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this is what this blog's all about..if you're one of those who goes to crush it at the gym, and take your workout seriously, seriously enough that you hate it when "gymtards" ( people who don't use a towel, or wipe up their sweat/biohazard) slow your workout down, because either they: 1) lack the common sense/courtesy to wipe up when they're done, 2) think you're their little bitch/maid 3) both. then this blogs for you! I used to be a fitness instructor for the military, and trained "civilians" in the private sector for 10 years..one thing i know is gym hygeine and courtesy! So when a client purchased me a membership to "BALLY'S TOTAL FITNESS", I thought, "Awesome!"

Howver, i soon noticed a bunch of members who would never clean up after themselves, even though there were rules posted everywhere, escpecially rule #2, "USE A TOWEL", and #3, "WIPE OFF EQUIPMENT WHEN FINISHED"... you can see the sign yourselves.. So after I wiped up all the equipment after each offender the first time, the second time I'd come across their slop, I'd kindly point out the rules to the violater, who would get A: if gay-very very pissy/queeny B: if black-getting "all up in my grill yo" and calling me a racist C: if on steriods, it could be MMA any second. I guess if I'm paying a shitload to go to a gym, and have a limited amount of time, I can't be chasing after "sweathogs"..I'm not OCD by any means. I lived in squallid conditions most of my tour, except when I got sent to be a fitness instructor...but I'll be damned if I'm gonna be someone's maid, and ecspecially other trainers, who 1) DON'T TEACH THIER CLIENTS GYM HYGIENE!-IT'S EASY, HAVE THEM USE A TOWEL..DUH! That's chapter 101 in any correspondence course..to me it means you're one of two things..1) definately un-professional, and 2) not certified/licensed..numerous times I asked the staff at the front desk to enforce their own rules, and they didn't..one sunny morning I was crushing it, and my friend came up to me and stated he didn't see my bicycle out front. well, well..someone took their time, and cut through the Krytonite cable lock, and rode of on my GT Timberline w/ rox'shox..boy was I pissed..I asked "Pat" the on duty manager to check the video tapes, and she wouldn't. No one saw anything, and this was around 10 AM in the morning... she also told me they weren't responsible for stolen bikes and cars..and she states the bike rack wasnt theirs..so I decided to leave, and I decided to take the bike rack with me...then she runs out yelling "where you going with our bike rack?" and I say "I thought you said this wasn't your bike rack!" but I put it down, and having proved my point, I left..I decided to go to other BALLY"S, but they weren't any better either, the previous one, located on Dixie Highway and Commercial Boulevard in Oakland Park was like working in an AID's/HIV ward.. I dont have anything against them, except when they dont wipe up thier sweat, and the positive ones who take the steriods-whats with the hot pants, brittany spears halfie tank tops? do you really think you look hot? no, you look like a dude who has AIDs/HIV on steriods who must think that just cause he has a death sentence, they need to give it to us..i just dont get it man,..this one HIV dude came up to me and asked me for a donation, AIDs World Day was coming..I said "I'll make a donation if you wipe down your seat that you just used".. he said "screw you"..and I said "I'll just donate to lymphoma then"(my mom has it)...so I went to the one on Sunrise Blvd. and 7th Ave. in Fort. Lauderdale...heaven help you if you stand up for your customer rights there by askking someone to wipe up their snail trails///and your white to boot at that! what a dump! So now I'm driving 30 minutes to the Bally's in Plantation, FL., on University Drive..has a pool, but another pig sty.. plenty of spittle on mirrors..i will spare the other details.. I ended up rotating after I was asked to leave (another case of standing up for my right to a hygenic facility, as a paying customer!) when I kid you not, I went to wipe off a bench, and the paper came up some brownish yellow distunsting color, and by then I had continually asked for people to wipe up after themselves, and asked the staff, and nothing happened, so I left the paper towel on the door handle to the head maager's office...so now I'm down to going back to the "sick bay" in Oakland Park, and the "sweat lodge" in Plantation..I didn't realize that Bally's had filed chapter 11 ( which for some reason they seem to do that every 2 years, filing for protection, but check out how many complaints are filed on http://www.ripoffreport.com/ cause Bally's hassles the non protected client over a million things..anyway I digress..so once again, the place sucks, and I called their 1 800 # (you see thier "call us if you have suggestions or comments" to ask why ten people hanging out at the front desk can't go around, and make sure people are following the club rules..I got a letter from one "Ana Vasquez" who thanked me for