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Originally Posted by braisler
The other issue this brings up for me is the 'business conspiracy'. Planet Fitness might be on exactly the right track here for manipulating the market for maximum profit. If you own one of these gyms, you don't really want to sell your memberships to serious weight-lifters who are going to come in everyday and use the gym for 1-2 hours at a time. If you were to sell 50 memberships to serious lifters, the gym would be pretty heavily used and always appear relatively busy. Better then to sell 200 memberships to occasional, recreational lifters. These folks might come in 1-2 times per week, for 20-30 minutes. Your business is immediately 4x more profitable, and not looking too busy or full allows you to keep selling memberships to any new client who walks through the door.
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Seems like a good, logical, well thought out plan. Do you find something wrong with making more money by catering to "recreational lifters?" And, is it the gym owner making money or the recreational lifters that you object to?
Grunting from exertion (unless REALLY loud) doesn't bother me, but clanking and weight dropping really gets under my skin. Damn hot dogs.
Lindy
I guess you can add "hot dog" to non-PC terms like pencil-neck, musclehead, pansies, etc.