Is Planet Fitness worth $10/month for treadmills use?

kmaclam wrote:

Is this a rhetorical question? Is it worth $10/month to insure you safely get all your runs in for the month? Throw in a few showers, a few dumps, maybe even do some strength work or core and you'll feel like you're ripping them off.

This is actually the most accurate thing I've read

Actually PF has free weights, ours does. As best as I understand, certified CrossFit trainer takes very little time and provides very little, if any, exercise science info, as compared to certification by ACSM as a legitimate alternative.

Mike Lundgren wrote:

Actually PF has free weights, ours does. As best as I understand, certified CrossFit trainer takes very little time and provides very little, if any, exercise science info, as compared to certification by ACSM as a legitimate alternative.

What's the deal with PF? They've been cropping up all over the metro area where I live...2 within a 5 mile radius! Drove by one which looks trendy and heavily slanted toward cardio equipment. Didn’t see any bodybuilders/powerlifter types, just trendy-dressed people. At 10 bucks a month & no yearly membership fee, how are these gyms going to survive in the "dog eat dog" world of the gym business?

Bob the Bod wrote:

What's the deal with PF? At 10 bucks a month & no yearly membership fee, how are these gyms going to survive in the "dog eat dog" world of the gym business?

The usual business model for gyms-- bank on the fact most members will decrease use/quit within a few months, but make cancelling (the stop-payments portion) a huge hassle. That low price and "safe space for 'real people'" concept really suck people in.

Look up some consumer complaints of that chain.

Beware the Fine Print wrote:

The usual business model for gyms-- bank on the fact most members will decrease use/quit within a few months, but make cancelling (the stop-payments portion) a huge hassle. That low price and "safe space for 'real people'" concept really suck people in.

I think it's more than that. There are too many gyms & clubs opening up & somehow staying in business. Within a 6 -7 mile radius of where I live (4.0 million pop/SW region), there are two PFs, two 24 hr clubs, 1 TruFit, 1 Chuse club & 1 fully equipped Rec center with aquatics, weight room, cardio center, etc. And these places are crowded from mid-afternoon thru late evening M-F. I workout at both 24 hr clubs and I've never seen it like this in years; young - old, heavy- thin, bodybuilders - cardio enthusiasts, etc. You'd think it's somekind of workout boom in the 21st century. Lots of middle-age dudes also, as if they all came out of their man caves at once 😄. Funny thing - I thought we were a nation of fat, lazy, sedentary people...could have fooled me (at least in the region where I live).

They're killing the YMCA.