I lift things up and put them down.

Cuetoy - 2011-02-02 2:48 PM

I hadn't seen it..Pretty funny.....Check out in the suggested videos "Hot Chick Cliff Dive Fail" that was funny as well, it hurted watching it.....

FishrCutB8 - 2011-02-02 7:15 PM Okay, here's where I am going to differ from the masses, perhaps. I find myself identifying more with the muscle dude. Planet Fitness is all about not letting people like that into their gyms (they actually have a no grunting policy), which is laughable. Most of the lifters I know are serious about their bodies, eating right, and testing their limits. They also know what goes into building a better machine, and that sometimes includes shakes/protein drinks. anabolic steroids and HGH

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scoobysdad - 2011-02-02 9:30 PM How about if we just laugh at that one guy in the spot without making sweeping generalizations about bodybuilders or triathletes (another group it's pretty easy to poke fun at with their stupid lycra outfits, etc.)?

scoobysdad - 2011-02-02 9:30 PM How about if we just laugh at that one guy in the spot without making sweeping generalizations about bodybuilders or triathletes (another group it's pretty easy to poke fun at with their stupid lycra outfits, etc.)?

FishrCutB8 - 2011-02-02 6:15 PM

Long Rant.... {truncated due to size}

scoobysdad - 2011-02-02 8:30 PM How about if we just laugh at that one guy in the spot without making sweeping generalizations about bodybuilders or triathletes (another group it's pretty easy to poke fun at with their stupid lycra outfits, etc.)?

gearboy - 2011-02-02 8:35 PM


And I counter-rant you with this: What is the purpose of having muscles large enough to pick up a Buick in one's daily life? Apart from the vanity preening like a bunch of peacocks showing off their pretty (and pretty useless) tail feathers in some sort of paean to a self-obsessed narcissism, I mean. 

Scout7 - 2011-02-03 9:14 AM
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What's the purpose of signing up for and completing/competing in triathlons? Or even more extreme, an IM? Or a marathon? Apart from the fact that you can go around wearing race shirts and finisher's medals, and tell everyone you're a triathlete, that is. Why judge the interests of others and mock them?

Scout7 - 2011-02-03 9:14 AM What's the purpose of signing up for and completing/competing in triathlons? Or even more extreme, an IM? Or a marathon? Apart from the fact that you can go around wearing race shirts and finisher's medals, and tell everyone you're a triathlete, that is. Why judge the interests of others and mock them?

TriToy - 2011-02-03 7:08 AM I think the ad is funny and it has become a running joke on our bike team.

peby - 2011-02-03 10:52 AM

Shouldn't you mean "cycling" joke? :p

FishrCutB8 - 2011-02-02 7:15 PM Okay, here's where I am going to differ from the masses, perhaps. I find myself identifying more with the muscle dude. Planet Fitness is all about not letting people like that into their gyms (they actually have a no grunting policy), which is laughable. Most of the lifters I know are serious about their bodies, eating right, and testing their limits. They also know what goes into building a better machine, and that sometimes includes shakes/protein drinks.

And then I look at that pansy-assed khaki guy giving the tour, and I think he could really, seriously benefit from occasionally picking something up and putting it down. Try lifting something besides  the weekend Michelob Ultra you cling so smugly to on your Friday night out with the boys, and stow those ugly pants along with the backwards baseball cap with the adjustable band you insist makes you look hip.  To insinuate this -hat is somehow superior to the guy who lifts heavy weights is laughable, at best.

Which brings me to the second guy in the commercial. Just what the hell is that douchenozzle doing on that machine? Seriously. And, as a follow-up question, why is he doing it. Listen brother, if you can't answer both of those questions, get to a library or a lifting site until you can.

And another thing. The lifter dude works his legs. He's not one of those curls-for-the-girls guys who thinks a squat rack is for hanging your towel, be it ever-so-moist from the dewy wipe down required after a heady 20 pound DB toe raise. F$%&. If I was the lifting guy and I went to that gym the best part of the freaking tour would have been when they showed me the door. 

Here endeth the rant, and like that.

UWMadTri - 2011-02-04 9:43 PM

I was kind of hoping he'd pick the khaki kid up and put him down.

graceful_dave - 2011-02-04 11:55 PM Now that would be a great followup commercial from a planet fitness competitor.