Is this the most ingenious company in America right now?
Your paying for the convenience of one payment
>omg 199 is more than you'd pay if you paid month by month
Not true. Monthly fees often go up and if they went up to $20 (reasonable rate), you'd be saving a lot.
>>71674805
>$10 a month
That's it? Fucking hell. Gyms here are minmum $50 a month. Fuck why is everything so damn expensive here!
>>71675152
Planet Fitness isn't exactly a gym...
>>71675152
>>71675256
>>71675383
Post the comics.
>>71674805
No that would be Tesla motors. More than half of their company worth came from government grant money payed for by our tax dollars. Their public relations are so good that people don't even give a shit and worship them. Pretty ingenious if you ask me.
>>71675383
Oh I see
>>71675256
>>71674805
Can I stop one month and pick up again the next? I probably wont use the gym from Thanksgiving to New Years.
>>71675152
Pretty sure it's your "free" stuffs fault
>>71675152
Planet fitness is a scheme to get stupid peoples money, while making sure real fitness people don't scare them off. That's why they advertise a "non judgemental atmosphere"
I was temped to go there just to deadlift in the squatrack while grunting as loudly as I could.
>>71675558
So between this and the lunk alarm, this is a gym for people who do not want to go to the gym?
>>71675256
>Bagels
and your point is?
>>71675764
>>71675814
essentially.
its for people intimidated by gyms
also known as women
>>71675256
I've seen like twenty boxes of Papa John's there when I went one time.
excuse me sir you grunted while lifting that 15 lb dumbbell. This has been seen as an assertion of your dominance by other faculty users.. if you do it again the lunk alarm will REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE into your fucking ear
The gym that keeps you coming back for now
>>71675256
>not wanting a sick dirty bulk
Do you even fitness brah
>>71675930
So wait, there's free pizza and donuts, lots of women, and they actively shame degenerate gym bros... all for $10/mo?!
SIGN ME UP!
>>71675152
Planet Fitness is a place where middle aged women and weak pussies go to work out so they don't get intimidated by actual fit people. They actually have this thing called a 'Lunk Alarm' which gets sounded if someone is being too loud or aggressive while lifting weights. The person who caused the alarm can get asked to leave if he keeps doing it.
>>71676079
Don't they spend all those peoples money on the first two days of the month, via pizza and bagels?
>>71674805
It's about having access to your credit card or debit account for their monthly billing, they will make more money off of those that procrastinate cancelling their memberships.
I have never thought this was wise. I had a past security company that was billing my monthly debit, the equipment started failing before the contract, the components were malfunctioning etc. They lied about crediting my account, and so I cancelled that bank account and dared collections to put it on my credit for dispute. They never put it on my credit. But never again will I allow another business into any auto billing into my accounts again.
>>71676079
look at those calves, size of a club
The one near me was so fucking dark, had no weights, just row after row of stair masters and treadmills. Maybe they're hidden somewhere in there.
I hear curling in the squat rack in mandatory. If caught curling outside of the designated squat rack you will be kicked out.
The entire scheme is that you give up but maintain a membership
oh god, USA are you even trying for fuck sake?
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>>71674805
I've been going to gyms regularly for over 3 years now. Now I don't know what roid monkeys do in USofA but as someone who has had the dubious pleasure of going to Eastern European gyms I'd sign up for a gym that bans "gymtimidation", lunks and whatnot in a heartbeat
>>71676328
Thicck
>>71674805
>the "deal" costs more than paying $10 a month Wow, their Judaism is out in the open for everyone to see.
>>71675152
Planet fatness isn't a gym. Don't worry, you aren't missing anything
>>71675152
I work out at planet fitness, am ripped and only pay $10 a month. The funny part about planet fitness is that it has bagel tuesdays and pizza wednesdays. The point is to keep your customers fat and working out. I also forgot to mention that they have baskets full of candy. kek.
This is the first time I'm hearing about this bullshit, but are the meathead dudebros who take lifting seriously in the first place really so fucking braindead they don't understand the irony in hating the LUNK ALARM?
>>71675256
>>71676079
What the fuck. This shit is real? I assumed it was the masturbatory fantasy of some fucking landwhale.
i used to go to a gym
it smelled gross and was humid as hell
everybody's sweat evaporated in the air and created a funk mist throughout the entire place
i'd rather just run around outside somewhere but i hate bugs and running
>>71676521
Actually, the idea is that people do the math and go for the monthly. Then don't cancel because they "might" go, or its too much of a bother.
>>71676607
Routine?
