Turf

Looking for the floor the sled runs on? Turf is the surface for sled pushes, sprints and floor work – where rubber flooring reaches its limits. At cross equip you find artificial turf as a tile from stock and as a track made to measure, in the width and length that fits your room. What makes sense for you, we work out together.

Turf in the gym: built for the sled

Turf does one job no other floor does as well: the sled glides instead of juddering, and the fibre takes daily push-pull duty. Sprints, jumps and floor work run on it just as well – they just don't need it, rubber flooring handles those too. That is why we start with the surface, not the product: how many sleds run side by side, how much length does the room give you? Only then do we talk about version, colour and price.

Eco Turf in Grün als Sprintbahn im Gym – Schlitten von cross equip auf der Bahn, daneben Betonboden mit gelber START-Markierung

The sprint track: width decides, so does length

Two metres of width take two sleds side by side – one metre per lane is comfortable, 80 cm would do. Four metres give you four lanes or room for station work. For the length, add the space to turn at the end, otherwise the athlete brakes on the track instead of beside it.

Ten to twelve metres is what we build most often. The sled gets up to speed and the track doesn't eat half the room. Build it too short and you give up floor space without gaining a metre to accelerate. The configurator gives you a guide price for your size right away.

Performance Turf nach Mass bei Ananas CrossFit – schwarze Sprintbahn mit eingewebtem Vereinslogo zwischen zwei Racks

Made to measure – with markings or your logo

A plain surface without lines, start-finish markings, metre marks for control, or your club logo woven straight into the track: you decide what gets made. Free lengths, twelve to twenty-two colours depending on the version, two widths.

Tape for the installation comes with it. This turf needs no sand infill – unlike many artificial lawns, where granulate sits between the fibres as ballast. So nothing kicks up at your place, and there is nothing to top up.

Common questions about artificial turf in the gym

What kind of floor is turf?

An artificial turf built for training. Short, dense fibre on a firm backing – firm enough that the sled glides instead of sinking in, tough enough for daily push-pull duty. It comes as a tile you click together and as a track in one piece.

Is turf the same as artificial grass?

Yes – but not every artificial lawn is turf. The kind from the DIY store has long blades and usually needs sand or granulate as ballast between the fibres. Under a sled a blade like that folds over and drags. Gym turf has short fibre, works without infill, and no sand gets kicked through your gym.

Which floor for a training room?

Usually both. Rubber flooring carries the weights, absorbs drops and can be wet-cleaned – the surface for racks, barbells and classes. Turf goes where the sled runs. A track two metres wide takes two lanes; the rest of the room you can leave as it is.

Does my gym need turf at all?

Without a sled, rarely. Sprints, jumps and floor work run on rubber flooring just as well – and that can be wet-cleaned, turf cannot. For the sled, though, there is no way around it. Walk through Do you need turf? once – you answer the question with your own figures there, including the maths on whether the floor space you give up pays off.

How is turf cleaned?

Vacuuming. Wet cleaning is not an option – that is the honest drawback against rubber flooring. Where a lot of sweat lands or hygiene matters, a class room for instance, rubber is the better choice. On a sprint track it hardly weighs in.

Can turf go on top of an existing floor?

On concrete and rubber flooring, yes. On carpet it depends on the pile – the track then sits not quite level, depending on the carpet. How the subfloor is prepared and how the track is taped down is covered in Installation and setup.