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.
But we'd have to build a really large fence. A lot of them have already moved to Florida, California, etc (heck, even Texas) and immediately whine about how backwards we are and how it was much better in their liberal-run hellhole.
Oh, and keep a slice of the Northeast for all the dope-smoking Libertarians while you're at it.
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500 on a machine is different from 500 pounds of free weights. I never got to a point where I could quite deadlift 450, let alone 500. Nor could I squat that high. But I could certainly leg-press with 500 poinds of weights on the sled. I admit that I grunted slightly when I did it though.
I'm old now - I grunt when I have to get out of bed!
The only difference to me is that the 500 pounds on a machine would be different than 500 pounds of free weights crushing my entire abdominal cavity (g).
"What's crystal clear is that police were called to escort him out after the manager (pictured above) came over and there was an argument. "
Just thought you were Korean...
Then why even bother offering weight lifting equipment? Stick to the bicycles, stair-steppers, walkers, juice bars, etc.
Did he grunt on the floor? I surely would!
Slow news day, isn't it?
Live and learn from Jon Carry.
Heaven halp us..
That is weird. Even women with brains will grunt when manhandling weight that is on the edge of their carrying ability (as it, in my humble opinion) helps you get the job done.
Someone should leave that sissy gym and go somewhere where they understand using the body. PC rules in a gym? Who would have thought it!
And that's why we installed a Lunk Alarm. There's no better way to keep you focused on your own workout.
I'm sorry, I can't help picturing the management dragging some poor constipated guy off the John and tossing him out.
Probably no TP in their bathroom anyway. Can't have the patrons going into a bathroom that smells.
Its a judgement free zone, so why are they judging his grunting to be too loud. Isn't that a judgement in a judgement free zone.
Too ridculous.
Next will be no excessive sweating.
LOL, ain't that the truth! We all sound like our fathers now :)
Actually it's about a two hour drive south of Albany! It's Wappinger's Falls - home of Tawana Brawley!! (And about a 20 minute drive from where I live. I was actually just at the Home Depot next door to this Planet Fitness on Halloween)!
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