>>71676698
hurrrr durrrr look at me I'm a fat fuck that looks for any excuse not to workout
I hate running, bugs, and how the gym smells
what a faggot
>>71676918
LUNK ALERT
i'm actually fit because i do manual labor
>>71677179
sure buddy
>>71675493
What the hell is wrong with grunting?
I'm grunt all the time nobody bats a fucking eye at my gym, like everyone does when they lift heavier weights.
The general attitude I see is, if you're working out at the gym people have an unspoken agreement not to be fags because discouraging people to go is shitty.
Well, with guys anyway.
Women are generally judgemental and cruel, primarily to each other no matter what
>>71676500
You can't sign up if you have a decent physique. I'm serious.
>>71674969
>"your"
>Paying for [buzzword]
>Paying more money than you have to
Confirmed fucking idiot
>>71677436
When you work with your hands, and eat right, you really don't need to workout much,
Gyms and fitness programs are necessary because we live in the pc and television age.
>>71676249
Wow. Anytime I got tot eh gym 9/10 people have headphones on
>>71676079
>>71675256
It's ok to cheat ONCE IN AWHILE. This is blatant sabotage
>>71677506
if you dont grunt lifting your doing a halfassed job
>>71675256
>>71675493
>>71675558
>>71675787
>>71675864
>>71675900
>>71676079
You get what you pay for, OP
>>71675493
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFtq_GOyxo
>>71677506
>>71677850
If you grunt lifting you're a literal pussy and either lifting ways too heavy for your pussy body or being a drama queen.
Everyone hates you. Even the other ripped guys in the gym hate you. Even your parents hate you. You fucking faggot.
>>71677506
>What the hell is wrong with grunting?
gently grunting near the end of your reps is one thing. growling like a moron from the get go just means you're lifting more than you should be lifiting
>>71675840
bagels are actually one of the most unhealthy things you can eat from a nutrition standpoint
>>71678198
LOL
i really want to see those comics yall are talking about now
>>71678237
>and either lifting ways too heavy for your pussy body
Thats how you put on muscle mass faggot, not by using the 15 pounders over and over
>>71675493
What's wrong with grunting and slamming weights? That just means you are working out.
>>71675256
>Walk into gym
>see this
wat do?
>>71677506
you grunt when you get that BBC in your ass?
>>71678237
>t. guy who has never been to a gym his whole life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNGaCgnAeJs
>>71678518
have some milk after deadlifting and go home
>>71676079
>pay $10 to get into the gym for a month
>spend all month hanging out eating pizza
>eventually eat more than $10 of pizza
>profit
>>71675900
who the fuck wears jeans, sandals, or boots to the gym?
That's not a lunk thing, that's a fucking idiot thing
>>71678624
>profit
Yeah 10 pounds gained.
>>71678657
>who the fuck wears jeans, sandals, or boots to the gym?
many people
>>71675900
I don't get it. Are people intimidated my jeans, boots, and sandals?
>>71678198
Lol what a lunk!
>>71675256
>>71676079
so this gym costs 10 dollars a month and has showers and free food?
why isn't every single hobo in the country a member?
>>71674969
underrated
>>71674805
Why would you buy a gym membership anyway when you can set up your home gym and exercise at any time you want, any way you want? The only advantage of gyms is having a spotter and a power rack to do squats, and that is totally obliterated if you are forbidden to lift heavy and do deadlifts - the single most effective weightlifting exercise in existence.
I joined Bally Total Fitness before and lost 50lbs, I only lifted a little and the "lunks" were actually really friendly and taught me how to use the machines correctly.
>>71679249
half the fit guys i know were once skelly necromages or dwarf planetoids
helping another person make it its just paying it forward desu
What comics huh? I need to see these comics. Come on. Hook a brother up.
>>71676079
To be fair, that'd be pretty nice as a post-workout meal.
>>71675152
It's a gym for people that want to SAY that they go to a gym, but don't want to actually, like, exercising and shit.
"Urrrbodeh wanna be beeeig but nobahdee wanna liff heavy ayss weights" - Ronnie Coleman
At ten bucks a month, they sign up and they can just totally forget about it, and Planet Fitness planned for, and loves that.
>>71679477
>>71679249
Lanklet here.
Just recently started lifting, and so far I can confirm this. Everyone is super friendly and helpful at the gym.
>>71675787
Judgment free except when you're actually working out and grunting? Fuck these niggers
>>71679249
>>71679934
can confirm.
former skelly mode here. Started working out at the local ymca
>>71674805
>>71675256
>>71675493
So this is a gym for sjw liberal types who need a safe space to work out ?
