Home \ Products \ Group Exercise \ Zenterra Bamboo Introducing the first Bamboo flooring system designed specifically for yoga and group exercise.Zenterra flooring is designed with the fitness athlete in mind. Not a modified bamboo commercial flooring – a total flooring system that is durable, quiet, hygienic and safe for class participants. But most importantly, it’s made from the most renewable material available for fitness flooring. While most sports and fitness floors are made from maple trees that take 50-60 years to grow. the species of bamboo that is used for Zenterra regrows to its full height within months and can be used again for flooring boards in just 5-6 years!As a club owner that has built over nine gyms, I can make knowing what flooring is best for your Group X rooms easy for you. Save yourself the headache and stick with a traditional suspended real hard wood floor. In my career I have looked and tried many options, usually in the hope of saving money.

However, this is not an area to save money in. If group fitness is servicing 25 percent or more of your members regularly, everyone will be much happier and safer if you stick to tradition. You can go with bamboo in your mind/body studios and it looks beautiful, but I would vote against it for your main group fitness floor due to the fact that it is not suspended and the equipment we use these days in group fitness doesn’t work well with bamboo over time. I have seen bamboo hold up fairly well, but without suspension you are not giving an optimal floor to your members and instructors. All of the other flooring out there can work but it is not my first choice. Many problems I have experienced include seams separating, floor lifting, unevenness, and buckling. There are some great products out there but for heavy usage and the equipment that we use in group fitness, you will be better off with hard wood flooring. I have seen many facilities that use carpeting. If considering carpeting, refrain from it if you live in a humid geographical area.

It will be impossible to keep it dry and will smell terrible. Also, if using carpet, your room needs to have high ceilings and a lot of air circulating, not humid air-conditioned air. Dry geographical areas that don’t get too hot can work with carpet but members don’t like it very much due to increased potential of twisting knees and ankles. Some of the leaders of group fitness in our industry, all overseas, use carpet very successfully but their rooms are very large and airy. Maltese Puppies For Sale Birmingham AlabamaIt is not much of a consideration in the U.S. though.Fox Red Lab Puppies For Sale In Indiana Finally, have your floor professionally installed and guaranteed!Teacup English Bulldog Puppies For Sale In Pa

Lori Lowell is the President of Group Fitness Solutions, LLC, and owns 8 Fitness Facilities in Virginia and Wisconsin. Welcome to Fitness Flooring Time to monitor the humidity Is it good to have a hard wood floor? Wood basketball flooring construction View and Download Our Product Guide At Fitness Flooring, our mission is to serve the fitness and recreation industries with flooring that provides the ideal experience for each athlete that enters your facility.  We do this by continually searching for new and innovative flooring solutions that will suit the needs of the industry while remaining safe for participants and economical for the facility. No matter what area in the club you are looking for flooring for, we’re confident we can develop a solution that fits your needs.  Please let us know how we can help you. Winner: Best Flooring Supplier Welcome to our video section, featuring testimonials and demonstrations of our products.  If you have a video that you’d like to share with the world from our site, please email a video link to us and we’ll include it in our collection.

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IEQc4.3: Low-Emitting Materials - Flooring Systems (No Added Urea Formaldehyde) MRc6: Rapidly Renewable Materials total weight varies by systemSkip to Navigation Skip to Content Home > News > Manufacturers > Fitness Flooring – IHRSA 2013 Fitness Flooring – IHRSA 2013 Advertorial Zenterra is the first bamboo flooring system created especially for use in group exercise and yoga areas. It is not simply an adapted commercial or residential floor, but rather one that is milled to precise specifications for safety in performance. In fact, the flooring system has been rigorously tested and found to provide ideal impact absorption and isolation for the participant, no matter what level of impact, weight class of the participant, or activity involved. Zenterra floors meet or exceed the DIN Standards for safety. Bamboo is popular because it is an extremely renewable resource. The variety of the species used for flooring will grow back to its original height within months and can be cut for use in just 3-5 years.

Compare this to the 60-80 years that a hardwood tree requires to grow before it can be harvested for flooring and you can easily see that a bamboo tree can be utilized for flooring up to 15 times as often as one hardwood tree can. Zenterra is available in two shades – a natural color and a darker, caramelized version. Both have a unique grain that shows the natural "knuckles" found in bamboo plants, and evoke a decidedly Eastern aesthetic, much different from any of the traditional wood floors we are familiar with.  The manufacturing process for Zenterra creates a solid, prefinished flooring board that is extremely durable and has all of the working properties of a hardwood. In fact, testing has also revealed that in many cases, bamboo has a harder surface than many hardwood floors.  The unique installation method of Zenterra not only makes it quick and easy to install, but it also makes it possible to be picked up and relocated, should you need to move or relocate the flooring. It is an easy-to-maintain floor and has a five-year warranty.