What is it about Planet Fitness's rules?

I currently work out at a Planet Fitness. When I joined I noticed there rules included no grunting and no dropping weights. Why is that? It's a gym.....the hard core body builders sometimes grunt b/c they're lifting so much weight, it's a natural thing.





It doesn't bother me either whether someone grunts or drops a weight, I understand why.





Just curious though if anyone knows why that rule is in place.

What is it about Planet Fitness's rules?
Yea, I would never join that place because of stupid rules like that. I just read in the news about a guy who had his membership revoked and was escorted out of a Planet Fitness because of his grunting.





Granted, there are extreme examples out there where people are only trying to draw attention to themselves, but when I'm truly going all out max exertion and intensity, I can't help but to make noise. Also, it's hard to help dropping 130lb dumbells after an exhausting set of incline bench press, I try to control it but that's dang hard.





I always try to be considerate of my noise levels and try to prevent dropping of weights as much as possible. I can uderstand it in regards to those folks who are just seeking attention (hey everyone, look at how much weight I'm lifting and how hard I'm working!) or those guys who slam the weights down after a set as sortof and exclamation point, but some normal occasional grunting helps.

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