Yeah, trans fat is TERRIBLE, BUT you don't have to avoid items that announce '0 Grams Trans Fat' on the front.... All you need to do is follow rule number 2, or whatever, and read the label.... A lot of the foods that are no announcing they have no trans fat, are telling the truth... If you read the labels, and just make sure there are no Hydrogenated Oils in whatever you're eating, it's all good!
I moved into my college dorm a few weeks ago, so naturally I started scoping out the town for gyms in my area. I ended up settling on Gold's Gym 'cause it appealed to me most from the get-go, but I recently decided to check out the Planet Fitness in the area, just to see what they had to offer. Dude, I'm sorry, but that place is a joke. Have you seen their 'rules'? - No tanktops allowed (too much "exposure") - No dumbbells over 75 pounds allowed (company policy) - No squat racks, t-row bars, or decline bench allowed (company policy) - Exercises such as deadlifting, military presses, and EVEN WEIGHTED DIPS not allowed - No "grunting" allowed - Dropping your weights results in your membership getting revoked - People with excessive tattoos not allowed membership (you could probably bring a case against them for discrimination on this one) Fucking bullshit. Is this a gym or a fucking salon? I did some googling and actually found out that some dude in NY actually got the cops called on him for "excessive heavy breathing"... are you fucking kidding me??? I might just sign up to piss them off. Grab some 5s and yell as loud as possible with every rep. Then throw them 10 feet in front of me and yell "HOLY SHIT, THAT'S WHAT I CALL A FUCKING BURN BABY!!!" We'll see.
Are 90% of the members gay? I'd know for sure but I don't know if they'd be for or against the grunting...
WTF?!?! Those are the most stupid "gym" rules I've ever heard. How exactly are you supposed to get any work done? Maybe it's a place for fatasses to feel like they're doing something for themselves, without having to look around at people that are actually getting results.
Some of those rules were quite stupid, but to be fair, I think a lot of them are to prevent idiots from doing something stupid and suing.
Actually, most of the rules are there to promote what they call a "Judgement Free Zone". AKA fitness for pussies.
OK, 6'1, 182 lbs.....still gotta lose the love handles and the layer of chub over the abs.....which I hear is the hardest part
They don't call that place "Planet Fatness" for nothing. ON the plus side, its usually the cheapest gym around, so it tends to attract some meatheads.
Read through this entire thing and I can't believe nobody has said this yet. About trans fat, Alio is right to avoid anything that says "trans fat free" etc. What you need to be doing with everything you buy is to also look on the food labels for anything that says, "partially hydrogenated oil". This is trans fat in disguise. Food companies list it like this so they fool you into thinking there is no trans fat in the product they're selling. Again forgive me if this was posted somewhere already, but either way this is huge. Avoid it like the plague.
i go there because its easily the cheapest around, it does have its share of fat asses who show up once a month and think they are getting something accomplished. the rules don't bother me as the only ones actually enforced seem to be the no dumbbells over 75 pounds and dead lifting not being allowed. i have never been a fan of dead lifting for myself and the dumbbells not over 75 pounds doesn't bother me either because there are plenty of free weights around. i really don't have any loyalty to them but i wish the one i went to did enforce that no tank top thing some fat dude had his shit hanging out all over the place in one last week it was pretty distracting. if someplace else could compete with the price i would consider them but i am a college student as well so money is tight and 15 bucks a month is about all i can afford on a gym membership. oh and the rules such as dropping weights aren't quite what you would think. its not for the people that just struggled on the last rep and had muscle failure and happened to lose control, its for those idiots who think they are body builders and load up a ton of weight to two reps and then throw the bar on the ground thinking they are bad ass, i have seen plenty of people drop weights by accident with no incident. same with grunting its for that crazy looking jacked guy that puts every machine to max weight and gets himself pumped by yelling and grunting for no reason. if you are legitimately struggling and let out some grunts or whatever nobody cares and your membership is not in danger in anyway. and there is one girl who goes there who is covered in tattoos from head to toe doesn't seem like she had a problem getting a membership. again not really trying to defend my gym or anything because if any of the gyms around here could give me 15 bucks a month and be as close to my school as planet fitness i would probably be going there. its really just a matter of price point and convenience for me at this point.
Honestly, I don't know if the part about the partially hydrogenated oil was posted already, but either way, thanks for your post! As I've said before, the biggest key is spreading information. That's how we all learn and advance in our goals. The thing with the "trans fat free" label is that if there is truly no trans fat contained in the product, then it doesn't say anything at all. If it says "trans fat free" then it is still allowed to have a small percentage of trans fat contained in it, according to FDA rules. (I know I posted the legal amount at some point, but I don't remember what it was.)
Why can't a product that has no trans fat gloat that they don't have any. It's a selling point. I'm sure many products that claim not to have any on the label.. actually don't.
Because they do. If they didn't, they wouldn't mention it at all. Check the labels. Find a product that says "Trans Fat Free" and tell me if the back label doesn't expose the lie. It's bullshit, and they get away with it, simply because the FDA allows far too much crap to enter our food. Hell, they knew trans fat was bad in the first place, and let its use slide until someone finally stood up and put the truth on the evening news.
Which is true enough, but really, how many guys do you see A: Deadlift... B:Have any right to touch the dumbells over 75# (and I mean the ones that are markedly different like 90+) C:Military Press any reasonable weight? (over 135) They'd bounce me right out when I started doing Single handed Side Presses....(like a one hand Military press, using the Olympic bar...)
You're missing my point here. In this new age of trans fat awareness... if I sold a product that didn't have any trans fat, and never did, I WOULD ADVERTISE THAT ON MY LABEL! Buy my shit because you're health conscious and my shit's transfat-free. Makes sense, no?
No one thinks about trans fat, that's the thing. As long as your label doesn't say anything, no one thinks about it all. Seriously, how many people do you know that read the labels in the supermarket before purchasing the item? The ones stating that they are "trans-fat free" are doing so because 1) they've been using trans fat all along, and 2) still are using the legal limit. I understand your point, but it's not happening that way.
I disagree. Meat and cheese products, jack links for example, declare how low-carb-friendly their products are, because of the recent craze for that type of diet, not because they changed anything. "No trans-fat" implies "Healthy" to many. No one is going to not buy a product because it doesn't have trans fat, but pushing that fact on people might get someone to purchase it. Also, the legal cutoff for the TF free definition is .5g
I think there's a big difference between the whole "low-carb friendly" definition, and "no trans fat" one. The low-carb craze, as stupid as it is, is popular as a weight loss methodlogy. Simply lacking trans fat doesn't necessarily make a product appear any more healthy. Usually, the stuff that did have the trans was garbage in the first place. Thanks for the numeric though! :beer:
