Planet Fitness Taipei not good enough?
Being rude to other members and trying to stop me using equipment he wasn’t using.
So you see the area that says Hammer strength ?
That’s a dedicated deadlift area that was free and was choosing not to use.
If he wants to deadlift in front of a squat rack he can, but don’t complain when someone then wants to use it.
It is a bit odd to deadlift outside the padded area.
Even more odd that staff didn’t tell him to move.
I don’t know all the details. Could the staff see he was deadlifting in the incorrect place? If not, is your Chinese good enough that you could explain this to them?
At the moment you’re kind of drip-feeding us facts, not on purpose I’m sure. For example,
I wanted to use the squat rack in the back. He was deadlifting right next to it
has changed to
If he wants to deadlift in front of a squat rack he can, but don’t complain when someone then wants to use it
It makes it hard to figure out exactly what the problem was. However, I think I understand correctly now that he was deadlifting directly in front of the squat equipment in your photo. Which is very strange.
Ok, you see the squat rack at the back of the room?
He had his deadlift bar right across it so it was very awkward to get into that squat rack to use it.
Yes, my Chinese is good enough to explain that to the staff. They could very clearly see his bar was blocking access to the squat rack and there was plenty of room to move it elsewhere.
Are you able to draw a picture on your photo as to where his deadlift bar was?
Wow! That is bizarre. Must have taken some balancing. I assume he either didn’t know what he was doing or he’s one of those territorial weight lifters.
Anyway, I’m afraid I can’t help you find a decent gym in Taipei.
It was the latter, because I pushed his bar back with my foot while he was complaining about me getting too close to his bar to show how easy it was to move it and that made him even angrier.
Sorry the picture makes it a little unclear, it wasn’t on the bench, the bench wasn’t there.
It was on the floor in front of the squat rack, where the red line is.
Unless someone was there before.
It’s not, really. Almost the default place in a lot of gyms - it’s basically the default “heavy weights” area when there’s no platform or the platform is occupied. 
Fair point.
Except it’s a big area. There was no reason for him to stand in that specific spot.
Yes, I didn’t consider that. From how the story has been gradually provided I made assumptions.
Poundsand really wants it to be my fault, while ignoring the fact that the squat rack was not in use, and he could easily have moved his bar back 30cm.
That’s why he got a warning and I didn’t.
He got a warning?
Yes, he was given a warning. 2 more and they cancel his membership.
So, what’s the problem?