How Planet Fitness Became Hated By The World

to understand the overwhelming hatred for Planet Fitness you first need to understand their business model Planet Fitness was created with the goal of having a non-competitive culture opposite to that of something like Gold's Gym where bodybuilding is glorified everything in Planet Fitness is Catered towards the less experienced beginner and on the surface this makes Planet Fitness look like a fairly positive place however as we look into the methods they use to achieve this beginner-friendly image you'll start to understand why their approach also receives an insane amount of backlash this image posted to the gym memes Facebook page shows a note attached to a Planet Fitness leg press reading we do not cater to bodybuilders or heavyweight lifters please help us keep our non-intimidating environment by loading only four weight plates on each side with this note showing that not only a Planet Fitness trying to cater to beginners but they're also trying to repel anyone who might consider themselves an intermediate or Advanced lifter in addition to requesting that members only use a maximum of four plates on the leg press Planet Fitness Gyms also feature no squat rack no dead lifting area and no bench press with the Smith machine being the only alternative for those looking to perform these exercises or if you're desperate enough you can evidently use the machine where you'd usually do dips the gym requests that members refrain from doing t-row's overhead presses clean and jerks deadlifts and even requests that members don't do supersets which is achieved in part by maxing out their dumbbells at 75 pounds or 34 kilos with this number being an even lower 60 pounds or 27 kilos depending on which franchise you go to as an alternative Planet Fitness Gyms are instead filled with excessive amounts of cardio equipment with a possible goal of encouraging their members to avoid the weight training area altogether so basically Planet Fitness doesn't allow you to actually get stronger the only gym that doesn't like people going to the gym I went to Planet Fitness is a joke with one of my friends because your first day you get free to test out and I was deadlifting 360 on the Smith machine and I put pads underneath the weight so it wouldn't slam and the manager kicked me out because I was noticeably stronger than everyone else in creating an intimidating atmosphere Planet Fitness having a problem with people who are noticeably stronger than everyone else is something that can also be observed in countless different YouTube videos I wasn't there a week and I was told you intimidate the other patrons and we don't like your type here for example four times World's Strongest Man Brian Shaw was kicked out of Planet Fitness whilst making a fairly relaxed YouTube video with this piece of content pairing another title to Planet Fitness cancer by membership after 500 pound bench press cementing their dislike for those who go to the gym to push their limits as an extra measure to avoid intense exercise Planet Fitness also has their notorious lunk alarm which can be triggered by Planet Fitness staff anytime they see a member working out too intensely luck alarm is actually pretty goaded if it goes off it means that you're making gains and the staff is just making sure that everyone knows that you're built different but while this person managed to frame the long alarm as beneficial on a wider scale the concept has been criticized pretty damn heavily the alarms are set to trigger when they detect muscles actually Contracting Planet Fitness you're being too loud also Planet Fitness uses tornado warning sign to replace the noise of normal gym activities this alarm is infinitely more disruptive than the clanking of weights or grunts of strain lifters it's also startling which can cause severe injuries to anyone under load and in addition to Simply Having the lunk alarm there are countless comments describing ridiculous situations during which the alarm has been sounded I accidentally dropped my drink off the treadmill and the lunk alarm went off I got kicked out the lung alarm goes off if you accidentally drop a pen all right guys let me plan to finish watch how ridiculous this is ah really I can but to be fair to Planet Fitness both gym members and the staff themselves have often stated in videos and comments that the long alarm is rarely ever used yes there is a lunk alarm however I've never even heard it go off I've worked at two different Planet Fitness locations and we never once sounded the long alarm on people for anything I think it depends on the individual locations whether they're franchise or not we were told that we weren't allowed to use it but it was more of a novelty item I went to Planet Fitness for six months and never heard the alarm I think it mostly depends on the manager you get treat the alarm as a sign of a good or bad manager if that alarm sounds it's time to find another gym as a person who works at Planet Fitness we never set the long alarm off we don't pull the lock alarm we don't pull it because there's no purpose to like you know on the flip side too we want to have fun sometimes as soon as we just hear anything boom we just pull it and it's different when your manager is there and when your manager is not there however while the alarm can be dismissed as somewhat of a meme drinking out of a gallon water jug as well as their dress code are both something that Planet Fitness does take extremely seriously in the previously mentioned video where Brian Shaw gets kicked out of Planet Fitness a sign can be seen which reads dress code to maintain our no gym intimidation environment please no jeans boots sandals or string tank tops thank you other banned items of clothing include durags skull caps bandanas and judging from internet anecdotes this dress code is definitely the next reason behind why the gym is so hated I used to have a Planet Fitness membership on multiple occasions they asked me to go home and change my gym outfit