Attending a gymnasium is increasingly becoming a part of daily routine for health conscious people. Big clubs, hotels and social centers are in the spree of setting up a gymnasium for the members. Even big corporate offices are setting up gymnasium for their employees. Parallel affluent persons are showing a trend of setting up a small gym in their house itself for the family members. To set up a gym needs proper planning of floor management considering nature exercise to be performed there. While floor space and its flooring material are the only criteria to be considered in case of free hand exercise or yoga, using instruments adds another dimension to this consideration of gym flooring.
Corporate or clubs may have ample options and space and different flooring could be done as per nature of exercise since money and space do not play much role there. But when it is your home gym, it calls for your consideration of one time finalization of gym matting plan or gym flooring plan that suits all probable types of your freehand and instrument uses. Gym floor must be durable, easily washable, affordable and eco-friendly.
Many types of flooring are readily available; vinyl, hard wood floor, plastic gym flooring, rubber flooring and foam flooring etc. In fact rubber flooring is gaining more popularity in home gym matting. Rubber mats are easily manageable and can be cut to exact floor size and curves. Also, it is considered to hold tight grips of stepping and avoid slips and fall. Rubber matting can be easily washed and cleaned too.
Cost, durability, thickness and look are the criterions one should consider before going for final ordering for gym floor. Fitness mat, as nicknamed by users, are the ones that you use for mainly yoga and some free hand exercise at home. These mats are light- weight mattress kind of synthetic rolls, mainly vinyl made. These are less expensive and easily movable.
Hard wood gym matting or flooring may be recommended for big and commercial gymnasiums, but not suitable for home gyms. These wood flooring is made form press dried beech wood with high grade polishing. Heavy exercises and instrumental performance may be performed on such surface. But floor exercise like yoga and acrobatics are difficult to practice on such surface. Hard wood flooring, once fixed, can not be removed off and on as per requirement.
Demand for gym matting is going up at a phenomenal rate across the globe. Due to globalization a stiff competition is prevailing between countries in manufacturing gym mats. Out of many giants some Chinese companies manufacturing such gym matting products are posing threat to others. Interestingly, a trend is visible that big manufacturers are developing various material combinations through trial and error method to offer new and new floor mattress for gyms.