Drop a bar loaded with bumper plates on 3 4 stall mats and watch that bar bounce dangerously back up.
Thick gym flooring.
First the ideal thickness of gym flooring is 3 8 or 8mm.
There is a reason rubber flooring is used in most commercial and home gyms.
Each individual tile is 24 x 24 and 5i thick.
It will do great job of protecting both the machinery and your floor from being scratched.
Options include sets of 6 to 25 tiles and various wood veneers such as cherry oak maple and colored black grey and green woods.
The standard gym flooring for weight training gyms is almost always a rubber gym floor.
And this is where stall mats fail miserably.
5 millimeter thick rubber roll floor matting is heavy duty rubber flooring that adds a splash of color while increasing traction and adding impact resistance for use in home gyms locker rooms exercise and cycling studios and other low impact areas.
One unique design feature of each tile is two removable edge strips so any tile can function as a corner or border piece.
The material is strong sturdy and resilient making it ideal for any type of exercise or equipment.
If most if not all of your weight training will be done using machines you can get by pretty inexpensively with rubber flooring anywhere from 1 4 to 3 8 inch thick.
Thick and measures 24 in.
Obviously the thicker the rubber the more protection it will provide to your subfloor.
Because rubber is more forgiving than rigid surfaces like concrete it is able to protect those who work out on the gym flooring as well.
The puzzle piece tiles simply snap together to create a 13 5 square foot area that will protect floors in your garage utility room home gym patio mudroom and anywhere you need a durable flooring surface.
The interlocking floor tiles create a safe durable and easy to maintain solution for any hard floor area.
Prosource fit extra thick puzzle exercise mat 3 4 or 1 eva foam interlocking tiles for protective cushioned workout flooring for home and gym equipment 4 6 out of 5 stars 1 609 34 49 34.
Made from the highest quality virgin materials this design is an environmentally sustainable interlocking flooring solution.
W for a total coverage of 16 sq.
L by 24 in.
Can be cut to any length for sectional or wall to wall flooring.
As a general rule we make these recommendations for the question of how thick should gym flooring be.
1 4 inch thick rubber mats.
That s thick enough to provide all the benefits you want.
Each interlocking mat is 0 47 in.
It s thin enough to keep dropped weights from bouncing too far back up.