Weightroom

378 readers

1 users here now

Welcome to Weightroom

Weightroom is a community for barbell and dumbbell strength and hypertrophy training, including powerlifting, beginner routines, conditioning and serious gym progress.

Start Here: TheFitness.Wiki

The best beginner-friendly resource, curated from /r/Fitness and /r/Weightroom.

Recommended reading:

Muscle building 101
Weight loss 101
Routines

Recommended apps:

Boostcamp
Hevy

Weekly Threads:

Weekly training logs - Monday
Weekend questions - Friday

Rules:

Be respectful. Everyone starts somewhere

For general fitness check out !fitness@lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works

Turns out that Planet Fitness isn't so bad! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/Weightroom@sh.itjust.works

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I know most people in the weightlifting world hate Planet Fitness. Clunk Alarms, no free weights, to may treadmills, etc.

Maybe my local one is the exception the the rule?

My insurance lets me have free Planet Fitness membership. So I went to check it out. Joined up. Worked out. Been going for about 6 weeks now.

I go in around 11 am and stay until about 12:30 pm. I work out w free weights, then machines to really exhaust everything, then cardio for last 30 minutes.

They have plenty of freeweights, lots of machines, in addition to lots of usual treadmills, stairmasters, etc.

But I love it. Never had anyone at all from staff even look at me strange. The front desk guy is huge. I asked about the clunk alarm, he said it's for show and not even turned on. And he said he has worked there for a year and hasn't ever had to ask anyone to leave for any reason.

And for me, during weekdays that I go, it's mostly yoga moms, so the weights are all freed up for me.

I have fully stocked home gym too, squat rack, etc. But I like the vibe of a gym, and my home gym is now for bad weather or weekends.

Because even tho Planet Fitness has been fine for me during the weekday, I'm not gonna go during the weekends. I'm sure that everything that is supposed to be annoying about the place comes true on weekends or peak times. lol

Now would I pay for Planet Fitness? I guess so, since it's so inexpensive and I've been there now. But because of it's rep, I wouldn't have even stepped foot in there if it hadn't been for the fact that I get free membership.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I get that. I honestly wouldn't even go to an outside gym if I didn't get it for free, because my home gym has evertything. But I found out I push myself harder when I am at a real gym and in the inside gym.

I feel ya on the physical labor front. Last summer, I decided to moonlight with the school's janitorial crew during my teaching break. Figured, "how hard can it really be?" Oh man..I was wrong. Between the deep cleaning, operating heavy machinery, and maintaining the outdoor grounds, I thought I was going to either die or end up permanently disabled.

No joke, it took nearly six months for my lower back and knees to stop screaming at me. That shit is definitely a young person's game!

On a related note, my girlfriend's 13-year-old son is a total string bean who's suddenly got the workout bug. I'm planning to bring him to the gym with me, but we'll stick to light weights for now since he's still young. He's also talking about joining the track team, so I'll run with him to get him ready. Hopefully, he catches the fitness bug and makes it a lifelong habit.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where I'm at, PF offers free membership to High-Schoolers over the summer. I seem to recall my kids told me there wasn't really any verification done, so as long as whatever kid is old enough to use the equipment per PF policy, he might be able sign-up even as a middle-schooler. Then again, he's probably in or going-in to HS already, but I figured this could be useful to you.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

I'll look into the details, thanks