Folding Gym Mats

Folding gym mats are ideal for gymnastics, tumbling, cheer, martial arts and floor exercises. They are great in schools or in a house for daily use.

The accordion style panel mat design work well in flat and dry locations, including home and commericial gyms, temporary indoor and outdoor fitness areas, basements, playrooms, studios, academies and more. Greatmats carries a wide variety of folding mats suitable for outfitting a professional facility and even backyard practices.

We've outlined a few of our most popular products below to help with starting to shop.

Folding Mats for Martial Arts

Our 5x10 ft Folding Pro Gym Mats provide a layer of comfort and safety that is ideal for schools and residential users. With different colors and thickness levels, they also help with things from athletic training to roughhousing young children.

They are wrapped in tough vinyls, featuring double stitched seams, and are guaranteed to last, even with heavy use. This size and thickness are popular for martial arts academies where a lot of grappling takes place as they make it easy to cover a large area by connecting multiple mats together in any direction and offer enough impact absorption to add safety during takedowns and throws.

For dedicated training spaces, the mats can be left in place, and for those spaces needed for other activities, it's quick and easy to pull the mats up and store them until they are needed again.

Panel Mats for Tumbling

Our Folding Gym Mat 4x6 foot x 2 inch is a foldable mat that is designed to optimize the safety of athletes at all levels. The leather grain reinforced vinyl 19 ounce cover is water resistant, anti-bacterial, and fire resistant.

The 2-inch high impact foam makes for a soft, cushioned surface for comfortable landings. It meets all emissions criteria for Greenguard Children and Schools Certification. This a great compact mat for kids tumbling practice. Connect multiple mats together end to end to create a tumbling lane.

Foldable gym mats are excellent surfaces on which to practice everything from cartwheels to handsprings, bridgewalks, forward and backward rolls and flips. They also make a comfortable space for stretching and ground based exercises.

Large Gymnastics Mats

Our Gymnastics Mat 6x12 ft x 2.5 inch is one of the largest and thickest foldable gym mat models that we offer. This premium unit, which is found in thinner options as well, is made to order in the USA. Because it is custom made, there’s more control of factors such as color, fastener position, and thickness than with others.

These foldable mats are highly durable and are constructed with 18 oz. 6P compliant vinyls, which will stand up to rigorous use. The folding gym mats appear in 14 different colors to match business branding, team, or school colors.

The generous 2.5-inch thick polyethylene and polyurethane core is one of the thickest available offers excellent shock absorption, meaning they’re a great PE mat or multipurpose school gym mats. The PE layer creates a stable surface while the PU layers provides a softer cushion. Choose hook and loop fasteners on the two short sides of the folding exercise mat or on the four edges for greater versatility.

They are a great choice for professional facilities. The size of the mats provide tremendous versatility without the need to combine numerous mats. Fold them up partially or fully to create a workout aid of varying heights for everything from plyometric jumps to pistol squats.

Skill Development Mat Options

We stock an assortment of special models for skilled workouts. Outfit the entire studio with our wide range of product choices.

We offer many Gymnastic Octagon Training Mats to fulfill the needs of a facility that focuses on back bending, include walkers, hand springs and somersaults. Available in six sizes, they are perfect for developing forward rolls, walkovers, and back handsprings for athletes of all sizes. Some of our larger models are favored by cheerleading programs. They are not only useful in the beginning stages of skill building, but they can also be used to help fine tune the skills of experienced gymnasts and cheerleaders.

They are filled with a premium quality polyurethane and are available in 16 brilliant colors.

Our Incline Wedge Mats are a another popular option, as they provide a versatile progressive skill builder tool that’s necessary for a gym.

They can be used as training tools for students of all skilled levels. They’re good in Mommy and Me classes, as well as for an elite athlete to train for international competitions, and everything in between. These incline wedges are available in numerous size selections. The cheese wedge shape helps gymnasts and dancers master acrobatic skills by offering a while to gain a little momentum or challenges working the downward slope, or offer support working up the mat.

Larger versions of the cheese mats fold for easier storage while smaller versions do not fold.

The Fluffy Denim Gymnastic Mat is ideal for skill work where an athlete will repeatedly land on his or her stomach or back in the early stages of learning new tricks.

The generous 12-inch thick foam is soft and provides softer impact absorption than is found in other, thinner selections. The denim cover is durable yet soft, helping to take away the sting of landings. It has a long life span and is easy to move.

Due to the extremely soft nature of the mat, it is not ideal for most workouts and is reserved for landings. Despite the large size of the mats, they are easy to move around, due to being equipped with handles on tow sides. Children should always be supervised when using this mats for practice stunts and new techniques.

Gym Mat Care and Maintenance

Store panel gym mats using the fold away design by stacking them up if they are not in use. They can be stored laying down or standing up, allowing them to fit in closets and appropriately sized shelving. Most folding gym mats can be laid out on any flat surface. This style is easy to transport and lay out after storage.

To keep them clean, we recommend applying mild soap cleanser and hot water with a damp cloth or towel. Do not soak them with water. Regularly cleaning them will increase longevity, while keeping the padded surfaces looking nice.

For custom orders, Greatmats works with a USA-based manufacturer that produces excellent folding gym mats. Mix and match coloring at the time of ordering be speaking with a Greatmats representative.

Individual folding mats generally ship via ground service. Larger orders ship with freight delivery, shrink wrapped on pallets.

Benefits of Foldable Gymnastics Mat Products

1. Folding fitness mats have different thickness options, providing a varying level of shock absorbing and comfort
2. Loop and hook closures allow connecting them in various orientations, adding to their versatility
3. Easy storage; just pack it away if not in use
4. They can go anyplace - indoors or outdoors – providing plenty of choices when moving to new spaces