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| - We moved to Beechview a few months ago so I transferred my membership from the Edgewood location to this one. When I go, I only go early, real early, so I can't speak to many of the norms but the gym is clean, the staff are irrelevant but friendly upon entry (irrelevant is a good thing in gym scenarios) and the televisions aren't tuned into Fox News or some other bullshit. Instead, it's local broadcasting and ESPN.
For the record, I don't care much for screens at gyms. It annoys me but not as much as The Planet Fitness Hypocrisy Creed. The no jugs, no strings shirts or sounds of strain (grunts) as well as the shaming lunk or whatever alarm is beyond contrary to what their so called ethos spew.
The pizza, tootsie pops and bagel swag is a good gimmick but it comes off, odd and even has planted seeds in my head of a room full of higher ups at Planet Fitness Headquarters who are sooooooo not judging anybody and are welcoming to all laughing it up about how they assure everlasting business customers with this eat shit foods, free on us, under the guise of not giving a shit and being so fringe when compared and contrasted to your normal type of gym because the model and laws are rooted in, be mediocre. Don't try, trying sucks. Just show up and do whatever and be sure not to miss our free pizza nights and be sure to grab a handful of tootsie rolls on the way out!
At least the tootsie rolls aren't suckers, that would be a far too easy to metaphor to pick apart.
I do like that they have pre-set flat bar and wavy bar weights but honestly, adding some 35lb and 45lb w ights for the smith machines won endorse meatheadness or be the blood in the water to the huff and grunt sharks.....average people can be strong too, you know.
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