Posted on 11/03/2006 6:39:08 PM PST by stainlessbanner
ALBANY, N.Y. -- You could forgive a guy for grunting while lifting 500 pounds -- unless you're the owners of a place called Planet Fitness.
It turns out that grunting isn't allowed in their universe.
Corrections officer Albert Argibay learned that the hard way this week. He was hoisting 500 pounds on a machine at the Wappingers Falls, N.Y., gym when the manager said he grunted -- in violation of the Planet Fitness rules.
Argibay said whether or not he grunted is "open to interpretation." What's crystal clear is that police were called to escort him out after the manager came over and there was an argument.
The gym said they don't allow grunting because it conflicts with the non-intimidating atmosphere they strive for.
The gym, which refers to itself as the judge-free zone, has the following statement on its Web site:
Planet Fitness strives to promote health in a respectful atmosphere. For over a decade, Planet Fitness has gone to great lengths to provide its members with a friendly space to work out. We call it the Judgment Free Zone. We discourage weight dropping and obnoxious grunting so you can focus on your own workout and not the person next to you.
Thanks, bookmarked. If I pace myself, it'll be good for a week's worth of laughs. I might need that after election day.
I don't remember that one, but I might have been drunk.
If I wasn't drunk when I started it, than I probably was by the time I finished it, with an aching jaw from all the laughing.
ROFL! (but not grunting--that would be unladylike).
susie
LMAO.
Good grief!
Say WHAT!
This Planet Fitness must be more of a Bally’s type meat market than a serous fitness gym.
As scewry as it appears, the policy must work. The Gym is a big chain.
Have they banned sweating yet?
"Say WHAT!
This Planet Fitness must be more of a Bally’s type meat market than a serous fitness gym."
Looking at their website, I'd agree. What's next, you get thrown out if your workout clothes don't match? Whatever! This place is a joke.
If this guy is lifting 500, he needs to be in a serious gym, where they care about performance - and can help him lift at that level *safely* -, not "judgement free" zones - their whole marketing campaign caters to the very people I want to avoid.
I wonder if he has a Gold's Gym nearby.
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