Colorado Fitness Centers

The facilities we equip in Colorado

Apartment and condominium amenity rooms

Noise complaints from the apartments around the gym are the fastest way for an amenity to become a management problem, and the floor is where that is won or lost. ASTM F2772 treats force reduction, vertical deformation, ball bounce and surface friction as measured properties of an indoor sports floor, which means a free-weight corner and a cardio row can legitimately be built up differently. Zoning the floor that way is normally cheaper than running the heaviest specification wall to wall, and it is the decision that keeps the residents above from calling. More on equipping apartment and condo fitness centers.

Health clubs and training studios

A club floor that looks full on paper and feels congested at 6pm has usually been planned on total square footage instead of throughput. The number that governs is per station: ACSM allows 25 to 50 sq ft, and where a piece lands in that spread is the difference between a plate-loaded row needing access on both sides and a cardio piece against a wall. Circulation is a separate budget again, with ADA setting the accessible route at a 36 in minimum clear width. Members experience that arithmetic every visit, which is why we settle it on a drawing. More on health club equipment and design.

The rest of what we equip there

Those two are what Colorado orders most, not the limit of what we supply there. The same design, flooring, delivery and installation work covers every other facility type:

• senior living fitness rooms
• medical and rehab training rooms
• schools and campus recreation
• fire, police and municipal gyms
• YMCA and nonprofit gyms
• home and private training rooms
• student housing gyms
• HOA and property-managed gyms
• corporate fitness centers
• hotel and resort fitness rooms

What decides the room before the equipment list

Planning the room before the equipment list

Whatever the facility type, the room sets the equipment list rather than the other way round. ACSM allows 25 to 50 sq ft per station on the fitness floor, and ADA requires at least one of each TYPE of exercise machine to have a 30 by 48 in clear floor space served by an accessible route — 36 by 48 in where that space is enclosed on three sides. Drawn to scale, those two figures usually settle the realistic piece count before budget enters the conversation.

Circulation, and the space nobody budgets for

Rooms fail on circulation far more often than on equipment selection. ADA sets a 60 in diameter circular turning space and a 36 in minimum clear width on the accessible route, and in a room of 400 to 600 sq ft those two dimensions decide how many machines can face which way. Reserving them on the drawing costs nothing; recovering them after delivery usually means sending a piece back.

New, refurbished and remanufactured

Used commercial equipment is sold in three conditions that are frequently conflated: as-is, cleaned and serviced, and fully remanufactured. Properly reconditioned commercial equipment routinely outlasts new light-commercial at a similar price, which lets a fixed budget cover more of the floor — and on a 100 psf fitness floor built for continuous duty, the frame matters more than the badge. Which condition suits a room depends on how hard it will be used and who is maintaining it; we will say which we would put in your room and why.