So not simple! The average person can lose 10% of their body weight through lifestyle alterations that are sustainable in the long term but beyond that, it takes pretty extreme behavioural changes, like you see on the Biggest Loser and once you go back to a somewhat normal (not necessarily your old habits) eating and…

Those 47% of Marylanders who want to move really just want to move across three lanes of traffic at once without signaling.

You're missing the point. The BEHAVIOR of SOME fit people at the gym makes others feel bad. Ask anyone who's been mooed at by a bunch of guys or told they weren't welcome in a fitness class because they "won't be able to keep up". People are NOT accepting of fitness novices and/or overweight people and/or older…

3. Yes, this is sketchy, but the rules are made clear when signing up, and they are posted in a large typeface in several locations throughout the facilities. They are typically posted in such a way that one cannot help but see them as they exit the locker room.

They don't require sleeves. The dress code, so far as I can tell, requires that torsos and butts/upper thighs be covered. That means no men are shirtless, no women are in only sports bras or crop tops, and everyone is wearing what can be reasonably considered to be shorts (not underwear disguised as hotpants). Not…

Mmmm or it's for people like me that go at least 4 times per week for $10 a month and that is just a freakin' steal.

I've never heard of this place but everything about it that people seem complain about here (dress code, policy against loud grunting, weight machines instead of free weights) seems tailored to people just trying to get into exercising and uncomfortable with gyms. I find that pretty admirable! Obviously this place has…

Planet Fitness is not the place to go if you want to expose yourself. It is not just a dirt cheap gym it is the only gym I have ever been in that did not function like a meat market. I would pay "normal" gym prices to be in the non-intimidational atmosphere of this gym, and yes it is the gym I pay for and go to. I…

As much as you would like me to muster up sympathy towards this woman and outrage towards Planet Fitness, I can't do it. She signed a contract, she was told the rules, the rules are posted all over the place, and she still broke them. Sorry. I'll save my sympathy for someone who deserves it.

Also, the headscarf thing…

I'm going to preface this by saying that I fully realize this is anecdotal, but if Jezebel can spout off these random incidents as facts about how much PF sucks, then I can say what I have to say. I've been a PF member for about 6 years in 3 different locations because I moved around for undergrad, grad school, and…

There is all sorts of hate for PF going on here. I go because it's $20 a month as opposed to the Y in my town, which is $60. Not everyone can afford Equinox or a private trainer.

I wish Jez could write one of these articles without slamming the concept of trying not to make people feel bad about themselves. Yes, this example and most of the others are pretty shitty. But that doesn't mean there isn't a whole population of us who do feel genuinely intimidated and embarrassed trying to work out…

So much hate for the PF, but seriously it's not so bad. I kind of love the place, actually. Maybe it depends on the franchise you belong to but the one I go to is friendly, full but not crowded, clean, and absolutely not intimidating in any way. I'm a fat girl and was fully expecting hate at the gym but this place has…

I belong to PF. People at the one I frequent wear tank tops all the time. I've never seen anyone in just a sports bra, though. Mine is clean, well ventilated, and the staff basically leaves people alone. I guess if someone is that anxious to show off your his or her body, said person can join an $80 a month…

The free food is once a month. Pizza for two hours one Monday night a month and bagels for two hours on one Tuesday morning a month. It's not like a free food party all the time.

I'm sure shirtless dudes get asked to leave and cover up at planet fitness too so I don't really understand why Jezebel has such hate-on for planet fitness or why they feel this is in any way a feminist issue? Sure, they sound awful but they're also ten bucks a month and they clearly state they have a dress code so if…

Do you object similarly to the lapdance middle school teacher's mugshot being posted? Which has also already been on the TV news and every other website?

and repeatedly drawing porn of children's characters and putting it where children can see it- and trashing the little girl fans of a girls tv show. yanno. those wacky harmless bronies!

Here's my problem with complaints about last night . . . . why on Earth was Jaime a sympathetic character for anyone? Why? In the first episode he tried to kill a child by tossing him out a window. Tried to kill a child. A child. Hello McFly, a child.

Can you judge something as unnecessary if you don't know where the characters will end up later? I think there probably was a point to this: Jaime is a monster. A charasmatic monster. One so much that women still swooned for him after he crippled a child and sent assassin's to murder him. He had to do something…