best flooring for gymnastics gyms?

Michele Soucy asks us what’s the best material to cover concrete between gymnastics apparatus in our gyms.

Good question.

I’m not sure.

In my gym we have red and gold tiles on the floor of our public common area. They are easy to clean and sanitize.

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In the gym, most of the concrete is covered with carpet tiles.

Carpet is difficult to keep clean. I really don’t like carpet. The only advantage is that a stained carpet tile can easily be swapped out with a new one. Here’s the glue and trowel we use to affix new tiles.

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Better is one section of the gym where instead of carpet we are using an old wrestling mat as a base for other mats.

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Do you have a recommendation for what to use to cover concrete floors?

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