[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
I?ve never been to Planet Fitness, but LAFitness is pretty bad. After lifting a massive 135 deadlift, I was told by two managers that ?We don?t allow powerlifting. We don?t cater to that type of lifting.? Which is the most polite way I?ve ever been told ?your kind ain?t welcome? I?ve ever heard. I still don?t know what he thinks powerlifting is, because we were standing between a squat rack and a bench press.
The same thing happened at another location after location after I was guaranteed that deadlifting wouldn?t be a problem. They then refused to refund my money despite telling me they would if there were any problems.
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I’ve always been happy with la fitness. I’ve been to a few around Houston and never had an issue. They always have multiple squat racks and cages too.
Not a “hard core” gym by any means but lots of big dudes moving heavy weight. Weighted chins, deadlifts, squats, rack pulls… I think yours just has bad mgmt.[/quote]
I realize all chains differ from location to location depending on management. I loved the Bally’s location I was at because the manager had no expirence in gym management and didn’t seem to have the bullshit hang-ups that plauge most other gym managers I’ve seen (“Chalk? I don’t seen any reason you can’t use chalk.”)
But the LAFitness’s in my area are particularly bad. Both have crappy power racks that made you wonder if they would really spot you and squat racks with the most ridicoulously high uprights I’ve ever seen. I wasn’t even able to squat to parallel and I’m 6ft tall. I’ve never seen equipment that was designed with poor exercise technique in mind.[/quote]
The Bally’s here suck. LA Fitness (when I worked near one and trained there) had great equipment. There was never anything wrong with the gym itself. If I still was near one, I would likely still use them. I go to Fitness Connection and 24 Hour Fitness now.[/quote]
Bally’s usually sucks, that’s why they went bankrupt and finally got bought out by…LAFitness! 24 doesn’t seem to be that bad. I’ve never had any problems with them.[/quote]
The problem with that is they area ll at my gym! Its not big enough to support the Bally’s people and so people are quitting and moving on.