Gyms are probably the most popular hangout zones in India right now, the advent of 24x7 gyms has come as a boon for today’s generation, erratic working hours had pushed fitness on the back burner for many and this was leading to a huge load of health problems. Once 24x7 gyms opened up in India a frenzy of people looking to join the gyms started, people were amazed that they could come from work at midnight and hit the gym before going to sleep or even squeeze in a bit of workout between their waking up and office going hours.
Gyms these days are way better than they were 10 years ago, they have sitting areas, changing areas, offer a range of exercise options like aerobics, Zumba and yoga to name a few. Some upscale gyms also have a snack bar where you can have a bite to eat before you go back, you can even take a shower and head straight to work. Not only exercises but gyms also offer deep tissue massages combined with saunas and steam rooms. A few gyms even include swimming pools providing you a wholesome exercise experience so that you don’t miss out on any aspect of a fitness regime that your coach has designed for you.
Many gyms are now letting people play out all the kinds of exercises they want to indulge in like battle rope exercises, tractor tire exercises and skipping. All these exercises are designed for strength and stamina combined with mental fitness and endurance. Then there are core building exercises with planks and much more, the basic issue with all these exercises is that you need to have safe flooring in place before you can even start offering these exercises in a gym.
Rope exercises require a certain amount of floor grip from your posturing and then these are banged on to the floor creating a lot of noise and friction. If you have Gym Flooring Rubber Tiles the posture gets a cushion on the hips, ankles and back from the compression provided by the rubber flooring, this keeps you safe if you were to stand in the wrong posture, it also helps in saving you from any injury in the event that you were to trip over. The smashing of the ropes can be another sound that is annoying and rubber flooring can absorb that sound making it almost negligible or just about enough to bear.
The minimum weight of a tractor tire is 44kgs and it goes upwards in the hundreds range, gyms goers are required to lift this and flip it over, now this flip is where the problem arises. Many a time people are not able to flip the tire over, this result’s in the tire falling back, when you do flip it the tire lands with a loud thud. If the gym is a standalone entity then fine make all the noise u need, but if the gym is in a commercial complex or next to other buildings then there is a big noise pollution problem combined with a threat to infrastructure at hand. Gym Floor Rubber Tiles are specially designed to absorb shock impacts from heavy machinery and equipment, the loud thuds of a tire will easily die out if you have rubber tiles in place with the right amount of thickness. The shock absorption helps to absorb the huge amount of vibration that the tire produces on impact with the floor, this impact could cause damage not only to the gyms floor but the vibration could also cause damage to the floor below or adjacent. There have been instances reported when the repeated dropping of the tire has caused wall ruptures, rubber flooring help absorb all the vibration produced and keeps the floor below safe, this could save you a lot of legal trouble and a lot of money.
Gyms are fitted with heavy machinery like treadmills, multi-gyms, rowing machines, bench press, and leg squats to name a few. These machines are heavy and produce a lot of grinding effect on the floor exerting a lot of pressure downwards on the building floor. Rubber flooring helps to evenly distribute the pressure dues to its compression features thereby keeping the flooring safe, grinding onto the floor could chip away a lot of the original flooring in a gym resulting in high repair and maintenance costs. The use of rubber-based flooring provides a barrier between the original flooring and the machine, the compression feature allows you to use the machine as much as you like preventing the machine from moving once set in place and also absorbing the grinding vibration keeping the surroundings intact.
Gyms have a huge stock of weights, dumbbells, bars, and weight plates, due to the huge amount of footfall most gyms stack on a range of weights. For a simple bench press you might find that the gym ahs 4 bench press machines and 4 free weight bench press tables, this is where it gets tricky since there are 4 tables the gym will have at least 4 to 5 weight plates of 5 kg and the range of stocking will go up in similar fashion for other higher weight ranges, this will be replicated all over the gym for all the free weight exercises. Add to this the bars and plates of squats and you will have a pretty clear picture of the amount of weight that is in place in a gym. This equipment leads to accidents like falling plates and bars, some people get so tired using a dumbbell that they pretty much drop it, people doing deadlifts usually throw the Olympic Weight Lifting Barbell, back with thud, all this throwing and dropping can cause a great deal of harm to the surroundings not to mention the noise that is created if these were all-metal weights. Rubber-based flooring is put in place so that if any of these weight plates/dumbbells were to fall, the noise produced is zero, keeping the other members of the gym blissfully unaware of what has happened. The other added benefit is that the weights and the flooring below the rubber are both safe, replacing damaged weights is a huge annoyance for any gym and burns a deep hole in their pockets if it is a recurring expenditure. Olympic bars come in various qualities and if they are to come into contact with a hard floor when dropped, there is a certain degree fo damage that will occur if the bar is of poor quality rendering it unusable, this adds another burden of expenditure on the gym owners. Installing rubber based flooring is not only economical in terms of saving your equipment from damage but it also helps you save money on a lot of cleaning chemicals and floor cleaning equipment that one needs to have when you have hard floor tiles or marbles in places.
All you need to clean a rubber-based flooring whether it is in tile, mat or roll form is a vacuum or a soft moist mop. The vacuuming should be done once in a few months to take away crumbs.