Home gyms are like no other room in your house - they need to be strong and resistant to damage, but also flexible enough to suit a variety of activities.Here are some factors that you will know why you need gym rubber flooring
A solid gym floor needs to protect the ground under your feet and also be very durable. Even if you only work out a few times a week, over time your floor will take a beating. Dropped weights, dragged equipment, and heavy traffic are just a few of the rigors you will put your floor through. Using material that won’t stand up to that abuse doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
2. A great floor needs to protect your equipment. Over time, the investment you make in your gear will add up. It will get dropped, scraped, kicked, thrown, and otherwise knocked around. It’s only logical to install a floor that will mitigate some of that wear and tear. 3. Your new floor needs to provide a level of safety. It must have good traction Many of us will be lifting and pulling some serious weights. Having a floor that has great traction is critical. 4. There can be no visible or uneven joints or seams. The last thing you want is to have uneven footing. Even worse would be to trip or stumble. Your floor needs to provide a clean, smooth surface to walk on. 5. Another safety concern is how well the floor can absorb impact. We’ll be dropping weights, kettlebells, and other implements on our floor. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. Those weights can’t be allowed to come bouncing back up at us. The floor has to absorb this shock and keep the weight where it is. 6. Points 3 – 5 directly contribute to avoiding injury. Another equally important facet of great gym flooring is that it needs to protect our bodies as well. Having a floor with a little give to it will make things significantly easier on your body. Specifically, your back, knees, and ankles. 7. A great floor will also make it much more enjoyable to do things on the ground. Floor presses, stretching, pushups, and a myriad of other exercises are done on the floor. Having the right foundation makes these a lot more enjoyable than suffering through them on bare, cold cement or other equally inappropriate options. 8. Your bench, squat rack, power rack, treadmill, rower, and other heavy equipment will all sit on your new floor. One often overlooked function of a gym floor is keeping those items in place. There are few things more annoying than constantly having to reposition your larger pieces of equipment. Not to mention, it’s not safe. You need your squat rack to stay in one place as you are using it. Often times it’s acting as your spotter. It simply can’t be allowed to move around! 9. The floor is one of the largest surfaces in your home workout area. It has a huge impact on the aesthetics of you gym. The nicer your gym is, the more you’ll want to use it. I know when i put in new flooring, it made me want to work out more. Sounds weird, but it’s true none the less! 10.Finally, it can’t let off noxious and possibly toxic fumes. That may sound obvious, but the most common choice for home gym flooring, horse stall mats, does both of these. It’s best to pick something that’s not only safe, but doesn’t make your gym smell so bad you don’t wan to use it!!!
