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Planet fitness new locations
Posted on 7/15/19 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 7/15/19 at 3:47 pm
Does anyone have any insight into this? Hoping the Gordon’s closure in Bucktown next to vets or the closed toys r us for kids location on vets turns into one. There’s really no good fitness gym in this area except for ochsner fitness, which is overpriced and on top of a parking garage. The rest are in Lakeview like the parks or anytime that are overpriced and crowded.
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Posted on 7/15/19 at 4:24 pm to ScaryClown
Planet Fitness is the Spirit Airlines of Gyms.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 8:53 pm to ScaryClown
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No good fitness gyms
Planet fitness won’t help that
Posted on 7/15/19 at 9:33 pm to bayou85
I’m not a meathead that needs all these ridiculous CrossFit and machines that nobody knows how to use. Planet fitness will be just fine for what I’m trying to do and I’ve always been just as strong as most with the basics.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 9:33 pm to ScaryClown
Planet Fitness is the gym people go to after they drop off their wife's son at daycare.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 9:56 pm to ScaryClown
I workout at the snap in Lakeview. There's nobody ever there.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 9:59 pm to ScaryClown
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Planet fitness will be just fine for what I’m trying to do and I’ve always been just as strong as most with the basics.
When the dumbbells only go to 60, how will you know?
I'm just joking. Look, something is always better than nothing. My beef with PF is their silly policies on DB weight, no barbells or squat racks leaves you capped in progressive overload or stuck in a smith machine wrenching your joints through an artificial range of motion.
But if your goals don't involve progressive overload past a certain point and PF is an option you'll use, something is vastly better than nothing.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:29 pm to ScaryClown
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I’m not a meathead that needs all these ridiculous CrossFit and machines that nobody knows how to use.
Real meatheads don’t use machines. We add our share of skin to the sacred iron bar. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
For real though, if all you just want a place to stay generally fit, PF is fine. However, you will get some shite for going to PF. They aren’t friendly to people who seriously strength train, who make up a lot of the guys who post here.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:36 pm to Rep520
I’ve never actually been to a planet fitness so I don’t know the policies. So there’s no bench press or incline barbells? I just want something close to the house or I’ll never go. I definitely would want dumbbells up to at least 80 too.
I have zero desire to do more than the bare minimum to stay in shape. Bench press, incline, flys, hate doing back but I’ll do lat pulldowns occasionally and I can do shoulders with anything. I hate doing legs, I will never do legs at the gym and I’m thankful for not having chicken legs naturally.
And the Gordon’s just looks like a prime spot for a planet fitness because it’s so big. Only reason I said that gym.
I have zero desire to do more than the bare minimum to stay in shape. Bench press, incline, flys, hate doing back but I’ll do lat pulldowns occasionally and I can do shoulders with anything. I hate doing legs, I will never do legs at the gym and I’m thankful for not having chicken legs naturally.
And the Gordon’s just looks like a prime spot for a planet fitness because it’s so big. Only reason I said that gym.
This post was edited on 7/15/19 at 10:43 pm
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:41 pm to ScaryClown
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I’ve never actually been to a planet fitness so I don’t know the policies. So there’s no bench press or incline barbells? I just want something close to the house or I’ll never go. I definitely would want dumbbells up to at least 80 too
I think they have bench, but that's the only non-fixed barbell. I've heard some gyms have a single bench too.
Dummbells, I've seen people post limits of 50-80 lb, never really anything beyond 80, though.
As with most gyms, I'd take a look around it before you commit to a membership. PF does vary a bit location to location from what I've seen.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:42 pm to ScaryClown
PF has a limit on the weight of the dumbbells and no free bars. Everything is either a smith machine or another machine. Their whole platform is that it’s a “judgement free” gym. In other words, it’s not for people who truly want to push their bodies to achieve real measures of strength, endurance and athleticism.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:45 pm to DeafJam73
That’s me exactly but no barbells is a bit extreme. I thought it was $10 a month too which may be way off. That was extremely appealing.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:49 pm to ScaryClown
No, their price is really low. It’s a wonder they make money. You’d think they’d price themselves out of business. I guess they get so many people who sign up with a half arse effort, sign them up for a year, the members stop going and forget to cancel because they don’t notice the $10 leaving every month.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:50 pm to DeafJam73
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PF has a limit on the weight of the dumbbells and no free bars. Everything is either a smith machine or another machine.
I've seen PF's with real benches. It just depends.
UF Powerlifter, who has a crazy bench, has a few bench videos from PF. He's gotten in trouble there for benching over 400 at 154 lb bodyweight, which should tell you about the PF mindset. Heavy stuff is scary.
This post was edited on 7/15/19 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:53 pm to Rep520
I bet the real reason is that they don’t pay shite for liability. Increases profit margin. Don’t have to pay for good insurance if you don’t allow anyone to get hurt for pushing real weight.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 10:58 pm to DeafJam73
Part of it is they sell themselves like that. You don't have to be intimidated by people lifting heavy. You literally can't lift heavy enough to intimidate.
You do get free pizza and bagels.
You do get free pizza and bagels.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 11:03 pm to Rep520
Posted on 7/15/19 at 11:13 pm to Rep520
So what is considered heavy? I don’t really go above 225lbs on bench because I never have a spotter
Posted on 7/16/19 at 9:44 am to Bonkers119
Calling Planet Fitness a gym is offensive
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