Thinking about taking your new 5th gen iPod Nano to the gym? Life Time Fitness asks you think again.
In the age of paranoia and fear mongering, someone always has to be afraid of something, banning something, and generally introducing more pain and hassle into our lives then their has to be. Case in point: Life Time Fitness, a major U.S. gym chain has banned the new iPod Nano’s from being used in 84 of their gyms spanning 19 states because of the inherent danger that someone could be secretly recording you. *Gasps* *Zoinks* While the thought is creepy and weirds me out, such a ban won’t do anything except piss off the legitimate iPod users who just want to listen to music as the real voyeur fanatics will always get the clip they so desperately desire. It’s worth mentioning that the ban only affects the locker room area. Out on the “gym floor/room” said paraphernalia is ok to use. However, cross that line or open that door into the locker room with video enabled iPod Nano and a stampede of unicorns will bust through the ceiling and decimate your tiny human frame. Of course, I can see the extra paranoid raising false alarms as people carry in old video-less Nano’s hence getting back to the earlier point of creating more pain and hassle than there needs to be.
While there has already been a camera phone ban in gym locker rooms for many years now, actually enforcing that one has seem to go by the wayside as pretty much every phone has a camera and I’d love to see a gym try to make every member leave their phones in the car while they workout. They’d close pretty darn quick.
So let’s hear it. Do you work out at Life Time Fitness and experience this new iPod Nano ban first hand? Give us some info.
Author: Mike Norris
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