Teammate claims to have gotten kicked out of the gym for running too hard - is this legit?

I've done the same at planet fitness for 1min and no one said a weep to me.

Their treadmills goes up to 14mph.

To be honest I don’t think most gyms are equipped with treadmills (unless the very highest most expensive brands ) to support regular running at that speed (75 secs 400 speed) on the treadmill without some type of collateral damage happening short or long term. I might be wrong on this but that’s my feeling and at the end of the day if the other patrons are disturbed that is also regrettable. I feel for this guy. When I go to the gym I never see guys running at that speed and most people that I see using treadmills are just walking which also seems strange. I remember a somewhat well known American runner on these boards being banned from a Thailand, Bangkok gym for the same reasons many years ago.

In any case, this is all regrettable and hopefully he can appeal his case and get back on board. Banning him outright does not seem fair and there should be some kind of compromise between the two parties. If he’s banned point blank without a hearing than he should appeal and get legal representation to contest the ban because apparently he did nothing wrong and he was within the rules.

GPT totally wrote that.

Maybe he shouldn’t have worn spikes

It depends on how the guy was acting and to some extent the other people.

There is a guy at my gym who does set after set of 225 deadlifts. He slams each rep as loudly as possible, louder than just dropping it. People complain. Other people deadlift much heavier without any fuss and nobody complains. If your buddy just got on and off the treadmill smoothly I doubt it would be noticed. If he made a big production out of it, running frantically and gasping, then someone might say something.

His intervals were 5 flat pace? How fast were his reps? I don't think I believe your friend.

I believe this story. The treadmill is pretty loud at that speed, even if your friend wasn't generating that much additional noise. Planet Fitness advertises a 'non-judgmental atmosphere,' but they do this by making their gyms a hostile environment for anyone who's actually serious about fitness.

You are just messing around, right? Otherwise, this is awesome. I have always known that the "interval" in "interval workout" refers to the rest but I never met someone who stuck to that after 70 years (since Igloi!). Literally, no human alive still thinks of that definition.

When Rupp said, "We did a lot of hard intervals but not many threshold runs" do you think he is running the rests hard?

When you say "thongs" do you mean underwear or flip-flops? I am guessing you know that humanity is allowed to change the meaning of words, right?

I just don't see PF kicking someone out for that unless the person is obnoxious or argumentative. They will talk to people who are slamming weights beyond reasonable noise.

I'm female and got kicked out of the gym once at university of wisconsin for "intimidating" the other gym users by wearing a sports bra while jogging on a treadmill. One of the other patrons had apparently complained about my shirtlessness to management.

I was kicked out once, but I didn't care. I was stuck on a slow treadmill (couldn't go up past 6:00), so I called a teammate and had a conversation with him about hobbyjoggers on treadmills which wasn't a "welcoming environment"

I was also kicked out once for running shirtless in half tights. I still think that's an overreaction

Planet Fitness advertises their “lunk alarm” for when someone is being obnoxious. I routinely run workouts on the treadmill during the winter. My gym has treadmills that go up to 16 mph…don’t ask me why. I’m sure it looks wild when I’m doing mile reps at 4:50-4:45. Could definitely see PF asking him to stop and then kicking him out if he won’t stop.

Apparently those went to 12!

I’ve thought about this but I have yet to actually blast anything faster than 5:50 mile pace as an adult. I’m sure anything past 12 mph would definitely get you some looks and to some degree absolutely intimidate those around you, because most people at the gym are abysmally out of shape cardio wise and most people just walk on inclines.

when it’s time for intervals it’s usually nice weather out and I feel more focused by myself at the track or flat trail with a gps watch. No need to make a scene bounding like Forrest Gump in the middle of a planet fitness.

Side note when I was like 14 I cranked out a 5 minute mile on a treadmill and my dad got pissed at me saying I was showing off and that I’d fall over, fly off, and hurt myself. He overreacted to stuff like that and was a meathead.

Good point. Unless he's doing an all-out sprint, he tends to run flat-footed and has a heavy-sounding stride even though he's maybe 125 lbs at most. So maybe people were complaining about the pounding noise.

I don't know whether the sweat could have been an issue as well. Have people been kicked out of gyms for dripping sweat onto the treadmill?

Planet Fitness has a no Lunk rule.
Which basically says they don’t want people that work out too hard.

I’m surprised they would even have treadmills that go 12 mph.

He should join CrossFit where being overly dramatic is the norm.