Discrimination in gyms...yes, really.

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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited May 2011
    I have both a PF membership since August 2010 & I've been seeing a trainer for 2 1/2 years. Charles cracks up at those commercials & says they are hysterically funny. He also says he couldn't/wouldn't use PF simply because they don't have high enough weights to be of use to him.

    So for the extremely serious bodybuilder, PF wouldn't do them any good anyway.

    They are marketed to just regular people who are just starting out & trying to get into shape. The one by me, has a very eclectic mix of people who's ages run from 20's-senior citizens.

    Eh, people just like to be up in arms about something.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,221
    edited May 2011
    Have a channel that is WET and see what happens!!! I never understood where BET is not some sort of racial push but if it was WET all hell would break loose. Put out a support you white collage fund and you would have the same uproar everybody there would be considered a rasist!!!
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,047
    edited May 2011
    I lift things up and put them down. :smile:
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited May 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Bad enough there wasn't an ashtray in the place....


    Tell me about it. Then they have the cojones to get indignant when I put it out in the planter. WTH??? It's got dirt in it...
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited May 2011
    I always think this way about things.
    There was a local golf club that got complaints because there
    wasn't many Black members. The cost to join was about $100k
    plus over $10k a year in fees.
    I'm sure you don't see any average Joes in there, either!
    Why **** about something that you aren't really ever going to
    to be involved with. I'm sure some Dallas Cowboy with a big
    paying contract would be welcomed with open arms.
    Me, on the other hand, would get the curbside toss.
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited May 2011
    .... the huge guys at the gym are usually the nicest people, they love helping and they act as inspiration for a lot of other folks. I see them as a benefit... sure, they are always there, but they know more about fitness than the trainers at the gym.

    Sure, the goal of a gym is to get a bunch of people to buy memberships and not come... that's how they make their money. But, they provide a service, and I think having knowledgeable people around helps... they usually aren't 'meatheads' either
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited May 2011
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    I always think this way about things.
    There was a local golf club that got complaints because there
    wasn't many Black members. The cost to join was about $100k
    plus over $10k a year in fees.
    I'm sure you don't see any average Joes in there, either!
    Why **** about something that you aren't really ever going to
    to be involved with. I'm sure some Dallas Cowboy with a big
    paying contract would be welcomed with open arms.
    Me, on the other hand, would get the curbside toss.

    speaking of sports... where are all the white guys? I think we should call racism! We need more white players.... make it mandatory like they do in college (not college sports, the school)... :tongue:
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  • quadzilla
    quadzilla Posts: 1,543
    edited May 2011
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    It's rampant here in Texas (just North of Mexico if you didn't know). It's reverse discrimination here, we've got a whole chain of 'La Fitness', apparently just for people of Spanish and Mexican descent. I'm waiting for 'La McDonalds' and 'La WalMart' to open up.

    You won't find me in a gym anyway, I've got a bicycle, and decent neighborhood to walk around, I know how to do pushups etc.

    Cheers,
    Russ

    I don't think that's really the deal with LA Fitness. I'm a member there. The one by me in Richardson is usually mostly Asians. The one by work is usually mostly Caucasians. The trainers at both are mostly Caucasian men.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2011
    quadzilla wrote: »
    I don't think that's really the deal with LA Fitness. I'm a member there. The one by me in Richardson is usually mostly Asians. The one by work is usually mostly Caucasians. The trainers at both are mostly Caucasian men.

    Wow, really? It's called a joke. "La" being an article in Spanish, vs LA being a place?
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  • quadzilla
    quadzilla Posts: 1,543
    edited May 2011
    Except there's no chain called "La Fitness". Or perhaps the joke was just to obscure for me and I read it as LA, not La. Which, you know, is because the chain is named LA Fitness.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2011
    quadzilla wrote: »
    Except there's no chain called "La Fitness". Or perhaps the joke was just to obscure for me and I read it as LA, not La. Which, you know, is because the chain is named LA Fitness.

    That's the joke. It's called a play on words. Holy crap this is not that difficult.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited May 2011
    La Fitness?

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