Super Bowl champion claims Planet Fitness kicked him out for groaning too hard

Planet Fitness is proud to call itself a "no judgement zone" -- except when it comes to groaning.

Steve Weatherford is a former Superbowl champion and fitness guru. Last week, Rutherford posted a video claiming that he was kicked out of a Planet Fitness for "excessive breathing/grunting."

Which begs the question -- what was an NFL champion doing at Planet Fitness?

"So I have trained at well over 1,000 gyms all over the world. Not one time have I ever been approached and asked to 'tone it down.' Today I was unceremoniously kicked out of Planet Fitness for excessive breathing/grunting," Weatherford wrote in the caption of a video on his Instagram page. 

Weatherford claimed that after he grunted, a siren went off. Planet Fitness is known for sounding a siren if someone is grunting too hard, or acting like a "lunk." They call it the lunk arm -- and Weatherfound found it shameful. 

"A gym should be a place that encourages, motivates and inspires you to build the best version of yourself possible," Weatherford said. "Not a place that has a built in siren the manager activates when someone is working hard and breathes heavily. I'm embarrassed to say I paid $20 to this establishment."

There are plenty of reasons to be embarrassed of Planet Fitness -- the free pizza and bagels, for one -- but the lunk alarm is what set Weatherford off.

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