Judgment Free Zone

I pay a ridiculously low monthly fee to work out at Planet Fitness. It took me a while to get used to not having all the amenities that Orchard Hills had, which also broke the bank at the undiscounted price of $75 per month. I had a corporate discount making it $50 per month and at this point I was living at my parents’ house, had no car payments, or much of any financial responsibilities due to living at home, so it wasn’t too much to offer up. Orchard Hills had classes going from before dawn and after dark, indoor pool, outdoor pool with water slide, indoor and outdoor tennis, indoor and outdoor basketball, indoor track, insane amount of weights and machines, not to mention the thousands of variations of cardio machines. Just simply walking into this facility made me feel happy and motivated. I guess the fifty bucks automatically coming out of my bank account motivated me just as well.

Well, so now I go to planet fitness which has no classes, courts, pools, or anything CLOSE to what I’m used to (yeah yeah, I’m a snob…). But with the help of someone (thanks J!), I have learned how to motivated myself without all the fancy services and classes, although I do miss the free yoga. Planet Fitness’s “thing” is that it’s the judgment free zone. Yeah…right… I’m all for not judging at the gym, because it can be pretty intimidating at times when you feel new and out of place, but at the same time I feel planet fitness goes against what they’re going for by having the “Lunk Alarm”.  As one can see, the link alarm is a planet fitness made up slang for one who grunts, drops weights, or judges.  I have seen this go off twice, and its horribly awkward. They are judging people who actually want to lift weights. Want to see the lunk alarm go bad? Watch this video:



yeah, when it went off at my planet fitness, that didn't happen...thank goodness.