Planet Fitness horror stories thread?

Planet Fitness horror stories thread?

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>12 minute abs
you... what?

>be me
>go to planet fitness
>everything is purple and kinda gay
>work out
>go home
wow, planet fitness SUCKS!!! amirite guys???? XD

bumping even though I have nothing to contribute because this thread is a great idae

>go to planet fitness
>eat a slice of complimentary pizza
>walk on treadmill for 15 minutes
>eat another slice of complimentary pizza
>go home to make dinner because you're famished from that grueling workout

Went on a date with a girl to a planet fitness. Paid $20 for a daily trial and soon discovered there was not one bench or squat rack, only Smith machines. As a matter of fact the only free weights were dumbbells that ended at 65lbs. Needless to say the relationship didn't last long with the girl

>20 televisions in a row

why?

OP here. No. Never been to planet fitness. I just like reading.

Different channels and pretty sure they transmit audio to the treadmill that you can plug your headphones into

Say what you want about PF but it looks pretty cozy for cardio. I would never buy a membership there though

>go work out at planet fitness
>hit smith machine hard
>go home
>roommate asks where i worked out
>planet fitness
>"But user, planet fitness has been closed since someone pulled the lunk alarm"
>BUT THEN WHO WAS GYM?

Planet Fitness is the ultimate bulking gym.

It allows you to eat while you lift.

And as we all know, you gotta eat big to get big. 12 times a day cmon

I was starting a new routine that called for certain machines I dont have at home so I looked into gyms in my area. PF was the closest and also the cheapest so I decided to check it out.

>Walk into PF and explain I would like to look around
>Guy offers to show give me a tour
>Say sure, but he tells this skinny black guy who is prob about 22 at the oldest to give me the tour
>He starts showing me around and it becomes clear very fast he is out of his element
>He's doing his best though so I just go with it. He seems stoned off his ass
>Tell him im mostly just interested in freeweights
>Realize they only have dumbells and all the barbells are on smith machines
>Ask him if there is any place to do deadlifts
>"Uhhh thats like this right? *mimes an overhead press*"
>MFW
>Um, no...its like when you pick the bar up off the ground...
>"oh oh yea uhhh, we dont have those here."
>Tell him ill think about it and leave

How the fuck does someone who works at a gym not know what a deadlift is?

You took a girl to planet fitness on a date? How autistic are you

Could i start doing a OHP day one without a smith machine or should i use the smith machines first like i did for squats

>Went on a date with a girl to a planet fitness. Needless to say the relationship didn't last long with the girl
ftfy

A lot of complaint about PF seem to revolve around the pizza and bagels they serve only ONCE a month despite the fact that other gyms sell a bunch of unhealthy shit too.

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The pizza gets used a lot because it's kind of emblematic of everything people think is wrong about PF (ie that they actively dissuade people from improvement to pad their bottom line. Not that they're alone in this, most chain gyms function similarly).

underrated

don't use a fucking smith machine

Only a turbo manlet could OHP on a smith machine.

Ok, why does this place get some much shit?

I just bought a new house and PF is about a half mile away. I generally work out before work, so this would be my go to spot.

What is the problem?

>All I need is DBs going up a bit past 100.
>Squat rack, preferably with catches.
>Pull up bar/dip bars
> Barbell
> Trap bar
> Sleds are a nice bonus that my current gym has

Would PF really not have any of these or not let me deadlift?

Also, are they so corporate they won't let me just leave my trap bar that I own there, I've done that before.

Depends on the PF (they're franchise rather than corporate IIRC, so the owner does have a fair bit of leeway in things), but yes many of them would not have any of those.

Don't they have a jar of Tootsie Rolls as well?

And fruities

No manlet pit

>Paid $20 for a daily trial
Seems kinda expensive.

They don't have a gym twink.

Only use the smith machine for things yo dont have enough balance to do naturally or to fix form. Dont lift heavy on it

>Short asian dude on treadmill
>Mid-Late 20's-ish, wearing cargo shorts and metal band t-shirt
>Walking on treadmill on max incline
>Starts to turn the speed up a little bit
>worry.jpeg
>2-3 minutes later he picks up even more speed, now running at a light jog
>I finish my workout and head to locker room to get my bag
>From inside the locker room, hear someone scream "LET'S GOOO", presumably the same guy
>As I'm walking out, I hear a loud VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR sound
>See the same guy from earlier straight up sprinting on the treadmill, incline still maxed out
>ohshitImfeelingit.png
>Everyone in the gym staring at him
>Watch him for a good 2-3 minutes and he never slows down
>Employees do nothing to my surprise
>Have to leave because I have to get to work
>As I'm pulling out of the parking lot, I look into the window
>He's still going
>Leave
Some say he's still running to this day. That's the only crazy thing that's happened to me at PF.

