Fitness equipment flooring for gyms

When building and equipping a new gym, whether it’s a major commercial health club or a dedicated exercise space within a client’s home, flooring for your fitness equipment and fitness areas are an indispensable part of your design. Whether a fitness center is big or small, incorporating recycled rubber flooring in your gym design is essential due to these main recycled rubber flooring attributes.

1. Protection

Gym equipment is heavy and usually features hard angles and corners that can damage wooden and tiled floors. Your fitness flooring needs to protect surfaces from the weight and impact of gym machines. In turn, hard floors can even cause damage to the equipment. A good recycled  rubber flooring product provides the padding and impact absorption qualities needed to protect floors, equipment and gym users.

2. Shock absorption and Traction

Hard floors - whether made of wood, ceramic tile or vinyl, hard floors do not provide traction which makes slipping a severe risk. The use of gym machines causes vibrations that possibly cause machines to shift and become unstable, potentially damaging floors, injuring users, as well as making a gym unnecessarily noisy.

Recycled rubber flooring provides traction by absorbing shock and vibration, thus preventing these potential problems. These shock absorbing qualities also make working out more comfortable for gym users, particularly when they step off the machines to do aerobic or calisthenic exercises.

Where do you go to find the fitness facility flooring needed for your next health club or home gym project? Contact Dinoflex to find the ideal solution. Our line of recycled rubber flooring is guaranteed never to curl, moisture resistant, and is highly durable. With little to no VOC, Dinoflex recycled rubber floors allow for healthy air intake and our rubber flooring will not deteriorate over time.