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Darth Biscuit

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Doing Cabo in a couple weeks for spring break, need to hit the tanning beds and up my cardio just a little!

Also, apparently Plant Fitness is coming to Winnipeg! Can't wait to check this place out for a good laugh

 

There is honestly nothing wrong with PF.  Sure, they make some, shall we say, "odd," business decisions, but their equipment and everything is fine for about 90% of people that work out.  Their may be some people in there making some counteractive choices, e.g., the whole pizza day thing, but that doesn't affect anyone else, so it's really of no consequence.  People just tend to hate on it because it's the "it" thing to do.  Truth is, the membership is cheap, they have good equipment, and I think all of them have tanning beds.  If it weren't so damn convenient for me to go to Gold's, I'd sign up at PF.  Only bad thing is there isn't a lot to look at . . . 

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There is honestly nothing wrong with PF.  Sure, they make some, shall we say, "odd," business decisions, but their equipment and everything is fine for about 90% of people that work out.  Their may be some people in there making some counteractive choices, e.g., the whole pizza day thing, but that doesn't affect anyone else, so it's really of no consequence.  People just tend to hate on it because it's the "it" thing to do.  Truth is, the membership is cheap, they have good equipment, and I think all of them have tanning beds.  If it weren't so damn convenient for me to go to Gold's, I'd sign up at PF.  Only bad thing is there isn't a lot to look at . . . 

 

 

As a business model, PF struck gold, and really hit on something very smart...   Most of the people that sign up for gym memberships either don't go at all or go like 1 or 2 days a week.  For those people, and for those that just want to go in to a convenient, cheap place, PF is fine.

 

For people like me, who go 6 days a week and lift heavy weights, it destroys their business model.  They don't want "serious" weightlifting going on, because those people come a lot and use the equipment and space much more than their "typical" client.

 

I've seen several articles like this...  http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/planet-fitness-not-gym, telling the truth about PF.  I saw one where a guy went to like 47 different PF gyms to see if what people thought of the place was true... and it pretty much was...  I'll try and find the link.

 

Can you go to PF and get a good workout, I'm sure you can, but most of them have limited amounts of free weights, no squat racks and prohibit deadlifting.  

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There is honestly nothing wrong with PF.  Sure, they make some, shall we say, "odd," business decisions, but their equipment and everything is fine for about 90% of people that work out.  Their may be some people in there making some counteractive choices, e.g., the whole pizza day thing, but that doesn't affect anyone else, so it's really of no consequence.  People just tend to hate on it because it's the "it" thing to do.  Truth is, the membership is cheap, they have good equipment, and I think all of them have tanning beds.  If it weren't so damn convenient for me to go to Gold's, I'd sign up at PF.  Only bad thing is there isn't a lot to look at . . . 

 

PF has plenty of major deficiencies, but it's great for what it is: a $10 a month place to lift weights. few enough people take it seriously that it's easy for those that do to take advantage. my workouts tend to be late at night, between 11pm and 3am, often after i get off work, and i pretty much have the entire place to myself. my weak ass doesn't need to be throwing around dead lifts and poo anyway, i'm just trying to get back into decent shape.

 

i set my fitness goals last year when i turned 29: by the time i turn 30, i want to be able to perform measurably better than i did a decade prior when i was in the USMC, which means beating my best USMC physical fitness test score when i was in my prime, at the end of officer candidate school in quantico. my best score was perfect on the abs/core (100 situps in two minutes) 14 chinups (out of 20) and a 3-mile run time of 20:28 (18:00 being a perfect score.)

 

my goal is to beat that collective score. i started in earnest this past december, spent the last month and a half basically getting back in gym shape, re-learning my limits and developing workout strategies. i've never been much for weight benches but i've been all over it, along with cardio, the occasional run, and free weights. at the end of the month i'll take a full PFT to see where i am in comparison to my final goal.

 

for this plan planet fitness is perfect, though i do skip pizza day.

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PF has plenty of major deficiencies, but it's great for what it is: a $10 a month place to lift weights. few enough people take it seriously that it's easy for those that do to take advantage. my workouts tend to be late at night, between 11pm and 3am, often after i get off work, and i pretty much have the entire place to myself. my weak ass doesn't need to be throwing around dead lifts and poo anyway, i'm just trying to get back into decent shape.

 

i set my fitness goals last year when i turned 29: by the time i turn 30, i want to be able to perform measurably better than i did a decade prior when i was in the USMC, which means beating my best USMC physical fitness test score when i was in my prime, at the end of officer candidate school in quantico. my best score was perfect on the abs/core (100 situps in two minutes) 14 chinups (out of 20) and a 3-mile run time of 20:28 (18:00 being a perfect score.)

 

my goal is to beat that collective score. i started in earnest this past december, spent the last month and a half basically getting back in gym shape, re-learning my limits and developing workout strategies. i've never been much for weight benches but i've been all over it, along with cardio, the occasional run, and free weights. at the end of the month i'll take a full PFT to see where i am in comparison to my final goal.

 

for this plan planet fitness is perfect, though i do skip pizza day.

 

Exactly... it is what you make of it... as long as they don't kick you out for being too hot Philly, so don't wear that halter top.

 

As for me, I'd probably last about 30 minutes into my first workout and they'd ask me to leave... which is fine and why I don't go there.

 

...and don't get me wrong, the gym I go to is far from perfect.  Yes I can squat and dead and all of that fun stuff, but whoever runs that place needs to take an aesthetics course from some Junior college because the way they have it setup is just about as dumb as it could be.  Everyone is literally on top of everyone else...

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Exactly... it is what you make of it... as long as they don't kick you out for being too hot Philly, so don't wear that halter top.

 

As for me, I'd probably last about 30 minutes into my first workout and they'd ask me to leave... which is fine and why I don't go there.

 

...and don't get me wrong, the gym I go to is far from perfect.  Yes I can squat and dead and all of that fun stuff, but whoever runs that place needs to take an aesthetics course from some Junior college because the way they have it setup is just about as dumb as it could be.  Everyone is literally on top of everyone else...

 

secretly i go at 2am so all my hotness doesn't make all the colds feel cold in comparison to all my hotness doing hot things. i wear long sleeves so my hot noodle guns won't make everyone go unconscious

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I haven't seen a PF with free weights. The best I've seen is 40 lb. yoga bars. I don't remember if I've seen dumb bells or not.

 

mine's pretty well loaded with dumb bells, two racks up to 80 lbs i think.

 

of course this is nothing compared to serious gyms, but i'm not gonna be throwing around 80lbs any time soon anyway, and i'm looking for muscular endurance over bulking up or hitting specific strength goals.

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