>>>/X/ gtfo

jk

would you happen to live in texas?

>lunk alarm

>went to PF
>they didn't have pizza
It was horrifying.

I'm curious, would a MAGA hat trigger the lunk alarm?

Nearly lost my leg at pf due to leg press

It is, but if you sign up for a membership, they just use the $20 towards your plan. Thats how they get ya.

I fucking hate fat people on the treadmil or using my weights. It's like watching a meth addict trying to rehab. You know they'll quit going to the gym in a few weeks and reward themselves with Mcdonalds after walking 1 mile in 15 minutes.

>when you witness Sonic

>Went on a date with a girl to a planet fitness

a guy got scalped by a dude with a knife in the parking lot of my planet fitness. he lived but I heard he passed out when he went into the lobby for help. the skin of his head was folded forward and dangling over his eyes and he had to peel it up just to see where he was going. I'm glad I don't go to planet fitness.

>got planet fitness membership
>all the equipment was in good shape and clean
>everyone was polite

DB generally ends around 65 or 70 pounds
No squat rack in the 3 I've been to
You have to use dip machine for those, but doable
Barbells only exist as Smith Machine
No trap bar
No sleds

>oh sweet, a cheat gym
>go once
>lunk alarm comes on every 10 minutes
>urge to kill myself rising
>never come back

What about the gym wizard? Or do they only have room for alchemists

Storytime

begone reddit

Black people in gyms are always without exception completely incompetent

Excuse me, I am not from the US, so I was never in a Planet Fitness but I want to know if this is right: Planet Fitness is a chain of gyms without squat racks, in which you are not allowed dead lift, where an alarm will go off if they think you make too much noise with the weights but that's OK because they give members fucking pizza?

American as fuck.

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if you don't see a gym twink, it's you

>Trap bar
goes well with lift plug

> Be me.
> Lost 50 lbs dieting and going to Boston area PF.
> Front desk girl was cute.
> New to fitness, PF seems fine.
> Relocate to southern US.
> About 14 months into fitness journey.
> Day 1 at new PF
> In locker room brushing teeth.
> Fat shirtless Southerner approaches.
> Hey man I'm Ronnie!
> Super loud. Super southern.
> Can I borrow some toothpaste?

I literally never went back. Had my membership for under 48 hours. Cancelled over the phone.

Should've made him suck your dick for the paste

So could I theoretically buy a franchise and just fill it up with free weights, oly bars, power cages etc

Or is there a company line I have to follow that cardio sells best?

This is the measure of people who post here on a regular basis.

>Go during the day
Every employee is a woman and a huge cunt that does all the memes PF is infamous for
>Go late at night
1 employee and he's a chill guy in his 30s or 40s who paints warhammer models. Maybe too friendly sometimes.

Don't you?

or just suck it until paste comes out

>pay 20 bucks a month for all you can eat za and donuts
>gotta do some exercises so that they don't get suspicious
dude knows exactly what he's doing

I workout there because it's cheap and I'm dyel.
Once I have more money and I'm putting up big lifts then I'll switch to somewhere else.
>+Never have seen pizza or bagels there
>+Full of sexy af cardio bunnies and squat thots
>+Enough equipment so I can always get what need in
>+Tanning and massage beds
>-For all squats and benches you're stuck fighting for the 2 smith machines
>-Asians workout in groups
>-Cardio bunnies and squat thots can be distracting

>be me DYEL mode
>doing mts crunch, first set of 5 complete
>fat man in his 50s keeps walking by me
>finish 2nd set old guy approaches me
>"you seem to be monopolizing the machine there"
>wetback skinny fat also comes at the same time
>"YEAH MAN U ALMOST DONE?? IVEE BEEN WATCHINN U HOW MANY SETS?"
>me being trying to be alpha say got 3 sets left man
>wetback says "common bruh u only gotta do 2 they're all ab machines anyways"
>ok lemme finish up I say
>old guy walks away with wetback mouths off "unbelievable" as he's leaving
>do 1 more set and go home

>mfw bullied at planet fitness

>PFATSO
Nice

Why?

