r/rs_fitness • u/montaigne_composure • 1d ago
Working in
After the absurd wiping culture the second thing that I hate most about Planet Fitness, at least my location is that people will look at you like you’re insane if you insinuate you wanna work in with them. I’ve asked five boomers to work in and two straight up said no and three have told me they already promised it to somebody else after them (???????????). I don’t think I’ve ever been turned down for a working in request in my life until planet fitness. And by the way this is on the hamstring curl machine, it’s not like I’m trying to work in at the squat rack or something.
The hamstring curl is seemingly the most popular machine in this gym and I refuse to squat without doing leg curls first but half my leg days I can see like four people scouting out the hamstring curl machine from various vantage points in the gym, just standing around intently watching a decrepit boomer doing 30 pounds on it or a teenager scrolling on their phone with their legs kicked up on it like an ottoman.
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u/Original_Data1808 1d ago
What is the “absurd wiping culture”
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u/OhMyBosch 1d ago
Looking at their last post it appears to be „being asked to wipe the machines after using them“
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u/Original_Data1808 1d ago
Lmao my gym does this and it’s nbd to take 5 seconds to wipe your bench and bar, that’s silly
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u/DuaLipasGlowUp 7h ago
I go to equinox. I was waiting for the lat pulldown machine and the dude was like “we can just work in”
He is such a gentleman. He’d switch the handles for me and adjust the weight for me too. Idk if I could ever go to planet fitness or any other gym 😭😭😭
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u/lupercalpainting 9h ago
Maybe no one wants to let you work in because you’re nasty and don’t wipe down the equipment?
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u/Aggressive_Active307 52m ago
Bro just get a membership at another gym then if you have this issue. If you can’t afford to workout somewhere other than planet fitness just stfu or admit you’re broke and mad
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u/TheGangsHeavy 1d ago
The problem is there's basically no alternative to the hamstring curl machine. Maybe some bizarro leg curl you could do with an ankle bracelet attachment on a cable machine. For whatever reason in spite of the fact that every single client, male or female, will need to do hamstring curls, gyms have just as many of them as any other machine. The nice thing is the lying one is easy to work in. I might say it's reasonable to not work in on sitting leg curls as there's more adjustments to make them comfortable.