So one of the most ridiculous things about Planet Fitness has always been the infamous Lunk Alarm, a wall mounted siren and light that goes off when “lunk” behavior occurs, most often dropping weights or anything that creates a lot of noise. I have seen examples of just loud grunting setting it off. The last time I was a member of Planet Fitness the staff said the lunk alarm was not even connected anymore but still on the wall in front of the free weight area. I never heard it go off during my second term as a PF member. (it did the first time I joined)
Well I am happy to report that it still must be disconnected based on the circumstances I saw today. Some man was using the cable machine to do standing chest fly. He would grab each handle and then walk his body forward a good foot or two. After he completed each set he couldn’t be bothered with returning the handles to the starting position in a controlled manner. Instead he would let go with the weight stack a good 6-12 inches suspended over the unused weights, causing them to crash loudly, much louder than normal lunk alarm tolerances. The siren remained silent which I was happy to hear however I was not happy this idiot was using a weight stack as cymbals. After he got a couple doses of WTF stinkeye from myself and others he was a little more orderly at the end of his sets.
The noise is one thing but the real problem is doing shit like that breaks the equipment which affects everyone else in the gym that wants to use it. I have ranted on here long and hard about people that treat a public space like a gym as their own personal domain. Be courteous you f’in morons, it isn’t that difficult.
I used some of the new Hammer Strength equipment today as part of shoulder and back day. It seemed to be pretty solid and functional.
Today’s Workout
5 minutes cardio/stretching
Supinated grip seated pull downs – 170lbs x 10
Seated shoulder press – 120lbs x 10
Supinated grip seated pull downs – 190lbs x 10
Seated shoulder press – 160lbs x 10
Supinated grip seated pull downs – 220lbs x 8
Seated shoulder press – 200lbs x 10
Seated row – 140lbs x 10
Standing dumbbell shoulder shrug – 140lbs x 10
Seated row – 160lbs x 10
Standing dumbbell shoulder shrug – 150lbs x 10
Seated row – 200lbs x 8
Standing dumbbell shoulder shrug – 150lbs x 10
Bent over single arm dumbbell row – 75lbs x 8
Standing straight arm dumbbell shoulder raise – 20lbs x 10
Bent over single arm dumbbell row – 75lbs x 8
Standing straight arm dumbbell shoulder raise – 25lbs x 8
I did my first lower body weight training for my third stint as a Planet Fitness member. For my compund lower body movement I did the plate loaded leg press sled which evidently is much tougher than the pivot type leg press they had at Retro. I started seeing stars with only 5 plates on each side, something that used to take six plates per side to happen with the other press. Other than that things went fine. I have noticed the three smith machines, that are my only half decent option for barbell chest pushing movements are almost always in use, something that could get quite annoying down the road and a byproduct of the chain stupidly pulling the few conventional barbell benches they had remaining.
