Planet Fitness To Remove Squat Racks

[The Solution]

http://guyism.com/humor/planet-fitne...s-america.html

PLANET FITNESS REMOVES SQUAT RACKS FOR BEING ‘INTIMIDATING’

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.”


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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.

[Jaxweaze]

All they do is use them for curls anyway.... Lol

[Young Gotti]

didn't know they had squat racks to begin with....thought the only option is smith machine squats

[The Solution]

didn't know they had squat racks to begin with....thought the only option is smith machine squats

Learn something new everyday LOL
Guess they need to invest in more pizza and doughnuts for their members.

["Rodz"]

How the fuck am I suppose to do curls in a smith machine now!!!

[Curt James]

On the treadmill at the PF on Paxton Street in Harrisburg, PA. Looking across the gym, I can see the squat rack still there.

The facility is not the key factor. The individual is what counts.

I realize I'm in the minority here, but Planet Fitness is not the bad guy.

[spinyvegeta]

I just signed a 5 yr membership. Fuck!!!!!!

[Curt James]

lol ^^^^ You lie.

[joe d]

i might join planet fitness for 10.00 per month to use as a pizza and bagel buffet on my way home from the gym!!!

is the food unlimited? is it at certain times?

[hifrommike65]

Happens to the best of 'em. Branch said (in a video) he was invited to work out at a friend's gym, & when he walked in realized the management didn't want him there. He left without working out.

[Curt James]

Planet fitness, is a joke to me, it seem that they want u to lost ur weight, yet when u start growin' muscles, they want u to leave, really? we got a pf here in miami. my hubby and i was jokin' bout goin' in to PF, workout for a day to see how they would react to 2 Reall bbers. we just laughed

Awesome.

Absolutely awesome.

[weezer]

Planet Fitness opened in New Orleans 5 months ago and they placed flyers on our cars while we worked out; my training partner is an state trooper and he said if he could have bought his rifle in the gym, he could have dropped him in the parking lot. Lol

[Curt James]

I posted the following pic and text to my Facebook.

Squat rack at Planet Fitness? Paxton Street still has theirs.



Damon Harrington gave me permission to repost his reply here:

"I wouldn't take a piss in a Planet Fitness. If it didn't keep the unmotivated satisfied with mediocrity unwilling to truly commit to the lifestyle crowd away from me then I'd hope it implodes! But PF serves a purpose and it's anti bodybuilding & fitness commercials no longer piss me off. They've grown amusing. Notice the lack of them now? They were practicing a form of discrimination and ever since the commercial that took a shot at homosexuality aired they've backed off their bull shit. I knew if they stepped on the gay communities toes they'd pay for it and good! FUCK PF!"

[Curt James]

I just signed a 5 yr membership. Fuck!!!!!!

It's $99 for the year which comes to just $8.25 per month.

i might join planet fitness for 10.00 per month to use as a pizza and bagel buffet on my way home from the gym!!!

is the food unlimited? is it at certain times?

Again, drop the hundred and your bill would be less than nine bucks.

Pizza and bagels are cheat day approved? lol

The manager told me she limits the slices because they had a guy who would eat an entire pie by himself. It probably varies by location and management.

[The Solution]

^^^ Lol'd at the Tag on facebook Curt haha