Planet Fitness Must Be Stopped

Planet Fitness has a new ad in their campaign of exclusion.  For those of you who don't know, their motto is your planet not theirs.  The only way we have of knowing who "they" are is by watching the commercials.  In this case "they" could either be large black men or people with obvious cases of tourette's. 

I realize that the gentleman in the commercial may be intimidating, but I live in a country were all men are created equal and, hopefully, where we don't judge others by the color of their skin, but by content of their character. 

Maybe it because of this gentleman's tic.  He obviously is suffering from tourette's and can't help but saying bam and twitching his muscles.  Planet Fitness should be lifting this man up that we was able to get that large with such an obvious hinderence to his ability to work out.  This ad is anti ADA. 

More reasons to boycott Planet Fitness

Not everyone cares about Austrian Prejudice, so I have come up with some more reasons to Boycott planet fitness. 
1.  The lunk alarm-  Apparently, planet fitness has an alarm that goes off is someone is slamming weights (reasonable), lifting a whole lot of weight (safety issues, maybe) or is grunting(?).  What, it is a gym right?  The lunk alarm is apparently a way for them to get rid of the body building/weightlifting crowd.  I guess this is in an effort to keep roids out of the gym.  What I hear is that you are not allowed to push yourself.  I am not a bodybuilder, but when I work out, I grunt or moan.  At least I am breathing right.  It is a dumb rule and I am sure that people will tone down their workout so the don’t get the alarm blared at them.  Every Planet fitness I have been to has about a billion people on the treadmill all with iPods stuck in their ears and an almost empty weight room.  Now I know why. 
2.  Free Pizza-  Yeah, they give out free pizza once a month.  But wait, it isn’t just free pizza, it is all you can eat free Pizza.  Most people at the gym are running away from pizza and foods like that.  The people are there to either lose or maintain current weight.   Pizza is there enemy, and all you can eat free pizza is their arch nemesis.  Wait there is more.  Free bagels once a week.  Sure it is nice to get a breakfast on the go, but bagels are evil because you almost have to put that free crème cheese on them.  I think these days cater to the marathon crowd.  I know when I ran marathons, I didn’t care what I ate, because it was all going into the furnace.  I could eat 4k calories a day and not gain a pound.  I would have literally ate these days up.

Really for 10 bucks a month it is worth it just for all you can eat pizza!

3.  Judgment free Zone-  So you aren’t allowed to be judgmental at Planet Fitness.  I guess that means no correcting peoples form so they don’t injure themselves.  But aren’t they being judgmental.  Hey, you, big guy with the muscles.  We don’t want your kind here.  Hey stop grunting, you are making this guy curling 3 pound weights feel bad.  Planet Fitness is in the business of judging others, it seems. 
So, it looks like Planet Fitness is all about cardio to me.  There is no grunting in cardio and runners like it quiet so they can hear their iPods.  Runners are usually sticks because they burn muscle as well as fat, so PF gets rid of the intimidating muscle guys.  Free pizza and bagels.  Yep, runners are all over that.  Why not just call it planet treadmill. 
Who loses here?  Obviously the weightlifters lose out on a $10 dollar per month gym membership.  New people lose out too, though.  Say a person wants to get into shape but doesn’t want to run 40 miles a week to do it.  They also don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on a home gym.  $10 a month sounds like a great deal.  The decide to join so they can start working out.  They get there and there are no gym rats there to help them with their form so they get the most benefit for the least risk.  They lose mentors.  In the spring and summer when the runners hop off the dreadmill and hit the street there aren’t going to be many people in the place at all.  New person tries to lift some appropriate wait but finds himself straining at the 8th rep and wants to grunt, so he stops right when he is getting the most benefit. 
Planet Fitness is just planet cardio

They go from no judgment to judgment. How is not their planet, yours equal judgment free?

I lift things up and put them down!

Planet Fitness apparently thinks it is okay to discriminate against Austrians.  The sales guy’s attitude does a complete 180 when he hears the accent.  Until he finally leads the poor guy outside and locks him out.  The commercial ends with the words, not his planet… yours.  Is this aimed at all foreigners or just Austrians.  The ending is really scary as it says that this guy doesn’t even deserve a place on our planet.  Is planet fitness suggesting genocide.  Maybe it starts with the Austrians but where does it stop.  You shouldn’t have to hid your nationality in order to work out. 
Join me in boycotting this company for their discriminatory actions.  Austrians have just as much right to this planet as the rest of us.  Sure they are a private company and can deny service to anyone they want legally, but we don’t have to stand back and support this rhetoric with our gym memberships. 
Austria, We support your people!