Don’t assume just any type of flooring will suit your workout space. Commercial and home gym flooring needs to stand up to tough treatment, protect the lower body joints of athletes, provide traction to generate leverage, and protect the subfloor from damage.
The best gym flooring from Greatmats is available at a desirable price point while delivering excellent quality. Whether you want permanent flooring for a home gym or commercial fitness center, or you want temporary floors you can remove between workouts, we have hundreds of options. Use this home gym flooring guide and help from our customer service team to find the best material for a gym floor. Once you naturally trust the integrity and quality of your flooring, you can focus on gaining the biggest benefit from your workouts!
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Tips & considerations for purchasing Gym Flooring:
The following blogs offer tips on what aspects to look for in gym flooring before making a purchase. Wherever you plan to use this flooring, these are all important things to learn before making your final decision.- The material for a gym floor should match the kinds of workouts you normally do. Available options include rubber, EVA foam, PVC plastic, polypropylene plastic, and carpet. Learn More: What Are Gym Floors Made of?
- Gymnasiums at your house or in a fitness center can benefit from a variety of fitness flooring materials. Rubber rolls, mats, and tiles are popular choices because of their versatility and budget-friendly pricing. Interlocking foam tiles provide durability and extra cushioning, while folding gym mats have a vinyl exterior and a foam interior for maximum protection against falls. Learn More: What Kind of Flooring Is Used in a Gym?
- The best gym flooring thickness to use depends on the activities being performed. Thicker floors can provide extra cushioning and deliver maximum durability for weightlifting in areas where athletes may drop the barbells. Thinner materials with some cushioning work for noise suppression and supporting exercise machines. Learn More: How Thick Should Gym Flooring Be?
Top 10 Questions About Gym Flooring
Below are the most popular questions we've received about commercial gyms and home gym flooring. Click the question to get a detailed answer and explanation on these topics.- How Do You Clean a Rubber Gym Floor? When you’re seeking indoor or outdoor gym flooring ideas for layouts that are easy to clean, rubber flooring offers multiple benefits. Start by sweeping dry debris before using a neutral pH cleaner and a mop to remove stubborn stains. You can use a scrubbing machine on some types of rubber.
- How Do You Install Gym Floor Tiles? Our rubber gym mats guide shows that many designs of this flooring are easy to install. Different options may use interlocking edges on tiles, use hidden Quad Blok connectors for tiles, or require glue for rolls and mats. EVA foam tiles and raised polypropylene plastic tiles usually have interlocking edges.
- How Much Does It Cost for a 10x10 Home Gym Floor? The cost to install a 10-by-10-foot gym floor depends on the material you’re using. The average cost for EVA foam tiles or rubber rolls is usually around $200. Interlocking PVC or rubber tiles can average about $450.
- Can You Put Gym Flooring Over Carpeting? Certain types of home gym flooring will give you good results over carpeting. These products provide a sturdy base to prevent the seams between the tiles from sinking into the carpet. Such flooring won’t damage the carpet, either, meaning you can return to the original carpet flooring after the workout. PVC plastic tiles with a raised base are common for this use case.
- What Is the Best Faux Wood Gym Floor? When you want to create a church or school gym floor for basketball or volleyball that looks like hardwood but offers a lower price, vinyl materials are a popular choice. The vinyl has a printed layer that resembles real wood.
- What Are the Best Low VOC Gym Flooring Options? Finding low VOC (volatile organic compounds) in gym flooring is easier when you rely on Greatmats’ gym flooring products. We offer low-odor rubber flooring, as well as alternatives to rubber, such as PVC plastic, EVA foam, and carpeting.
- What Are the Top 5 DIY Home Gym Floors on a Budget? When you have a limited budget, some of the best flooring for a home gym that you can install yourself include EVA foam tiles, rubber rolls, and rubber tiles. Thinner materials are generally more budget-friendly than thicker floors.
- What Is the Difference Between Vulcanized and Non-Vulcanized Recycled Rubber Gym Floors? Vulcanized rubber undergoes a process to enhance its durability. Non-vulcanized rubber can absorb liquid, allowing bacteria to form. Some types of non-vulcanized rubber might become deformed under heavy weight and fail to return to the original shape.
- How Do You Choose the Best Home Gym Flooring? To choose the best home gym flooring for your situation, think about the type of workouts you want to perform. Yoga, aerobics, and similar exercises can benefit from softer floors that provide cushioning. Rubber is better when you need to protect the subfloor from damage or want extra traction to generate leverage.
- How Do You Cut Rubber Gym Mats? To cut rubber gym mats and tiles, use a straight edge and a utility knife to score the rubber. Continue making shallow cuts until you pass through the material. If the rubber is thick, lay a 2-by-4 underneath the cut line on the rubber, which causes the cut line to pull apart, making it easier to score.
Best Gym Flooring Products
Best Gym Flooring for Home Gyms
Black StayLock Bump Top Tiles
Our Black StayLock Bump Top Tiles deliver a versatile gymnasium flooring that you can install over hard subfloors or carpeting. It consists of PVC plastic that offers durability similar to rubber and cushioning similar to foam. Its bump top texture adds traction for workouts.
Gray StayLock Orange Peel Tiles
Our Gray StayLock Orange Peel Tiles have a slight texture resembling an orange peel that helps with traction. Install it over the top of almost any existing flooring to create a temporary or permanent home workout space.
