So we have a new Planet Fitness, and one of their selling points is the "no lunk" behavior policy.
This is basically a no bullying/intimidating policy.
It's mostly standard, but one of the "rules" is no grunting.
Now, I use to lift weights back in the day, when your in the middle of a 3rd or fourth rep it isn't unusual to grunt or groan some.
Does it bother you if there is grunting by others at the gym?
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It's creepy, but I understand the premise. I would suppose it's much like yelling in martial arts while board breaking. It diverts your energy and attention so you feel less pain.
I think some grunting/groaning is acceptable. However, if someone is screaming and grunting at the top of their lungs then yeah, that's gonna be annoying to others. However, there may be some sounds when physically challenging oneself. If someone can't handle a little grunt here and there, then best to work out at home. I don't grunt or groan but if others do from time to time so what?
How does one enforce that? It's like the whole anti-bullying campaign at schools. Makes kids wimp and whine every time someone looks sideways at them and there is no actual way to enforce it.
Gyms can enforce it however they want. If you are loud and disruptive, they can ask you to leave. When you join a gym you sign a form and usually it covers stuff like that.
I hate gyms. I haven't "joined" a gym since the 1980's. I did use a community treadmill at the condo where I lived for a couple years, but during odd hours when it wasn't busy. When we bought our house, we bought a treadmill so I wouldn't have to leave the comfort of my home. When I do exercise, I prefer to do it alone in private.
Way back, way, way, back, gyms were for working out, not socializing.
But, yeah, you sometimes had a sound escape as hefted your load.
I think it's crazy to have these rules.
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Gyms can enforce it however they want. If you are loud and disruptive, they can ask you to leave. When you join a gym you sign a form and usually it covers stuff like that.
again, all well and good to say it and put it in a contract, but who decides what bullying is? The whiner who got looked at sideways? The girl who didn't get the treadmill she wanted and was told to use another one by the person who got 'hers'? The person who is seen naked in the shower and doesn't like it? The girl who thinks she owns a locker and it got taken before she could use it?
What would actual bullying be in a gym? Throwing a 10lb weight at someone? Wouldn't that be straight up assault?
Who defines bullying and who walks around the gym making sure that nobody is looking at someone else funny or stealing their favourite treadmill while they fill their water bottle?
Once when I was using a treadmill, a guy came in and stood directly behind me, waiting for me to finish. He actually stood there, leaning against the wall, and I had 28 minutes to go. (I had just started). It made me uncomfortable. What did I do? I quietly let out a toot. Once the smell was released, he moved on to another piece of equipment. And from there after, he never waited for the treadmill by standing behind me again.
Once when I was using a treadmill, a guy came in and stood directly behind me, waiting for me to finish. He actually stood there, leaning against the wall, and I had 28 minutes to go. (I had just started). It made me uncomfortable. What did I do? I quietly let out a toot. Once the smell was released, he moved on to another piece of equipment. And from there after, he never waited for the treadmill by standing behind me again.
That is, the guy, what Planet Fitness calls a Lunk.
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Well, I like the rule. There is a gym here and the grunting and yelling is WAY overboard. It's always the dbags that walk around with their gallon milk jugs full of water and the ones that are there every time I went in.
We absolutely love Planet Fitness. All that grunting is for show and I just don't care to be around it...
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That's another thing not allowed. Gallon jugs of anything.
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I just choose not to be around those people. I don't want to hear their screams and their weights dropping. And I don't want to have to walk around their jugs.
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I just choose not to be around those people. I don't want to hear their screams and their weights dropping. And I don't want to have to walk around their jugs.
Now, how do you expect them to get rid of those manboobs if they can't workout hard?
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Hydrating during exercise is a GOOD thing. And they ARE likely working out harder than you.
I'm sure they are from all the pain it's obviously causing them.
They can do what they want. But that will drive all the other into somewhere like Planet Fitness. One gym has already closed since they have been open, others will most definitely follow suit. They Dbags can't support a gym on their own...
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I just choose not to be around those people. I don't want to hear their screams and their weights dropping. And I don't want to have to walk around their jugs.
Now, how do you expect them to get rid of those manboobs if they can't workout hard?
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You can have water bottles, and refill them as often as you like.
But you can't workout and drink at the same time.
It's really pointless to have a gallon jug.
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I think some grunting/groaning is acceptable. However, if someone is screaming and grunting at the top of their lungs then yeah, that's gonna be annoying to others. However, there may be some sounds when physically challenging oneself. If someone can't handle a little grunt here and there, then best to work out at home. I don't grunt or groan but if others do from time to time so what?
I agree with this. What is next? Heavy breathing?
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Way back, way, way, back, gyms were for working out, not socializing.
But, yeah, you sometimes had a sound escape as hefted your load.
I think it's crazy to have these rules.
I was a member of a club that had a bar in it. Not kidding.
I would expect a bar in a club.
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I love cell phone bans in public places. All restaurants should be cell phone free. If you need to have a 'power lunch' and look all important as you take your calls, get a private boardroom or something. I don't need to hear about how you're so important.
How are they going to control grunting? That's ridiculous.
Oh, they do. It's not the occasional little grunt they are banning. It's the body builders that grunt and scream through an entire workout. You can tell a BIG difference from gym to gym...
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I used to date a body builder. He wouldn't go to the flowery gyms. The gyms for serious body builders are usually in small warehouse type places and membership is cheap. Very few machines, mostly free weights. But this was 20 years ago, so who knows now.
And why it's important to find the gym that fits you.
Back in the 80s, it was hard to find a gym for women that had real weights.
But, looking back, I probably went to hard.
But I loved working with weights.
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