>>71676607
>bagel tuesdays and pizza wednesdays
Is it all you can eat? I might get a membership just to get 8 meals every month for $10.
>see this thread
Fuck I want to cancel my membership.
>>71678624
Holy shit my sides
No, that's seriously a good idea. If you eat pizza regularly, just join up and get free fucking pizza.
>>71679477
Agreed, if you see someone who is going to hurt themselves ask them if they need a hand.
Don't be the guy who walks up and goes "YOU FUCKING RETARD FIRST DAY IN THE GYM EH HAHAHA"
Seen it happen.
I remember my first gym advice at 14, this fucking huge aussie dude was in there lifting.
He seen my form was off walked on over and goes,
>"need a hand?"
>"sure!"
> here do it this way you wont hurt yourself. Helped me out a lot. After i got fit i paid it forward.
I felt pretty damned awesome continuing the chain of helping others do something right.
>>71678821
I don't think they have showers. A lot of the cheap gyms don't.
t. Guy who used to live in a van
>>71679199
Most people don't have space for gym equipment. And it's fucking expensive. And can't return it.
>>71674805
I'd like to make a """"""""""""FITNESS CENTER"""""""""""" where you schedule days to come in and if you don't arrive to exercise then you pay me money. It's incentive for them. Membership is free.
>>71674805
only retards would choose the second option
>>71677790
>This is blatant sabotage
Only if you're a beta faggot who's only goal is to lose weight and look like a skeletor. It's a fantastic idea if you're trying to make some sick gains, brah.
Of course, nobody is making any gains at planet fitness, where they don't have barbells and the free-weights are just dumbbells that go up to like 35 lbs
>>71680263
It's a gym for fatties. They also don't let you wear muscle-shirts because it makes the fatties feel bad. Not sure why you think it has anything to do with politics.
>>71675955
Kek
>>71678821
Because they spend the money on booze and drugs
>>71680458
Planet Fitness has showers hot and cold
>>71678575
>All those shiny machines.
>Everybody doing cardio or curls.
>Nobody's lifting heavy.
>Nobody's doing deadlifts, presses or squats.
>Asses and chicks everywhere.
>That yuppie talking merrily on the phone while doing an exercise.
>>71677754
that guy ain't swole at all though
>>71675493
This shit goes off so easily, it's quite hilarious
>>71681142
lean muscle mass dude, I bet he lived to his late 80's unless there was a war
being healthy and attractive is most people's goal, beyond that is down to preference
>>71675021
How is getting your monthly fee DOUBLED reasonable?
>>71679934
Yeah, most guys working out are bros, in a good way.
What triggers the fuck out of me is DYELs and douchebags who think they're too good to put their weights away.
do they have usable weights or is it all cardio shit?
>>71678569
That you latsbrah?
>>71681430
All cardio. They stripped the weights to save on insurance.
>>71676183
>dirty bulking with fucking bagels
lol they arent even high calorie enough to warrant eating them during bulk, useless ass carbs that fill you up
>>71678237
fat fuck spotted
we hear you grunting as you walk up the steps into the gym
>>71677754
Sure, you'll be skinny, but you wont gain any real muscle
>>71679477
>skelly necromages
Kek
>>71675152
>"Free" education,health,etc LOL lmao why can't americans be as developed
>w-w-why is everything so expensive and our economy crumbling ? america pls help
>>71679199
You need a small free space to lift. Then you need a dumbbell or a pair of barbells, a decent set of weights and a couple of kettlebells for a smoking cardio unlike any you can possibly get on those shiny machines. That's the absolute minimum, but you can do with it quite fine. You can store the equipment in a corner.
Personally, I also got a pull-up bar hanging in the corridor. Tied a couple rope nooses to it - here are my parallel bars! The weights I hang on my neck with a rope. Also got myself a bench with an adjustable back, a bike, an ellipse and a balance board (just for fun). The only thing I can't do now is squats, cause these require a power rack and a spotter or two.
A couple dumbbells, a set of weights and a pair of kettlebells you can buy for what - a few hundred bucks? And unlike gym membership, you can sell them if you need them no longer or pass them on to your kids because these are virtually indestructible, unless you specifically try to break 'em really, really hard.
>>71675152
Socialism.
>>71675152
Planet Fitness is dog shit faggot.
>tfw National Guard bro
>tfw get free access to god tier gyms with people who actually are paid to be /fit/ so no fatties or cucks
Damn. Meant this reply >>71682082 for you >>71680523
>>71682082
I work out at home and I do something called zercher squats, which allows me to squat with a barbell.
>>71676183
You know what's up
>>71675256
REALLY??
