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06-29-2012, 02:27 PM
From a capitalist perspective, this might be quite effective.
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06-29-2012, 02:27 PM
If that was a gym near me, I'd just wear a fat suit.
That way, I could guarantee all the useful stuff would always be free, because the fatties are hardly going to be squatting or deadlifting or anything other than walking on the treadmills.
Pro-Business Tip: Find out where the fat gyms are and start a McDonalds franchise next door. It'll be like printing money.
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06-29-2012, 02:43 PM
They forgot one important thing. Once you get out of gym you don't exercise, therefore you get fat. They are recycling customers.
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06-29-2012, 02:52 PM
Good business model.
Fat people don't use the machines often since they quit going to the gym.
Gym rats are a gym's nightmare. We wear out the equipment.
From an owner's perspective: Ideally a person pays his $99 initiation fee, gets on auto-billing for a one-year contract, and never goes back to the year.
Fatties are thus ideal for many gym owners.
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06-29-2012, 03:40 PM
So you're fat, you hit the gym and lose a ton of weight. They ban you? Now that is motivation at it's best.
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06-29-2012, 06:53 PM
Isn't Curves a fatty gym? I guess they're trying to compete with them!
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06-29-2012, 07:21 PM
Can fat asses even do any excercises besides walking?
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06-29-2012, 07:33 PM
Do you have to weight in before you're able to enter the gym? If you don't make weight you got to head over to the donut shop on the corner to bulk up.
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06-30-2012, 02:25 AM
Yea curves is a female gym for fatties my homies old cougar flame owned a few of them. The irony was she was a pshyco fitness freak but saw the $$$ potential and jumped in.
Its all those contracts. Fat people have tons of disposable money (how you think they got fat?) and will easily being in delusion to sign long term membership contracts and never full-fill them.
Fat asses always use machines. They would rather use their "strong fat" muscles and lift weights vs doing cardio.
Fattie: "You can loose weight lifting weights"
Yes that is true porky but it has to be high intensity weight lifting with compound movements not some fuking shoulder bar pulldown.
This is why I like old school gyms. Few machines, sparse cardio (treadmill, bike, row machine), No TVs, and all free weights. All the shit fat people hate when going to the gym.
Now if you really want to make some cash open up a females gym for Muslim women. This is something that has always crossed my mind a sitting cash cow waiting to be herded.
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06-30-2012, 10:28 AM
Quote: (06-29-2012 07:21 PM)houston Wrote:
Can fat asses even do any excercises besides walking?
Actually, the best and safest exercise/workouts for the very fat and obese is swimming pool workouts. They can work virtually every muscle group, and there's no stress on their joints. They can burn up fat and gain some strength due to the resistance provided by the water. Only after doing that for a while should they move on to doing exercises on the floor or ground.
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06-30-2012, 10:35 AM
Planet Fitness wants you to stay fat. They actually have free pizza and bagels at their gym on certain days. Why not mass gainer shakes and donuts as well?
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06-30-2012, 02:57 PM
Quote: (06-30-2012 10:28 AM)Timoteo Wrote:
Quote: (06-29-2012 07:21 PM)houston Wrote:
Can fat asses even do any excercises besides walking?
Actually, the best and safest exercise/workouts for the very fat and obese is swimming pool workouts. They can work virtually every muscle group, and there's no stress on their joints. They can burn up fat and gain some strength due to the resistance provided by the water. Only after doing that for a while should they move on to doing exercises on the floor or ground.
I'm just imagining some Full Metal Jacket drill instructor type tossing an obese cow into a pool and telling her to swim laps.
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06-30-2012, 04:17 PM
This policy is bullshit, but at least it's helping fatasses get to the gym.
After watching some of the chubbier folks struggle to do basic shit at my old kickboxing class I am sympathetic to their cause and sort of consider fatness to be a disability. The only problem is that I'm not a molder of men (or women, who are statistically fatter than men) and I think they deserve the misery that's coming to them. I have done a lot of fitness work on the regular since January and to hell with anybody who thinks they're on the same "effort plane" as I am despite opposite results.
Serious fatasses are comparable (in a fitness spectrum) to extreme omega males within the lay artist community, they need help the most and anything done to increase accessibility for these losers should be done.
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07-02-2012, 09:02 PM
Quote: (06-29-2012 02:52 PM)MikeCF Wrote:
Good business model.
Fat people don't use the machines often since they quit going to the gym.
Gym rats are a gym's nightmare. We wear out the equipment.
From an owner's perspective: Ideally a person pays his $99 initiation fee, gets on auto-billing for a one-year contract, and never goes back to the year.
Fatties are thus ideal for many gym owners.
a gym i belonged to is in the basement of a fancy condo building in a fancy part of town.
the condo owners complained about the sound of my deadlift dropping on the floor reverberating through the entire building, up ten stories.
they said they were going to have to install a $250,000 sound absorbing floor.
or perhaps, i could see myself out the door and out of a membership....
i left ultimately because i couldnt drop a deadlift or a clean there anymore and they sure as fuck weren't going to put in that fucking floor.