Oh man, thank you for that. Heartiest chuckle I've had in a long time. This sounds exactly like my best friend to the T, except I don't think he's got that much in him to do that. You down South?

like what? the only unhealthy thing at my gym is gatorade

And give him his precious brotein? No way josé

Well, user. We're not a gym, we're planet fitness.

>be me getting job at a university
>decide to start working out in the free uni gym
>decent amount of free weights but only one squat rack
>thot is occupying the rack as I get there
>watch her doing squat variations for 40 minutes straight, about the same weight I ohp
>finally get fed up waiting and ask if I can work in sets between her
>agrees with a disgusted look on her face
>do one set of ohp, she then adds on 40 pounds and start doing deadlifts instead as a subtle 'fuck you'
>she's literally in the squat rack for 1 hour and 20 minutes, the entire time I worked out
>some people say she's half-squatting in that rack to this day

Because burgerland

Not planet fitness but this actually happened to me at my uni gym

>squatting in the squat rack
>staff member runs over
>hey man you gotta use clips, you can't use barbella without clips
>I just started and am doing my warmup set with JUST THE BAR
>guy refuses to go away until I attach the clips to the ends of the empty bar

I don't understand

>went on a date with a girl to a planet fitness
nigga what

>it looks pretty cozy for cardio. I would never buy a membership there though

this, unironically

FAKE

I'd refuse to listen to him and continue as if he weren't there.

>>some people say she's half-squatting in that rack to this day

kek

Puck my senis

Chill bro

I'm chillin. With my senis out. You gon puck it?

No homo right?

It gets more homo the longer you aren't on it.

>be me
>doing incline db press
>no qt grill comes into gym
>takes the smith machine next to me
>she gunna do squats
>muh dick
>gunna stare at dat ass like a solar eclipse
>starts to load weight
>keeps adding more and more weight
>mfw she has 10lbs more than my squats
>i gotta see this
>proceeds to squat
>nigga forget going parallel, this bitch doesn't even go 12.3°
>mfw
>ignore her to show dominance
>never see her again

Faggot

i once saw a fat lady eat food while on the treadmill..... i was only there to teach a homie how to lift IRL cuz my homie new to the game.
DO YOU EVEN LIFT IRL

Should've used the lunk alarm.

fuck off for trying to politicize a planet fitness thread

Planet fitness giveth and planet fitness taketh away.

It's the circle of life. You pay to go the gym, they feed you pizza, you need the gym more.

It's actually a fantastic business plan

No, Im genuinely curious.. PF is generally known for being snowflake friendly, any complaint is valid. And it was already "politicized" seeing as it's more or less against "toxic masculinity"... But the good thing about MURICA is that you can just pick another gym to attend.

> never heard of smith machine before
> google it

wtf is this.

Nailed it.

It was not fake, bro. there's no official detailed police report on it yet but it happened a few days ago. I was told two black dudes got in a fight in the planet fitness parking lot and one of them slashed the other on the head with a knife and tore off part of his scalp.

I lift at planet fitness. Its really jot that bad. Lotsa cool core stuff which i always used to skip over, good for leaving barbells behind and getting into dumbbells.

Liftingbis time under tension. 5 dollars a month is without a doubt a great deal. Ive lost 15lbs. No deadlift is a problem

Actually today there was a black guy at that rotaty ab machine with a vr headaet on. The guy looked like the death grips rapper

I was using the leg curl machine and I was doing it fine on 1 plate and some change, when I was on the last set I turned the handels in but it didn't close and the weight fell back on my legs. Adrenaline kicked and I was able to keep the weight up untill people came over to help by holding it so I can move my legs. Thank you roided black guys. Don't do leg press anymore kek

And they say squats are bad for you.

You sound like you live on the internet and have no experience in real life.

Unless "some change" was 4 more plates, they should've just left you there.

Well, you're not wrong lol, all I do these days is going to the gym and browsing the internet.
But people fucking with planet fitness isn't exactly a new concept.

Your father has the sames thoughts everytime he visits you.

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