Gym Mats
A Gymnasium or fitness center commonly referred to as a Gym is an area or room used for workouts. The gym’s activities range from physical exercises like yoga and aerobics to heavy weight lifting (bodybuilding). The flooring mats required needs to be flexible, resilient and durable.
Due to the physicality of the activities and prone to slipping, falling, and weight dropping it entails that the floors should have a protective and safe covering for protection from the risk of injuries, damaging of the subfloors, and of the gym equipment.
With such kinds of activities associated with gyms, the floors are prone to moisture accumulation from water and juice used by the gym users and also from all that sweating. The gym covering should be anti-slip, impact absorbent, and highly water absorbent.
Good matting improves the gym users’ experience, some mats are relaxing and comfortable under the feet and to lay on. Covering is one of the most important investments for a gym and hence there are a few factors to consider when buying your gym mats.
There are various types of suitable mats that can be used for gyms. Let us look at the most common types of mats used in gyms, be it for use in commercial or private and home gyms.
PVC RUBBER FLOORING
This type of flooring is very common and is mostly used by commercial gyms. PVC rubber flooring is an affordable covering option and at the same time easy to lay.
PVC rubber mats are:
- Impact Resistant: This is the most important characteristic to consider when buying your gym mats it protects your subfloors very well. However, it cannot withstand heavy impacts and a much stronger mat is needed
- Resilient: PVC rubber mats are durable and resilient they do not tear or crack easily, it does not strain under heavy traffic from users who frequent the gym.
- Ant slip: PVC Rubber mats have a good grip for protection and also are water absorbent, due to the nature of the activities there should be no form of wetness on the floors and so the extra grip protects the users.
Rubber Tyre Flooring
These mats are made from crushed recycled heavy-duty tires. Rubber tire mats are known for their:
High impact absorption
The extra impact resistance protects the subfloors from the heavy-duty gym equipment and they can be laid on the heavy equipment zone only.
Highly water absorption
Chemical resistant
Wooden Gym Flooring
This option is no longer as common in modern gyms as it was. Wooden floorings are very cheap and can be easily found. However, with the type of gym equipment now available this flooring is not ideal as it cracks, reacts to moisture, and stresses on heavy traffic from users.
Wooden floorings are not durable and resilient and therefore not suitable for commercial gyms.
Eva foam Flooring
Eva foam mats are light weight and flexible. These mats are not ideal for heavy impacts and are most suitable for children’s areas.
Eva Foam mats are:
- Low water absorbers
- Lightweight
- High flexibility
- Easily fabricated
Interlocking rubber mats
Interlocking rubber mats are very popular in both commercial and home gyms. These mats have interlocking teeth which makes them fuse tightly together and there is no need for any adhesive when laying them.
Interlocking rubber mats are very durable, resilient, resistant to chemicals, are water absorbers, easy to clean, and impact resistant. Interlocking rubber mats are expensive to buy but at the same time, cheap to maintain and they last for a very long time which makes them cost-effective.
There are so many other types of mats and floorings available for gyms such
- Artificial grass flooring
- Rubber insertion flooring
- Checkered rubber flooring
A lot of these mats come in different designs and colors which makes them easy to work with. When buying rubber mats it is of paramount importance to consider maintenance, hygiene, durability, and resilience.
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