For years, I've had a "deadlift corner." 3/4" mats over an irregular surface of handmade, amateur-installed tiles. It's uneven enough that deadlifting on a flat floor feels different - I train in my socks and compete in DL slippers so I feel the irregularities.
The 3/4" rubber mats have protected the floor well for years here. A few layers of 3/4" plywood, as recommended by Building a Lifting Platform , worry me that I'd start breaking off the corners of the tiles where they stick up.
Question 1: OK to build a platform with a 3/4" rubber mat on the bottom, then plywood on top of that, essentially doing what the article suggests but with a rubber layer underneath it?
Question 2: For a top surface, how different is it to stand on plywood or to stand on a 3/4" rubber mat? This is sold as a lifting platform - Rogue 8' x 8' Oly Platform - but there's no wooden surface to stand on, just rubber.
Thanks.
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The 3/4" rubber mats have protected the floor well for years here. A few layers of 3/4" plywood, as recommended by Building a Lifting Platform , worry me that I'd start breaking off the corners of the tiles where they stick up.
Question 1: OK to build a platform with a 3/4" rubber mat on the bottom, then plywood on top of that, essentially doing what the article suggests but with a rubber layer underneath it?
Question 2: For a top surface, how different is it to stand on plywood or to stand on a 3/4" rubber mat? This is sold as a lifting platform - Rogue 8' x 8' Oly Platform - but there's no wooden surface to stand on, just rubber.
Thanks.
-S-