Things I love about Planet Fitness
Feb. 28th, 2013 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
korafox1) It is clean, not stinky, and there are plenty of machines for everyone.
2) There are other women there (even a bunch in the weights section!).
3) No one has even tried to talk to me while I am exercising.
4) THEY HAVE BENCH PRESS SETUPS THAT DON'T REQUIRE A SPOTTER. Seriously, I didn't even know that was an option. But they have the bar on a track with ratchets, and there are stoppers that you can put on it so that the bar won't fall on you if your grip slips. Considering that the big reason why I'd never done an honest-to-goodness bench press was that there was no way in hell I was asking a random stranger to spot me, this is like omg huge. And after a moment of panic, I realized that I am still as strong as I was before because I forgot to add the 20 lbs. of resistance from the bar itself to the total from the weights I actually put on it (whoops).
I definitely think I'm going to get my $10/month's worth on this one.
2) There are other women there (even a bunch in the weights section!).
3) No one has even tried to talk to me while I am exercising.
4) THEY HAVE BENCH PRESS SETUPS THAT DON'T REQUIRE A SPOTTER. Seriously, I didn't even know that was an option. But they have the bar on a track with ratchets, and there are stoppers that you can put on it so that the bar won't fall on you if your grip slips. Considering that the big reason why I'd never done an honest-to-goodness bench press was that there was no way in hell I was asking a random stranger to spot me, this is like omg huge. And after a moment of panic, I realized that I am still as strong as I was before because I forgot to add the 20 lbs. of resistance from the bar itself to the total from the weights I actually put on it (whoops).
I definitely think I'm going to get my $10/month's worth on this one.