>>71678518
turn 360 degrees and walk
>>71674805
>>71675256
>>71675493
>>71675558
Keep them fat and paying
>>71682190
i seriously doubt nasty girl gyms are any fucking good. i was enlisted for 12 years and went to many different bases. and most gyms were garbage. they had a vast selection of weights and racks but unless you went with your buddies there was almost no one there to help you. since most people got their exercise on in the morning for an hour during, you know, mandatory fucking pt.
every large base has a main gym with a pool and that is the only place you are ever going to find a rando to spot you. otherwise you better bring along some faggot private.
i dunno about nasty girls, but i would assume your gyms would be even more deserted. i once met a group of nasty girls in kuwait where they had a fucking sergeant who was 300 pounds. going to fucking war...
>>71675673
Might as well not go from January to March either
>>71683052
I live right by Fort Polk, hell I work at the PX there.
I literally go to the gym right after work everyday.
Shit's cash, tons of guys lifting. Easy to find a spotter.
>>71676079
Wow, impressive, I've always heard it's just a few pizzas
>>71674805
There's hidden fees with the monthly contract, and yes it's a contract but not as long term as the 2 year.
I worked at a similar corporate gym and had to explain the fees to so many pissed off people. The fucking place is still around $10 a month, like $14 with all the fees broken up, it's still the cheapest gym they're going to find yet they still act like they're the most important person in the universe and lying to them is a crime against humanity. Get over yourselves or stay fat idc.
>>71675493
Thats the mirin siren
>>71682718
>which allows me to squat with a barbell
Could you repeat that?
>>71682082
Most people probably live in small apartments. Hard to find space and get your neighbors to be cool with you deadlifting above them.
I'd love to have a garage and make my own home gym. Like you said, one or two barbells, a bunch of dumbbells, an adjustable rack for squats, bench and overhead press, then a bench. Basically all you need.
>>71678198
they're judging him so hard
>>71682718
This is interesting
>>71683560
Zercher squats let me squat with a barbell and without a squat rack.
>>71674805
THE GOOSE IS LOOSE
>>71680570
It already exists
In California there's a program to lose like 10 pounds. You pay 300 bucks and if you lose the weight you get all the money back.
>cancel membership
>$65 fee
>>71683255
i've been to polk, but i sure as hell wasn't there to use the gym. that's a pretty great peice of property but i didn't really see much of the base. i would assume you guys probably only have one main gym there since it isn't really a garrison base and is used mainly (i would assume from my experience) as a field exercise base. so that would lead to more people at one spot.
when i used to go to tiny little air force bases i could sometimes even get in on basketball pickup games. the smaller the base the better the gyms in my opinion. but most of my time in garrison was in huge bases. like fort hood had i think 8 different gyms. and the one i liked and was closest was ALWAYS deserted.
>>71683712
>meant our Black Card Members
That PR dodge. Holy crap.
>>71675256
Planet """""""""Fitness""""""""""
>>71675515
>More than half
so what you are saying is it is not 100% government funded?
good
>>71683676
Ok, gotcha. I was assuming you just missed some words. Didn't even know you could do that without a rack. Looked it up, sounded clever. Won't your arms limit you though?
>>71675152
It's Planet Fitness.
Calling it a "Gym" is a stretch.
>>71683359
Kill yourself my man.
>>71681546
False, there are plenty of weights at my local Planet Fitness.
>>71676079
This would be fucking awesome. Would suck for fatties but I'm a skinny fuck. Could probably eat a whole pizza to myself. The membership practically pays for itself.
>>71685161
i get it
>>71685384
What do you mean "you get it"?
Don't they have dumbbells up to 65lbs? People shit on it (and desu my 24 hour fitness is only 15 a month) but if you are strictly training for hypertrophy aka looking good then doing 50 rep sets with those is really all you need
I dislike gyms.
But I swear I used planet fitness like for like 3 months till my prepaid visa expired.
What I did was sign up under a prepaid visa and paid in cash when they said they couldn't charge me every other month.
They got super posed and kept calling me every other day after that.
But I put a fake address and they never copied my id.
So what ever
>>71685487
Plenty of weights
>>71674805
I can write off $199 as a business, can't do that at $10/mo
>>71683712
does he even need any more pizza
>>71674805
They can be as faggy and SJW as they like really.
They have solid as fuck equipment, fantastic showers and they're cheap as fuck.
Great gym to be a member of desu
>>71686185
Ohhhhhh. I see, didn't intend that to be a joke kek.
>>71676306
Their price models works because 90% of the people that pay to go there don't fucking go to their gym.
