No grunts allowed
This in from Albany, our fair capital. Apparently it’s against the rules to grunt at the Planet Fitness there and some guy was escorted out, by police, for doing so.
I think that fucking rules. I can’t stand it when people make inappropriate noises at the gym. Sometimes you can’t help it, I understand that, but to moan, groan, and sigh repeatedly and rhythmically sounds just too much like getting busy to me. It’s one thing to hear my neighbors go at it and conjure my own image, but listening to the doughy 50-year old on the mat beside me is a direct flight to skeevesville.
The same goes for bad breath and farting on the treadmill. Seriously, brush your teeth and make a BM beforehand. I do.
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I’m with you on the sounds and smells of the cardio equipment area…but I think grunting is just a bit too subjective of a thing by which to oust someone. It’s like the sounds tennis players make when they hit the ball; sometimes, I don’t think people are aware they’re doing it.
“Its rules, posted around the gym, state members cannot wear bandanas, grunt or bang weights on the ground.”
A gym even Hitler would be proud of.
eric: i see your point re: involuntary grunting. but my impression is that some tennis players do it on purpose, or at least exaggerate it. it’s like their schtick.
neil: yikes, that does seem a bit excessive. guess they’re trying to curb ultra-obnoxious behavior, but then where does it end?