Floors that take a dropped kettlebell, and courts for the lot out back
Gym floors live a hard life: dropped weights, sled pushes, chalk, sweat, and a mop every night. Rubber Stone is a seamless poured rubber surface that goes over your existing slab and takes all of it. It absorbs impact, it does not lift at the seams the way mats do, and it cleans with a hose. We also pour it outdoors for turf-adjacent training areas, and we build pickleball and basketball courts for clubs that want to put the parking lot to work.
Where rubber beats mats
- Seamless: no mat edges to curl, catch a toe, or collect sweat and chalk underneath
- Shock absorbing: recycled rubber and EPDM granules in a polyurethane binder take the hit from dropped weights and sled work
- Slip resistant: a textured finish that stays grippy under sweat, water, and a fresh mop
- Over what you have: goes over cracked or stained concrete, old tile, even old glued-down mats once they are up. No demolition and no new pour
- Quiet: rubber deadens the noise a dropped plate makes on bare concrete, which the tenant next door will notice
- Color: twenty-plus blends, so lanes, zones, and your brand color can be poured in rather than taped on
Indoors and out
Inside, Rubber Stone goes in free-weight areas, functional training zones, stretching areas, and the walkways between them. Outdoors, it goes on the patio or side yard a lot of clubs turn into a training area: it drains, it runs cooler than bare concrete in the sun, and it can be poured right up to turf.
For locker rooms, offices, and the front desk, epoxy flake is the better pick: easy to clean, hides scuffs, and stands up to wet feet. And if you have the room, a pickleball or multi-sport court is the single most-asked-for amenity a club can add right now.
How a club install goes
- Walk-through and samples. We measure, talk about zones and colors, and plan around your hours
- Phased so you stay open: one area at a time, each walkable in a day or two
- Prep: equipment moved, floor cleaned and ground, cracks filled, primer down
- Pour: mixed on site and hand troweled, in the blends and zones you picked
- Cure and reopen: a short cure, equipment back, and a care sheet for your staff
Questions we get
Rubber Stone is the same recycled rubber that goes under playgrounds, bound in polyurethane. Drops that chip concrete and crack mats land on rubber. For heavy Olympic lifting platforms we still recommend a dedicated platform on top.
No. We pour one zone at a time and each is walkable within a day or two. Most clubs keep the rest of the floor open and shift equipment around the work.
Mop, hose, or pressure washer. It does not absorb sweat the way mats do, and there are no seams for it to collect under. A clear top-coat re-roll every three to five years keeps the color fresh.
We pour the rubber right up to a turf edge and can coordinate with your turf installer. We do not install the turf itself.
Get a quote: Fitness clubs & gyms
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