[UPDATED in 2025]
It’s important to create a fitness space that you want to use. As more and more people take to home fitness to stay healthy, you need a space that motivates you to work out. When it comes to designing a great fitness studio space, there are many elements to consider. By making small changes and tweaks, you can energise your fitness space and create a home gym where you always show up.
In this article:
- Why You Need to Create a Fitness Area You Love
- 7 Ideas to Energise Your Fitness Space
- Inject Personality with Sprung’s Colour Gym Tile Range
Why You Need to Create a Fitness Area You Love
Nowadays, many people are turning to home fitness. While home fitness has always been popular, the 2020 pandemic has resulted in a massive rise in people who want to work out at home. Considering the cost of a gym membership or personal trainer, creating the perfect home gym can eventually pay for itself.
To achieve results, you need to be consistent. By creating a fitness zone that you love, you will stay motivated to work out daily. It’s that consistency that will help you achieve your fitness goals. Staying active is essential for mental and physical health.
The best home gym is the one that makes you exercise. It doesn’t matter what’s on-trend or what someone else prefers. When you create a home gym that looks great and inspires you to get moving as soon as you step in, you have made the right choices.
7 Ideas to Energise Your Fitness Space
If you’re looking to add a splash of colour to your home gym or create a motivational space that always gets you moving, here are seven ideas to take your fitness space up a level.
Take It Outside
Outdoor garden gyms combine the great outdoors with fitness. If there’s no room in the house and you’re after a dedicated fitness space, benefit from outdoor fitness. Using Outdoor Functional Training Surfaces to carve out a workout space with the added bonus of being out in nature is a great solution if you have limited space. An outdoor gym can also double up as a kids play and leisure area.
Add a Splash of Colour
Sometimes the right colour can add a bit of vigour to your workout. Although a more neutral setting may be great for yoga or pilates, adding colour into your gym decor can help energise the atmosphere for high intensity training. You can choose a neutral wall colour and layer up colour with equipment and flooring or match a feature wall shade with your floor choice.. Mix it up with patterned free weights or use colour flecked rubber flooring such as Konnecta Tiles for a subtle hint of colour infusion.
Switch Up Any Unused Room
If you have a room in your house that’s not being used, it’s the perfect option for a home gym. Maybe you can update your garage, or the downstairs office has turned into a storage room for the rest of the family. Either way, an unused room can help you create a great space. It allows you to set up your equipment and add your own design to create a motivational spot.
Think About Your Colour Palette
Think about the feeling you’re trying to achieve at your gym. If you want a relaxing space, then green is thought to be restorative and refreshing. It can soothe and allow you to concentrate on the task at hand. At the same time, red has the power to motivate your workout. Think about how you’re colour palette will make you feel. The best choice often depends on how you plan on using your space.
Install Good Quality Gym Flooring
Your fitness flooring is an investment in your safety and performance. It’s not an area you should skimp on at all. Good home gym flooring supports your body, provides plenty of traction, absorbs shock, and creates a foundation for safe exercise. The right rubber gym tiles depends on the type of activity you plan on doing most. For example, Anti Shock flooring in thicker options support high impact training while less dense tiles and rubber gym flooring rolls work best with light to moderate activities.
Find Inspirational Wall Art
From motivational quotes to images that brighten up your gym, find visuals that inspire you to move. Think about what you want to see every time you hit the mat and what will make you keep going even when you want to give up.
Keep it Organised and Clutter-Free
You don’t want to walk into a cluttered gym before your morning workout. When you go to work out, you want to be able to focus on your movement and productivity. Keep your fitness space organised and clutter-free to increase focus and efficiency. If you know exactly where everything is, you can get started right away. Make use of shelving and racks to keep your fitness area clean and tidy.
Inject Personality with 3 Standout Gym Flooring Options
If you’re looking for a way to inject personality and brighten up your fitness space, these unique floor options can help you create the perfect home gym flooring.
PRO Gym Flooring (in solid Green, Blue or Grey)
Our popular 20mm tile for the PRO gym flooring range is available in three cool colours to add some energy to your next workout. From striking green and blue to neutral grey, you can find the best colour scheme for your fitness project. With gym tiles, you have the option to cover the entire floor or create zones. This is ideal for a free weights area or for breaking up a larger commercial gym.
Konnecta Fleckz Interlocking Gym Flooring
One of our Bestselling ranges, Fleckz is a range of coloured fleck interlocking tiles and rolls of rubber. Made from 90% SBR rubber and 10% EPDM coloured granules, this premium collection is available in a range of thicknesses suitable for all types of workouts. For more designs, explore the Konnecta range for the full collection.
Sprung Jigsaw Puzzle Tiles
Available in 4 different flecked colours, our Puzzle Interlocking Rubber Tiles bring a bit of texture and life to a tired looking gym interior. These mats are perfect for DIY installation as they are self-locking which means you don't need to be an expert to fit them by yourself.
Final Thoughts
Everyone has those days where they just don’t want to work out. But the right environment can make it so much better, even on those days you just don’t want to move.
Creating a more functional, inspirational, and organised home gym can consistently motivate you to exercise and hit your fitness goals. Whether you have a gym, outdoor space, or spare room in your house, you can brighten up your home gym and inject personality, taking your fitness space to the next level.
Staff Pick: Our Accounts Manager Gemma claims that a super bright gym is definitely the way to go when designing your home gym.
" I opted for the Konnecta Fleckz tiles in Green and painted my walls a lovely zesty colour to make our basement gym look less dark and gloomy and Whoa! it looks fantastic! 6am workouts are so much better in a bright and warm space."
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