[Medic42]

(03-19-2015 06:24 PM)Killface Wrote:  

Then the second photo is of a muscular male with a giant red circle and a slash. What if we opened a gym franchise with an image of a fat chick in the same circle, and posted a 10x10 NO FAT CHICKS on the wall? This is exactly the same as what they're doing...but we all know that some authority or activist group would find a way to either murder us, jail us, or otherwise destroy our lives.

[Sonoma]

I used to live in the ghetto and to be honest Planet Fitness can be beneficial for the super poor

I've used it as a showering stop on road trips for 20 dolla a month, throw in tanning and a work out here and there and it's really not a bad deal at all

[Simeon_Strangelight]

They are filling a smart market void:

However it is amazing how they can essentially boycott their customer base's goals by feeding them pizza.
It's like an AA group that offers a free alcohol buffet instead of coffee and donuts.

[N°6]

(03-19-2015 06:36 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

This is the gym that feeds its patrons free pizza, candy and donuts. I'm not making this up. They know their market and they're exploiting it. I can't blame them.

It is fascinating to see how the Marxist Dialectical materialist process can be applied to the human body within materialist capitalist nations.

[It_is_my_time]

I remember hearing about this place like 10 years ago on bodybuilding.com. At first I thought it was a joke. But now I see it is an excellent business model that is spreading coast to coast.

Soon the entire fitness industry will probably be Planet Fitness v. everyone else.

I just hope Planet Fitness never buys out the gym I use. Or I will have to find another and probably drive farther to use the gym.

[Saweeep]

I just find the whole concept amazing; utterly amazing.

Being in the industry, I know many, many private gym owners in the UK; bodybuilding/powerlifting only places only survive due to the owners' gear selling hustles...that's where most of them make the big £££.

Ultimately PF and the like cater to the mainstream; it may be a mainstream we on RVF loathe, but mainstream it is nonetheless.

[Medic42]

(03-20-2015 02:23 AM)N°6 Wrote:  

It is fascinating to see how the Marxist Dialectical materialist process can be applied to the human body within materialist capitalist nations.

[Drazen]

[Cr33pin]

[la_mode]

Truthfully, it's a genius business model in the west. I guarantee every member on the board of directors is laughing their way to the bank. They probably make jokes about it among each other.

How about this:

For the price, you can walk in, blast some Rage Against The Machine on your headphones, use the equipment, ignore the idiotic propaganda, do some "lat blasting" as the Chicago guidos called it back in the day, and walk out when you're done.

Rinse and repeat.

[brick tamland]

Make no mistakes the mass market gym chains are in the sales business, not the fitness business - this is because they absolutely do not have to even try to get you fitter or healthier or slimmer. They just have to allow you to walk through the door. If the average chump wants to get 'serious' they'll sell him the pricey personal training options. They are salesmen because imagine if even 10% of members were actually inside the gym at the same time.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

(04-04-2015 05:13 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

Make no mistakes the mass market gym chains are in the sales business, not the fitness business - this is because they absolutely do not have to even try to get you fitter or healthier or slimmer. They just have to allow you to walk through the door. If the average chump wants to get 'serious' they'll sell him the pricey personal training options. They are salesmen because imagine if even 10% of members were actually inside the gym at the same time.

As a matter of fact those kind of gyms are a novelty in most countries in the world. In many countries gyms are actually trying to offer full services as if all their customers would be coming often and thus charge relatively high prices.

It is an untapped market and people could copy it. You would be surprised to find out that in EE usually the lowest price around 20-30$ per month with incomes around 300-1000$. (effective price base is thus more around 200-300$ for Western countries in income disparity value) More Planet Fitness style of gyms should open with prices of 5-10$ and pizza night, discouraging hardcore fitness goers to come etc.

It is funny in fact how many businesses are opened just by guys copying established ones somewhere else and applying their model in a different country where it has not been tried before.

