Wow no deadlift..

dys · Post by **dys** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:54 pm

gym doesn't allow deadlifts! How bullshit is that? I'm pretty pissed. Is there any substitute for this?

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:02 pm

why not?

move gyms

dys · Post by **dys** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:06 pm

Meh i'm not really sure, i think it's part of their "lunking" policy. They think it intimidates people, it's Planet Fitness if you've ever heard of their bs.

rynuku · Post by **rynuku** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:07 pm

that is hilarious...i know alot of larger franchise gyms dont allow grunting slamming weights or anything but comon no deadlifts???

im happy i belong to a single owned gym...it doesnt have alot of the pretty little machines but its more relaxed

i can see going overboard and grunting every rep but yellin on your last rep when ur pushin it gets you pumped....

ya...just strengthen the muscle you use during a deadlift like...legs...back...glutes....forearm (grip)

squats and rows can make up for alot of it

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:45 am

How about they introduce a no dumb rules rule.

Or a no anally retentive staff rule.

Oh yeah and while they're at it, rename themselves On Another Planet Fitness.

dys · Post by **dys** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:37 pm

heh yah all I could say was are you kidding me? and walked away -_-

brianDAhawaiian · Post by **brianDAhawaiian** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:57 pm

I thought this was a joke, but wow!! Lucky for me i workout at home, because i grunt alot!

dys · Post by **dys** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:52 pm

sorry to bring back an old topic, but you dont think theres anyway you could deadlift on a smith machine do you?

vamp · Post by **vamp** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:25 am

you can dead on a smith machine but it takes alot out of the formula if you ask me. Do real ones anyway and have them show you in their written gym rules, or your membership contract papers (then and there) that you can't do them and there reasoning as well. This is a basic free weight movement that has been around for a century and still is one of the best movements out there. Refusing people this basic lift is refusing people basic fitness and therefore making there gym name a lie!

Just oppinion of course. I can understand conduct rules, but certain lifts? Please! If you don't get anywhere with it, write a formal complaint, demand your money back while throughing a temper tantruam, call every trainer in there a pansy , impotant, self absorbed wanabe, call the gym a farse in the name of fitness and report it to the local paper for a story in their local or health section. Banning lifts that are actually a competition lift? What idiots!

As for the article that katie linked to, wow are you in the wrong gym! I wish you luck in finding a new one. If you have any YMCA's or singly owned gyms in your area I would recommend those if you check them out and like them.

As for getting outa your contract, from the sounds of it.. pun intentended... start grunting and then challenge the lunk officer (manager)

Sorry for the rant....

Cheers

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:52 am

[/quote] but you dont think theres anyway you could deadlift on a smith machine do you?

oh shit no

i repeat

shit no

never

ever

ever

ever

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:52 am

vamp · Post by **vamp** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:41 am

So to point it out, just in case it was missed..... When they say never say never, if there were ever an exception to the rule..... never do deads on a smith machine.

rynuku · Post by **rynuku** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:18 am

start grunting and then challenge the lunk officer

thats hilarious

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:40 am

I've seen people do it before, even tried myself, but you just can't get the technique spot on, not without potentially tilting forward a bit, or scuffing your Knees on the Bar, and that's if you use a Step, as without it the Bar won't go down the full way like a normal Olympic would, and that means you've got potential issues.

Christopheel · Post by **Christopheel** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:55 am

clients workout all in the same commercial gym and once I was told by this gym PT that I would have to make them lift lighter so that there would be no sound, grunting or weights hitting a bit too fast the ground, because it was disturbing him and his members on their READING. So I had to ask him to go himself away (and he did it even if I'm only a 18 years old little boy) and that clients and I had to pay 600$ a year to lift in this gym and this isn't just for curling ! (Peoples working there don't like me at all.)

God I wish I could stay to Gym

and dys, no there isn't any substitute for deadlift

deadlift over all.

love your deadlift,

do your deads ...

hum a bit of insanity isn't bad at all.