>>71675493
The ones here in Philly don't even give a shit
>>71684074
Are you asking how to do it without a rack? Personally, I just elevate the bar up on whatever(like 2 chairs) and squat down to pick it up. I don't pick the bar up from the floor. You can also do what this guy does(also the video where I found out about it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK1cphPDCFQ
>>71675256
>offer free food that costs basically nothing
>keep members fat
>they keep coming to your gym trying to lose the fat but you keep offering them shitty food to eat
>infinite monies
god this is so jewish
>>71678821
Because they kick hobos out. It's a country club for white women and any who appease them.
>>71678727
Do you not understand bulking? Gaining those pounds help you when you lift
>Have been going to PF for like three years because it's cheap and near my house
>See some fat bitch nearly killing herself on one of the machines
>Try to tell her, "Hey fat bitch, don't do that, you're going to hurt yourself, let me show you how it's done"
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MANSPLAINING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Nevermind, fuck you fat bitch, hope you break your neck
>Not even ten minutes later hear her screaming bloody murder and the paramedics have to haul her fat ass out of the building
>>71675493
This fucking thing went off on me once. I don't know if there's a sensor in the floor or what, but I dropped a 50-lb weight from barely half a foot off the ground. The chick came over and asked what gives, and luckily I was able to talk my way out of it like nothing happened.
>>71675152
Cool thing about planet fitness, you can always bring a friend for free. My buddy had membership there. Lots of good looking girls, but the weights and equipment are poopoo. Despite being free, I couldn't stand going there after 2 months, and I love to lift and I love free stuff even more. Gibsmedat.
>>71687962
Thats what they count on. Then you forget to cancel, they "forget" to honor your cancellation request, and they charge you a retarded fee.
>>71688178
Pffft wouldn't be the first bill I just outright refused to pay.
>>71675864
the fucking thumbs up in every dumb double think poster
>>71675256
>>71676079
There's a similar thing in my area called Anytime Fitness. Do those fuckers have free bagels and pizza because I'd love to just go and run a few miles so I didn't feel like a complete piece of shit and just gorge myself on pizza like I normally would.
Maybe the 18 month waives the startup fee and yearly fees
>>71677754
>poster has some muscles
>has skinny fat belly
>says manual labor made him this way
>shelves cans at wal mart and flexes as he does it
>>71683754
Wat
Yeah yeah I've heard the stories, but I wouldnt actually mind a planet fitness in my city. Our Gold's Gym is teeny tiny and all the locally owned gyms have to charge so fucking much to make up for costs.
>>71678198
What a faggot.
>>71675764
At the one I go to nobody would bat an eye. But you would have to use the Smith machine
>>71683799
I drill out of a small camp further north.
Polk's gym is fucking awesome though. Better than Gordons gym at least
With the second bundle, you save $10-40. How?
Somewhere around May they have a $30 annual fee. With the package, that annual fee is waived.
>>71674805
>He still doesn't know negative interest rates are bank bail-ins are most certainly coming within 18 months time.
This is why you're not in the C-suite.
>>71675840
>being that fucking stupid
kill yourself
>>71674805
This looks retarded but planet fitness charges $20 or $30 in June for some reason.
So if it includes 1 June, it's the same price. 2 Junes is a discount.
>>71676328
muh benis
>>71675900
>no sandals
How the fuck are you supposed to do squats?
>>71675493
how is drinking water out of a big jug intimidating?
>>71676306
>>71676079
>>71675256
pretty sure the food thing is like once a month. I freeloaded off my buddy's black card membership for about a year and I recall seeing posters that advertised the free food schedule.
>>71674805
Yes.
A "gym" with no real weights, terrible machines, and free junk food--keep you looking and feeling fat.
>>71683712
>"I saw black people eat all the pizza"
>"Yo that's racist that you saw that!"
What do I do with a set of 25 lb dumbells /pol/?
50?
>>71687903
I have heard, but cannot confirm, that it is just an alarm behind the counter that they press when they hear slamming>>71675493
or loud grunting,
>>71691585
>Look at that guy with huge muscles, a tank top, Grunting loudly, and drinking out of a fuck huge water cooler that he got out of an office supply warehouse.
The whole point to the gym is not to see anyone so far ahead of you, it discourages people. Sort of like a pay 2 play game, and that one guy is wrecking an entire lobby with a special item
And the pricing>>71674805
in the OP is an extra 20$ for convenience to not have to pay every month
>>71680263
They literally use "no hurt feelings" as a selling point.
>>71678237
I don't care about grunting. But I have a limit. like when I have headphones in and I can hear you from across the gym doing cables.
>>71675256
holy fuck
