What Are the Worst (and Best) Dieting Tips You've Ever Heard?
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They don't allow grunting? O_O
NO gym should tolerate laughing at other patrons. How sad is that... Anyone going into a gym should be respected for their efforts. Feeling the need to laugh at others shows that someone needs to be working out their strength of character a little more. Wonder if there's a machine for that.
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Shouryu
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Planet Fitness is not a business that is actually interested in making you healthy. They are interested in getting your payment. The key is to appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to gain as many memberships as possible, knowing that many people will show up for a week...maybe a month at best...then stop going. (But they've all ready got your payment covering the whole year, so it's easy money for them.)
Working out is exhausting, so here's free pizza! Come join us!
People actually working hard enough that they grunt is intimidating to others, so we kick them out. Come join us!
Free weights are sooooo hard, so we'll just stack ellipticals and treadmills to the sky, and if you feel like getting injured, here are ten Smith machines. Come join us!
It's only ten dollars a month for you to walk in, change, wander around for a bit, and spend 30 minutes on a bike...or you could stay home, since, it was only ten dollars. Come join us!
Some lifted a dumbbell that was a little too heavy, and they dropped it! You should NEVER have to see that, so we'll kick them out...you keep spinning on that elliptical. Come join us!
Need to refresh your carbs after that 50 cal burn on the bike? We have donuts! Come join us!
Does it honestly SOUND like they're interested in getting you healthy, or getting your money?
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psychomom
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ironically (?), our soon to be son-in-law is in truly great shape,
despite bagel and pizza day.
i believe the word the kids are using nowadays is "jacked"?
despite bagel and pizza day.
i believe the word the kids are using nowadays is "jacked"?
Don't ask me about gyms. I never have seen where the concept was attractive to the customer anyway.
"Hey dude, want to move some heavy rocks for fifty bucks?"
"Sure, I could use the money."
"No, YOU pay ME to move the rocks."
"What?"
If I want to go walking I have a road. I also have a dog that would LOVE for me to go for a walk with him. If I want to lift something I have a lot of stuff to lift around here. I honestly don't see why I would go to a gym to pay to exercise there.
The free pizza sounds nice though. But I could get a whole pizza of my own for less than ten bucks.
"Hey dude, want to move some heavy rocks for fifty bucks?"
"Sure, I could use the money."
"No, YOU pay ME to move the rocks."
"What?"
If I want to go walking I have a road. I also have a dog that would LOVE for me to go for a walk with him. If I want to lift something I have a lot of stuff to lift around here. I honestly don't see why I would go to a gym to pay to exercise there.
The free pizza sounds nice though. But I could get a whole pizza of my own for less than ten bucks.
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ServantStrike
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This is one example of many. The alarm is modeled after an air raid siren too, which I'm sure startles the people who are in the middle of whatever cardio it is they were doing.
[video=youtube;UXP6WaVTJpM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXP6WaVTJpM[/video]
Bwahahahahahahaha.
But I agree with this wholeheartedly. The only thing I can think is that for someone who is really out of shape and only wants to do cardio, it might be a cheap way to get started. They do have some free weights - mostly designed for use in the curling racks and a few dumbbells. You can also do some true free weight excercises there as a result of this, but it's far from ideal. It's cheap enough that it might work for some people, but the model is all business and no heart, that's for sure.
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psychomom
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wait...aren't all gyms basically only interested in your money??
thanks...i'll use my weights and do The Firm at home.
(not meant as an ad for The Firm...haven't gotten a new DVD since the '90s.
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thanks...i'll use my weights and do The Firm at home.
(not meant as an ad for The Firm...haven't gotten a new DVD since the '90s.
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So this "lunk alarm" sounds when too much noise is made...? I am intrigued. How does this work? Is it staffed and tripped by an employee or on a system? What if a guy is caught staring at a women working out? Does that trip it? If someone falls down and cries out when they land, does the alarm sound?
I had no idea this was a thing.
I had no idea this was a thing.
I have a friend that goes to Planet Fitness and loves it. She uses the treadmill and bike. It just depends on what you're looking for I guess. I've thought about joining because it is so cheap. I had a family membership at the YMCA but it was almost 70 a month and my kids stopped doing the activities there and I didn't go enough to justify paying for it. Right now I just walk the mall and do stuff at home.
According to the lunk definition sign Planet Fitness has posted, part of being a lunk includes... drinking water from a gallon jug? How is that being a lunk? I drink water from a gallon jug all the time. You know how long one of those tiny water bottles would last me? I can drain one of them without stopping for air. In fact I don't know many people who can't.
Ah well, I guess it doesn't really matter to me since I don't plan to go to Planet Fitness.
Ah well, I guess it doesn't really matter to me since I don't plan to go to Planet Fitness.
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ServantStrike
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I don't know.
Someone should stage a "help I've fallen and I can't get up" moment at a planet fitness and see if the alarm goes off.
I'm sure that the minature air raid siren is a lot less distressing to gym patrons than someone grunting during a set. Makes perfect sense.
Side note, as you are well aware I like things that make loud noises. I did at one point look into getting an air raid siren. A couple problems:
- You need at least two (but really three) air raid sirens that are staged on and off at different times to get the classic spool up and then back down noise that people think of with an air raid siren
- These sirens need to be placed a fair distance apart, and the timing needs to be somewhat coordinated, requiring more than one person
- There are noise ordinances banning the use of air raid sirens even in the middle of nowhere in most states.
You need fairly decent power to run an electric one, and it just sounds like an obnoxous fog horn. No soul at all.
[video=youtube;q5FwsIkJCXU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5FwsIkJCXU[/video]
Air raid sirens would sound thrilling wouldn't they?!
We have tornado sirens here that sound a lot like that, and go off under certain conditions automatically. (Wind speed, etc.) I actually live very close to one, and it's a pretty thrilling sound! It has a big funnel horn on it and rotates, so you still get the pick up and drop off of sound as it goes around. You can hear it for miles.
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theteachermiss
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Actually. they are civil defense sirens. used for tornado alerts, but also nuclear accidents, AND incoming nuclear attack