Planet Fitness left me in Disgust

So... I don't want to bad mouth Planet Fitness as a Fitness Institution in general. I am really happy being a member of Planet Fitness, well I was... . I am however disgusted in something that happened to me.

During my gym years, I developed a love for fitness. A passion that I decided on to follow through and making it my career. With that being said, I enrolled in a PT Course and almost about done. I need to finish off with a 12 week program with a life client - being a PT. Please note, I am not allowed to charge for this.

So I approached MY home club, put in the said request and informed the club manager I will be utilizing the Black Tag to bring the kid in as he is with VA (Please note I am also at VA, but only for traveling purposes)

Anyway, so the club refused me.

In his e-mail, the general manager said, PLANET FITNESS (In general, not referring to the specific club or nothing, in general) does NOT ALLOW this. Well hell, I was torn, my gym of preference showed me away. So they try and get PT's into the gym but PLANET FITNESS does not support the growth of upcoming personal trainers.

How the hell does that work?

Then I phoned the call center and Vanessa answered (Really nice girl), now I did not tell her which branch this happened at and she said, "No sir, this is club specific). So one General Manager almost shattered me, because he GENERALIZED all Planet Fitness Branches in his declination email. Luckly, there seems to be hope since we only have one more PF in a 15km radius from me.

But I am left in disgust that Planet Fitness in General does not make this an institution to force Clubs to allow this. You are losing prospective income. Richard Branson said: "Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to", if you look after and support people, they tend to stay... hence a prospective Personal Trainer would most probably stay at that PF if 1. It's his home gym and 2. They supported him.

So I phoned around a bit to the VA's in my area... and guess what... none of their Fitness managers showed me away. 2 of the clubs even offered me "clothing" while I am there...

Now tell me... WHY can't planet Fitness be like that. Why cant Planet Fitness support.

Honestly, glad I took out a 12 month contract... Cause I am so moving back to VA in the future.