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[GirlyMuscle]

Yep....it's Deja Vu! Here I am working third shift at Planet Fitness. They hired me as the trainer but the 3rd shift gal walked out so they asked if I could do 3rd for my first week. This is a big freakin PF. 86 pieces of cardio equipment. 9,000 members. My old PF (where I worked, not trained) had 60 pieces of cardio and 5,000 members. Still, 3rd shift is the same. After midnight there's about 10 people between 12-5. At 5-6 all hell breaks loose. LOL

I haven't lifted since Saturday, however, I have done loads of cardio....at least 70 min a day...which is a lot for me at this point as I just started serious dieting. Will be training later today.

[Sledge]

You should rename this girlymuscles third shift overnight thread. For the week.

[GirlyMuscle]

ok

[Gaoshang Xiongshou]

Seems like old times.

Good

[AnglicanBeachParty]

Wow, 9000 members?!

[Sledge]

Wasn't GM third shift thread th biggest thread at MD exept for the ask dave thread

[Baldiewonkanobi]

Careful with the training part. No dropping weights or moaning......
LUNK ALARM
Me too....amazed at the 9,000 members. My City of Glendale, pop 250,000, has 2 Worlds, 2 24Hours, and one Ballys. Combined I bet not 4500 members.
The constant access to equipment has me GREEN envy. I managed a Jack LaLanne Gym here in Glendale in the late 50s. It was heaven having all that equipment before, during and after work.


Baldie

[Sledge]

I just searched youtube for GM's lunk alarm vid but couldn't find it.

I told her she should get a t-shirt with LUNK on it for work.

[Sledge]

I like this one

[Sledge]

what do they charge? $10 a month or something $90 000 a month turn over. Not bad

[GirlyMuscle]

There are two different memberships. $10 a month, full use of gym. Black Cards, $20 a month, full use of the gym, unlimited tanning, guest privledges, unlimited use of the massage chairs and half price on cooler drinks. We average a 50/50 membership so the per person per month is 15. So calculate THAT X 9,000.

All my friends know that I staunchly defend Planet Fitness and their business model. I've worked for them before and I know all about what they are trying to do. PF is one of the most profitable and successful gym chains today. It's a business model that works.

So in defense of the lunk alarm and their no-bodybuilders rules. Planet Fitness is where regular people go. It's a gym for every day people who want to be healthy and fit. That's why there are 9,000 members and growing. It's cheap, clean and caters to the everyman and woman. It was never a bodybuilders gym and it never will be. You don't want those annoying newbies, teenage kids and soccer moms in your most righteous of hardcore gyms, right? Well, this is their place. I say let them have it.

I still haven't found the switch for the lunk alarm. I'm wondering if this is a working one....

[Sledge]

At 150 grand a month turn over if I open a gym I'm installing 2 lunk alarms.

[freebirdmac]

3rd shift! Whoowee! That's one shift I could never work. My body would revolt.

So how do you stay awake and fight the boredom?

[Gerb]

There are two different memberships. $10 a month, full use of gym. Black Cards, $20 a month, full use of the gym, unlimited tanning, guest privledges, unlimited use of the massage chairs and half price on cooler drinks. We average a 50/50 membership so the per person per month is 15. So calculate THAT X 9,000.

All my friends know that I staunchly defend Planet Fitness and their business model. I've worked for them before and I know all about what they are trying to do. PF is one of the most profitable and successful gym chains today. It's a business model that works.

So in defense of the lunk alarm and their no-bodybuilders rules. Planet Fitness is where regular people go. It's a gym for every day people who want to be healthy and fit. That's why there are 9,000 members and growing. It's cheap, clean and caters to the everyman and woman. It was never a bodybuilders gym and it never will be. You don't want those annoying newbies, teenage kids and soccer moms in your most righteous of hardcore gyms, right? Well, this is their place. I say let them have it.

I still haven't found the switch for the lunk alarm. I'm wondering if this is a working one....

Yep, my Dad has a membership there. It is perfect for him and fits his needs well. I encouraged him to get it.

I had a 2nd gym membership to there 3yrs ago mainly for cardiio cause it is close to my house. I finally cancelled it thou cause I just can't stand the place, the members are horrible ... but, I get it, and I agree 100% that it is a great business model, I wish I owned 10 of them!

I'd make just one Planet Fitness Hardcore and reverse the rules, only BBers, only grunting, and weights must be heavy enough that you have to drop them.

[GirlyMuscle]

I do have things to do. File maintenance, cleaning, but after that I surf the net, do cardio, read.

I shouldn't be up. I only slept 5 hours. I'm gonna try to go back to sleep.