Idaho Fitness Centers

The facilities we equip in Idaho

Apartment and condominium amenity rooms

The most common disappointment in an amenity room is discovering it holds fewer pieces than the budget bought. Square footage is a poor guide: ACSM allows 25 to 50 sq ft per station once the machine is actually usable, and ADA adds a 30 by 48 in clear floor space for at least one of each TYPE of machine on an accessible route, though that space may overlap the route and sit in the aisle behind the piece. We draw the room to scale and tell you the honest number before anything is ordered, which is cheaper than a return. More on apartment and condominium amenity rooms.

Home and private training rooms

A home gym is the room most likely to sit directly against the rest of the house, so the floor decides how often it gets used and how much anyone else notices. ASTM F2772 treats force reduction, vertical deformation, ball bounce and surface friction as measured properties, and a dropped-weight area wants different values from a treadmill area. Treating the whole room as one surface is what leaves a garage floor loud and a bonus-room floor bouncy — both fixable in the specification, neither fixable afterwards without lifting it. More on home and private training rooms.

The rest of what we equip there

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

• HOA and property management
• corporate fitness centers
• health clubs and training studios
• hotel and resort fitness rooms
• senior living communities
• medical and rehabilitation clinics
• schools and campus recreation
• fire, police and municipal recreation
• YMCAs and nonprofits
• student housing

What decides the room before the equipment list

What the floor has to carry

The structural question comes first on any conversion. IBC Table 1607.1 designs fitness areas for a 100 psf live load, against 40 psf for residential areas outside sleeping rooms and 30 psf for sleeping areas, and live loads over 100 psf may not be reduced. A room carved out of existing space is a change of use against that table — a question for the structural engineer rather than something to discover on delivery day.

Accessibility is scoped per machine type, not per machine

The most common misreading of the ADA Standards on a fitness floor is that every unit has to be accessible. It does not: the scoping 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, rising to 36 by 48 in where that space is enclosed on three sides. The clear space may overlap the route and sit in the aisle behind the machine, which is exactly what makes a dense floor achievable — provided the layout is drawn before the equipment is ordered.

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.