[INegUThenLol]

(03-19-2015 06:24 PM)Killface Wrote:  

What if we opened a gym franchise with an image of a fat chick in the same circle, and posted a 10x10 NO FAT CHICKS on the wall?[/b]

It has been done

[evilhei]

(04-04-2015 05:21 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

(04-04-2015 05:13 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

Make no mistakes the mass market gym chains are in the sales business, not the fitness business - this is because they absolutely do not have to even try to get you fitter or healthier or slimmer. They just have to allow you to walk through the door. If the average chump wants to get 'serious' they'll sell him the pricey personal training options. They are salesmen because imagine if even 10% of members were actually inside the gym at the same time.

As a matter of fact those kind of gyms are a novelty in most countries in the world. In many countries gyms are actually trying to offer full services as if all their customers would be coming often and thus charge relatively high prices.

It is an untapped market and people could copy it. You would be surprised to find out that in EE usually the lowest price around 20-30$ per month with incomes around 300-1000$. (effective price base is thus more around 200-300$ for Western countries in income disparity value) More Planet Fitness style of gyms should open with prices of 5-10$ and pizza night, discouraging hardcore fitness goers to come etc.

It is funny in fact how many businesses are opened just by guys copying established ones somewhere else and applying their model in a different country where it has not been tried before.

Its true. Here in Estonia average gym price is about 60 euros per month. Even the chain gyms are charging like 60-70 euros per month. 1 time ticket cost like 10 euros. I pay something around 75 euros for my gym. And all the gyms are full also! when somebody would open a gym where the monthly fee is around 20-30 euros, it would be flooded!

[jamaicabound]

There's this guy phonelosersofamerica on youtube who does prank calls and he's always calling planet fintness fucking with them telling them to turn on the lunk alarm for a minute long. I always thought it was like a fire alarm, that's hilarious do they actually have an alarm to call out certain types of behavior in the gym?

I was almost going to look into joining as its $9.99 and not too far from my home but probably not after reading your post.

As far as the living in an rv thing man I'd love to read a datasheet or some of your experiences. I'm thinking about putting in anohter year of work on my business and then maybe do the vandwelling thing for 6 months or a year and travel so would love to hear about your lifestyle in another post.

[Cr33pin]

He as a good take on PF

[lemko]

(03-19-2015 06:36 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

This is the gym that feeds its patrons free pizza, candy and donuts. I'm not making this up. They know their market and they're exploiting it. I can't blame them.

I wonder which guy goes to Planet Fitness?

[Repo]

I love planet fitness. It keeps the people who come to a gym to just mess around and socialize away from my gym.

[RexImperator]

[Carboneraser]

There's a reason they have 4000 treadmills per building.

I'm going to a fit4less (extension of goodlife). It just opened up in an old shoe store. No showers. Limited free weights. They do have about 1 of every machine, a few benches and then 20 treadmills. It's the nofrills of gyms.

For 8.99 a month, 24 hours, 10 minute bike ride from home, how could I not?

Planet fitness though... I was tempted- ill admit.

Can't do it though.

Nope.

Took a tour.

Nope nope nope.

[TheWastelander]

(03-20-2015 01:55 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

It's like an AA group that offers a free alcohol buffet instead of coffee and donuts.

That's a hilarious comparison that rings true.

[speakeasy]

(04-04-2015 02:38 AM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

Hah. It's almost hard to tell that that's a parody!

[samsamsam]

^^ it is on the official planet fitness youtube channel. Interesting they would make fun of how lazy some of their members are.

[Repo]

I died at pizza resistant fabric in the video.

[Dr. Howard]

Planet fitness is not a gym, its an ability to massage one's ego. Like the fat chick who can go calorie crazy when pregnant because she's 'eating for two'...having a gym membership makes people think they are somehow "more fit". Even if they walk in and eat pizza while doing back extensions (that can't be real) they can say "hey, I went to the gym, I deserve this pizza". Alternatively it may also be for social acceptance, some squishy fattie can talk about 'how all of the treadmills were busy with sweaty dudes' at the water cooler with Jen Selter because she 'also works out' and is now cool.

Whoever figured this out is a genius...probably some guy that was a personal trainer, but noticed that he had clients that just wanted to say they had a personal trainer vs. actually working out.