Black Pebble Gym Floor Workout Fitness Tiles
Select our Black Pebble Gym Floor Workout Fitness Tiles for creating flooring for use with hand weights, small barbells, or exercise equipment. The EVA foam tiles are easy to install and have a textured surface that resembles pebbles, delivering traction for many kinds of workouts.
Black Geneva Plyometric Rubber Rolls
When you use Black Geneva Plyometric Rubber Rolls in your home gymnasium, you’ll reduce the possibility of suffering injuries to lower body joints. It provides a little bit of cushioning while offering maximum durability in an affordable home gymnasium flooring option.
Light Gray Gmats Interlocking Rubber Floor Tiles
For a sharp-looking home gym flooring option, our Gmats Interlocking Rubber Floor Tiles have a black base color and a 10% concentration of light gray flecks. It’s easy to install for DIY-ers while providing noise and impact absorption to make workouts more enjoyable.
Best Gym Flooring for Commercial Gyms
Premium Color Geneva Rubber Flooring Rolls
You can perform temporary or permanent installations with our Premium Color Geneva Rubber Flooring Rolls. These low-odor rubber flooring rolls make your commercial gymnasium more visually pleasing for members by providing a base black color and a 10% premium color fleck concentration. These Made in the USA products include 85% recycled material.
Black Sterling Athletic Rubber Tiles
When you need maximum sound absorption at your retail fitness center, our Black Sterling Athletic Rubber Tiles can reduce noise generation by as much as 38 decibels. These thick rubber tiles provide maximum durability for tough commercial gym workouts while also protecting the subfloor.
Black Geneva Rubber Tiles
To speed up the flooring installation at your fitness center, consider our 3-by-3-foot Black Geneva Rubber Tiles that can cover 9 square feet per tile. These interlocking tiles measure only 3/8 of an inch in thickness, which reduces their weight and makes a glue-less DIY installation easier.
Black dBTile Gym Floor Tiles With Quad Blok
Our extremely thick Black dBTile Gym Floor Tiles resist showing wear and tear at a busy commercial gym where athletes are dropping free weights. They offer a slip-resistant surface and absorb noise. Installation is easy using the Quad Blok connection system.
V-Max Artificial Turf Rolls With Padding
Our V-Max Artificial Turf Rolls With Padding provide a safe area for workouts over artificial grass. The durable artificial turf layer’s pile height measures 3/4 of an inch and sits atop a 5 mm (1/5 of an inch) foam layer to provide a more comfortable surface for athletes performing tough workouts.
Fit Weave Heavy-Duty Gym Carpet Tiles
Our Fit Weave Heavy-Duty Gym Carpet Tiles use a diagonal weave design that encourages traction. It uses stain- and moisture-resistant carpet fibers that offer maximum durability in a space made for the toughest workouts. Each tile requires a glue-down installation.
Gym Flooring Customer Installations
Home Gym Flooring Customer Installations
Greatmats Customer, Neil
When Greatmats customer Neil wanted to convert a garage into a home gym, he wanted to do a DIY flooring installation while protecting the concrete subfloor from damage. Our rubber tiles yielded the desired level of durability while providing protection against dropped free weights.
Best Flooring for a Home Gym Over Concrete: Black Gmats Interlocking Rubber Tiles
Greatmats Customer, Joseph
When Greatmats customer Joseph and his wife wanted to convert a carpeted room in their home into a gymnasium, they needed floors that were easy to install but where the seams wouldn’t sink into the carpet and create instability. The StayLock Bump Top Tiles were made for DIY work while offering stability over the soft carpet subfloor, supporting the weight of gym equipment.
Gym Flooring Over Carpeting: Black StayLock Bump Top Tiles
Greatmats Customer, David
When planning to add a home gym to the garage, Greatmats customer David and his wife wanted a type of flooring that would be easy to clean and maintain while offering maximum support. Our interlocking rubber tiles delivered all the desired features, while also including a 10% color fleck concentration embedded in the black base color that provided some style.
Easy-to-Maintain Home Gym Flooring: Interlocking Rubber Floor Tiles
Commercial Gym Flooring Customer Installations
Kismet Yoga + Fitness
When the team at Kismet Yoga + Fitness wanted a thick flooring that provided versatility for all the different ground-based workouts performed at the studio, our 1-inch thick martial arts mats delivered the desired features. The studio hosts yoga, stretching, cardio, and several other kinds of classes.
Comfortable Commercial Gym Floors: Premium Martial Arts Karate Mats
Farrell’s Extreme Bodyshaping
Farrell’s Extreme Bodyshaping has had a long-standing relationship with Greatmats to provide flooring for the franchise’s kickboxing and strength training workouts. Our premium martial arts mats offer cushioning that protects the lower body joints of the participants while also delivering traction for the leverage needed for weight training.
Supportive Cushioned Gym Flooring: Premium Martial Arts Karate Mats
Snap Fitness
When the team at Snap Fitness wanted commercial gym flooring to keep exercise equipment from sliding around while giving customers plenty of traction and slip-resistance, our rubber rolls were the ideal solution. The 3/8-inch thick rubber was cost-effective yet delivered the necessary protection for the subfloor.
Slip-Resistant Flooring: Geneva Rubber Flooring Rolls, 3/8 Inch
Ignite Total Fitness
Ignite Total Fitness needed gymnasium flooring that could stand up to weight training. Even when exposed to significant amounts of weight, our rubber flooring rolls protected the subfloor, resisted wear and tear, and kept the weight training equipment from suffering damage during workouts.
Durable Commercial Gym Flooring: Geneva Rubber Flooring Rolls, 1/2 Inch
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