But there are big benefits to adding one.
Enlay deadlift platform gym floor.
Garage gym flooring option 1.
Lifting and dropping weights repeatedly on your floor surface is not a good way to maintain them.
With just a 1 4 hard rubber mat whenever i lowered a 405 pound barbell during a deadlift the noise it created could be heard all the way on the other side of the house.
If you have a home gym i m sure you want to protect the integrity of your floors.
A weightlifting platform isn t necessary to your home gym.
These are step by step instructions on how to build your own 8 x8 deadlift and power rack platform.
This is no accident.
Building a deadlift platform is one of the best ways to protect your floors from becoming damaged.
Deadlift platforms can protect both your equipment and your floor.
These platforms are easy to build and they protect your gym floor from unwanted damage.
I ve written a complete guide to home gym floors you can see here but the short answer is to use rubber flooring.
Your garage looks absolutely perfect for a gym.
If money is of no issue commercial gym flooring is about as nice as you re going to get.
The type of materials that you would find in a global gym or nice crossfit affiliate.
Even for those starting with a cement floor laying a durable material over that should be a given for all home gyms.
For areas that you don t need to withstand a dropped weight a 3 8 layer of rubber is perfect.
They may have made it 1 4 per foot just to.
And put you in a calm mental state where you can focus more on your lifting.
Due to building codes a garage has a minimum slope towards the opening of 1 8 per foot.
Differences in platform sizes.
Here is a way to make sure your gym or home gym is one of those better gyms.
Concrete floor oodles of empty space and a floor that turns out to not be level.
Typical slope of 1 to 2 degrees towards driveway.
One of the cons of having a garage gym is that it can be awfully noisy when loaded barbells hit the ground when you deadlift or perform olympic lifts.
The deadlift deadener gym tiles are a rubber arch bridge designed to help cushion the load of a deadlift and form a reverse arc around the weight plates increasing the impact surface area by over 35 times.
