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Which floor is suitable for sports?
2010-05-25

Sports flooring is specialized to handle the task you have chosen it for – absorbing punishment and ensuring your safety.Carpet flooring is softer but it may not be suited to the kind of workout you have in mind. You may need specialized padding to make that carpet last longer when used for workouts. Carpets and regular hardwood flooring may wear out very quickly when used for workouts. Replacing worn out flooring needs both time and money. Specialized sports flooring are soft, prevent injuries and if installed as squares, it is a breeze to repair them.

Common Sports Flooring Choices

Maple Hardwood flooring – Maple hardwood flooring is a popular sports flooring especially for basket ball courts. Maple has a high janka rating, provides traction to athletes and absorbs shock. A big advantage of maple flooring is that the room can be used for uses other than workouts. The maple hardwood floor would look just as good in your home theater or in your study room as it will in your sports room.

  • Rubber flooring – if you love high impact sports that will require you to land on your feet with force – rubber flooring is a choice that you must explore. It absorbs shock like none other and will keep the balls of your feet singing in pleasure. Training rooms and martial arts arenas all over the world prefer rubber flooring for its ability to provide a safe landing surface to athletes.

    • Carpets Flooring – Is a good choice for areas with weight training facilities and exercising machines. Its only drawback is that throwing a weight on the carpet forcefully can damage it permanently.

  • Foam Flooring – is soft but is also easily damaged by sharp objects. If you choose this flooring injuries due to accidental falls will be fewer. You will need to enforce a strict policy to prevent it from getting damaged by nails, files or other sharp objects. It is advisable to install foam flooring as squares and not as one contiguous piece. This way you can replace the damaged area with incurring the time and cost involved in replacing the entire floor.

    • Besides these floors, suspended flooring is the best for our health to cushion hard falls and protect our knees from high impact activities. It is a type of floor which is raised higher than the subfloor (which causes the floor to bend and bounce) . It covers the wall to wall distance of the room with no additional support in the middle of the floor.Suspended flooring is a futuristic type of floor because of the cutting-edge technology used to create its stable characteristics. Imagine a floor with no support beneath it. It is a very usable floor system which is inexpensive, simple to install, performs well, and is also created in an eco-friendly manner.

    Suspended flooring is perfect for dance studios or gyms. You will enjoy years of fun and relief from foot and knee injuries. It is one of the best investments you can make for your activity room. Doctors agree that reducing any impact off the knees will help prevent injuries in the future. Don’t hesitate to look into suspended flooring if you engage in a lot of indoor sports.

    You can also add decals and images to your suspended flooring. Get creative and add your logo or favorite symbol to give it some personality. Customizing is not expensive. Enjoy your new floor!

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