Gym Floor Tiles

Indeed, the real challenge is to be able to find the motivation necessary to continue training throughout the year. Start with rubber Gym flooring

Here are the factors you need to consider:

Space & Design

You just need a little space in your house or apartment to set up your home gym, whether it is in the basement in the family room, in the garage, a corner of your room, an office, or another free room. (or less used).

Rubber Gym Floor:

To avoid damaging your floors, to reduce noise, but also to reduce the impact on your joints and increase your level of comfort, it is important to obtain floor mats.

Several options are available to you depending on the type of equipment and the price:

Basic Gym equipment:

The basic gym equipment includes the following but is not limited to a treadmill, dumbbells, foldable bench press, kettlebells, and above all weights

Gym Equipment

Often when people think of the gym. There is basic equipment that comes into mind. The likes of treadmills, dumbbells, kettlebells, multi-gym stations, crossover machines, and others.

What often gym lovers forget is whilst everything is set up, they need a safe, cozy gym flooring.

Hence, we have included rubber gym flooring as part of the necessary gym equipment one should seriously and a must consider.

Gym Matting

One would wonder why to bring up gym matting as a topic. Gym matting is a term that refers to a variety of all types of exercise mats:

Types of gym matting:

• Yoga mats
• Rubber interlocking mats
• Pvc Interlocking mats
• Rubber roll flooring
• Rubber Tiles
• Pvc Tiles
• Gym Mats

Any type of flooring that can be used in a form of exercise is referred to in the broader category as gym matting

With the coming of the Covid-19 Pandemic, most people even those who did not care about their fitness have started doing some form of workout or fitness training. There is no fitness training without great flooring suitable for gym flooring.

There are three categories of fitness flooring available

Foam flooring

• Foam workout mat tiles
• Interlocking floor squares
• Playground foam mats

Work out mats

• Interlocking works out mats
• Work out mat tiles
• Rubber workout mats

Soft Floor mats

• Soft floor tiles for gyms
• Soft flooring mats
• Soft foam flooring

There are several types of gym tiles options that can be used to do gym flooring depending on the user preference, on the same breath, there are many names that users prefer to call the gym tiles, example is:

• fitness foam mats
• rubber carpet for gym
• gym matt floor
• exercise mat squares
• tiles for gym
• exercise floor tiles
• Interlocking gym mats

Despite having a variety of names, their purpose remains the same, that is for the following uses

• User protection
• Equipment protection
• Comfortability during training
• Increase the aesthetic value of the training area

Gym tiles are divided into 4 categories

• Rubber Gym mats
• Foam Gym mats
• Pvc Gym tiles
• Hard gym flooring

Types of Rubber Gym Mats

• Weight room flooring mats
• Gym thick floor mats
• Rubber equipment mats
• Black rubber gym flooring

Types of Foam Gym Mats

• Workout floor mats
• Gym foam mats
• Foam tile mats
• Eva Foam Mats

Pvc Gym Tiles

• Durable gym Flooring
• Pvc Interlocking Gym Mats
• Pvc rubber mats
• Rubber PVC gym tiles

Hard Gym Flooring

• Thick Gym tiles
• Recycled Tyre gym tiles
• Black Gym floor mats

The best gym floor tiles are the ones that each user prefers, there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to gym floor tiles, it all depends on how a person wants to lay them down.

Some users prefer extremely soft flooring then they would choose either foam mats or soft Eva foam. If someone wants a hard surface then there would choose hard gym flooring.

There are a limited number of gym tiles that can be used for home gyms. Home Gym tiles should be able to have the following characteristics

• Durable
• Impact absorption
• Good thermal conduct
• Aesthetic look
• Easy to clean and maintain
• Anti-slip

One might have great gym training equipment but without the right flooring, the whole training exercise becomes uncomfortable. Below are the types of gym flooring tiles that can be considered for a home gym.

