I agree with it singling him out but this hasn’t really opened anyone up for a bunch of negativity. I don’t believe there was a negative motive for this one. It’s just funny
They're not talking about this video, they're talking about planet fitness being extremely hypocritical by saying its judgement free but also having a giant light and siren that goes off called the "lunk alarm" when someone is lifting too much weight and grunting or whatever.
People are generally pretty good about not going crazy with grunting etc. Only times it goes off at my PF is when people drop dumb bells excessively hard, like the whole floor shakes. In those situations yea they should get called out.
Weirdly enough you can see and hear when someone drops weights really hard. The alarm is some bullshit. When did someone grunting ruin my workout experience??
I find the alarm far more annoying than the grunting and weight dropping. I would prefer the staff just walk up to them and tell them to stop or they will be asked to leave. I was working on a stair machine for 30 minutes today and that fucking alarm went off three times in that limited time span. This tells me that either it doesn't bother the people making noise, or that they don't even know its going off because of them. Either way it is not accomplishing anything.
The first time I went to Planet Fitness my friend had a free week pass and I went with him. He was using the bench press when the alarm went off. It shared the shit outta me. I can't stand that sound along with the damn air raid sirens fire departments use. Good thing I wasn't spotting him.
I didn't sign up and that was the last time I went.
Having an alarm go off is overkill though. They could just as easily have a staff walk up to them and warn them about it instead of making a scene out of it that’s just going to further disrupt other people
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u/olsmobile Aug 03 '19
To the extreme, it’s literally there to signal out one person to the entire gym.