Impact
A thicker tile spreads the force of a dropped weight through more rubber before it reaches the floor beneath. Heavy lifting needs that depth. Stretching doesn't.
Thickness guide · Not sure which thickness?
Which thickness do you need?
Match the tile to what happens on the floor. Get it right and you don't pay for rubber you don't need. Get it wrong the other way and the floor underneath takes the damage.
What happens on this floor?
6 · 8 · 10mm
Yoga & stretching
15mm
Home gyms · light weights
20mm
Commercial gyms · free weights
25mm
Heavy lifting · impact zones
Thicknesses drawn to scale with each other
What thickness changes
More rubber, more protection. Up to a point.
Sound
More rubber absorbs more of the bang. Where noise matters, such as an upstairs gym or a shared building, lean towards the thicker end for that kind of use.
Floor height
A thicker tile raises the floor more. Before you choose, check that doors will still swing clear and that thresholds to other rooms still meet comfortably.
One room, several uses?
Tell us how the floor is zoned
Many gyms have a stretching corner, a dumbbell rack and a lifting platform in the same room. Send us a rough sketch or a list of what goes where, and we'll suggest the thickness for each area.