• Rubber Gym Tiles
• Pvc Gym tiles
• Eva Foam Gym Mats
• Carpet gym tiles
• Vinyl Gym mats

Rubber Gym tiles are the most common and known type of gym flooring that can be used for both home gyms or and commercial gyms for the following practical reasons:

• Thickness varies from 10mm to 50mm there is no other tile that can reach those thicknesses
• Maximum impact absorbance, the thicker the rubber mats, the higher the impact absorption. For those who want maximum safety are inclined to choose the thicker rubber gym mats, it should also be noted that the thicker the rubber tile, the more expensive it becomes, the vice versa is also true
• Transportability, because rubber gym tiles are larger in nature and usually, they are difficult to transport as compared to either PVC gym tiles or Eva foam gym tiles, hence are costly

There are two types of rubber gym tiles available to choose from:

Recycled Gym Tyre Tiles

• These are made from recycled vehicle Tyres and therefore are 100% eco-friendly and economically viable to purchase.
• Because they are made from tires, they have a high Tyre rubber odor
• They weigh less than pure rubber Gym tiles, one that is made from original organic compounds.
• They tend to disintegrate easily because they have some spaces in between them

Pure Rubber Gym Tiles

• These are made from natural rubber, hence are not very economically viable to get and are not eco-friendly
• It is a medium Grade NR/SBR Sheeting, thickness varies from 10mm to 60mm, and has a shore hardness of between 45-65.
• It is the strongest and most durable of all rubber material
• It is less comfortable than the one made from tires
• It is more costly than the Tyre rubber gym mat
• It protects more the equipment than the user
• The thicker the gym tiles the more protective and costlier it is

Pvc Gym Tiles are the most favored gym tiles because of the following reasons?

• 100% eco-friendly and made from recycled materials
• Cost-effective, they are the cheapest per square meter as compared to any other Gym tiles
• Easy to transport hence cheaper to transport
• Can be installed and uninstalled and be used in any other place without being deformed hence very good for the home gym for homeowners who want to leave with their flooring Gym tiles.
• They are quick to install, for anyone who does not have any special DIY skills can do it
• Hardness is between 65 and 90

Eva foam is the softest type of gym flooring that has interlocking edges. It has the following properties.

• Anti-slip
• Easy to assemble
• Very light to carry hence less costly to transport
• Stain Resistant
• Waterproof
• Adapts to uneven floors
• Can be installed both indoor and outdoor flooring

Though Eva foam Gym tiles are the most comfortable type of gym flooring than other types of flooring, they are also less durable than the rest.

Features

• Length 600mm width 600mm
• Thickness 12mm
• 65 Shore density
• Flammable

Carpet Gym Tiles are the original type of flooring that was used for general multipurpose flooring including flooring. They are extremely cheap and they are still being used by people who less afford the rubber, PVC, or Eva foam type of flooring.

Advantages

• They are easy to lay
• Easy to transport
• Very affordable

Disadvantages

• Less durable
• Worn out easily
• Carpet fiber is not good for those who are allergic to it

Why is rubber flooring suitable for Gyms?

Imagine having a gym flooring that is slippery where among there is heavy equipment the users need to lift, which will be a health and safety hazard. The primary goal of gym flooring is to provide safety and comfort to the user first and then secondly to the equipment.

The tiles normally have a profile that will make the tiles themselves not move or they are heavy that they are not easily movable. Also, note the top profile also have some type of profile as in the case of especially Pvc Interlocking gym tiles and Eva-foam tiles. The other rubber profile might be smooth with rough abrasive nature that won’t allow slipperiness.

Comfortability

Training knowing there is comfortable flooring brings peace of mind to the user. All flooring unlike rubber is not comfortable to conduct floor training as this will bring discomfort to the user because of the rigidness of the surface. The best comfortable floor is provided by Eva foam Tiles as it tends to shape accordingly to user weight and position.

Durability

Rubber flooring is very durable as it does not break on impact and does not wear out as much as carpet does and any other flooring

Impact Absorption

As one of the primary options to protect the user and provide safety any impact is absorbed very well by rubber and the thicker the rubber the better and more efficient the absorption.

Protection

Protection comes in two forms

• User body protection
• Gym equipment protection

As alluded to earlier in this article the primary focus of gym floor tiles, is to ensure safety to the user and their equipment. If the gym user falls and there is good rubber flooring of the right thickness and right comfort that person will not get injured and the same applies to the equipment that becomes protected and will not break at any fall.

Economical

Rubber gym tiles are more economically viable than any other type of flooring that can be used as gym flooring hence it becomes a perfect choice for any gym lover.