{"id":49456,"date":"2019-07-07T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=49456"},"modified":"2019-07-06T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T13:44:39","slug":"does-this-sound-like-your-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/07\/07\/does-this-sound-like-your-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this sound like your gym?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instapundit linked to this older Sean Kelly<\/a> article about the “Planet Fitness” chain of health clubs. According to him, it’s even less pretty than you might have thought:<\/p>\n

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“Planet Fitness”<\/a>by JeepersMedia<\/a><\/span> is licensed under CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s what you need to know…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Planet Fitness: The gym for people who don’t really want to get in shape, owned by people who really can’t afford for the members to be there.<\/li>\n
  2. A survey of over 20 different Planet Fitness locations in 12 different states revealed that they provide no nutritional guidance. They do however supply candy and pizza.<\/li>\n
  3. Planet Fitness seems to promise that health and fitness will ultimately be comfortable and not involve any real effort.<\/li>\n
  4. Planet Fitness is a big, purple-colored adult daycare marketed to people afraid to go to an actual gym.<\/li>\n
  5. Many Planet Fitness members do want to make progress of course, but the gym’s own rules and operating guidelines seem to dissuade this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Instapundit linked to this older Sean Kelly article about the “Planet Fitness” chain of health clubs. According to him, it’s even less pretty than you might have thought: Here’s what you need to know… Planet Fitness: The gym for people who don’t really want to get in shape, owned by people who really can’t afford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,66,13],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-49456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health-science","category-usa","tag-criticism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cRG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49458,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456\/revisions\/49458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}