to something less revealing I was wearing a tank top and shorts LOL or they would give me one of those hideous white t-shirts with their logo to cover myself up in this video titled Planet Fitness fail why I cancel my membership the girl explains that she was confronted by staff for Simply Having a one gallon water bottle one of the workers did a bee line for me one time while I'm walking out interrupts my set and it's like oh you can't have that gallon of water here whilst another member was denied entry altogether because his water bottle was too big to fit in their designated cup holder so I'm in here at Planet Fitness with this bottle and this actually does not want to allow me to work out because she says my bottle will not fit into her cup holder imagine asking someone to leave because they're drinking water and being healthy for being a judgment-free facility all they do is Judge and this is why their approach is so controversial the judgment-free slogan is targeted toward their main demographic beginners but in order to achieve this branding they have to be judgmental toward anyone who isn't a beginner making their approach incredibly hypocritical so no judgment except you get to judge that's right we won't judge or criticize you unless you're someone in shape in a gym no judgment Zone unless we are the ones judging Planet Fitness no judging also Planet Fitness judges anyone who actually wants to work out properly with this criticism also being bundled in with more Sinister theories about why Planet Fitness fights tooth and nail in order to maintain their judgment-free branding if you think about it the entire concept is an incredible idea by keeping the judgmental people away you only attract the insecure who pity themselves at the same time you keep away any serious lift or who could show what is possible therefore reassuring these half-heartedly gym goers that what they're doing is absolute Peak Performance the picture of roid raging testosterone monsters is planted into people's heads thus binding them even stronger to that gym financially speaking it's a masterpiece perhaps this is a bit of a conspiracy theory but it's also possible that it's in Planet fitness's best interest to keep their members out of shape so they'll continue to pay for membership on the first Monday of every month Planet Fitness hosts Pizza Monday during which free pizza is given to members before after and even during their workouts then similarly on the second Tuesday of every month Planet Fitness has Bagel Tuesday following the same concept but with free Bagels Planet Fitness makes a pretty decent argument for why they consider this to be acceptable stating on their website it's okay to indulge in a trait every once in a while the truth is one slice of pizza isn't going to destroy a month's worth of work in the gym which is why Planet Fitness Pizza Monday and bagel Tuesday only roll around once a month moderation is key yet as you might expect these free junk food days have come with even more public back Clash I'm doing like squats and deadlifts and the smell of like a hundred pizzas is coming at me it's just not right Planet Fitness come on the pizza being in the gym it's just not right they don't go together offer free salads offer free I don't know protein shakes but Pizza no Planet Fitness pizza at a gym is like having AA meetings in a bar nothing like getting a good workout than enjoying a high calorie Pizza afterwards hashtag games it's actually a genius tactic you go there to lose weight and get in shape they give you Pizza you gain some weight you have to go back to lose that weight keeps you in that gain weight lose weight cycle Planet Fitness not actually wanting their members to lose weight might also explain some of the other things that you can get with your membership such as their total body enhancement chamber which sounding like a pile of infomercial garbage apparently helps work muscle groups firms and tones the body as well as helps reduce stress however there's no effort scare machines just reiterate the type of customers that Planet Fitness are generally going after their cheap 10 per month month memberships are seemingly designed to appeal to people who will go once or twice never turn up again but also never cancel their membership because well nobody can be bothered to go into the gym to cancel it when it's only 33 cents per day what do I have to do to cancel this membership all you have to come into the location or else write a letter the gym where I stay is 45 minutes away from where I live at because those are the only two ways yes those are the only two ways you have to physically come in to cancel your membership and judging from some of the videos on YouTube it seems like this strategy is incredibly effective I've given them ten dollars a month for four years I've never stepped foot inside the gym just to add a cherry on top of the cake if you do want to cancel your membership there are then massive fees involved as well as other small charges that force you to spend more money before you officially leave make sure you don't break your contract because if you break your contract then it's 150 dollars to get out of it I see that I still got a payment a charge from Planet Fitness now my membership is discontinued trying to get rid of gym memberships is basically trying to get rid of a boyfriend that won't go away or a nasty rash their business model is to sell memberships to people who don't go regularly think about it that could be ten thousand members for that one gym but if everyone goes then the place would be so busy it would either violate legal codes or be so packed you wouldn't be able to work out because everyone is using something and honestly it's hard to blame them businesses are created to make money and with over 2 000 gyms across the globe Planet Fitness has been extremely successful yet unfortunately they've done so whilst picking up the nickname Planet fatness in the process

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 27 2022