My friend set of the alarm today while breaking his deadlift PR. I can't believe the alarm even exists. Makes me want to organize a race where nobody's allowed to breathe hard. You have to run easy or you're disqualified.
Cool story Sis.
xenonscreams wrote:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2011/05/gym_rat_control.htmlMy friend set of the alarm today while breaking his deadlift PR. I can't believe the alarm even exists. Makes me want to organize a race where nobody's allowed to breathe hard. You have to run easy or you're disqualified.
There are "races" sort of like that (color runs). Also, most people don't like to hear the meat heads grunt and scream.
How many pounds will grunting add to my bench press?
Welcome to 21st century America. Eventually there'll be a sweat alarm because it smells bad.
My gym installed a methane alarm because my farts were getting to bad. If I set it off one more time I'll get banned.
"Suffer in silence, young man."
-Master Chief Eriksen, 1995
Are you guys imbeciles? The point of Planet Fitness is to cater to people who don't want to be around the power-lifters and intimidating meat-heads and all those antics. They make that clear in their marketing, their club rules, etc. That's their niche. Why cry about it? Is there something Planet Fitness has that makes you so jealous? Some competitive advantage, exclusive other amenity they have, that you are being deprived of, to the point of discrimination? Yeah right. If you fall into the incriminating category, you have infinite places to go. Quit whining. Plus, it's typically common courtesy in commercial franchised fitness establishments to not slam weights, weight stacks in pulleys, and scream loudly and act like a douchebag. Again, why are you whining, with all those muscles? you should be living the life with all the punani you can handle, and buy what you need with your good looks, and have plenty of Big Boys' clubs to go to.
How much did he deadlift? That will allow us to decide if it warranted a grunt.
If he deadlifted a 200 pounder, he should be grunting.
Additionally, like most journalism, that Slate article is just designed to bait readers for commercial advertising purposes. It's not objective in its assessments. It purposively and inaccurately tries to stoke controversy that doesn't really exist.
"So it does, but should we take the success of special-interest gyms like Planet Fitness as a welcome shift in the culture of exercise? Or could it represent a sad departure from the one-size-fits-all health clubs of old?"
No, because this is the way niche business works. They fill a niche. They aren't out to proselytize and convert America to a bunch of wussies who can't power lift.
Where is the evidence that "one-size-fits-all-health-clubs" are going extinct? Where is the evidence that muscles and macho-ness in America--of ALL COUNTRIES!!--is in danger of disappearing? I can tell you the exact opposite--ten thousand ways in which bloated macho rhetoric and b-llcr-p of all kinds is detrimental to the integrity of our culture and cultural conversations.
Is it so bad people want a judgmental free zone when they work out? Ok, I don't really care about the average middle class person, who is pretty apathetic and selfish. I'm talking about myself--even though I don't fall in the gym-wussy category. All my life, I've traveled between different subcultures and demographics of people. Getting racist hate, jealous hate, old guys putting down young guys, middle-class Frog-faced office jockeys being douches, thugs and gangsters and wiggers being douches, seemingly ok people turning into muggers, you name it. Our vicious culture, at war with each other on a hundred fronts. I sure as heck don't appreciate going to the gym and getting dirty looks from egotistical meatheads, on top of all that.
I agree that there is an analogue in running, which isn't really an exact analogy, of hobby jog races and gimmick runs which is detrimental to running. But you know what? The pillar participants of the distance running community, like Judas Iscariots, have also betrayed distance running. Distance running is the most exalted of sports. That is why I've spent my life dedicated to it. I have been around some of the best distance running talents and professionals of our time and none of them are conscious of this truth, this importance and responsibility. The great distance runners wh-re out our sport. Too bad that the rest of the country and other cultures outside our own don't respect it. Maybe the two are interconnected. Go figure.
must watch for wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwncthWpPw
Look at this arrogant meathead. You want to know something? A true warrior is not just someone who has superficial power. A true warrior has morals, defends the poor, disadvantaged, undeservedly exploited and the meek. A true warrior understands that strength and dedication is needed to serve justice and the integrity of society. Look at the guy crying. What do you think his track Prs are? He thinks his voice is the authority. It's not an authority for crap because he's a narrowminded selfish meathead who disgraces the disciplines he is involved with. Hard-working? And this "injustice" about Planet Fitness, Oooh those cold corporate badboys! not "giving a f-ck about you!" Hear me out, I'm not apologizing for Planet Fitness. I could care less about them. But don't try to use that rhetoric on me, j@ck@ss. I could talk 20 hours straight, if my voice didn't crack out within the first 15 minutes of passionate, eloquent speaking, about the injustices in our Society and the Corporations who do evil and terrible trends in our culture. This j@ck@ss spends all the years of his life blind to them and then explodes about Planet Fitness. What a joke.
Kim_Putnam_Eagan wrote:
Additionally, like most journalism, that Slate article is just designed to bait readers for commercial advertising purposes. It's not objective in its assessments. It purposively and inaccurately tries to stoke controversy that doesn't really exist.
"So it does, but should we take the success of special-interest gyms like Planet Fitness as a welcome shift in the culture of exercise? Or could it represent a sad departure from the one-size-fits-all health clubs of old?"
No, because this is the way niche business works. They fill a niche. They aren't out to proselytize and convert America to a bunch of wussies who can't power lift.
Where is the evidence that "one-size-fits-all-health-clubs" are going extinct? Where is the evidence that muscles and macho-ness in America--of ALL COUNTRIES!!--is in danger of disappearing? I can tell you the exact opposite--ten thousand ways in which bloated macho rhetoric and b-llcr-p of all kinds is detrimental to the integrity of our culture and cultural conversations.
Is it so bad people want a judgmental free zone when they work out? Ok, I don't really care about the average middle class person, who is pretty apathetic and selfish. I'm talking about myself--even though I don't fall in the gym-wussy category. All my life, I've traveled between different subcultures and demographics of people. Getting racist hate, jealous hate, old guys putting down young guys, middle-class Frog-faced office jockeys being douches, thugs and gangsters and wiggers being douches, seemingly ok people turning into muggers, you name it. Our vicious culture, at war with each other on a hundred fronts. I sure as heck don't appreciate going to the gym and getting dirty looks from egotistical meatheads, on top of all that.
I agree that there is an analogue in running, which isn't really an exact analogy, of hobby jog races and gimmick runs which is detrimental to running. But you know what? The pillar participants of the distance running community, like Judas Iscariots, have also betrayed distance running. Distance running is the most exalted of sports. That is why I've spent my life dedicated to it. I have been around some of the best distance running talents and professionals of our time and none of them are conscious of this truth, this importance and responsibility. The great distance runners wh-re out our sport. Too bad that the rest of the country and other cultures outside our own don't respect it. Maybe the two are interconnected. Go figure.
The problem with all of this is the premise. How is someone grunting while they lift weights in any way judgmental or intimidating? It's a natural thing to do when you're maxing out.
Personally, I just can't stand anti-elite elitism.
TAA had it right. Welcome to the Everybody Gets a Medal Generation (born 1986-present).
Hingle McCringleberry wrote:
My gym installed a methane alarm because my farts were getting to bad. If I set it off one more time I'll get banned.
Methane is odorless.
"Methane is odorless."
Ever been to a dairy?
Metandienone, Methyltrienolone + Nandrolone, Stanozolol, Methylhexanamine, Norandrosterone, Testosterone variants, Clenbuterol, Boldenone, Methyltestosterone, Methylhexaneamine can be very expensive.
That $10/month cost at Planet Fitness is pretty enticing.
Don't expect you can pay $10 a month for a real gym. Planet Fitness is NOT a gym and never will be.