bringing this to their attention, and gave me a free month...wow. Now I have been to Bally's Total Fitness in Chicago, California, New York, and Cleveland (i'm a native) and there were some stinkers in Clevo, but I never called customer service.. they weren't as bad as the ones down here, which is sickly ironic, as everyone here wants to look hot..there's this one trainer at the Commercial Blvd. Bally's..she has a diploma from the American College of Sports Medicine..and she's telling me, MRSA doesnt exist...hmmmm. then why do I have 4 pamphlets on the issue printed by the US Dept. of Health that I picked up at the V.A. and an article my mom gave me from AARP? When her client was between sets, I did walk over and told him, if she was going to have him doing core/calestenics exercises on the floor, wouldn't be better to use a mat or a towel, instead of working out on a floor loaded withall sorts of bacteria, including fecal bacteria from the bathrooms on the soles of peoples feet? He didn't even have a clue. He THANKED ME, and I told him not to be shy about asking to see a trainers credentials..another time, this morbidly obese client was on this seated tricep press machine, and it was not adjusted properly for her... I was shrugging 12 plates on a hammerstrenght machine one day when this "bowser" type comes up to me.. he says to me "the vice president of regional Bally's is downstairs, and he would like to see you." So I told him I was going to finish working out, and if he was there I would gladly talk to him... I called my freind asking him to bring the micro cassette recorder from the house, as I had a feeling it was going to go bad, and when he said he couldnt find it, I asked him to come and be a witness..just in case..

So I finish my workout, and head downstairs to the offices, and my friend has shown up, biut the whole staff is playing "circus"-they're all in this tiny office, and I wasnt going to go in there with all those people! So this "geek" is sitting at the desk, and he's motioning me in, and I say "not till all those people leave".. so waves all of them out, alll of them leave except "Bowser", and I'm like "What about Bowser?" and the geek gets pissed, and says "if he hears me talk like that, I'm done at the club. I stated it was brought upon themselves, after repeatedly asking for the level of customer service that was guaranteed on their own contract... My friend and I sat down down.. he introduced himself as "STEVEN BUTLER, VICE PRECIDENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA BALLY'S TOTAL FITNESS" I introduced myself a fed up customer, who was tired of cleaning up after other members, trainers, the trainers clients, and other employees, and wasn't getting paid for it.. he proceeded to hold up a peice of paper, which he claimed was a letter from another member, who stated I was "intimidating and yelling at other members" He wouldn't show me the paper. I said it was a load of BS, and he proceeded to tell me, and my friend, (he was there just as a witness) that if "I open my mouth to anyone, I was going to automatically get kicked out". So I said "You're gonna take away my freedom of speech, cause I won't put up with all this BS. Why dont you show me all the trainers certifications or licenses?" He said "Not all our trainers are certified!" HOW 'BOUT THAT SHIT! I said that's false advertisement, and that it makes sense they don't know gym hygiene/courtesy! Imagine if you had a loved one who was told by their primary care physician, something like "your cholesteriol is over 140, so you have to start a work out program", so they go to a place like BALLY's TOTAL FITNESS, and get some shmo that looks like they know what they're doing, but suprise-they aren't even certified! If you needed a brain operation, would you go to someone who wasn't a brain surgeon, or someone just learning about it? I don't think so..so I said I'd keep my yap shut, if he would somehow get his lazy ass staff to do their jobs, and he said some stuff to them in front of me, and that was that..and of course the next day it was back to the same situation..and I was going to keep my part of the bargain,...I dont know why, but an idea for a gym towel that was made to stay on the equipment instead of falling on the fecal bacteria laden floor.. so I got some partners, a manufacturer, filed a provisional patent, and made a prototype.so I was trying it on all the equipment at the BALLY's on Universuty Drive in Plantation, FL., and I'm taking pics of just the towel, and this blck dude comes up, stating he works at BALLY's and that it's illegal to take pics of people..I introduce myself, and in a civil amnner tell him about my "FIT TOWEL", and that's what I'm taking pics of.. and then 3 days late I get this "certified" letter from BALLY'S telling me that due to a certain incident (NEVER MENTIONED WHAT INCIDENT) and a breach of contract (NEVER MENTIONED WHAT BREACH OF CONTRACT) that as of the date the letter was mailed I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM ALL THE BALLY'S IN ALL 50 UNITED STATES!!