur kills him?
Pic related.
>>35788221
It's just a business model guys
>cheap membership, easier to just pay even if you don't go
>need large amount of members in order to be profitable
>need 90%of members to never actually use the gym
>discourage people who actually use the gym more than 1x per month from coming
>play on the insecurities of people who are out of shape
>encourage those people to sign up their insecure friends
PROFIT!
>>35795777
Checked, also that's a really good analysis.
PF is the NYR gym, it's got it's own place in the world.
>>35788588
Thanks doc
>>35789881
Please tell pf-sama
>>35793129
>gymtimidation
What is it with Ameritards constantly inventing stupid new words?
>>35797499
It's "innovation" brah, just like making the iphone 0.2mm thinner every year
I drop my 3pl8 diddlies in a slow controlled motion. but i make sure i grunt and fart obnoxiously the whole time.
Am i lunk yet?
>>35788221
Do they not see the irony in that sign.
Surely anyone who hits the lunk alarm immediately deserves to have someone hit it on them.
>>35788732
I think you'd be more likely to win with the no bandannas thing and how it unfairly targets black people. I've heard of similar cases where business got sued for banning weaves because it unfairly targeted black women.
>>35788433
>its better to be a loser than a muscle head
>>35788471
>why doesn't anyone like having large guys moving huge weights around to show them what they could be
Fucking nailed it. That DYEL isn't going to make it. I remember when my buddy Tom started coming with me to the gym, the first few sessions he wasn't really feeling it but still tried to stick it out. The third day we came we walked in and saw a big black dude squatting 350ish for reps, and Tom said that's when it clicked. He saw that guy and thought, "damn, I could do that someday. That's what I'm working towards."
He didn't think "that guy's intimidating and an asshole" because he's not a fucking retard and he actually has a shred of ambition.
>>35789478
Anyone know the origin of this pic? I know he uses it a ton in his vids. I just haven't seen the original source of it.
>>35794416
started cringing to this gif because I thought it was gonna just fly up and break her leg
>>35798670
someone post the gif/webm
>>35792360
desu senpai i dont give a shit what you think that was funny as fuark
>>35788385
>>35789329
i want some pancakes and thick, long sausages with my bicycle so fucking bad :(
>>35789941
>>35792226
This. "I'm not trying to get huge, I just want to be aesthetic" it's the same fucking thing, except one involves roids. You want to get bigger. Lifting at a real gym instead of being a retard won't turn you into Ronnie Coleman.
And if you think deadlifting and squatting in the smith machine is anywhere close to the same as the real thing, you're a retard.
>>35794699
Yes, there's a great way around the deficiencies of a smith machine. It's to use a real fucking barbell instead.
>>35794925
You're actually totally right that lots of gyms are shit for people who actually lift. People just single out Planet Fitness because they actually pride themselves on that, and that's their thing.
>>35788238
>no thought rape
>no niggers
>pizza for all!
Why are these people so piss scared of being judged.
Youtube videos of you only crop up if you have some hilariously bad form. No one cares about fatties because at least your trying to make a change. Every gym I've been to everyone has been super respectful unless your being a retard with no etiquette.
>>35788396
Niggas don't know about my 7pl8 Smith diddy
>>35788221
I lunked all over ur mom last night, nam sayan
>>35788745
Yes, ton of treadmills and bitches.
I'm a 6'0 145# distance runner, got kicked out for "intimidating the other patrons" by going too fast on the treadmills. I have a membership to use the treadmills in bad weather when I want to get my intervals in. Apparently trying to actually train makes me "intimidating."
>>35801020
same measurements bro mid distance runner, have nice community gym, just filled with old people who are in awe of my speed and duration.
>>35794807
There's 100 pound dumbbells at my gym
